Writers love Josh Hamilton

Fraud, cheater, criminal, one of the worst contracts in the history of things:

"Josh Hamilton was out of work on Friday after a new knee injury, and there’s your further evidence that Hamilton, like all ballplayers, like all people, are made up of icky, gooey, gross stuff that no one wants to see and eventually doesn’t work anyway. We just saw a little more of Hamilton’s, is all."

No.

I am a better person than Josh Hamilton by standard societal standards such as integrity, honesty, and general avoidance of illegal behavior.


"For a few years there, Josh Hamilton was just about the best in the sport. He was that in spite of all he’d experienced, all he’d inflicted upon himself, all the sickness he’d incurred. It won’t ever be what it could have been, whatever that is, and it is not heroic. It just is, or was, whatever he decides. It can’t ever be what was expected of him, a past he had no choice but to ignore. It was, however, every bit of what he had in that moment. So, if the baseball is over, then there will be just Josh and his girls and the life he chooses. There’ll be some memories of a young man hounded by – and chasing – darkness, of course. But there’ll also be that man who for a short time had tamed it all, and who can again, a day at a time."

So let's say you totally forgive alcoholism, like it's the flu. That's fine.

You don't care about the PEDs? When he was "just about the best in the sport," it's because he was juiced.

I am not a particularly judgmental person, but the general consensus hypocrisy is staggering.

You know, maybe alcoholism doesn't make one a bad person ... but it also doesn't make one a saint.