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[phattymatty]

awesome

[MDS]

juan pierre takes it up the ass?

[ice grillin you]

take it for what its worth....

So ... We've Got Some Affidavit Names

Everyone's guessing about who the blacked-out names in the Jason Grimsley report are, and it has been a fun parlor game so far. But we all knew eventually the names would get out. And we've been digging around ... and some sources have given us some names.

How reliable are these names? We feel pretty confident in them, but we can't go 100 percent, since the information is secondhand. We'll say this: If Bud Selig issuing a press release naming the names is a 10, and picking a player at random out of the Baseball Encyclopedia is a 1, we're at an 8.

So. Let's do it then. Remember: Betting lines are for entertainment purposes only.

First: The person who told Grimsley about the positive test in 2003. That's former Royals general manager Allard Baird.

As many people have guessed, one of the "former players" who were sold out by Grimsley: Sammy Sosa. Our source(s) couldn't confirm if the other was Rafael Palmeiro.

Nothing new or exciting about that name. Then it starts to get interesting. We've heard amphetamine rumors of Miguel Tejada, but we can't confirm that. What we can confirm? The doozy.

Grimsley says that a former employee of [redacted] and personal fitness trainer to several Major League Baseball players once referred him to an amphetamine source.. Later, this source provided him with "amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone." This trainer? His name is Chris Mihlfeld, a Kansas City-based "strength and conditioning guru." (And former Strength And Conditioning Coordinator for the Royals.)

Does Mihlfeld's name sound familiar? If it doesn't, he — and we assure you, this gives us no pleasure to write this — has been Albert Pujols' personal trainer since before Pujols was drafted by the Cardinals in the 13th round of the 1999 draft. We have no confirmation that Pujols' name is in the affidavit ... but Mihlfeld's is.

Yeah. Sigh. We just report what we're told, folks. Ever hope your source is wrong? This is one of those times.

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/baseball/so-weve-got-some-affidavit-names-179400.php

[rjs246]

Yes! The golden boy is being implicated! This farging rules.

[Geowhizzer]

Sheffield to undergo wrist surgery; should not miss the rest of the season.

[Sgt PSN]

A couple of ties to Kansas City in that article which I find quite humorous considering that KC has been one of the worst teams in baseball over the last 10 years.  And it's not like the Royals have been known for having players with serious power either.  I'd be hard pressed to think of any single player for them who hit more than 40 HR in the last 5 or 6 years. 

[Geowhizzer]

A couple of ties to Kansas City in that article which I find quite humorous considering that KC has been one of the worst teams in baseball over the last 10 years.  And it's not like the Royals have been known for having players with serious power either.  I'd be hard pressed to think of any single player for them who hit more than 40 HR in the last 5 or 6 years. 

They haven't even had one hit 30 since 1999 (Jermaine Dye with 33).  They've never had a player hit 40.

[Sgt PSN]

Which supports my theory even more that part of the Royals staff couldn't be involved.  Or, if they were, then they weren't giving the stuff to their own players. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh, man.

Pujols? Wow.

[Feva]

Pujols... That's big.

[Geowhizzer]

For those that care (or at least enjoy legal mumbo-jumbo), here is Grimsley's affidavit.

By the way, yesterday I was listening to the Dan Patrick Show, and he and Keith Olbermann estimated that Grimsley has played with over 1,000 players over the course of his career. 

[ice grillin you]

Grimsley has played with over 1,000 players over the course of his career

networkin dog

[Wingspan]

i guess we can all thank grimsley for helping the phils get to the 1993 series.


....

so...who wants to start a pool of the first current phillie to be named? and a second for currently playing ex-phillie (grimsley not withstanding) to be named?

[Geowhizzer]

i guess we can all thank grimsley for helping the phils get to the 1993 series.

We can already... trading Grimsley got us Curt Schilling. 

so...who wants to start a pool of the first current phillie to be named? and a second for currently playing ex-phillie (grimsley not withstanding) to be named?

Mickey Morandini! 

[Geowhizzer]

Diamondbacks plan on withholding the rest of Grimsley's salary- agent plans to file grievance.