Braun’s Apology

ESPN covers it best.

As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect.
— Ryan Braun

Well, I might be speaking only for myself here, but I’m glad that’s cleared up. Of all the revelations arising from Ryan Braun’s season-ending PED suspension, the news that Braun is not a faultless messiah might have been the most underplayed.

Apparently there was doubt in some circles.

Seriously, who talks like that? What level of narcissism is possible to allow those words to be attached to your name? What sentient being, in an attempt to either explain or apologize, would even consider putting those words together?

Braun is just another in a long line of athletes who don’t know how to apologize. It’s an epidemic, an absolute plague across the land. Why are those two words — I’m sorry — so damned hard?

Anyone want to bet on whose apology will be worse, Ryan Braun or A-Rod? As bad as Braun’s was, I’m still going with A-Rod…