Players blast Braun for doping and lying
July 25, 2013, Thursday
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PROTECTIVE no more, Major League Baseball players are downright disgusted these days with doping and the trashing of the game's image. Now they are demanding even stiffer suspensions for those caught cheating.
"It's a new generation of athletes that are standing up," Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said on Tuesday. "The culture's been flipped on its head."
When Ryan Braun accepted a season-ending 65-game suspension on Monday rather than fight over evidence he used performance-enhancing drugs, fellow players lashed out at cheats.
"They're lying to the fans," Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson said. "They're lying to their teammates... and they're going to get caught."
LA Dodgers' Skip Schumaker said Braun let him down. "Watching him talk right now makes me sick," Schumaker said. "I have an autographed Braun jersey in my baseball room that I'll be taking down."
"It's a new generation of athletes that are standing up," Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said on Tuesday. "The culture's been flipped on its head."
When Ryan Braun accepted a season-ending 65-game suspension on Monday rather than fight over evidence he used performance-enhancing drugs, fellow players lashed out at cheats.
"They're lying to the fans," Los Angeles Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson said. "They're lying to their teammates... and they're going to get caught."
LA Dodgers' Skip Schumaker said Braun let him down. "Watching him talk right now makes me sick," Schumaker said. "I have an autographed Braun jersey in my baseball room that I'll be taking down."
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