Thursday, June 08, 2006

Why Jason Grimsley and I will never be best friends

Aside from the fact that he's been regularly using steroids and human growth hormone, he just doesn't seem to have the kind of character and loyalty I'm looking for in a best friend.

Apparently when the Feds busted him he cracked like a little bitch right away and gave them the names of several major league players who he knew and/or suspected have used steroids, HGH and amphetamines.

That's fine. Go ahead. Sell out Mitch Williams, Terry Mulholland, Chuck Nagy, and Jose Mesa-- all former teammates of his (of whose drug practices I have no knowledge). What? You thought I'd list Lenny Dykstra, Albert Belle, Jose Canseco, and Glenallen Hill? The popular misconception is that it's only the sluggers taking these performance-enhancing drugs, but it's not. This is a journeyman relief pitcher we're talking about in Grimsley, and he's been using his whole career. This is one of the top reasons why I hate on a lot of the Bonds-haters, but that's a subject for another post.

The reason Grimsley and I will never be best friends is because of what he did after he gave the feds the names of several players:

"Grimsley also identified [redacted], a former Major League Baseball player, as one of his better friends in baseball. Grimsley stated that he knows [redacted] used human growth hormone and knows that [redacted] obtained the human growth hormone from the same source that Grimsley obtained his from."

Now that is one cold-hearted SOB. Don't you think the Feds would've been pleased as punch to get all those names he'd already given them? He didn't have to give up his buddy, did he?

It's all here in the affidavit that was filed with the courts before they searched his house. The good stuff starts on page 10.

2 Comments:

At 9:34 AM, June 13, 2006, Blogger Jen said...

Andy, it's time for a new post, dude. Plus, I can't comment intelligently on baseball posts b/c I seriously know nothing about baseball (other than there's a bat, some running and some catching).

 
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