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TJ Quinn is live tweeting the Tyler Skaggs death trial
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:33 pm
Eric Kay, the former Angels employee who provided Tyler Skaggs with opioids and other drugs is on trial. 4 major league players (Matt Harvey, CJ Cron, Mike Morin, Cam Bedrosian) have testified today about using Eric Kay to get pills, a few testified about snorting painkillers in the clubhouse and Tyler Skaggs in the dugout bathroom during a game. Matt Harvey testified in exchange for immunity and admitted to cocaine use during his time with the Mets
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He's been tweeting all day, lots of stuff on his feed
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Harvey says he was a partier. Prosecutor asks, what did you party with? Harvey: "Cocaine."
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Harvey says he tried oxycodone in 2019. Got it from Tyler Skaggs. Didn't like how it felt.
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Harvey says he got Percocet pills at start of 2019 season, used them in mid-April.
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Harvey: Skaggs asked him for pills before a couple of road trips in June '19. Including one where he said he wanted oxy to feel "loosey goosey" before a start.
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Harvey: was still using cocaine when he went to California.
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Harvey says he used in clubhouse and dugout. Skaggs told him he crushed and snorted oxy on the toilet paper dispenser in the clubhouse bathroom.
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Beran: "Did you ever get pills from Eric Kay?"
Cron: "Yes."
"Did you have another source of supply?"
"No."
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Cron went to Tampa Bay in '18 after he left Angels, got pills from Kay during trip to Anaheim.
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Morin: In 2016-17, Skaggs introduced him to Kay to get "pain medication." Now three players who have said they got opioids from Kay.
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Morin says he'd get to ballpark and usually bit a third or half of a pill. Sometimes snorted. Learned that in college (like Harvey, a UNC alum). Says he never did drugs with Skaggs.
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AUSA: Did you obtain pills from Eric Kay?
Bedrosian: "Yes I did."
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He's been tweeting all day, lots of stuff on his feed
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Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:36 pm to Lsuhoohoo
I was in DFW the day he died and was supposed to go to the Rangers-Angels game that day that got cancelled so I went the next day. Both teams and the local media were acting like Skaggs was an innocent victim. He dug his own grave.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:45 pm to goldennugget
Yea, this is pissing me off. You are accountable for your own actions.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 4:49 pm to goldennugget
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He dug his own grave.
But likely couldn’t feel a thing while doing it being he was as high as giraffe pussy
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:04 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Sham fricking trial... if he didn't get drugs for Kay, he would have gotten them somewhere else.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:24 pm to Lsuhoohoo
What am I missing? Why are these guys coming forward to rat out their dealer?
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:37 pm to Basura Blanco
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What am I missing? Why are these guys coming forward to rat out their dealer?
Tyler Skaggs was a pitcher for the LA Angels. He was found dead in his hotel room in 2019 on a road trip to Arlington. He OD'd on a combo of oxy, alcohol and fentanyl. Eric Kay was the then director of Communications for the Angels who was found to be supplying drugs to Skaggs and other players. Kay is on trial for intent to distribute a controlled substance and distribution causing death. The players mentioned in the OP were called as witnesses to testify that Kay supplied them with drugs as well.
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Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:42 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Kay obviously should not have handed out the drugs so freely. But I feel the Angels are using him as a bit of a scapegoat here
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:48 pm to red sox fan 13
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Kay obviously should not have handed out the drugs so freely. But I feel the Angels are using him as a bit of a scapegoat here
Agreed. The organization needs to point the finger somewhere.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:51 pm to red sox fan 13
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Kay obviously should not have handed out the drugs so freely. But I feel the Angels are using him as a bit of a scapegoat here
Skaggs family has filed a civil suit against the Angels. I don't feel a lot of sympathy for Skaggs as a drug addict who ODd himself but it's hard to argue the Angels aren't civilly liable. Their employee was supplying drugs to multiple players on site and opiods were being abused in the clubhouse and dugout by multiple players. I don't see any way they won't quiet settle with the family.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 5:52 pm to RandySavage
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Yea, this is pissing me off. You are accountable for your own actions.
In America today? No. Personal responsibility is a relic from days gone by.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:10 pm to kywildcatfanone
Now we know why Harvey flamed out
Too much partying in New York
Too much partying in New York
This post was edited on 2/15/22 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:23 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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Tyler Skaggs was a pitcher for the LA Angels. He was found dead in his hotel room in 2019 on a road trip to Arlington. He OD'd on a combo of oxy, alcohol and fentanyl. Eric Kay was the then director of Communications for the Angels who was found to be supplying drugs to Skaggs and other players. Kay is on trial for intent to distribute a controlled substance and distribution causing death. The players mentioned in the OP were called as witnesses to testify that Kay supplied them with drugs as well.
Yeah, I knew all of that, but why are these other players willingly admitting to drug use?
Unless someone is holding something over their heads to make them forward, no way in hell they just walk into in a courtroom and admit to using oxy and blow.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:34 pm to Lsuhoohoo
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it's hard to argue the Angels aren't civilly liable
Employers aren’t generally vicariously liable for intentional actions of their employees, although they may be liable for negligently hiring or failing to fire this guy. Now, if they knew about it and facilitated or covered it up? Yeah they may be fuuuuucked.
This post was edited on 2/15/22 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:34 pm to Basura Blanco
There's a reason 99.9% of judges strictly prohibit cell phones from court rooms.
Either Quinn got special permission, or the judge wanted this shite out in public. This whole things sounds like a massive judiciary disgrace.
Either Quinn got special permission, or the judge wanted this shite out in public. This whole things sounds like a massive judiciary disgrace.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:36 pm to Jack Ruby
It’s not just Skaggs. MLB has a major opioid/drug problem with the long season and games nearly everyday.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:39 pm to Lsuhoohoo
Actually Harvey was called to testify by the defense to show Skaggs received drugs from multiple people, so who knows is Kay's drugs even killed him.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:39 pm to MS_Tigers07
Didn't MLB oulaw Greenies a few years ago?
I'd much rather have my players doing what is essentially adderral every day instead of fricking opiates and cocaine.
I'd much rather have my players doing what is essentially adderral every day instead of fricking opiates and cocaine.
Posted on 2/15/22 at 6:41 pm to MS_Tigers07
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MLB has a major opioid/drug problem with the long season and games nearly everyday.
they used to have bowls of amphetamines out in the open in clubhouses
Posted on 2/15/22 at 7:45 pm to MS_Tigers07
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MLB has a major opioid/drug problem with the long season and games nearly everyday.
America has an opioid/drug problem.
If some junkie kid at Popeyes OD's after using drugs with another junkie kid at Popeyes who is also supplying a few dudes in the kitchen with oxy as well, what are the chances the the junkie supplier is going to get federal charges against him?
The DEA is prosecuting this case for one reason and one reason only. A rich MLB player is dead. Other than this being tried in federal court, there is a shite ton of other absurdity in this case.
-The junkie that OD'd was making $3.7M a year and his junkie dealer was pulling down ~$60K.
-The Feds have given immunity to the drug dealer HIGHER up the supply chain for his testimony against the dude he SOLD drugs too who then supplied them to Skaggs.
-The wife of the dead junkie pitcher AND the Angels claim they never knew Skaggs used drugs, yet federal witness testimony claims the defendant supplied drugs to Skaggs on numerous occasions. In what clown world does an oxy addict go unnoticed by their wife and MLB employer?
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