He shits all over his own team. He's smart too. His remarks are sure to increase fan interest in a team sliding into shit city.   He will, neverthelss score major points with the holy roller covens over in Mesa.

Wonder if his next bold move will be to remove coffee urns from the club house, eliminate charter flights, sell the whirlpools, and leave the roof open permanently to help fight global warming.

If he had gonads instead of the bb-sized weasal words of feigned indignation, he would have said something like.

"The Diamondbacks angrily regret the release of Jason Grimsley.  The current climate of media and political driven hysteria about complex medical issues has enabled elements within Federal Law Enforcement to abuse their powers.

We are reasonable people.  We acknowledge testing procedures are inadequate, and probably always will be.  We will do our best.  But above all, we are going to tell it like it is.

That does not however give license to self-serving politicians, mass media columinsts and commentators, to wantonly assassinate the characters of our's or anybody else's ballplayers.   This does not give Commissioner Selig the right to play the part of innocent bystander and throw player after player overboard in an effort to escape accountability.  Real leaders, lead.  They do not try to sate the appetite of an unrelenting attack on one of the cornerstones of American heritage and culture.

We call on Commissioner Selig to stand up to the envious, the liars, the self-serving, the abusers of power.  We call upon him to start telling the truth. To tell them MLB was complicit--all the way up and down the line.  Because MLB acknowledges that all athletes in all sports will try to get an edge, whatever that edge is. Everything from finger nail files to HGH.  

1.  We want Commissioner Selig to tell the Federal Government that when they can produce conclusive universally accepted medical evidence derived from comprehensive medical research, and not bias-laced ancedotes to substaniate their wild-eyed claims we will take them seriously.  
2.  We want Selig to tell the Feds that when they can guarantee 100% accuracy in blood-doping testing for all sports, including horse racing, and dog racing, we will take them seriously.  

We want Selig to tell the Federal Government that until they can do those two things, AND clean up the disasters they have created in the Middle-East and along our Southern Borders, that MLB is no longer going to accept the abuse of politicians, mass media, nor especially Federal Law enforcement renegades on a vendetta.

It's only going to get worse for Grimsley.  The commissioner will likely suspend him without pay for 80 games or more, using a clause in the CBA concerning players involved in the distribution of PEDs.  This will obviate Grimsley's current grievance, and start a whole new one.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for Grimsley, who has a long history of being a jackass.  I have no sympathy for the D-Backs, but if I were them, I would do everything I could not to pay the fool either.  If Grimsley wins his grievance, look for Congress to intervene, concluding that the MLBPA is more interesting in covering their own asses than cleaning up the sport.