Baseball pitcher for LA Angels found dead in hotel room

Meth and fisting again?

Very sad! OD?

Another photo of him.

Drugs? Suicide?

That's mighty jowly for 27.

He looks like Cameron from Ferris Bueller.

I don't know, R4. Those are the only details I've heard so far. I read somewhere that his teammates found him, but I can't verify if that's true.

It's obviously going to be drugs or suicide.

[quote]Drugs? Suicide?

Gotta be drugs. Probably got something laced with fentanyl.

I’ve said it before: If I was still in my youthful druggy years, this shit would scare me straight.

[quote] It's obviously going to be drugs or suicide.

Not all of the time!

It will be cocaine.

At least he got to join the 27 club.

r11 OD for coke is rare, no? Don't you have to be binging for days to get enough in your system?

Probably a congenital heart condition that went undiscovered.

As the southerners say, bless your heart r14.

Do we think there was a gay angle here? Gigolos? Bareback meth party?

It is not unheard of to put Fentanyl in cocaine. I know quite a few people who were non-opioid users that died from opioid overdoses.Work

He just got married.

Looks 37

His hometown paper pulling no punches.

[quote]The cause of death has yet to be determined, authorities said. However the cocaine scattered around the room seemed to imply a drug related overdose. Texas police said "no foul play is suspected" meaning his death was either a suicide, or a drug overdose. Given that the millionaire ball player was in perfect health, well, anyone can do the math.

He was drafted right out of high school to play in the major leagues. I never think that's such a good idea.

Probably fentanyl-laced cocaine. Dealers cutting coke with that to save money has been causing so many problems.

When young white guys die, it is always a mix of drugs involving cocaine and alcohol, and possibly benzos. I don't think it's mixed with fetanyl.

R18 Black widow!

Why do we care about the drug death of an unattractive, straight baseball player?

How does mixing coke and benzos, in particular, bad?

Surprised about coke and alcohol since coke is huge at clubs so it is always used with alcohol and I don't always hear about ODs from it.

Was the batboy blowing it up his ass?

How did Stevie Nicks manage to not die from it? She did loads of blow, and booze too. At the same time!

Fastball pitcher dead from speedball.

R25, he's attractive by DL standards. He's straight, always a plus on DL.

[quote] How does mixing coke and benzos, in particular, bad?

Sorry I meant mixing coke with alcohol and benzos. Mixing alcohol with benzos is bad.

R24 another photo.

....

Well hopefully he had insurance. And the wife and start over with one of his teammates

R18, They were married 7 months ago.

Heaven needed another Angel.

Someone did R36; two hours before this thread was started.

He last pitched on Saturday.

He was set to play in Texas in the next few days.

The come down from coke is a bitch (so I've heard.....). And he was going to warm up with the team the next day?

As far as mixing with benzos- only if you take a shit load. My friend would come down from coke with benzos. He said it made the landing softer.

His last tweet was: Howdy y’all

Too much coke and you can stroke out or have a heart attack and die.

With his mom.

Who's his dealer? Part of the team?

r42 Well yeah, but you hear about the amount of coke these rockers and stars do and you really think he did that much knowing he had to get up tomorrow morning and work out with his team?

27 is a cursed year.

Steroids.

Was there peen involved???

Was there a disco ball at the scene? A massage table?

Someone in a Wonder Woman costume?

People Magazine could have used a more flattering photo than the one at OP.

Why do all the young athletes get married early? They have hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions. You would think they'd want to play the field, so to speak, for awhile instead of getting a wife just to cheat on her.

R52 A lot of them are quite religious so they are encouraged to get married at an early age.

The tats didn't tip anyone off that he was probably mentally ill?

When a celebrity is found dead and alone in a motel room it's almost always drug related.

I've taught a lot of D-1 athletes. They lead very sheltered lives and when they make it big, they want a woman they can trust. A lot of those guys have girlfriends they've been with forever, or who are not as glamorous as you'd expect.

Staring at white lines all day can make anyone crave cocaine.

