Cardinal fans are holding their breath right about now and I'll bet their you know what is puckering up too. :lol:

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 — not the trainer — 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. If you read the document, it doesn’t say the trainer/Mihlfeld supplied all the HGH and what-not; it just says the trainer was the referrer.

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

(UPDATE: OK, we’ve taken our head out of the microwave long enough to update you a bit. Here’s a “diary” Grimsley wrote about his quick recovery from Tommy John surgery. (At MLB.com!) He thanks Mihlfeld for helping him with his recovery.

We repeat: We are not claiming that Pujols has taken HGH. We are simply pointing out that Milhfeld is reportedly mentioned in the affidavit, and that he has connections to be Grimsley and Pujols. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to go back to our silent screams of pain.)

This is where life can get very complicated and quickly. If Albert has taken HGH etc etc, then one of baseball's good stories gets ruined. Not what the game needs at any time, but especially on the heels of Barroid, it's especially bad timing.
If Albert is clean (more likely imo), then perhaps it's even worse. It goes a long way towards casting a shadow of doubt upon ANY accomplishment in baseball and is terribly invasive to an innocent man.
Something no one needs.
Either way, this whole situation straight up sucks for baseball.

I had hopes that he would be able to unseat Bonds HR record.

If he's clean, he better start peeing in how ever many cups he's given and letting them take any blood test they want to take.

As usual, bad leadership (BUD! Complicit Owners! Players Union!) leads to bad outcomes.

Pujols is no bigger in baseball (not physically) now than Sosa and McGuire were at their peak and the game survived those juicers. The game is bigger than any of the participants.

In the same way that baseball forced it's players to not be associated with gambling and other seedy characters the players are going to have to be more cautious about the trainers they keep company with. Pujols may very well be clean but if his personal trainer isn't he's going to be guilty by association by the court of public opinion.

The funny thing to me is, the STL media and a lot (not all Art, family members excluded :lol: ) of the arrogant baseball fans in STL still don't believe McGuire juiced. They still have a section of Interstate 70 named after the guy! That big sucking sound you hear coming from middle America today is coming from STL and it's isn't coming from the mouths of the self described "best fans in baseball". :D It's coming from the other end.

A couple of quotes from the STL media and their arrogance:

Cardinals need to quit pouting and start playing

The Mad Hungarian is indeed mad. What a presumptuous ass :angry:

Former Royals trainer denies steroid involvement
By WRIGHT THOMPSON
The Kansas City Star

MihlfeldA local trainer linked by internet reports to the federal investigation of pitcher Jason Grimsley denied on Friday his involvement in any illegal activity. Chris Mihlfeld, who is also the personal trainer for baseball stars Albert Pujols and Mike Sweeney and once worked for the Royals, told The Star that he is not named in Grimsley's now infamous affidavit.

"I just don't want my name to be part of this," he said. "It's not fair to me. It's not fair to my family. It's not fair to the other players I work with. It's not fair to the kids I work with."

A report late Thursday, on the blog deadspin.com, attempted to answer the most popular question in baseball: who are the blacked out, redacted names listed in Grimsley's affidavit? In the 20-page document, there are numerous names hidden from public view. The baseball rumor mills have spent the last week filling them in.

When Grimsley mentioned a former trainer, Mihlfeld's name quickly surfaced. Mihlfeld helped Grimsley, a former Royal, recover from Tommy John surgery faster than expected, a feat that has now attracted suspicion.

"They've got the wrong name on that deal," Mihlfeld said.

The trainer said both Grimsley and Grimsley's attorney told him he was not in the document. Edward Novak, a Phoenix criminal defense lawyer representing the pitcher, didn't immediately return a voice mail and an e-mail seeking comment.

"He was in baseball 18 years before I got to meet him," Mihlfeld said. "If you think in the last three or four years, that I'm the one getting him to do this, it's just ignorance."

Any connection between Mihlfeld and Grimsley would also, for the first time, provide a connection between performance enhancers and Pujols, who has been followed by allegations. Mihlfeld insisted that the St. Louis slugger is clean.

"I can guarantee you that one, too," he says. "I've known Albert since he was 18 years old. Albert won't even drink his protein shakes anymore during the season because he's scared they're contaminated. That's been part of his training for the last five or six years, and all of a sudden he won't even do that. He's tired of it. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people putting this kid down. He's a great kid. Let him be great. He's clean."

Mihlfeld said he has spoken to both Grimsley and Pujols since this scandal broke. He described Pujols, who went to high school in the Kansas City area, as frustrated.

"You know why he's frustrated?" he said. "Because he cares. He cares what every little kid thinks about him. He cares if some kid picks up a magazine, and they start talking about steroids. He cares that little kids will always link that to him. He's sick about it. He hates it."

:lol:

I was at the Royals v. D-Rays game yesterday. As the D-Rays were hitting homer after homer out of the park, and the fans around me were groaning louder, I told my husband they should've kept the trainer with the juice. I don't know how good that guy can be - Pujols on the DL and Mike Sweeney has been there as often, of late, as Prior and Wood.

We did, however, get to see the Royals turn a triple play (and that will probably be the high point of the season in KC). And I ran the bases with my 6 year old.

Now I'm jealous. Not even the Cubs have had a triple play turned on them. Even with Jock running the bases. <_<

Yes!!! The Devil Rays have even beaten the Cubs in getting erased with a triple play....by the Royals. :clap:

Honestly, it was funnier than all get out. The Royals started running off the field and everone around us was puzzling.... "There were no outs in the inning--did the Royals just turn a triple play??? WHAT???" Then Joe Maddon came out and started arguing....

Royals turn bizarre triple play

Doug Eyechart also caught a pop-up and fell behind a tarp to end the top of the first. :lol:

I think it was Bako-magic. He was 2 for 3 with a walk and a run scored. :P

The Royals are making history like the Cubs - tied their record for most home runs given up in a game, Tampa Bay tied it's own record (previous vs. the Royals for home runs in a game) and hit into it's first triple play.

I just pulled a hamsting thinking about running the bases. :P