"A Los Angeles Angels communications director testified on Monday, Nov. 3 that reporting to upper ballclub management that Eric Kay, his longtime boss and mentor, had admitted to watching Tyler Skaggs snort drugs in the Texas hotel room where the 27-year-old pitcher was later found dead was the hardest thing he has ever done in his life, as the wrongful death trial against the club entered a fourth week of testimony."
"Chodzko recalled his worry about how his decision to report the tie between Kay and Skaggs to Angels President John Carpino and then-General Manager Billy Eppler would play in the clubhouse. This isn't the 1980s Mets, Chodzko recalled Eppler replying, referencing a notoriously drug-fueled era for that New York ballclub. We don't keep these things a secret. You did the right thing."
"Chodzko said he was told by Kay that before Skaggs was found dead on July 1, 2019, Kay entered the hotel room to find Skaggs with three lines of some sort of drugs on a hotel menu. Kay told Chodzko that Skaggs offered him a line, he declined, watched the pitcher snort all three lines, grabbed a beer and then left the room"
Adam Chodzko, an Angels communications director, testified that reporting Eric Kay's admission about seeing Tyler Skaggs snort drugs was the hardest thing he has done. Chodzko said he reported Kay's confession to President John Carpino and GM Billy Eppler, which prompted a criminal investigation that culminated in Kay's conviction for providing a counterfeit pill containing fentanyl that caused Skaggs' death. A civil jury is now determining whether the club should have known Kay supplied illicit pills to players. Chodzko described seeing Kay at the ballpark weeks after the death and recounted Kay's account of finding Skaggs with three lines of drugs.
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