The league has given him too many chances. Steinbrenner has given him too many chances. And I, as a Yanks fan, have given him too many chances. Every time he screws up I say, “Gee, I can’t believe that fucking Strawberry. What a degenerate.” Then, two months later when Ledee and Curtis are slumping and Shane Spencer has fallen from grace, I’m welcoming him back with open arms and cheering for him. Well, no more. I never want to see that guy in a Yankee uniform, or any uniform, again.
Fucking moron.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill
I remember a few years back, there was that big flap about his drug use when he was playing ball down in LA. And it keeps happening, but some dork keeps giving him those damned “Get out of jail free” cards and sending him back to the ballfield. Hello!??
(hee hee!) Yeah, him and the teams he (occasionally) plays for…
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
Coming from a Baltimore resident. The lowest fucking link in the athletic food chain. They had to steal a football team. If Alomar the spitting cobra is allowed to be forgiven, a coke-head surely can be.
A don’t fucking “tee-hee,” Sally. This is the Pit.
I’m sure Satan will be soon to finish you all off…
Gypsy: Tom, I don’t get you. Tom Servo: Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby.
If nothing else, it shows how addictive drugs are that someone was prepared to give it all up and face ridicule from the enlightened, compassionate likes of you folks just for a snort.
And, yes, I felt this way even when he played for the hated Mets and hated Dodgers (Dad was an old school Brooklyn fan).
I think the punishment fits the crime. Gone from baseball for a year and at his age, that could be it.
I hope he gets his life together, even if he never plays again, or fuck, even goes to the Red Sox or something.
His problems are bigger than my concerns about my fvorite baseball team. If I was that shallow, I’d somply take solace in the fact that we’re still probably gonna win it all even with his loss in the line-up!
No, it shows how addictive COCAINE is. Don’t lump 'em all together like that. That’s like saying morphine shows how addictive antibiotics are (to give a legal drug example).
Morphine is a schedule II opiate. It’s a legal (prescription) drug. So are antibiotics. What I’m saying is that lumping these two drugs together because they are legal is no different than lumping, say, marijuana and heroin together because they’re illegal. Totally different drugs from totally different sources with totally different mechanisms of action.
This whole situation makes me really sad. I was raised in Kingsport, TN and when I was a little kid in the early eighties, I played tee-ball for the Kingsport Mets. Our team won the league championship three years in a row, and our coach arranged for us to spend a day with the real Kingsport Mets, the team Strawberry was then playing for. He signed my baseball cap, which has since faded into an illegible stain. All day he carried me around on his shoulders, buying me hot dogs and calling me a princess. It is one of my fondest childhood memories.
It’s a shame that such a seemingly nice guy could ruin his life and career the way he has.
Seemingly nice? So if someone is addicted to something they’re not nice anymore? If the guy at the office is addicted to cigarettes, does that automatically make him an asshole? Oh, I’m sorry, that must be another of those laws applicable only to illegal drugs.
Puffington, err…Neutron, I see I didn’t make myself clear. “Nice” was the wrong word to use. “Clean cut” or “wholesome” might have been more appropriate. I am actually for the legalization of marijuana, but I think cocaine is just destructive and should remain illegal.
The point I was trying to get across is that it’s a tragedy that because of his addiction, his career is ruined. I didn’t mean that he’s no longer “nice”. I’m sure lots of drug addicts are really congenial - including him. I just feel for him and his family.
It doesn’t surprise me that Rousseau started this topic, he’s SO open-minded about drug use. Newcomers should read this thread when you have the time: Legalizing Street Drugs. (I’d like to point out there are a few mistakes of mine there. Feel free to call me on them.)
Darryl’s now in yet another drug re-hab clinic. Maybe this one will work. Notice in the CNN/SI story that two minor-league teams have already offered him contracts, one in Vacaville, CA and one in Newark, NJ. The one in Vacaville already has Pete Rose on the payroll.