February 24, 2012

Braun Conference

I came in at the end of Ryan Braun‘s statement, but in answering a question, he referred to the sample being missing, as opposed to not being mailed.

Update: Here’s more from ESPN:

MLB officials argued that there was no question about the chain of custody or the integrity of the sample, and that Braun’s representatives did not argue that the test itself was faulty.

But multiple sources said the sample was not shipped for testing as soon as possible, as required by the drug testing policy, and instead was kept in a cool place in the sample collector’s home. Sources told Munson that the collector left Braun’s sample on a desk in a Tupperware container and left it there for two days.

5 thoughts on “Braun Conference

  1. rbj

    OK, so was it kept in the cool place (refrigerator) or on the desk? And would improper storage cause a flawed test?

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  2. dch

    probably not, but since no one can testify that the sample was watched for 2 days-it could have been tampered with.

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  3. pft

    The biggest thing to me was that the chaperone was the collectors son, so he would have known which sample was Brauns, and not just the collector.

    Of course, how you would tamper with it is a question mark (maybe the son uses steroids), and the collector would have noticed the seal being broken (unless the son had the ability to reseal it w/o his knowing)

    Storage would not have had much impact on the results according to this study.

    http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51373353_Stability_studies_of_testosterone_and_epitestosterone_glucuronides_in_urine

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  4. ArchStanton

    They should’ve stored the sample in a beer can like Clemens’ trainer. It’s good enough to hold a million-dollar trial so why not?

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