Care for a drink?

Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera was arrested in Florida on suspicion of driving under the influence. Cabrera, 28, has already undergone some sort of treatment for this in the past.

While it doesn’t appear likely that this will jeopardize his career right now, the question that needs to be asked is, “why would anyone jeopardize a career like this anyway?”

It goes to show us just how powerful alcoholism really is for people who have it. For some people, me included over 17 years ago now, drinking somehow is more important than anything else.
 

Speaking from experience I can say emphatically that drinking to me was NEVER more important than ANYTHING else in my life. Yet, my particular actions spoke louder than my words. It is that powerful of an influence for some people that we trick our own selves.

I didn’t have 5 years left on a baseball contract that was going to pay me $106 million dollars over that amount of time though. I have tried to tell myself this morning that the amount of money and that type of career and one stint in a rehab already would have kept me away from drinking any more. But if I were to be honest with myself, I would have to think that being a superstar like Miguel Cabrera might also make me think that I was stronger than a stupid drink.

Thankfully, no one was injured nor was there any accident of any sort in the Cabrera incident. Fans of his can only hope that it won’t take anything more serious than this to get his life and his career back on the proper tracks.

Ok so its 2-20-11. Way early in the season. But I’m picking the Red Sox to go all the way this year. Perhaps they play the Phillies in the WS but this is Boston’s season to lose.
People can babble about the Phillies pitching starting staff all they want but the Sox staff is younger, still quite experienced, and their bullpen is better this year.

Start with a healthy Josh Beckett and add Jon Lester, a lighter John Lackey, Daisuke Matsusaka, and Clay Buchholz and you have a 5 man rotation that is deeper than the Phils. If Jonathan Papelbon returns to closer form, its lights out. But they picked up Bobby Jenks from the Chisox who can close, and Daniel Bard throws about 150 MPH. Tim Wakefield is also still around who can relieve and start for the team.

But the offense is beefed up with Carl Crawford, one of the top ten best players in the league, and Adrian Gonzalez, a free-agent pickup from the Padres who will now have a short porch in right and protection in the lineup. Gonzalez could be a 50-homerun guy in this lineup and playing at Fenway Park.
A healthy Jacoby Ellsbury, former MVP Dustin Pedroia, and Kevin Youkilis and this team is sickly good.

Major League Baseball has just offered an opportunity called “Dream Job.” Wow, the job entails watching every baseball game in a particular area and blogging and vlogging about the games. What a great job that would be for sure. But are you kidding me? At first glance, I wouldn’t be able to do it because I am contractually obligated throughout the season to perform my hypnosis shows!
The difference is that I LOVE my hypnosis shows too and I wouldn’t jeopardize doing those for anything, because they are fun.
But I am thinking about applying anyway just to see if I can get a call back from them.