R53 I'm not sure why players' families would encourage early marriage. A lot of these broads who hang around pro athletes are gold diggers. Not saying this widowed wife... it seems like they had been together for a long time.

The families prefer them to marry someone young, who is easier to control, and preferably, someone they've known for a long time than to be tempted by gold diggers on the road who might get knocked up.

They are usually religious. Religion is really pushed on athletes. Not sure if they are sheltered since girls are throwing their pussies at them all the time. There was a report about molestation and a very high number of boys who have teams that make it far in the Little League World Series have sex with older women.

Anyway- I still don't understand why they get married so early. Their lives are the game you would think they'd want to live it up but they'll cheat non-stop.

Stevie said weed and brandy was good for taking her down off a coke high. The she said if you felt sluggish after that you’d just do more coke.

r61 But how is anyone functional on coke? It makes you really horny (or so I've heard) and you want to talk nonstop (not that I'd know).

What is the hand gesture about in R33's pic?

My niece was a sports trainer in college in preparation for her PhD in physical therapy, she said the baseball players are the biggest sluts of every college sport. Sluttier than the football and basketball players.

R63, it looks like he's doing the Hawaiian "hang loose" hand sign.

Been reading about this tonight, as am a big baseball fan. He really seemed like a good guy. I feel like you don't often hear about baseball players doing a lot of drugs?? He pitched a few days before, maybe he knew he'd be off at least a few more days so he was doing some shit in the hotel room? It's odd. Very sad. I'm sure more will come out soon.

r64 Very true. My cousin played baseball through college. He started having sex at 10 with an older sister of a teammate and was getting it regularly from 10 years on. He claimed to have fucked a few of the baseball friends' moms as young as 12 or 13.

Coke is literally one of the easiest recreational drugs to be functional on r61. Its not that intoxicating and it gives you extra energy boost.

That is why it is easy for people with a bad coke problem to spend all their money on it, they will start doing it all the time. A little bump here and there all day.

R67

Now he's a REAL angel

The wife's not Asian?!

27 isn't that young for marriage, in some circles. Especially if your education stops at high school.

[quote] He was drafted right out of high school to play in the major leagues

I don't think that's too healthy. His mother was a softball coach. Their lives must have revolved around Baseball, what indirectly cost him his life just from the injuries he sustained. Pain>Vicodin>coke>Fentanyl. It has to be Fentanyl.... I hope they do an accurate drug analysis of what he died from. If so, this is another casualty, thanks to the Purdue family.

He's one of those people who can look hot in one pic, and homely in another.

He's cute in R3 and R43 but ugly as fuck in R70 (looks like a mentally disabled hillbilly trying to figure out how to wipe his own ass without help).

I just know he was in that hotel room doing drugs because he wanted some peen!

Well, if he was there with a "mysterious stranger" we'll find out soon enough

Aren't athletes drug tested regularly?

oh dear!

Curious if that Santa Monica "rag" saying coke was found all around the room is real or fake. Most people on reddit are saying it's not reliable.

R20 Damn, did he piss off someone at that paper. I can't believe a hometown paper, publishing such an article, before he is even in the ground.

None of the DFW media are reporting anything about drugs being found in the hotel room. The Southlake PD has not released any statement that verifies that. I think the Santa Monica paper is making it up. If it proves to be untrue, I hope his family sues the fuck out of them.

I'm now realizing that the Santa Monica Observer is not even a real paper, look into for 10 seconds and you will see it is just a fake news joke.

Read the "paper's" about section. Stephen Miller wrote for them. The site of full of Trump bullshit ads.

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The Santa Monica Observer has no friends at City Hall. In 2009, the City of Santa Monica sued David Ganezer, for violations of California's False Advertising laws (Cal Bus. Prof. Code Section 17500, et seq). The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed and Ganezer prevailed, but the City has never apologized, never paid costs of suit, and never taken the press release down from the City website.

Coke, alcohol, benzos, steroids, tatts . . .

YOU do the meth.

I hope his family sues the paper, R83.

Well, if it turns out he was actually on drugs, they won't have much to sue over.

Maybe it's not drugs?

