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Baseball Musings
June 07, 2006
The Grimsley Search

The Smoking Gun posts the search warrant affidavit for Jason Grimsley's residence. (Hat tip, Deaspin). It's pretty clear this search was payback for Grimsley no longer cooperating with federal agents. He's told when the agents show up, they trade not making a public search of his house for his cooperation. Now that's he no longer cooperating, he's been outed by IRS agent Novitsky.

It's very interesting. Note that Grimsley claims that since steroid testing went into effect, he's just used human growth hormone. That's against the rules, but can't be detected by a urine test yet. My guess is it's just a matter of time before the redacted names in the report leak out.


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Wow - he outed a large number of names in that warrant. It will be extremely interesting to see what if anything happens with regard to that.

Posted by: John in Austin at June 7, 2006 11:23 AM

Isolated incidents or will this spread like wildfire throughout the baseball community? Any bets?

Posted by: pawnking at June 7, 2006 11:34 AM

Wildfire. This is going to be exponentially larger than anything Bonds has against him. Unless, of course, Bonds is named in here.

Posted by: Brett at June 7, 2006 12:06 PM

Grimsley played on the O's last year. So did Sosa, Palmiero and Tejada.

Coincidence?

Posted by: rico vanian at June 7, 2006 12:47 PM

Well, one of the blacked-out names looks really short, like maybe 4 letters. Like, for example, s, o, another s, and a.

Posted by: Adam Villani at June 7, 2006 02:07 PM

Damn, only if Grimsley was on the Giants in the late 90s and early 00s...

Posted by: nick at June 7, 2006 02:54 PM

Enjoy the show, ignore the numbers. It's a great game, but the stats are not real. What did Caminiti say, 50%-60% of the league was using? Sounds right, and with the HGH news rolling out it's clear that the current testing has lead users to shift drugs. No cold turkey round here. The Giambi watch has begun. How soon does he develop a "virus", suddenly start losing weight?

Posted by: abe at June 7, 2006 03:07 PM

Legally speaking this is a tough one. While HGH is on MLB's banned substance list, unlike steroids there's no accurate testing in place that can prove use. It'll be the largest case of "he said, he said" ever seen. Question is, did Giambi use HGH to grow a new pair of nuts?

I am a lawyer.

Posted by: CSM at June 7, 2006 03:32 PM

Former teammates also include Canseco, Gooden, Strawberry on the proven bad guys end of the spectrum and Beltran, Clemens, Giles, Ramirez, Thome and Neifi Perez among the rolls of current stars and specimens.

Posted by: A at June 7, 2006 03:39 PM

This guy has played for so many teams that any list of his "former teammates" is gonna look like "six degrees of Jason Grimsley", you know? I would guess literally hundreds of guys can be linked to him.

Posted by: david at June 7, 2006 05:56 PM
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