So, if you were under the impression the Jason Grimsley affidavit was officially on blast for all to see, you were only half right. It was released back in the summer of '06, but let us not forget, there were still some names blacked out. And, darn it, if we've learned anything about this whole PED baseball mess, it's that we want names and lots of them.
All but Incaviglia, Berroa and Watson were mentioned last week in the Mitchell Report on doping in baseball.
Whoa, no way ... Jose Canseco? I guess no one is safe from the terrors of steroids. At any rate, nothing overly shocking or astounding here. What is of interest, though, is how Roger Clemens' name was allegedly in this thing according to the L.A. Times, but his name never surfaced. I suppose that has to do with Brian McNamee being mentioned by Grimsley as referer for PEDs.
So yes: it looks as if the Grimsley chapter is all read and closed. Don't worry though, there's plenty more to come.
Because of the inclusion of Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte, no team had more reason to be chagrined by the allegations of the Mitchell Report than the New York Yankees. A close second, though, would have to be their AL East rivals from Baltimore. David Segui and Jay Gibbons we already knew about but, all told, 19 other current or former Orioles, including Miguel Tejada and Brian Roberts, two of their best players in recent years, were named as well. As a result, they are breaking with MLB's party line and challenging the report.
"As to the information and allegations contained in the Mitchell report, the Orioles caution observers to resist the temptation to accept collective judgments based upon unsubstantiated allegations. The Orioles further believe that each major league player must be treated on an individual basis, must not be judged responsible by mere association, and is innocent of any improper conduct until proven otherwise beyond a reasonable doubt."
I think it's okay for the O's to stand up for Roberts. Unlike the other players in the report, there's no documented evidence of Roberts using steroids. He's included simply because Larry Bigbie, under the watchful eye of federal investigators, named him as part of testimony designed to avoid his own punishment.
David Segui's name appears in the Mitchell Report quite a few times. It's not something Segui minds though because he fully admits he's used steroids in the past. There is one part of the report though that Segui is very unhappy with, and that's the fact that it implicates Brian Roberts as a cheater as well.
"By far that's the thing that's bothered me the most about the whole entire thing," Segui said today. "[Bigbie] threw Brian Roberts' name out on complete hearsay. Calling it hearsay would be giving it more credibility than it deserves. I'm at a loss as to why Brian Roberts' name would come out of his mouth.
"Brian Roberts has never met Kirk Radomski, at least not in my presence," said Segui, who has admitted to taking steroids and to providing Radomski's contact information to several players who wanted to know more about performance-enhancers. "And I don't know wherever else he would have met him.
"I'm not worried about damage control on my part, I don't care about that," Segui said. "What I care about is Brian Roberts. He is the kind of guy you want your daughter to marry. He is the kind of guy you want your son to grow up to be. Leave him out of this [stuff]. He has nothing to do with this."
Wooo, steroids! It's almost like nothing else is going on in baseball ... oh, right:
When Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drug use is released, likely later this week, at least one former Oriole fully expects to be mentioned prominently.
Retired first baseman David Segui said today he has experimented with anabolic steroids, bought shipments from his friend, former New York Mets clubhouse attendant and admitted drug distributor Kirk Radomski, and reiterated he used human growth hormone with a legal prescription from a Florida doctor.
But Segui told The Sun that he declined to talk to former Sen. George Mitchell because he didn't want to betray the trust of other ballplayers or be caught in a game of speculation about what former teammates or opponents did or didn't do. He also didn't want people wondering what information might have came from him.
In the procession of average baseball players wrapped up in accusations of steroid use, is David Segui the best? He's an obvious notch or ten below Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and the like, but he's no marginal AAA player, either. He had a long professional career with plus-league-average numbers. There's an obvious motive for Segui, as there is for other players ... but maybe his seems less honest, less visceral. If you took steroids for 10 years to put up a 110 OPS+, was it really worth it? What's the effing point?
U.S. Magistrate Edward Voss heard 70 minutes of oral arguments Thursday on a motion by the Associated Press to release the names, which have been redacted, or blacked out, from a court document in the case.
Attorneys for the government and the Major League Baseball Players Association urged Voss to keep the names secret. ... Peter Kozinets, a freedom of information specialist with the Phoenix office of the international law firm Steptoe and Johnson, argued that the names should be released because the players named are public figures, because the public has a compelling interest in the integrity of a high-profile sport played for the most part in publicly financed stadiums and because documents such as the Novitsky affidavit are crucial to the public's right to monitor the work of government investigators and judges.
Kozinets also argued that the names should be released because the government had forfeited its right to secrecy by sharing an uncensored version of Novitsky's affidavit with former Sen. George Mitchell, who is leading Major League Baseball's more than yearlong investigation into illegal drugs.
Of course MLB wants to protect the players, while the media wants to know who was on the list. Count me in the latter; I think we have the right to know who was named. This thing should make waves in the baseball world. Emphasis on should -- regardless of all names that can appear on this list, there is only one that will matter most to fans -- Barry Bonds -- and his name isn't rumored to be on there.
In the latest move of MLB's and George Mitchell's ongoing investigation into steroid use by the league's players, it has been reported in the New York Times that Mitchell is going after the medical records of a few current and former Baltimore Orioles. Including Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro.
Investigators of steroid use in baseball are seeking medical records from at least two of the game's premier sluggers over the past dozen years, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, along with records from dozens of other players suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs, a baseball official with direct knowledge of the request said.
The investigators in the inquiry, headed by the former Senator George J. Mitchell, have also asked the Baltimore Orioles to send medical files to Jason Grimsley, David Segui and Fernando Tatis, the official said.
There's only one problem with Mitchell's latest move. The players in question don't have to give up their medical records if they don't want to. So really, this newest "attempt" to uncover steroid abuse in baseball will serve no purpose.
Really though, what should we expect? What has Mitchell done over the last year that has come up with any actual information? Bud Selig and George Mitchell don't want to find anything out about steroid use and baseball, and probably because they already know everything that has gone on in the game over the last 20 years or so.
Mitchell knows that the players don't have to release their medical records to him, so that's exactly why he's asked for them. That way it gets on the front of the New York Times sports section and makes it look like baseball is actually trying to do something about the problem.
So, if you were under the impression the Jason Grimsley affidavit was officially on blast for all to see, you were only half right. It was released back in the summer of '06, but let us not forget, there were still some names blacked out. And, darn it, if we've learned anything about this whole PED baseball mess, it's that we want names and lots of them. 
Because of the inclusion of 
David Segui
Wooo, 
Jason Grimsley
In the latest move of MLB's and 