Maybe he choked on a sandwich. Was it ham?

Baseball doesn't go for booze and dope!

Anymore details?

Tommy Hanson was another Angels pitcher who died prematurely a few years ago. Maybe there's an Angels pitcher curse.

[quote]Baseball doesn't go for booze and dope!

Anymore.

At least suicide is not suspected.

The paper has deleted the part about the “cocaine scattered around the room” and any speculation about it being an OD.

If it's not foul play or suicide, what else would it be?

R96 Accidental OD or natural causes (ruptured aneurysm, heart attack etc.-not likely given his young age.)

No mention of a dad. His mom a softball coach, who groomed him starting young. No college-- although he was bright and did well in high school. And married! Does that really sound like a great life? Like the dominoes were lined up before he had a chance.

Blood clot, maybe?

Fibromyalgia attack?

R100, isn't that how our beloved Ginny in Billing went?

Nice lips and dimple cleft on his chin.

He would have been 28 this July 13th. Rest In Peace Tyler.

Some pics he looks gorgeous and in others not.

Well he had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

Speaking of hot asses, has DL fave Anthony Recker commented on this guy’s death?

Straight Pro Athletes are Breeders version of gay porn stars. Same ending.

Help me out with this one:

Every time _____________, an Angel® gets his wings.

R106, no and neither has Susan Dey, the cunt.

"He just got married"

So it was a very emotionally-charged time for him. But why not in a good way? Even if it was just an accidental o.d., why the drug addiction?

If it turns out drugs were involved, will the Angels cover it up?

Angles' manager Brad Ausmus is HOT Asf.

R112, He was even hotter when he played.

R112, Amen.

And Brad is smart- He went to Dartmouth.

Could be anything. as everyones already mentioned many. a slip in the tub. taking meds/drugs with alcohol in a hot bath? Wouldn't be surprised iof this gets swept under the rug unless there was another person in the room.

Poor kid

Don't they test players for drugs?

[quote]Tommy Hanson was another Angels pitcher who died prematurely a few years ago. Maybe there's an Angels pitcher curse.

I remember that guy. This might have been mentioned here, but another Angels pitcher who died young was Nick Adenhart. He was killed by a drunk driver in 2009

A few years ago, Darryl Kile a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals died during the season in a hotel room. He was only 33 and had 2 arteries that were 98% blocked, so it could be a heart thing.

RIP

What was on his Ipod?

[quote]Don't they test players for drugs?

Yes Rose, you can absolutely trust a sports team to test it self and always come up clean.

On a slightly-related note, a friend's son got a full-ride golf scholarship to a nondescript southern college and they test his entire team constantly for drugs, alcohol, pot.  The GOLF team.  WTH?  Apparently it's an NCAA rule?

I read that Tyler Skaggs was going to play for Mexico during the next World Baseball Classic to honor his mother who is Mexican.

R124, Mexico? I see a Trump involvement.

know ur dealer, our u can git fukd up bad

Bet the wife gave him the drugs. They are probably druggies.

His wife could have his sperm extracted and become pregnant with his child.

The family wants the autopsy report to be released in October, which is when the season ends. I suppose they don’t want his cause of death to be a distraction to the team, but this makes it seem like there was something questionable involved.

R129, Definitely. If his death involved nothing illicit, his family would want the autopsy results made public sooner rather than later, to curtail speculation.

[quote][R61] But how is anyone functional on coke? It makes you really horny (or so I've heard) and you want to talk nonstop (not that I'd know).

It affects everyone differently. When I’ve done it in the past, It just made me more relaxed and open in social settings. I did get horny sometimes, other times not so much. The come down is AWFUL. Think of your worst hangover x3. I would be in bed for a couple of days just to recover. Really not worth it.

[quote]Don't they test players for drugs?

It only stays in your system for two weeks. MEAHWHILE, weeds stays for like a month. Aint THAT a bitch?

At least he was a pitcher and not a catcher!

