http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2006/08/01/testosterone_carbon_isotopes_and_floyd_landis.php

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/13/1041.full

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac2015849

But who really knows what’s the deal with this Braun thing….

That beard he’s sporting in the above picture grew in between the 1st and 6th innings of a night game with the Reds.

He actually started the game clean-shaven.

He’s either on “T”, or he is, in fact, a werewolf.

Oral and cream forms clear the body within 24 hours, but provide so little testosterone that they have almost no effect.

So….who cares that a follow up sample was negative? It would only be positive if he kept using after giving the first sample, which he probably knew he would fail.

It’s always nice to hear from Floyd Landis! Floyd, I didn’t know you were a self-righteous baseball nerd!

Brewers fans get ready for more losing seasons! Go Yanks!

Does Prince Fielder’s stock go up because the best player in MLB took roids and was only a little better than him, facing the same pitchers and hitting in the same parks. If Braun is the only one cheating, either I oversetimate Barry Bonds, or Ryan Braun is the worst MVP of all time.

That being said, regardless of the outcome, ESPN has hit another low. Not only is this is a confidential procedure, but the guy is appealing the results. However, ESPN released a report condemning the guy before all the facts were heard and conclusions reached. The fact that neither Braun, nor MLB, nor the Brewers can comment on this, but ESPN can hammer the guy is really sad.

IF Braun is guilty, then it’s incredibly disappointing, both for him, but also MLB. If Braun is innocent….well, I’d love to watch the retraction issued by ESPN on ESPN 8, the Ocho. While I personally believe integrity matters in sport, it also matters in journalism. ESPN has been walking a fine, fine line in recent years between objective journalism and tabloid journalism / PR for entities in which they have monetary interest (for example, the BCS, among others), and regardless of the outcome of the Braun story, ESPN needs to realize that premature reporting and scooping does not meet the burden of integrity for journalism.

http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=996&Itemid=85

With the Bernie Fine coverage, and Roethlisberger a few years ago, and now this, ESPN has really lost all semblances of journalistic integrity.

So, brewcrewfan54, Ryan Braun has passed at least two tests per year during his major league career.

but determining synthetic or natural testosterone as I understand it is pretty easy

According to this article*, There is no difference between synthetic testosterone and naturally produced testosterone – they’re one and the same chemical. Same atoms, in the same configuration, forming the exact same molecule, with identical chemcial properties. At least at the atomic level. Once you mix natural and synthetic testosterone, you can’t separate them again, any more than you could separate Evian from Poland Springs bottled water after they’d been mixed. Actually that’s a bad example. It would be more akin to separating two kinds of distilled water from each other. Even that would be easier than testosterone, since one would presume that distilled water sources don’t change rapidly.

At any rate, natural and synthetic testosterone are usually different at the subatomic level. Not sure if that means it’s easy or hard, but breaking down atoms would seem to suggest a bit of difficulty.

http://www.tomsarazac.com/tom/opinions/testosterone_d13C.html