Tampa Strip Clubs: Bill Conlin: Phils’ Noles on the case with Tyson Gillies

August 23, 2010

CLEARWATER, Fla. – They came for Tyson Gillies just after 12:30 a.m. Friday. Served him with an arrest warrant after a baggy containing a white powder that was confiscated from the back seat of a Clearwater police prowler on June 11 tested positive as cocaine.
Dickie Noles, the best substance-abuse counselor in the professional sports business, was on the plane before bail was posted later in the morning for the troubled minor league outfielder.
Just as he was on the scene after prized lefthander Cole Hamels busted his pitching hand on some redneck’s head during a parking-lot dustup pitting Phillies farmhands and locals.
Just as he had gotten the phone call in the middle of the night when a pitching prospect was arrested in the parking lot of a Clearwater gentleman’s club for having sex while nude with one of the club’s gentlewomen.

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