this is the same guy who crawled through an air duct to break into the umpires' locker room and replaced Albert Belle's corked bat with a legit one. This guy rules!
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That's all I know is that the allegations of wide-spread-HGH use go well beyond the sport of baseball, and will have huge implications on those other sports and raise the stakes in what's reasonable in terms of testing.
By the way, the allegations that clubhouses had pots of coffee marked "leaded" and "unleaded" to specify which had greenies should be a huge embarrassment for MLB -- it can't say it didn't know about it. It went on right under its nose and often times while it looked the other way.
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Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
this is the same guy who crawled through an air duct to break into the umpires' locker room and replaced Albert Belle's corked bat with a legit one. This guy rules!
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Well he played for Kansas City during the 2003 season in which he tested positive for amphetimenes. As a Royals fan, names that come to mind for me are, Mike Sweeney, Brandon Berger, and Aaron Gueil. Sad part about it is, this was the only time in the last 15 years the Royals had a winning record.
Benito Santiago and Juan Gonzalez were teammates with him in 2004. And former Royal Jeremy Giambi admitted steroid use so he could get his name in the paper.
I've met Jason Grimsley a few time after games in the parking lot at Kaufman Stadium, and got his autograph a couple of times.
Other things you may not know about him, he is missing a toe for some reason on 1 foot, and he is a black belt in some kind of martial art.
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PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday released pitcher Jason Grimsley, one day after his home was searched by federal agents as part of an investigation into steroid use by athletes
General Manager Josh Byrnes told a Chase Field news conference that Grimsley had requested his unconditional release in meetings with team officials Tuesday and Wednesday.
"We accepted his request," Brynes said. Byrnes would not discuss if Grimsley would be paid the remainder of his roughly $800,000 salary.
Diamondbacks pitcher Terry Mulholland said Grimsley addressed his teammates after Tuesday's loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
"He expressed to us that he had too much respect for to allow this to bring us down," Mulholland said. "He's that kind of guy."
Grimsley's locker in the calm clubhouse was empty when the room was opened to the media before the game with the Phillies.
Thirteen agents searched Grimsley's house in Scottsdale, Ariz., for six hours Tuesday, according to Internal Revenue Service agent Mark Lessler, who would not say what they found.
In seeking a judge's permission for the search, investigators who cracked the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid scandal said Grimsley initially cooperated in the probe. He withdrew his assistance in April, but not before he allegedly made "extensive statements" about illegal drug use, "for the purpose of performance enhancement," according to the court documents.
IRS agent Jeff Novitsky told the federal judge that investigators wanted to search the right-hander's house for "any and all records showing contact or relationship with any and all amateur or professional athletes, athletic coaches or athletic trainers" regarding illicit drug use and purchases.
According to Novitsky, Grimsley told him the names of other players he believed were using, but the names of those players were blacked out of the court records.
"I have no comment about that and no idea about that," Grimsley told The Arizona Republic on Tuesday, hours before the Diamondbacks played the Phillies.
After Arizona's 10-1 loss, manager Bob Melvin said news of the investigation might have affected the team. Grimsley spent the game in the bullpen and warmed up at one point.
Grimsley began his big league career with Philadelphia in 1989 and has pitched for Cleveland, California, the New York Yankees, Kansas City, Baltimore and Arizona. He has a career record of 42-58 with a 4.77 ERA.
According to court documents, Grimsley failed a league drug test in 2003. Authorities said when he was cooperating, he admitted to using human growth hormone, amphetamines and steroids.
He added that amphetamine use was prevalent in pro baseball, and that it was placed in coffee in clubhouses -- marked "leaded" or "unleaded" to indicate which pots contained the drugs -- Novitsky wrote.
The Republic reported that Latino players were cited by Grimsley in the court documents as a major source of amphetamines, as were major leaguers on California teams who could easily travel to Mexico to buy the drugs.
The newspaper reported that the affidavit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, said that Grimsley took delivery of two kits containing human growth hormone at his home on April 19.
Word of the Grimsley investigation comes nearly two months after an Illinois-based scientist prominent in the field of sports nutritional supplements pleaded guilty to supplying the BALCO lab with the performance-enhancing drug known as "the clear."
Patrick Arnold pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute steroids to BALCO, a steroid ring that San Francisco investigators broke up two years ago. Those same authorities are targeting Grimsley.
Arnold is scheduled to be sentenced in August and most likely will face three months in jail and three months of home detention.
A federal grand jury in San Francisco is also investigating whether San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds lied under oath about using "the clear." A separate federal grand jury is probing who leaked Bonds' testimony from the BALCO investigation to the San Francisco Chronicle.
So far, the BALCO probe has netted guilty pleas from Arnold, BALCO president Victor Conte, Bonds' trainer Greg Anderson, BALCO vice president James Valente and track coach Remi Korchemny.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
I wonder why Clubber didn't start a thread when all those Carolina Panthers were mixed up with that doctor in SC who was prescribing steroids...
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-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
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