Totally OT, r131, but I was reminded of when I smoked weed at a Sunday party... totally forgetting that I had a drug test the following Wednesday for a new job. Talk about anxiety—the good news is that I showed up clean. No idea why, but this was about 20 years ago and it was a pee test, so maybe they weren’t that accurate back then. It was a great job, so glad I didn’t flunk.

Years ago NFL player Bryan Robinson was found dead in a hotel room surrounded by drugs and booze. He had been in the room with an "unidentified male"

maybe not coke but opioids. He could be taking pain pills for injuries and got addicted and ODed.

Yeah, and gremlins could’ve flew out of his ass and strangled him in his sleep, too.

[quote]October, which is when the season ends.

Not for everyone.

When was the last time the Yankees were in the World Series?

While the World Series is played in October, so are the Playoffs.

[quote] The family wants the autopsy report to be released in October,

Doesn't this sound fishy?

The results of his autopsy could affect his life insurance payoff and perhaps any salary owed to him if he violated team rules.

Excellent point, r141.

Poor guy. Whens the next one. Dudes that aren't smart or are inherent addicts with that much money usually die, end up out of a job, bankrupt from their team or recover and write a book out of it to make money. Whoever his manager or publicist was should be seen or he actually just died from natural causes

He was hung and could lay down the pipe good.

Brad Ausmus is a HOT daddy. This is why I don't put stock in someone's age. When you think of 50, his fine ass does not come to mind but I have met many hot guys in their 40's and 50's at the bars.

[quote]Yes Rose, you can absolutely trust a sports team to test it self and always come up clean.

Also.....even if a team IS on the "up & up" about drug reporting, it's not like they test the players weekly or monthly (unless a player tested positive previously; which to my knowledge, Skaggs had not).

As I understand it, MLB players (without any history of banned substances) are tested 2-3 times a year. They have to be tested at least twice -- once during spring training, and then again (randomly) at some point during the season. If Skaggs recently had that second test, he might have thought, "Let's party! They won't test me again for at least another couple months."

He was so fat. Maybe that’s why he died.

I feel sad for his mom.

I don't feel sad for his mom. What son wants to follow in his mom's footsteps? How do we know she's so great? Young men don't just die out of the blue.

Did he have brothers or other siblings?

You would think huh that his new wife would have known her new husband has a problem with cocaine? Unless she was totally clueless or just let it pass as she too was into cocaine... I wonder how much drug abuse is prevalent in MLB and I am not talking about smoking weed.. Should the toxicology report verify an overdose I wonder how MLB will react as this could blow the drug abuse culture within MLB right out in the open. Perhaps MLB has kept this hidden for so long they thought nothing would ever happen like this . Isn't there supposed to be stringent drug testing for drugs like cocaine for example in MLB? So what the hell happened here??

My mom was engaged to a player/coach in the MLB after my dad died when I was a child. Most of the players were idiots and they have to juice to stay competitive. The athletes are so far ahead of the drug testers, I have no faith they will ever catch up. These guys can't compete effectively without PEDS. To complicate matters, this player showed signs of Ehlos Danlos syndrome which is whose symptoms include loose and hypermobile joints, among other things. There can be life threatening cardiovascular complications with this condition including blood clots and DVTs. I'm not suggesting this is what happened to him, but the thought crossed my mind.

We don't know that it's coke! It was pure speculation by a rag.

I think more likely pain pills.

[quote]What son wants to follow in his mom's footsteps?

You ask this on a gay message board?

"The athletes are so far ahead of the drug testers'

How R152?

[quote]Should the toxicology report verify an overdose I wonder how MLB will react as this could blow the drug abuse culture within MLB right out in the open.

Bless your heart.

R154 the key word in that sentence is "wants."

R113 So hot!!! Love the natural manliness of a straight man and how a lot of them leave their chest hair intact. Unlike the typical muscle queen who removes all body hair.

R158 is posting from 2003. Removing all body hair hasn't been a thing for quite awhile, dearie.

Body hair is gross and carries bacteria.

In happier times.

[quote]R154 the key word in that sentence is "wants."

The question remains the same. Lol.

"I don't feel sad for his mom. What son wants to follow in his mom's footsteps? How do we know she's so great? Young men don't just die out of the blue."

