If you think A-Roid is bad,
consider this, from Buster Olney tonight at ESPN. Rumor has it that Braun may apologize to collector this week, maybe Monday.
When Ryan Braun accepted his 65-game suspension in an agreement under the drug-testing agreement, there was a strong, angry reaction from other players.
Some of that may be because of phone calls that Braun made in the days leading up the decision of his appeal, in February of 2012.
According to sources, Braun called veteran players around baseball privately at that time to lobby for their support. In the calls -- confirmed by three sources -- Braun told other players that in the preparation for his appeal, some information had become known about the collector of his urine sample, Dino Laurenzi Jr. -- that he was a Cubs fan, with the implication that he might work against Braun, who played for a division rival of the Cubs.
Braun, who is Jewish, also told the players that he had been told the collector was an anti-Semite.
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