Disciples of Uecker

Dateline, unknown. Deep in a training facility somewhere in the vast Milwaukee Brewers organization, manager Ron Roenicke, owner Mark Attanasio, and general manager Doug Melvin sit at a table in a dimly lit room. RR: Geez, can’t someone get better lights in here? MA: Sorry,… [More]

The Ryan Braun appeal has been dominating the Brewers’ news cycle over the past week. The conflicting information and various reports have been difficult to digest and comprehend, so I asked Will Carroll (@injuryexpert) of Sports Illustrated to come on the podcast and dissect the Ryan Braun saga…. [More]

The sample collector in the Curious Case of Ryan Braun’s Urine released a lengthy statement Tuesday, telling his side of the story. After getting into his background and credentials, Dino Laurenzi, Jr. detailed the events of October 1-3, including the FedEx fiasco that highlighted Braun’s… [More]

We need to get something out of the way right up front. If you’re a person who doesn’t even want to consider the possibility that Ryan Braun could have knowingly taken something on the banned substances list, then this piece isn’t going to be for… [More]

Americans don’t have labor consciousness. You might say, “what on earth does this have to do with anything baseball related?,” but luckily, we’re talking about baseball labor. One of the striking aspects of the public response to the Ryan Braun decision — besides the willingness… [More]

As with most large news stories being covered from multiple angles by a myriad of media outlets, we continue to learn more long after the story is originally reported. The same goes for this fascinating Ryan Braun story. Major League Baseball and the testing facility… [More]

In our heart of hearts, we want to believe that an innocent man has no need of savvy legal counsel. A guilty man needs to learn the law and his case forwards and backwards in order to find every loophole and technicality he needs to… [More]

***** Full video of Ryan Braun’s statement regarding his winning appeal against charges that he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in October 2011:

Ryan Braun gave a press conference at noon today, easily his most detailed and far-reaching statement on his successful appeal. I want to emphasize that Braun spent a good part of the conference thanking everyone who backed him up, but I was focusing more on… [More]

This post was originally going to be exclusively about Norichika Aoki, because I really needed to focus on something other than Ryan Brain’s once inevitable-seeming suspension via MLB’s seamless and well-oiled drug testing “process”. (This process apparently involves taking urine samples home and keeping them… [More]