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| Saturday, November 4 | |||||
| Reaction to Strawberry woes | |||||
| I am a recovering crack addict myself. I have been sober for over three years and understand what it takes to get sober and also the personal hell he continues to put himself through. Addicts are very manipulative people and he used that on the judge. He was saying poor me, poor me, I want to die so let me go free. It was a ploy in his inner person to get his physical freedom. He has to show a desire to get well and not just say it! There has to be consequences for his action otherwise he will never get well. I know this from experience. I hope and pray he will find peace!
Greg S. Darryl should get over himself. He has fathered five children, won two World Series, rookie of the year, and countless other awards. He is becoming almost Howe-like (Steve, of course) in his "life mulligans". He is the anti-mensch and now he wants to kill himself? Go ahead, cut your wrists with an electric razor, jump out of the basement window, hang yourself from a cheap shower curtain ... just leave us alone. I have two of my best friends fighting cancer. They have been given less than two and six years to live, respectively. Maybe Darryl would like to speak with them and learn something about which is obviously clueless ... it's called "CHARACTER"
Jeff Miller I think he's being wrongly persecuted by a bunch of self-righteous puritans. The man is not a criminal. The drug war is a modern day monstrosity, denying people their human rights. People have been doing drugs ever since they figured out how to a long, long time ago. It's not a modern day problem as the media portrays. You're just destroying an innocent man who has enough problems as it is. Then a bunch of ignorant, self-righteous people of minimal intelligence will turn around and lambast him because they just see him as a millionaire athlete. I just love the humanity in this society. Andy DeJoseph I can't believe ESPN decided to open a forum on this. Darryl Strawberry is dealing with issues of mortality, self-worth, depression, etc. Does ESPN have so little regard for his dignity that they encourage sports fans to chat about how awful his life is. For shame.
Mark V. Grudberg Darryl Strawberry has to be the one to say I need to stop and that I need help. No one else can do it for him. I wish the media would stop portraying him as a hero. A hero is one who goes above and beyond the call of duty for his country, etc. He is a baseball idol not a hero. And as an idol to thousands of kids he is a disgrace. Darryl is a disgrace to the game and himself. As always if this was a non-celebrity they would have been in jail a long time ago. I do not wish ill will for Darryl Strawberry but it's time for the sympathy to end.
D. M. Kuster I work with a guy who's been clean and sober for five years now. He has told me some horror stories I can't imagine. When I ask him what pulled him through, he tells me his kids. I hope Mr. Strawberry realizes the gift he has in his children and chooses to make his life right by starting chemotherapy again and entering a help program for recovering addicts. It's not over until you stop fighting. Good luck Darryl! Happiness is not having what we want, but wanting what we have.
Jeff Van Winkle And we thought Pete Rose tarnished baseball with his off-the-field actions? How about this total loser? Repeated drug user, dead beat dad, tax evader, wife beater/cheater, buying prostitutes ... oh yeah and we should feel bad for this guy? Please, he's getting what he deserves.
Bryan Richter Darryl Strawberry has taken what could have been a Hall of Fame career and basically flushed it down the old toilet. I don't think Darryl ever really had control over his life and success came too quickly and easily. I do feel sorry for Darryl because he'll never be the example of how we want our children to grow up instead he'll always be the one we point to and say "don't waste your talent and life the way Darryl Strawberry did", and to me that is sad.
Bob Darryl needs to stay alive long enough for him to be making an ABC mini-series. Sad to say, it would probably break all Nielson ratings records. This guy needs help, I think we should all chip in a dollar for Darryl. It could go to cancer research.
John DiSpaltro I have no sympathy for the man. This is a guy who plays a kids' game and gets paid millions of dollars to do it. He has the ability to live a life of luxury and he screws it up by taking drugs. There are too many hard-working people in this world trying to make a decent living. He deserves everything he gets in terms of punishment.
Mick Ray The judge should put him in a mandatory treatment center, one where he can't just get up and walk out. As for baseball, I don't think he deserves another chance, at least not right now. Show the world that you can take care of yourself off the field first. Do I hear Pete Rose?
Greg Darryl has thrown away a Hall of Fame career. I think that its MLB's fault for giving a drug using crime committing player one to many chances to keep coming back. He is a complete embarrassment to Baseball and the Yankees. I hope I never see him play baseball again in the MLB. Knowing MLB if Darryl can somehow come back they will be stupid enough to allow it. Professional sports sometimes make these monsters out of athletes because the amount of money. It's too BAD!
