re: what kills me about the josh hamilton situation

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I guess as a person who has made some wrong choices in life, i see his story as an inspiring one. I never got into drugs or anything like that, but I do see what drugs do to people even if it is their choice to go that route. Coming out of it and turning your life around is huge in my opinion. You take the "hard arse" approach and that's cool. One day something like this might happen close to you and you will think differently.

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This is fricking weak. So if you make a huge mistake (like being a crackhead), you want people to pat you on the back if you kick the habit? Sorry, but that is something a weak person would do, and hey, if you are a crackhead, there's a good shot that you are a weak person. It's not being a "hard arse" to think that this story is inspirational. I have no pity at all for him unless he was born into an environment that pushes drug use (which he didn't come from).

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He had a dream to become a MLB player, hit a bump in the road that almost cost him everything, then got it all together and here he is. That is why its inspirational.

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This is even worse. So if I go through college in four years and graduate with a degree, I am less inspiring than a kid that flunks out once, gets his shite together, and graduates eventually? I don't see people overcoming obstacles that THEY cause as inspirational.