Man, do DLers have to blame EVERYTHING on women?

R155, athletes who dope work with people who understand how to cycle illegal drugs through the body and mask the presence of drugs to evade testers. Lance Armstrong, famously, never failed a drug test. There is an incredible amount of money involved in sports, so the chemists and doctors who help athletes dope are always state-of-the-art.

r155 that's exactly right. I used to also be around a lot of professional runners earlier in my life and every single one who was successful, knew how to take them at the right time, train hard, and maintain that edge after the drugs were undetected.

yes, I no longer look forward to the Olympics, all drug cheats.

Updates?

[quote] Updates?

Still dead.

The Santa Monica Observer received death threats and lawsuits after their initial hit piece on Skaggs.

Cut or uncut?

[quote] Cut or uncut?

It depends on the cause of death.

They wanted to start a family.

I'm kinda glad they didn't.

R173, Did he have a brother?

Nobody should start a family.

People like that should not start families. All we ever get as a society out of that is shallow, narcissistic, entitle Kardashian types. None of those kids ever seem to grow up and do great things for other people, instead they want to be in the limelight just like mom and day furthering their self involved behavior. Even worse, they usually lack the little bit of talent that their parents had.

r176, 99% of criminals are from poor families, not rich ones. So I'm not sure why you think it's a tragedy that a well-off athlete would want to have kids.

Most PRO athletes are illegal drug users R177. That makes them criminals. This guy is a perfect example. He just never got arrested.

The wagons have circled. If he did die from drugs or something unsavory, we'll never know. The mother is a saint. The wife is a saint. Tyler's a saint. This never happened.

OMG. What ever happened with this?! Thanks to my thread watcher, or else I never would have thought of this guy again. And I'm a regular baseball watcher/fan. Anyone?

Oh boy.

Didn't his family want the results revealed in October?

Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs had the opioids fentanyl and oxycodone along with alcohol in his system when he was found dead in his Texas hotel room July 1, according to a toxicology report released Friday by the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office.

That’s pretty hardcore. I wonder if he intentionally did the fentanyl. Seems like the combo with oxycodone is a guaranteed killer.

R183 Un oh. Another opioids death.

Oh nooooo What was he doing messing with that shit on the road with his team though? Wasn’t he playing in a game the next day? And drinking too...damn dude.

R184 I bet it was some illicit oxycodone he got off the street. They mix fentanyl in with it.

^^ That’s what killed Prince. Oxycodone cut with fentanyl.

Tyler Skaggs' family says the death “may involve an employee of the Los Angeles Angels.”

His dealer?

His BAC was .12 (.08 is legally impaired.)

.12 is nothing

So it was drugs? *Shocker*

It's always drugs.

R191 None of the blood levels were high enough to cause death by themselves, it was combining them that was fatal.

First the chef, now the baseball player. I guess from here on out whenever someone “dies unexpectedly,” disappears and/or is found dead we should just assume it was fentanyl until proven otherwise.

It's always that combination that gets you. Alcohol is really dangerous when mixed with opoids and/or benzos.

Fentanyl is dangerous period. It doesn't need the addition of alcohol to kill you.

He looked 35.

Adding alcohol seals the deal though.

Just a few years ago people were talking about oxycontin the same they do fetanyl now-- as if just looking at it or touching it would make you an addict and kill you. It's ridiculous.

Yes fetanyl is dangerous but it doesn't kill every person every time. And a guy like that probably gets his drugs from a reliable supplier of medical-grade drugs. He's not a junkie in West Virginia buying crap cut on the street ten different ways. Unless he's taking a massive dose he's not used to taking there is no reason that Fetanyl would kill him instantly.

The truth is that when you mix alcohol with benzos AND opioids you are taking a huge risk. It depresses your breathing ten different ways.

The way we talk about drugs in this country is 100% stupid and if people were more honest about the dangers of alcohol we'd all be better off.

I imagine in 20 years or so there will be a better understanding of the risks of high-potency marijuana and we'll go through a similar panic then. Maybe it will lead to something better.

