Apparently Pujols’s trainer is a bud of HGH sales mogul Jason Grimsley. Sound familiar? Now who’s wonderintg why Pujols was so vocally supporting Bonds in the media a few weeks ago? Not I, I know they probably have played poker together using amphetamines as chips. (“Okay Barry, the red ones are 5 the greenies 25.”)

So when all this #### is about to break, Pujols is “injured” chasing after a pop foul—not sliding for the ball, just on the way there. Convenient that it was a foul ball, so a fake injury wouldn’t cost the team runs or be counted as an error. Anyway, then Albert “strains his oblique,” whatever that is, and declares that he needs to go on the DL for a long time. Other medical sources say this is a 15-30 day thing, and not long term. Nothing shows up on the MRI. All anybody can say is that it’s a shame Pujols won’t break the home run record and get baseball out from under the steroid cloud. Turns out it wouldn’t have anyway.

Everybody who has eyes has been narrowing them at Pujols after the Bonds scandals. In the words of Roxette, “he’s got the look.” Now his trainer is doing drug deals with the guy who described the “Leaded” and “Unleaded” coffee pots in MLB clubhouses? (Leaded pots contained amphetamines and other stimulants.) Doesn’t look too good for Albert or baseball.

So did Pujols fake an injury so he could get away (to rehab maybe) and clean the drugs out of his system? Or did Bud say “get out of town for a while, Al” while they let a skinnier Soriano take over the home run lead? Meanwhile this stuff could shake out with lesser known players and teams grabbing the limelight and lessening the eventual impact of the broadening new drug scandal.

I for one think it’s a bit convenient for a supposedly 26-year old player who had never been on the DL to pull up lame under these circumstances with an unverifiable injury. But then again, maybe I’ve had too much “Unleaded” this morning.