With the unpaid suspension of Milwaukee Brewers' superstar slugger Ryan Braun for the balance of the season, it is a sad and shameful day for baseball, but one which paves the way for a better future for this great game, America's pastime.
How can one who cheated and consistently lied about it, deceiving team owners, teammates, and fans, including impressionable children, ever hope to return to the adulation, fame, and fortune he had enjoyed in the past? How can young people that looked up to Braun ever again root for him and wear his jersey, given that he has been exposed as a fraud? Where do his actions leave the Brewers, the team which built the franchise around him and extended an obscene $105 million, five year contract?
Braun's infractions are magnified by the fact that he sought to destroy the reputation of the individual that was responsible for a Braun urine sample, falsely claiming that the collector was at fault for mishandling it.
Major League Baseball is to be commended for finally getting it right, making it clear that the actions of those that use performance-enhancing drugs to gain unfair advantage over opponents will not be tolerated, and that one's career will be severely impacted, if not ended, if they elect to go down the wrong path.
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