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Canseco, McGwire, Palmeiro, Grimsley Nothing Here To See

The common spin by the Drive-By media is how terrible it was that

Grimsley gave the FBI names in the ongoing HGH investigation. Ten

names were redacted from the affidavit that was used in the original

story published by the Arizona Republic. After the story broke ESPN

paraded a number of quotes by ex-MLB and MLB players to push their

point home. The four reporters on Around The Horn backed up this spin

by backing the players and denigrating Grimsley. How these pampered

asses would have reacted with a threat of prison is not known, and not

even brought up. At least Kornheiser and Wilbon, on Pardon The

Interruption, brought some common sense to the debate by both agreeing

that they would turn each other in under Grimsleys circumstances.

Now today, ESPN has been reporting "as gospel" a statement released by

Grimsleys lawyer about the FBI trying to get Grimsley to don a wire

and other "strong arm" tactics. The ESPN web site followed suit as has

Shanoff. Shanoff had this to say:

More GrimsleyWow, here's a wild twist: Grimsley's lawyer accused the

feds of outing his client after Grimsley refused to cooperate in an

alleged attempt by the government to sting Barry Bonds.Where to start

with that?That it's unsurprising that the story leads back to

Bonds?That the feds are so wildly aggressive (or thought this wouldn't

eventually leak out)?Or maybe that Grimsley cost himself his career by

not participating?Obviously, anyone who dismissed this as a one-day

story exclusively about Grimsley was seriously wrong.

You see the spin here? The Gubment is on a witch hunt for Barry Bonds.

Not a word about illegal drugs or the sham that is Bonds quest for

Aaron's hallowed record. Not the widespread use of HGH, not even the

union stonewalling over drug testing that led to this fiasco. No just

wildly aggressive feds.

Here is my spin, ESPN is a disgrace for reporting a single word

uttered by a POS (military acronym for piece of shit) lawyer, any

lawyer, there all POS's, during an ongoing investigation. Putting this

up on the crawl all day long and leading off their sportscenter with

this statement by this sheister as fact is beneath even National

Enquirer standards. We all know the FBI can't issue any official