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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Major League Baseball has asserted that the collector of Ryan Braun's urine sample\u00A0\u201Cacted in a professional and appropriate manner,\u201D Yahoo! Sports reported Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThe extremely experienced collector in Mr. Braun\u2019s case acted in a professional and appropriate manner,\u201D MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred said in a statement. \u201CHe handled Mr. Braun\u2019s sample consistent with instructions issued by our jointly retained collection agency. The Arbitrator found that those instructions were not consistent with certain language in our program, even though the instructions were identical to those used by many other drug programs \u2013 including the other professional sports and the World Anti-Doping Agency.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the MLB's statement, Braun is still not convinced that the sample was handled properly.\n\u201CI honestly don\u2019t know what happened to it for that 44-hour period,\u201D Braun said, according to the report.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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