Rick When I heard of what Strawberry said I was shocked. I never thought he would give up. Trushar Mehta I really feel that Darryl had turned it around in 1998. I think playing baseball and being part of the Yankees team was a very positive thing for him. When he got his colon cancer and was forced to stop playing the most complete and constructive part of his life, the team, was suddenly gone. I feel that without the team and battling colon cancer was too much for Darryl. He isn't a strong enough person. He needed support and it was only provided through playing baseball and being part of a team. I truly believe that if he didn't get colon cancer he would have continued playing for the Yankees and would have had no further troubles. However, he had to leave the team and therefore lost all of his support.
Jeremy Herniman I am a diehard Yankee fan. I despise Darryl Strawberry. The Yankees never should have given him a contract. How many chances does one man deserve? Do I hope he gets he life back together? Yes. No person deserves what he is going through. Does he deserve to play baseball again? No. Never again. Will somebody, Yankees or otherwise, think about and maybe go through with bringing him back if he gets better? Sadly ... yes.
Steve Lockwood I think it's time for baseball and its fans to forget about Darryl. I am tired of reading about him. If he were anyone else but a celebrity, the world wouldn't care, and he wouldn't be in some rehab center, he would be in REAL prison. I think it's time to face the fact that Darryl is not worth our time.
Keith Straw to me will never change, due to his own selfishness. He has five children and a wonderful wife, and yet he continues to make the wrong choices. I truly feel that Darryl will be dead within two years, either through cancer or his own stupidity. He has chosen this, nobody has for him.
Lenny Abruzzo Darryl Strawberry is an outrage to the game of baseball. Here is an individual who has been given every oppurtunity in the world, yet he continues to abuse the system. Bud Selig and Co. finally decided that for all of his drug problems he should be suspended from baseball for one year, yet Pete Rose did nothing but try to make a little money and not even hurt the intergrity of the game yet he is banned for life. Guess money is more powerful than a life.
Jake Lantz Boo Hoo. I, for one, am through feeling sorry for Darryl Strawberry. This man has had numerous "second" chances, and has blown them all. His lawyer states that he should be allowed to re-enter rehab, but if my memory is correct, Strawberry was in rehab when his latest trouble started. Why should anyone think he won't stray again. As far as prison not being equipped to handle his medical condition, that is something he should have thought of beforehand. As far as I am concerned, he should have been behind bars long before now. The little speech he gave in court, was in my opinion, just another song and dance, hoping for leniency one more time. How many chances does he get. If he is so concerned about his family, why is he always out all hours of the night, with bad people in bad places, sometimes a girlfriend, doing drugs and getting caught? Indeed, he seems like the ideal family man. With the example he provides his kids, they are probably better off with him in jail, at least that might teach them a lesson in responsibility for one's actions, something their father is clueless about. Strawberry had the opportunity to have everything he ever wanted. What did he choose? Drugs. I know people will make the arguement that his addiction is terrible, and he is helpless to it. To them, I say, he wouldn't be addicted if he had never chosen to break the law and do drugs in the first place. You reap what you sow.
Tim Farrell I think that the Straw should read as much as he can about baseball and read about the history that baseball has had and read about the talent that existed before he was even born. If he were to do this, it might re-instill his love for the game as well as the love that exists within his soul. Tim Yes, there is hope for Strawberry. He doesn't know how lucky he is, just to be alive. He's has had opportunities that many of us would die to have had. He should count his blessings. My brother passed away because he had a drug problem, HIV, numerous infections and internal bleeding. It is my belief that the drugs are the demon that overtook his life. He died a horrible death, I watched him suffer on a ventilator for twelve days - first the ventilator, then a coma, then multiple organ failure. Is that what Strawberry wants? He may not die like that, but, instead he should reach inside himself, open his heart to God (who is the only person that can help him), and start helping others who are like him. He must realize that what we loose on earth, will be loosed in heaven, in other words, whatever he does down here, will be done up there. Doesn't seem as if he'll stand to make it up there at all at the rate he's going. I'd say he'd better wake up and smell the coffee, before his mom and family is left grieving over someone who didn't do jack with his life except complain about what wasn't right with it! You know what else, I happen to know his x-wife, who is beautiful to me. I used to be so envious of people who had all the material things in life. I still am to a certain extent because there are some people who have it and don't know what to do with it. Darryl has had too many chances, like my brother did. God only grants so many and then he gives up, I think. He only helps those who help themselves. Darryl, if you don't want to help yourself and die, then that's on you. At least you have the money to get help, a lot of people don't. Wake up and count the blessings that you do have before you end up like my brother, but, I guess you don't care.
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