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.
Isolated incidents or will this spread like wildfire throughout the baseball community? Any bets?
Wildfire. This is going to be exponentially larger than anything Bonds has against him. Unless, of course, Bonds is named in here.
Grimsley played on the O's last year. So did Sosa, Palmiero and Tejada.
Coincidence?
Well, one of the blacked-out names looks really short, like maybe 4 letters. Like, for example, s, o, another s, and a.
Damn, only if Grimsley was on the Giants in the late 90s and early 00s...
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?
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.
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.
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.