Yeah the say mixture - but I’d say fentanyl is the killer. That shit is no joke. A drop of it can kill. Even the oxy and alcohol probably wouldn’t have done it.

When rich whites die of OD, the reaction is “Oh dear!” And when poor blacks die of OD, the reaction is “Oh well!”

I called it! I said it was pain pills weeks and weeks ago. His family is so in denial...

I don't understand, what is the effect? What kind of high?

so fucking stupid.

R199 Fentanyl has a very low margin of safety though- the difference between a non lethal dose and one that will make you stop breathing is very small. Fentanyl has been used for years in anesthesia and it’s very easy to tip the scale just enough to induce apnea (no breathing.) That’s why it’s only used in monitored settings where you watch their breathing every second and also why fentanyl kills so often in people who take opioids laced with fentanyl.

And I bet the guy didn’t even know he was taking fentanyl, it was probably cut into the oxycodone he took. Add alcohol to the picture and boom you’re dead.

I had nothing to do with it!

The only guy who died of natural causes unexpectedly was Cameron Boyce, the Disney kid.

It looks like the drugs were not lethal, it was him choking on his own vomit that did him in.

Weird that he threw up. I thought fentanyl killed by depressing respiration. And he didn’t drink enough to get sick. Odd.

Fentanyl can make you nauseous and prone to throwing up especially with oxycodone thrown in there too. And it depresses your airway reflexes (cough and gag reflex) so anything that comes up goes right down your trachea and you die.

Explain please, R207.

Jimi Hendrix also choked on his own vomit and died after drugging.

He was no Angel.

Why dose everyone in the straight world act like these guys are gods? They are no different than the numerous drug addicted, attention seeking porn stars that do the same thing. Seriously, what to porn stars do? They entertain us. What do sports stars do? Same thing only less sexually satisfying. Neither is really much of a gift to the world. Especially sport figures. Wow, you can hit a ball with a stick, so ground breaking, what a gift to mankind. At least with porn you can watch it over and over and get something out of it. Who watches a game more than once?

r212 because being good at sports is what counts in the straight world. Like in the gay world seeing how many loads you can take before getting HIV is important.

[quote]Why dose everyone in the straight world act like these guys are gods?

Oh, dear!

[quote] Why dose everyone in the straight world act like these guys are gods?

Appropriate post.

Has DL fave Anthony Recker still not commented on this guy’s death?

An Angels employee was supplying him with drugs

I fucking knew he had a drug problem. And they were trying to make him out to be a goody goody type. LOL.

Why do so many people die at age 27?

When a family is in denial (ie His Mother) family is usually the problem.

R220 Can't blame Mom - she didn't buy the drugs and make him take them. She probably didn't even know about them. Very sad case of a young man gone wrong.

[quote] Why do so many people die at age 27?

27 is the age of consent in heaven and Jesus likes them barely legal.

"When a family is in denial (ie His Mother) family is usually the problem."

It's far from uncommon for baseball players to get hooked on painkillers. Don't blame their mommies.

Why not blame Mom? The family will blame others, like those who supplied him. Happy, content people don't abuse drugs and alcohol-- and masquerade to their mother and newlywed wife. That was one screwed up kid, who everybody touted as perfect.

Look at those Instagram and wedding pictures gaylings and remember that you never know what people are dealing with. I just had a heart to heart with a young friend who is having a hard time right now because he is comparing himself to what he is seeing online and feeling like a failure. This guy had it all, he had everything most people think they want and he was in a hotel room alone taking fucking fentanyl.

R224, maybe his problems stem from adult issues, not childhood ones. You are just trying to blame a woman

[quote] Why dose everyone in the straight world act like these guys are gods? They are no different than the numerous drug addicted, attention seeking porn stars that do the same thing. Seriously, what to porn stars do? They entertain us. What do sports stars do? Same thing only less sexually satisfying. Neither is really much of a gift to the world. Especially sport figures. Wow, you can hit a ball with a stick, so ground breaking, what a gift to mankind. At least with porn you can watch it over and over and get something out of it. Who watches a game more than once?

