Couple of random thoughts without barbs, but I shall preface it with this, I would not wager a penny either way if he did or did not have something in his sample. We don't have all the facts that were presented to the panel.
1) Braun was robbed of confidentiality.. unfairly.
2) We don't know the timing of the DNA test offer and whom really didn't want to follow through with it.
3) Braun's team went through the process step by step and attacked every link.
4) How is he really suppose to challenge the test itself if something improper happened with the sample?
5) Explain why MLB isn't talking about the "B" sample and what it showed? Or why Braun isn't talking about it for that matter.
6) 25 clean tests to one with some handling problems.. I think the panel made the right call in overturning this one. Plain an simple, written protocol to operating protocol varied.
7) I think sports as a whole have a ways to go in the testing process to truly weed out PED's and provide some protections to players in general to ensure privacy and due process before there careers are brought into question.
8) I do believe this story is not closed yet.. and honestly as a Brewer fan, I don't know that is a good thing.
I want to believe that Braun is completely innocent, but we have heard those adamant words of denial before. Personally, I choose to believe his innocence until proven guilty. Not in reverse.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"