Under the headline “Eric Kay’s attorney says others, including Matt Harvey, gave Tyler Skaggs drugs” the LA Times writes
Inside Room 205 in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, a federal prosecutor, during a 30-minute opening statement, told jurors that evidence and witness statements — some from as many as seven former Angels players — will prove Eric Kay, a former Angels communications director, guilty of supplying the drugs that led to Skaggs, a popular 27-year-old Angels pitcher who died after choking on his own vomit in a suburban Dallas hotel room.
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Kay’s lawyer countered the prosecution’s narrative with a bombshell allegation: By Kay’s account, Matt Harvey, Skaggs’ teammate, could have provided the drugs that led to Skaggs’ death.
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The defense attorney told the jury that, according to Kay, Harvey gave Skaggs pink pills he saw crushed to powder on the desk in Skaggs’ hotel room the night he died.
“Those are Percocets from Harvey,” Wynn said Kay recollected Skaggs telling him.
Obviously as much as I enjoy goofing on Matt Harvey for other things, there is nothing funny about a man’s death.
The baseball media with no baseball to cover will soon start paying a lot of attention to this story. I find it odd how little attention it has gotten so far.