In the past we were raised to suppress and hide our emotions in public. The sports and entertainment industry gave us a permission slip to express some emotions. And that is why people celebrate sports stars and entertainers, because they allowed us to express emotions of joy and gratitude.

For the longest time sports was the only way guys were allowed to worship and appreciate other guys without it being considered gay.

R226 I'm a woman and a mother, so I have every right to suggest a woman may be to blame. Otherwise the guy wouldn't have had to hide his behavior.

R227 clearly you don’t know the hours, training and dedication that go into being one of those few lucky and talented ones that can hit the ball with a stick do well, they actually get paid for it, some a lot more than others. Baseball may not be your thing (except when you eroticize it and stupidly compare it to porn, which I can’t begin to list all the reasons why that’s all kinds of wrong) but please try to respect it as a sport, and if you can’t, at least recognize that the kind of entertainment it provides, comes backed by countless hours of sacrifice and huge money deals. It’s not a means for fans to get off erotically like you’d love it to be, but it is one of the few situations that permit grown up men and women to show emotion extremes - laughing and crying, again NOT porn - and just leave it be. And yes, many people can watch the same play repeatedly.

Did you know that if the Washington Nationals won the next game against the Cardinals, not only will they be a Wild Card team going all the way to the World Series, but it will also be the first time they actually GO to the World Series. And you see, I’m not a Nationals fan, but it doesn’t matter because this is the kind of shit us baseball fans live for. You got your hobbies and I got mine. No need to trivialize either.

R228, you're not a woman but this is the internet where people can pretend to be anything to make a point

You're so stupid that you want to blame a grown man's problems on his mom with zero evidence. Maybe some of you Einsteins don't get this but athletes - shock! - get injured all the time which leads many of them to get addicted to painkillers

R228, you're not a woman but this is the internet where people can pretend to be anything to make a point

You're so stupid that you want to blame a grown man's problems on his mom with zero evidence. Maybe some of you Einsteins don't get this but athletes - shock! - get injured all the time which leads many of them to get addicted to painkillers

R230 Only a mother who's taken responsibility for the mistakes she made rearing her children can make a comment like I did. It's the women in the story who had the most invested in Tyler Skaggs' saintliness. That's a heavy burden for a child, grown or not. There was a huge mythic story built around his upbringing and success that screams to me: trapped in something you have no control over. But hey, buy whatever simplistic reason you want for addiction.

When did she say he was a saint? Maybe she didn't want to admit he used drugs but I'd say she has that in common with 99.999% of parents.

Your reasons for addiction seem pretty simplistic. And you obviously don't know much about professional athletes, I guess that's to be expected from a frau. I love it when people blame parents for the problems of their grown offspring, as if those grownups have no responsibility for their own actions.

Alright girls. Why dont you both take a breath and move on to another thread.

A former team employee was arrested by the feds and charged.

He was disgustingly at the memorial on the field for him. Wonder what the fuck he was thinking.

He’s on the left in the black pants.

He was a junkie. Of course his death is ruled an 'accident,' and will undoubtedly be added to the Covid roll, so the hospital can collect federal aid.

Wow, R236 - how the fuck would someone show up for that? What a psycho.

If you go back and read some of the earlier posts, it's amazing how spot on many of them were.

Now the question will be who were the other team members being supplied and did the team know about it as claimed by the accused.

I bet this goes on all the time.

r237 You really think he died from COVID over a year ago?

Eric Prescott Kay, former official with the Los Angeles Angels, was indicted in the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, prosecutors said. 01:12 (CNN)A former official with the Los Angeles Angels baseball team has been indicted on drug distribution charges in the 2019 fentanyl overdose death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, federal prosecutors said.

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Eric Prescott Kay on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and one count of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and serious bodily injury, according to documents filed with the US District Court in Fort Worth. Kay is a former communications director for the Angels. The first charge carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, and the second count 20 years to life, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. Skaggs, 27, died on July 1, 2019, in a hotel in Southlake, Texas, before the team was set to play the Texas Rangers.