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New York, 7:38 PM
Tue Nov 24
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08/31/09
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The seats were then given supplemental picks in next years draft.
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08/14/09
Give it a fucking break already, Linda Cohn.
08/14/09
I mean, great - he found a thing (the Jesus) that frees him from his addictions. Good for him. Now shut up about it.
That's why this is appropriate to north Texas. Because the myth of Texas is that loudness in all things - even the humility of Christ - should be celebrated.
08/14/09
Jewish people know why Christians love capital letters. It springs from their love of capital punishment.
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08/14/09
Because they are terrified of lower-case Ts.
08/14/09
"t," as in "time to leave?"
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Then, Suggesting that he found it to be a happy reprieve is juvenile and ignorant.
Well make up your mind dude. Is he gonna shit or is he gonna kill us?
08/14/09
@dan_in_accounting: When an alcoholic takes a drink, it's like he (or she, as the case may be) is another person. Loving father? Devoted husband? It all gets tossed out the window the second you take a drink. It's like an entirely different personality has been swapped into the same body.
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"He looks happy" well no shit, he's drunk off his ass. Its whether you can be happy the next morning that determines if you're an alcoholic or not, and clearly he had some 'splainin to do when he woke up.
08/14/09
as for the other stuff, alcoholism, it seems, is a much more subjective disease than others and for someone who is not an alcoholic to speak about what happens to an alcoholic when they drink is speaking from a misguided position of authority.
08/14/09
And I get your point... but yeah... He's drunk. Drinking makes you happy momentarily, sure, but I'm sure there's other pictures of him smiling, too, without the booze's assistance.
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@Chris Hanson's Axe: I should clarify. The "thrown out the window with one drop" refers primarily reformed alcoholics who are relapsing. I agree that not every alcoholic is like that, especially alcoholics who are making no attempt to kick the habit.
08/14/09
So, I think it is fair to say that when Hamilton got hammered, it was a relief because he could stop fighting and do what his mind or body or whatever had been dying to do for so long. He could stop pretending to be something he is not. Sure, he probably regretted it the next day, because he knows he cant allow himself to do that anymore, but that doesn't change the fact that he was relieved and enjoying himself.
08/15/09
"a truth that seems pretty apparent upon glancing at those bar photos: Josh Hamilton looks really happy in those pictures. He looks like a man whose life for the past five years has been, as he once put it, "Park. Home. Park. Home," a man who has been living day after day within arms' reach of his 60-something babysitter, and a man who, for a few hours, finally has some room to explode. Hamilton looks like a man unleashed."
The author's suggestion that Hamilton was actually going "Phew! Boy, I sure am glad I'm getting to break my commitment to God and risk my career and marriage in the name of one night of drinking! Ha ha, these crazy Christians, am I right?!" is just totally ignorant. If that's not what the author was going for, well, then she's just a shitty writer and the editors should have told her as much as they threw her submitted column in the trash.
08/17/09
Hamilton's religious conversion is the reason he's alive, and it's the reason he was able to man up and come clean to his wife and to the media about his giant slip-up. Say what you will about the relentless Bible-thumping, but if you listen to Hamilton's press conference on Saturday, you can't say he's not honest, or accountable, or remorseful, or embarrassed.
I dont know how you interpret that as sneering.
The article reads to me like "since cleaning up, he has been fighting himself every minute of every day and finally one day dropped his guard and was able to be free." I dont think there is anything sneering about that. I think its the truth.
Think about people on a diet. They deprive themselves of things they love and if they break, they probably enjoy it, but also feel guilty afterwards. Thats all. In the end, you are going to read into it what you read into it. You're obviously a huge fan of his and are sticking up for him. Thats fine, but of all the hatchet jobs out there to pick on, this one is not "poorly thought out" or whatever other unnecessary adverbs you used.
08/14/09
08/14/09
Yeah - for health care reform!
/topical
08/14/09
Which, coincidentally, is what Al Sharpton calls the Puerto Rican part of Queens.
08/14/09
Ann Darrow.
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