The big news on everyone's mind is the announcement by the head weasel for MLB that Spring Training is officially postponed (delayed, scaled down -- choose the descriptor that best suits your blood pressure). No one can say this development was a surprise and with the COVID situation still fluid, it's not necessarily a bad thing to shorten the season until there's some uniformity about how to handle people who do or do not get their vaccinations.
One good approach to take would be to enforce a stiff penalty on whatever team is unable to play due to a COVID outbreak. The fact that they allow the disease to proliferate without either proper sanitation procedures or vaccine requirements means that the other club scheduled to appear in that came is shut out as well. Approach the head weasel and demand that any team unable to complete its scheduled games through their own fault should be charged with forfeiting the game. Miss a few days of ticket sales and a game in the standings then it shouldn't take long for the owners to get a bit more stringent in their disease prevention procedures.
Today, however, rather than continue to whine about the lack of progress on the lockdown, there's another situation that got a few small headlines but did not carry nearly as much media weight. It's not even the ludicrous decision to say Trevor Bauer is innocent of the various charges against him for inappropriate sexual activity.
Some of the team's former employees have already discussed the late player's addiction to oxycodone and his source for the drug. The former communications director Eric Kay who is facing felony charges for distribution of a controlled substance. That part of the equation was fully expected and surprised no one.
However, there was a new revelation with a Mets link that certainly should be reverberating off all the walls in Mets-land. An accusation has been made by Kay that the pink pills provided to Skaggs were Percocet which were provided to the pitcher by one Matt Harvey.
Before everyone gets on the whack Harvey on the head with a sledgehammer bandwagon, the medical examiner's office found the presence of the opiod in Skaggs' system but no acetaminophen. Percocet is a combination of the two substances. If there was no acetaminophen then it wasn't Harvey's Percocet that contributed to the pitcher's death by asphyxiation on his own vomit, not a drug overdose.
What the court will be looking to find out is if Harvey was a part of the ongoing problem with internal distribution of drugs withing the Angels infrastructure. He won't be likely charged with anything directly concerning Skagg's death, but that's a mighty big shoe that could drop if it's found out he was passing out his Percocet to someone already with substance abuse problems.
It was pretty clear from the way things ended in New York that Harvey was not always making the smartest decisions nor acting the most professional ways possible. It was a shame to see his once highly promising career derail both from injuries, illness and some questionable choices.
I sincerely hope Harvey is found innocent if he is indeed not culpable of Percocet sharing and distribution, but if he's guilty then I want to see him treated not as a celebrity but as a street-level drug pusher. That won't happen, of course, but people won't learn about consequences if they never see them enforced.
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