federal agents caught the new Diamondbacks relief pitcher accepting what he admitted was his 12th shipment of human growth hormone kits through the mail at his Scottsdale home. Documents obtained Tuesday by The Arizona Republic reveal Grimsley agreed to cooperate with investigators from the Internal Revenue Service criminal division minutes after he accepted a mail shipment containing the banned drugs. In a two-hour conversation with special agent Jeff Novitzky, who led the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation that resulted in a conviction against Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Grimsley admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, anabolic steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormones "throughout his career." and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Jason Grimsley admitted taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs and said that amphetamines were used "like aspirin" in major league clubhouses, according to an affidavit filed by the lead federal investigator in baseball's steroid investigation. The affidavit, filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, said Grimsley agreed to cooperate with U.S. Internal Revenue Service agents after Grimsley received a package containing two kits of human growth hormone April 19 at his Scottsdale home. The affidavit, obtained by The Arizona Republic, comes nearly four years after the IRS began its probe of BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, near San Francisco. The original goal was to investigate a drug ring that distributed steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes. Thirteen special federal agents, including 10 from the IRS, searched Grimsley's home for nearly six hours Tuesday. They were seeking performance-enhancing drugs, financial records, address books and phone records, according to Mark Lessler, an IRS special agent. Grimsley provided "extensive statements regarding his receipt and use of anabolic steroids, amphetamines and human growth hormone over the last several years," the affidavit said. Grimsley also provided "details about his knowledge of other Major League Baseball players" using illegal performance-enhancing drugs, including several close acquaintances. In a two-hour interview with federal investigators on April 19, Grimsley told investigators: • Until last year, major league clubhouses had coffee pots labeled "leaded" and "unleaded" for the players, indicating coffee with amphetamines and without. He did not specify how many. • Latin players were a major source for the amphetamines within baseball. • Amphetamines also came from players on California teams that could easily go into Mexico and get them. Names of other players he suspected of using anabolic steroids or human growth hormone were redacted from the document. http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/0607dbdrugsgrimsley0607.html http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/0606grimsley-ON.html Redacted affidavit here: http://www.azcentral.com/pdfs/060706grimsley.pdf
Dan Patrick has been on this. I was looking for something on the net but forgot the player (grimsley) when I got back to work. did anyone hear Patrick? he was talking about some player invested in a drug company through his brother-in-law. couldn't gather whether he was still talking about grimsley.
You know I honestly don't care too much. Athletes are always gonna look for some kind of competitive advantage; it's always been that way. And if it's not illegal, then what's wrong with that? And if it is, well then bust the player and move on. But stop making such a big deal out of it. I don't condone cheating, but baseball really brought this on itself.
Astros traded Glenn Davis to Baltimore for Pete Harnish, Curt Schilling, and Steve Finley. Later traded Schilling to Philly for Grimsley.
I'm going to start following Grimsley around to games and yell and scream and boo mean things and have signs that say this: * HEY GRIMSLEY BABE DID IT ON HOT DOGS AND BEER HOW BOUT YOU? and then marvel at my creativity, because I am a baseball FAN and that is what I do.
He was talking about Grimsley. It actually was Olbermann who was saying that he talked to Grimsley while they were having lunch and Grimsley straight up said that he invested half of his net worth in a multi-million dollar "pharmaceutical distribution" company set up by his brother-in-law, and that he was really big on this company. Furthermore, Olbermann concluded that this will be the biggest steroid bombshell of them all because he would seemingly have more credibility than someone like Canseco because he was caught buying the stuff and admitted to openly distributing it.
by the way....THIS IS NOT JUST BASEBALL'S PROBLEM!!! none of the pro sports leagues in america test for HGH.
after reading the affadavit and listening to the dan patrick show today where keith talked about grimsley's partnership in the pharmaceutical company, i feel baseball is about to get hit real hard on this. he named about 30 players and revealed the source and knows that there are "boatloads" of players who use it. this is going to get REAL UGLY for major league baseball. people will find out those names eventually and who knows what they will find after getting to the supplier.
Lebron James looks like he's 30 and so does Pujols...I would not be shocked if both these guys have been on this stuff since they were in their teens.
Actually, he did play with the Astros as a reliever in 1991. He played in 56 games and had a 3.81 ERA.
Grimsley has a boatload of money not only from baseball, but from marrying money. The family that he married into has ties to pharmaceutical companies. Meaning Grimsley might not be talking to avoid tax evasion or to save face, but to keep the family corporation from getting smacked the hell around. Also, he played for the Phillies when that roided bunch went to the Series, the Indians when they scored 1000 runs and the Yankees when they did so well in the late 90's. He also played with three other teams so, essentially, he knows a lot of stuff about a lot of people, and he will be obliged to talk as opposed to "I'm not here to talk about the past." This looks like it will make a good Hallmark movie.
Can't believe Grimsley's still playing. But man, he's going to get it from his teammates and colleagues for spilling the beans on steroids, HGH and amphetamines.
What an idiot. First he did roids which is bad enought, then he ratted out fellow MLB players. Life for him will be hell after this.
