Ryan got his “Braun” out of a syringe.

Shocking.

This comes as a surprise to no one, not even Manti Te’o.

Braun, an outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers, tested positive for elevated testosterone levels during his MVP season in 2011.

But he wiggled out of that mess thanks to a technicality.

He isn’t wiggling out of this one.

Perhaps more shameful than lawyering out of his first brush with the PED police was the fact he stood in front of the fans and the media last year during spring training and flatly denied being guilty of any wrongdoing even though the evidence, which was thrown out because a lab geek messed up, was substantial.

It was a Rafael Palmeiro wagging-the-finger-at-Congress moment. It was a Sammy Sosa I-suddenly-don’t-know-English moment. It was a Mark McGwire I’m-not-here-to-talk-about-the-past moment.

And it was just as appalling.

Braun flat-out lied. That has been proven. He has been linked to the Biogenesis clinic in Miami, which was basically a PED factory for as many as two dozen Major League Baseball players.

At least he didn’t fight the suspension this time, even though his apology was less than sincere.

His juicing still resulted in a $100 million contract, of which he will lose roughly $3 million — pocket change, really. It would be like one of us losing a dollar in a vending machine.

Braun will miss out on just 65 meaningless games for the last-place Brewers, who weren’t going anywhere with him in the lineup.

Braun the baseball player loses little out of this fiasco.

Braun the person, though, will lose much more.

He is a pariah now. A cheater. A juicer. That puts him on the lowest rung of the MLB food chain.

There is a backlash now in baseball, a critical mass that has happened over the past few years. Back in the late 1990s, everyone knew McGwire and Sosa and most of the league were injecting whatever they could find into their bodies to hit a baseball higher and farther and throw it faster and for longer.

It was accepted.

Now, it is not.

A player was hit by a pitch this season because he was suspected of juicing. That’s a big deal. That’s the players policing themselves.

That’s more effective than a 65-game suspension.

The New York Yankees are trying everything they can to keep Alex Rodriguez from playing for them this season. Luckily, it won’t be long before A-Rod is sidelined indefinitely, not because of a hip or a quad, but because he is a cheater.

There is talk of a lifetime ban for A-Rod. That doesn’t even seem like enough for his blatant and wanton abuse of the system.

Perhaps this will finally be the death blow for PEDs in baseball.

Let’s hope so.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.