You can bet your boots that there are a lot of nervous pro baseball players tonight as Kirk Radomski, an ex-bat boy and equipment manager with the New York Mets, has pled guilty to distributing steroids and growth hormone to dozens of major league baseball players from the years 1995-2005, and that Radomski is cooperating with MLB’s steroid investigation.

The authorities have said that Radomski was a major steroid dealer who dealt primarily with major leaguers, and that he was the steroid kingpin for baseball players after Balco Labs got shut down. Reports indicate that at least one of the players on Radomski’s list was also involved with Balco Labs.

According to the Associated Press report, Sports Illustrated quoted from the warrant that was filed in December of 2005 that "numerous significant deposits from current and former [Major League Baseball] players and some affiliated individuals were made to Radomski. He received more than $23,000, pulled from more than 20 different payments between 2003-05 that are alleged to have been made in conjunction with steroids purchases, according to the documents viewed by SI.”

This incident is just the latest development in a case that’s been going on since Victor Conte was busted back in 2003, and will surely dig deeper into the continually-growing steroids in baseball scandal and implicate more players, and as the Sports Illustrated story says, “affiliated individuals.”

It will be interesting to see who these “affiliated individuals” are. Personal trainers, agents, doctors, physical therapists?

Radomski was both a bat boy and an equipment manager – a “clubby” - which means that he had access to the inner workings of the ball club and had access to every player and all of their equipment. One of the interesting elements of the steroids in baseball story that we have not heard anything about is the way in which guys actually acquire and use these drugs during the season.

PEDs don’t just miraculously show up in a player’s locker or gym bag. There has to be a means for the player to not only get their hands on these drugs, but to transport these drugs from city to city while their team is traveling. Given the heightened state of security involved with air travel, even on private charter flights, you can bet that pro athletes aren’t carrying their drugs around with them. They either have the drugs delivered or shipped to them while they are on the road, or they have someone else carry the drugs for them. And if ball players need to get their hands on drugs while on the road, you can be sure that they are not going out and making any purchases themselves.

As equipment manager, as well as a clubhouse insider, Radomski certainly had the ability to pack and ship pretty much anything that he wanted and thus help his “clients” avoid getting caught. It will be interesting to see what revelations will come from Radomski’s cooperation.

Once again, remember that the drugs in baseball story is a continuing saga, and with every new chapter we have more reasons to believe that more baseball players are dirty.