Cocaine Anyone!? Yes please, says Tyson Gillies
by BryceHarper on Aug 20, 2010 12:39 PM EDT
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PrintDoing his best "Rock" Raines and Rickey Henderson impersonation, unfortunately not on the bases:
According to David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News, Phillies prospect outfielder Tyson Gillies was arrested for cocaine possession. Gillies was arrested in Florida, according to the Pinella County Sheriff Department. He was released after posting bond. Gillies was acquired from the Mariners along with Phillippe Aumont and Juan Ramirez for Cliff Lee last December. The 21-year-old outfielder has missed most of the season due to injury, batting just .238/.286/.333 with two home runs and six RBI over 105 at-bats with Double-A Reading.
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At least it wasn't steroids!
I’m sure Uncle Bud will see this as another feather in the cap of MLB’s anti-steroid policy.
Hopefully he learns from this mistake and re-dedicates himself to baseball
The kid had talent.
R.I.P. cwhitman412, Frederick0220, & Mets2k9
is this the
hearing impaired kid.
"The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers."
yup
I wonder if he used the excuse “I didn’t hear it was cocaine”.
R.I.P. cwhitman412, Frederick0220, & Mets2k9
Translated
HE SAID HE DIDN’T HEAR IT WAS COCAINE
by Outshined_One on Aug 20, 2010 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
The real question...
…is how this impacts his work visa, as he’s a Canadian national. Methinks a conviction or even a plea copping to the felony would be a major hindrance on that front.
I want to bet he pleads guilty to a lesser charge
I don’t know how mandatory sentencing would play into this , but I do know several people who have been able to reduce a felony cocaine/heroin possession charge to a misdemeanor and not serve jail time in Florida.
It won’t affect his visa status if he pleads guilty to a lesser misdemeanor, IIRC.
Needs moar dingerz.
Probably a non-issue
Some of my friends had the exact same thing happen to them, with passports from countries a lot more questionable than Canada, and they were able to plea it down and consider studying in the States, no problem.
Rickey says "Don't Talk about Rickey!"
There was only ever one allegation about Rickey, and that never made it into the courts. Rickey suggests you replace Rickey’s name with Miguel Dilone, Rod Scurry, Dale Berra or LaMar Hoyt. Rickey is the greatest of all time, and Rickey don’t need no cocaine to talk or run as fast as Rickey does.
I think he was making a pun with the "speed" joke
not actually saying Rickey used cocain. But I like the third person talk.
Rickey always talks about Rickey in the third person
It’s one of the many things that makes realitypolice smile every time realitypolice thinks of Rickey.
To me, it read like the OP was lumping Raines (who was a "speed"ster in both senses of the word) and Rickey (who may not have been the other meaning) together as abusers.
by realitypolice on Aug 20, 2010 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, this certainly puts him behind the eight ball in prospect development.
by ThomasG on Aug 20, 2010 4:39 PM EDT reply actions 8 recs
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Jeez.. I hate when that happens.
From AOL FanHouse:
“A Pinellas County Sheriff public information officer told the Inquirer the arrest stemmed from a June 11 incident in which an officer saw Gillies standing by the side of the road at 3:24 a.m. waving his shirt at passing vehicles. Gillies told the officer he was trying to flag down his friends to get a ride back to the hotel after spending several hours at a bar called Freaki Tiki.
The officer gave Gillies a ride back to his hotel and noticed a bag of white powder had fallen on the back-seat floor. The officer took down Gillies’ information and sent the back to a lab for testing. The results came back Thursday, leading to Gillies’ arrest Friday."
Not exactly the way to get busted. See, that’s why you don’t get into police cars when you have cocaine on you.
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Not exactly the way to get busted. See, that’s why you don’t get into police cars under your own volition
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just sprinkle some crack on him
"The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers."
by fourfingerwoo on Aug 20, 2010 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gillies probably isn't as fond of it as you
Seeing as he left the place, lost his ride, got a ride from a cop, left a bag of coke in the car, and then got arrested for it.
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by Satchel Price on Aug 20, 2010 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions
freaki tiki
Is right down the street from my house, I go there with friends, some Bucs players, Devil Rays, and Phillies guys are down here while in the minors, LOL. It’s a bar full of wasted people. I wasn’t there that night but I have a good idea of some of my friends who were there.
Sounds unbelieveable
That part of the story seems more than a little fishy. No way it takes 7 weeks for a lab to determine if a whole baggie of white powder is coke. Pinellas County is a large urban center (it comprises St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Seminole, Indian Rocks, Palm Harbor, and several other cities), and they would have the ability to determine almost immediately if the substance was coke, of course they would then send it to the lab for legal identification in case they went to trial.
Besides that, unless the deputy knew Gillies personally, I can’t believe that a cop would not arrest Gillies on the spot once he found the baggie. There’s no way that he would believe a non-resident stranger that is staying at a hotel (so he’s not a local) would voluntarily come back to the state and give himself up if the tests came back positive. Not to mention that he’d want to test Gillies to see if he was under the influence that night.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I don't have any real experience with the legal system
But I don’t understand how they could arrest him for this at all. It sounds like the coke was found on the floor of the back seat of a police car he rode in. The coke wasn’t found in his possession. The cop can’t prove that it was ever in his possession. He didn’t own the property on which the coke was located.
I mean, how do they know it wasn’t already back there and the cop just didn’t notice it until he got in?
by OldDutchPots on Aug 20, 2010 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Police procedure...
after every person rides in the back of a cop car, the officers are supposed to search the entire back seat, including the floor and the crease between the seat and the back support. That way people cannot say that whatever contraband is found was already there.
Of course...
That’s really not that strong a strategy, as a good defense attorney will still hammer on the fact it could’ve been someone else’s, “reasonable doubt” and all.
by Franchise887 on Aug 21, 2010 2:18 AM EDT up reply actions
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