Wow. This must be rock bottom for A-Rod. Because rock bottom certainly isn't located at any fine eating establishment within the great state of Florida.

Not sure where the information came from, but the 2012 College World Series ended on June 25 (http://denver.sbnation.com/2012/6/25/3117…) and the 2012 NBA Draft was on June 28 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NBA_…).

Angel Hernandez just called him out.

Safer, I'd say.

"A player who was once quite possibly the best person at hitting baseballs into places defenders weren't"

a stuffy room in upstate New York.

Apologies, I misread the responses, but my point still stands that you left out the rest of the quote specifically because it did not fit with the point you were making in the article instead of including it, and letting the reader decide

I won't go as far to say you are a dick, but having the complete quote is not irrelevant at all. You conveniently left out the part of it where it can be argued that Braun did attack his character. I'm not really sure if he did, but the full quote most certainly needed for context

When you base an article on a Braun quote and leave out the part where Braun insinuates that the collector could have - and may have had motivation to - tamper with his sample, then that makes you, Sean Newell, as well as Ryan Braun, a dick.

LET'S TAKE THE OPPOSITE STANCE OF ESPN ON THIS ONE

Sean, I mostly agree with you, because the guy didn't even lose his job or anything, but Braun's entire quote is as follows:

How is one run in and the basses loaded not a rally?

It only makes sense that the guy who mostly writes about soccer would consider this "wailing" and "slapping the shit out of the guy"

Your headline is bad and you should feel bad!

"Wails on a fan." Really?

Greg, you have a habit of titling your posts with questions you haven't proved you definitively know the answer to. It's unsettling.

The guy who trips 9 seconds in is the highlight.

Of course they can change. No doubt about it.