This is a slippery slope.

Did the clubhouse guy deal dope? Absolutely. Charge him and find him guilty of that.

Did he kill Skaggs? IMHO no. Skaggs killed himself.

Another guy is going to do a minimum of 20 years in prison because Skaggs was a junkie. This isn't any kind of justice.

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this whole situation...goes back to what the NFL Hall of Famer got in trouble for saying at the rookie symposium several years ago.

"always have a fall guy in your crew"

it's a life lesson...if you're going to have an occupation (or spend a lot of time) around rich people, famous people, the elite, etc...,

avoid situations where you will become the fall guy after everything goes wrong

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Eric Kay, the Angels' director of communications, should have had a fall guy? how does that work?

theres a pretty wide gap between (a) having a buddy say the weed in the glove box was his; and (b) finding someone willing to take the fall for distributing fentanyl that killed someone. who would even do that for a "director of communications"?

Kay was the fall guy here because he was the guy getting the drugs for athletes. maybe he should not have been a drug dealer to avoid the "everything goes wrong" scenario.

22 years for this drug dealer.

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Kay's sentencing came after prosecutors detailed his lack of remorse, including jailhouse calls and emails that, per the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, saw Kay insult Skaggs and his family.
"I hope people realize what a piece of sh*t he is," he told his mother on one call. "Well, he's dead, so *****'em."
He also called the Skaggs family "dumb" and "white trash," adding, "All they see are dollar signs." Then, "They may get more money with him dead than he was playing because he sucked."
He also called the jurors who convicted him in February "fat, sloppy, toothless and unemployed."

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https://deadline.com/2022/10/los-angeles-angels-erick-kay-guilty-drug-charges-in-death-pitcher-tyler-skaggs-1234956285/

DannyDuberstein said:

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No one wants to admit their kid was a junkie, but Tyler Skaggs is dead because of one person and his name is Tyler Skaggs.

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This dealer is a dbag so the world's smallest better violin is playing for him over getting this hefty sentence, but I also still stand by this comment 3 years later