Ryan Braun Named NL MVP

[Namaste]

Total just moved to 7.5. You have to pay -125 for the over.

[Mainge]

Over.

[Fritz]

Over.

[Chewford]

I'd place a HUGH bet on the over.

[jOOj]

Two Point Five Oh.

[Party]

I think schmeggy, Mendoza and DC are the only ones who didn't know Das Douche.

[Namaste]

I agree my number was way off

But I don't think Metes, mibs, Jorge, tpain305, Mcost, McLevin and radler know das either

[Chewford]

100% sure mibs and McLevin know about Das.

[Mainge]

Mibs and Mclevin do.

[Namaste]

I lose. Again. I am the Astros tonight.

[jOOj]

Das is my pal.

[Namaste]

Das messed up

[Swifty]

Really late, but I think the thing that's hard to quantify is how liked/defended Braun is right now. Rosenthal and Heyman were in his corner (and if Barry's last name were Bondstein I'm sure theyd be right there with him too) but that doesn't mean their views are shared throughout the sport, just that their voices are the loudest.

Basically, you have preexisting bias from the two most active/vocal voices of the offseason and the sport itself. Obviously players will publically put up a united "down with the man" kind of front because this is a huge victory, collectively, for the MLBPA and, arguably as big a black eye for the league as the Mitchell Report. You now have a player whose entire contest was not on the discovered substance, but on the protocol used to protect the tested specimen. Think about that for a second; Ryan Braun all but conceded that synthetic testosterone was in his body, he just contested how his urine was shipped to the lab. Absolutely unreal, and beyond infuriating (to me) that people are championing him for restoring his good name.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

100% sure mibs and McLevin know about Das.

Chewie is correct. McLevin and I are both quite familiar with Das. Metes knows of him a little, too.

[Blackout Pact]

Oh Das...