That would eff me up pretty bad. He’s been pretty strong so far, hopefully he’ll pull through this okay.

Hope it isn’t that bad and he can pull through this.

he’ll tell him what to do.

Addiction is hell. Hang in there Josh.

Josh Hamilton is an absolute joy to watch playing baseball, he’s one of those who really loves the game and plays it with an incredible passion.

More important than baseball though, addiction is a bitch and I hope Josh can get through it okay. Hopefully his family and friends can help him get through this and get his head back on straight.

Hey

After 22 years clean and sober, he got caught up and smoked a bowl of that spice bs. Addiction isn’t a fucking joke, and sometimes I wish I would grow a pair and stop taunting genetics with my drinking habits.

Definitely not the way I wanna see him go down. I’d rather beat him on the field than see this.

Hope for things to work out for him.

Can’t imagine how hard it is to stay away from that stuff in the spotlight. At least during the season he has something to focus on every day. Offseason is long for fans. Has to be longer for players. Has to be insanely long for guys like Hamilton.

Some people can drink, others can’t. Seems random and, like life, unfair.

Crazy scenario: Rangers panic, trade him for Wells! Hamilton gets clean in a sweet OC treatment center, takes over left field…the rest is history, or, rather, fantasy.

Because it’s the nature of jeering a nemesis. But I won’t mock him when he’s ahving problems, because this is a real human being with a family and a life, and no one should have to go through this.

Considering how much he brings to the Rangers, I don’t know why they don’t have someone shadowing his every move. if he wants privacy, he can retire.

and adding my prayers along with many of you.
I don’t want to beat Hamilton and the others because of an addiction, any illness or injury.

I want him to be in perfect health when Weaver, Haren, Voodoo and CJ blow smoke past him all year and bring unending humiliation to all of LSB..

and happens quite frequently to those battling different addictions. Prayers to Josh and his family that he beats this inner demon and it doesn’t tear his family apart.

Goes clean and makes a pledge to stay clean. Then he’s spotted having a drink. This dude got a second chance, which many of us don’t get, and people are feeling sorry for him. Sad part is he’s one of the few who get paid to play baseball and could throw all that away because he just can’t seem to shake his demons. Fuck that, seek professional help, Hamilton. Seriously.

I hope he can get back on the wagon. He’s done a lot of hard work to get his life back on track, and that should be applauded. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone makes some mistakes more than once. For me, it costs me very little. For him, it could send him spiralling downward and cost him his job or his family.

I wish you played for a different team, Josh, but regardless, I hope you can recover from this.

It’s always the offseason when this stuff happens. I really worry about what might happen when he retires.

I hope he gets better

that’s 27/100ths of 1 percent of the time. (I think it is. You numbers people, feel free to correct me.)

If I find myself lucky enough to not screw up 99 percent of the time, even taking into account the very hard work that goes into not screwing up, I consider that a hard-fought, if minor, victory.

Then I screw up again. Not to get too hippie-dippy-yoga-girlI can’t help it, but I’ve learned that the important thing is getting back up, and doing every damn thing possible to not screw up again. I can’t imagine having to do that in front of millions of people, many of whom are hoping for my failure.

Where one’s personal problems are his dirty laundry for everyone to see. That’s what being an athlete in the 21st century is, succumbing to media frenzy, making this everybody’s news.

My personal opinion is that yes, this is sad. But, it’s also Hamilton’s problem and he needs to figure it out and face the consequences like a man. I feel for those addicts (I’m a nurse and I get addiction- see it a lot). But maybe I also have become jaded, and I understand what Casey’s KOD is saying when he is saying, in effect, “Hamilton made his own bed, now he has to sleep in it.” I wish he and his family all the best in rectifying this ‘relapse.’

I think it’s sad to see this on the font page of ESPN, purporting to be a story about sports. That’s sort of twisted, isn’t it? It’s interesting what our society has become. This is “news” to everyone.

or to make light of his disease.

I think we’re first and foremost humans before we’re baseball fans. Addiction overshadows rivalries. I know the rivalry is fun but using it as a weapon to tear a sick person down is shitty in my opinion.

I wish him the best as it’s an incredibly difficult struggle. I know this first hand as I’ve been dealing with my own alcoholism for the last five years or so. I wish I could just shut the cravings off like a switch but it’s a lot harder than that. No one should judge someone’s willpower or discipline unless they’ve been there themselves.

I respect everyone on this blog and I hope I can continue to do so.

I don’t think I’ll ever like the guy, but I give props for him showing up and trying to help his teammate. I’m reminded of the stories of Troy Percival trying to help out Speizio in the years after 02.

The ones that suffer the most.

His wife and kids.

Summary of this story: “Grown, wealthy man drinks beers at a bar.”

Brutal honesty and cynicism abounds!

to tell everyone he is sorry
he should tell that to his family and the people who support him not the fans

You obviously HAVE no humanity to speak of. I don’t care how strong of an Angels fan I am, I can’t even bring myself to consider Josh Hamilton’s relapse to be positive all because he’d miss part of the season. His addiction is nothing to make light of. I’ve seen what nicotine addiction, alcoholism and drug abuse can do to people. Just because he plays left field for our rival does not make his case any less serious than that of anyone else. We ALL ought to take his problem seriously, and regardless of his impact on his team, we ALL ought to wish him the best in conquering his addiction. He tries, and he tries HARD, to overcome this. Two relapses in three years? That’s a pretty good percentage of sobriety, over 99% of the time.

The TL;DR version: Don’t mock or make light of Hamilton’s situation. His addiction is JUST as serious as anyone else’s. I wish him the best in his journey to forever kick his habit, and regardless of our status as fans, we all should do the same.