TORONTO (CP) - A woman has launched a lawsuit against Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Kelvim Escobar, claiming she was drugged and then sexually assaulted by Escobar who videotaped the entire incident, the Toronto Star reported Saturday.

Lovely, just lovely. Now, as far as I'm concerned, the weirdest thing about this sordid yet depressingly familiar tale is the fact that the anonymous plaintiff is being represented by none other than Eddie Greenspan! Now what, exactly, is Canada's highest-profile criminal lawyer, who is generally to be found around cases that set vast legal precedents (Robert Latimer) or that have an impact on the highest echelons of Canadian politics (Karlheinz Schreiber) doing on a date-rape case involving a slightly above-average baseball player? I do not mean in any way to trivialize date-rape, the victims of which are more than deserving of the very best representation in court, but... Eddie Greenspan?!?!?!? There is more to this than meets the eye. That said, I woudn't read too much into the fact that the woman apparently waited 2 years before coming forward with her complaint. It can, and too often does, take at least that long for sexual assault victims to recover enough to simply be able to 'go public' with what happened to them, and that delay shouldn't have any bearing on the outcome of the case. And, on a less significant note, you've got to think that this is the beginning of the end for Escobar in Toronto. If he's guilty, he should be ridden out of town on a rail (if he doesn't actually end up facing criminal charges), and if the whole thing turns out to be a fairy tale I can't see him wanting to hang around.