Upon the recent news Ryan Braun just punched every Brewer fan in the back of the skull testing positive for some substance MLB has banned, I've taken the approach that everyone is guilty, some are just better at hiding it. If you just assume everyone is taking PED's (Performance Enhancing Drugs for people who aren't sports junkies) it's easier to not want baseball to burn in it's own flaming hell. Somehow the sports is growing in popularity despite Bud Selig being ugly, old, and behind the times. Was blissful ignorance the best way to go about things? I don't think so, but I really hate watching the ensuing shit-show of positive tests we are privy to. A-Rod, Manny, Big Papi, and Bruan are perennial fan favorites and legitimate superstars who aren't smart enough to dodge testing, or good enough to not have to use PED's. For whatever reason each one of these megastars have decided to juice up and roll the dice. Braun is the most painful for me, not only because I'm a Brewer fan, but he was so young and promising. This will follow him for the rest of his career and life. Who knows if people forgive/forget with time, but currently that steroid tag is keeping a shit-ton of great baseball players out of the Hall of Fame, all hatred for the voting fuckfaces aside.
He cripples a small market franchise for 50 games, or enough to severely fuck them if they can't score runs. This is the last year this team is a contender, and that's with two enormous holes to fill at 1B (more importantly the clean-up spot) and SS. Aramis Ramirez was an enormous signing, but without Braun or Fielder I fail to see it having a huge impact. Hopefully they can tread water for 50 games and stay above .500 and turn it on with a healthy Braun for the last 112 games, but if things start going South there's going to be a fire sale on Grienke and Marcum probably and the Brewers will be a few years from being much of anything unless lightning strikes twice and they find willing traders of quality pitching.
Not sure how Ramirez is going effect Taylor Greene being on the club, but I was a fan of Greene. Compact, quick swing, and pretty athletic. Not sure on his outfield/first baseman ability, but I liked his swing and hope he can turn into a productive player ASAP.
Braun is the villain for now as details will come to light and blame will be thrown around. Damage isn't done for sure, but nobody has won an appeal. I'd like for someone to admit it was their urine and lay on this grenade for us, but since that isn't possible or feasible, we probably just witnessed the failure of our only legitimate shot to win the World Series in my lifetime, last year being excluded.
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