HGH Woes
Wow, you'd have to look around for a while to find a worse player to have cooperated with the feds, from baseball's perspective, than Jason Grimsley. Grimsley has pitched for seven different teams in a big league career that began in 1989, and spans what we usually consider to be the "steroid era".
A quick scan of his Baseball Reference page shows he's had probably 400+ big league teammates in his career. Additionally, he's pitched for 13 different minor league teams since 1985. All told, his total number of teammates is surely over a thousand. While a smoking gun implicating Bonds or Clemens or the like would garner more headlines, getting someone like Grimsley to name names could end up being far more damaging.
I'm halfway through Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, and there's a scary lesson therein with regards to Grimsley. Gladwell refers to Connectors, who are people who can exercise an outsized influence on their surroundings by virtue of having an especially large circle of acquaintences. As I understand it, epidemics are facilitated, in Gladwell's thesis, when a Connector shares information gathered by virtue of his extraordinary number of connections.
Jason Grimsley is a Connector. Searching for something good to say about the Braves, at least Grimsley never played for them, and no current Brave player has been a big league teammate of his (though Roger McDowell once was). But how many former Braves do you think have been a teammate of his? I'll give you a moment to think about it.
The answer is 35. Here is an exhaustive list of former Braves who have shared a locker room with the Grims Reaper:
Javy Lopez
BJ Surhoff
Eli Marrero
Bruce Chen
Tony Graffanino
Rudy Seanez
Michael Tucker
Albie Lopez
Paul Byrd
Darrell May
Roberto Hernandez
Jermaine Dye
Trenidad Hubbard
David Justice
Luis Polonia
Roberto Kelly
Mike Stanton
Denny Neagle
Kenny Lofton
Paul Assenmacher
Gregg Olson
Derek Lilliquist
Jeff Treadway
Mike Bielecki
Dale Murphy
Terry Mulholland
Joe Boever
Tommy Greene
Andy Ashby
Jim Vatcher
Jeff Parrett
Marvin Freeman
Randy O'Neal
Larry McWilliams
Steve Bedrosian
Murph, you're officially off the hook. Several of the others were no more than ships passing in the night. But if you don't think there are a few folks in the above list who are a little nervous today, you're kidding yourself.
A quick scan of his Baseball Reference page shows he's had probably 400+ big league teammates in his career. Additionally, he's pitched for 13 different minor league teams since 1985. All told, his total number of teammates is surely over a thousand. While a smoking gun implicating Bonds or Clemens or the like would garner more headlines, getting someone like Grimsley to name names could end up being far more damaging.
I'm halfway through Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, and there's a scary lesson therein with regards to Grimsley. Gladwell refers to Connectors, who are people who can exercise an outsized influence on their surroundings by virtue of having an especially large circle of acquaintences. As I understand it, epidemics are facilitated, in Gladwell's thesis, when a Connector shares information gathered by virtue of his extraordinary number of connections.
Jason Grimsley is a Connector. Searching for something good to say about the Braves, at least Grimsley never played for them, and no current Brave player has been a big league teammate of his (though Roger McDowell once was). But how many former Braves do you think have been a teammate of his? I'll give you a moment to think about it.
The answer is 35. Here is an exhaustive list of former Braves who have shared a locker room with the Grims Reaper:
Javy Lopez
BJ Surhoff
Eli Marrero
Bruce Chen
Tony Graffanino
Rudy Seanez
Michael Tucker
Albie Lopez
Paul Byrd
Darrell May
Roberto Hernandez
Jermaine Dye
Trenidad Hubbard
David Justice
Luis Polonia
Roberto Kelly
Mike Stanton
Denny Neagle
Kenny Lofton
Paul Assenmacher
Gregg Olson
Derek Lilliquist
Jeff Treadway
Mike Bielecki
Dale Murphy
Terry Mulholland
Joe Boever
Tommy Greene
Andy Ashby
Jim Vatcher
Jeff Parrett
Marvin Freeman
Randy O'Neal
Larry McWilliams
Steve Bedrosian
Murph, you're officially off the hook. Several of the others were no more than ships passing in the night. But if you don't think there are a few folks in the above list who are a little nervous today, you're kidding yourself.
posted by Sam Bass | 10:51 PM
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Some doctors have been concerned about giving HGH to diabetics. Previous studies, including Dr. Rudman's study using large doses of HGH, showed that HGH had caused increased insulin resistance in patients, so diabetics saw an increase in blood glucose levels.
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