July 16, 200917 yr Here is more about it. http://www.bluegrasspreps.com/showthread.php?t=155995&highlight=Hamilton+traded&page=2
July 16, 200917 yr Not sure how any of that stuff can even be considered selling out his teammates...
July 16, 200917 yr This is from another trade with a quote from the reds GM... Interesting read on Josh Hamilton from USA Today. Most interesting from the article I found the following, although not a surprise, I figured I would post. He has ventured out a few times with teammates and says he feels more accepted by his Texas teammates than in Cincinnati last year, when no one invited him out. He sensed jealousy and perhaps resentment over the attention his comeback story received "I even heard comments that I was signing too many autographs for the fans," he says. "It just got worse as the year went on." The discord played no factor in the trade, but, Krivsky said: "There were issues in the clubhouse. Maybe that stuff would have gone by the boards had he stayed." http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseb...Hamilton_N.htm http://www.bluegrasspreps.com/showthread.php?t=155531&highlight=Hamilton+traded
July 16, 200917 yr Author Here is more about it. http://www.bluegrasspreps.com/showthread.php?t=155995&highlight=Hamilton+traded&page=2 Still didn't see anything about former players ripping on him.
July 16, 200917 yr Still didn't see anything about former players ripping on him. BP was the only one that said much publicly. Josh is the one who threw them under the Bus.
July 16, 200917 yr Seems to me like people in the Reds clubhouse had a problem with all the attention he was getting.... Did he handle it properly? Probably not
July 16, 200917 yr Author BP was the only one that said much publicly. Josh is the one who threw them under the Bus. Don't remember reading that either.
July 16, 200917 yr Look I admire him for breaking out of the path he was going down and over coming such a terrible addiction and being successful. Just not that big of a fan of him and his overall image. He handles himself well now and puts on a false front IMO.
July 16, 200917 yr Don't remember reading that either. That was the first article. He didn't directly come out and say he didn't like Hamilton and what he was all about but come on...
July 16, 200917 yr Look I admire him for breaking out of the path he was going down and over coming such a terrible addiction and being successful. Just not that big of a fan of him and his overall image. He handles himself well now and puts on a false front IMO. I guess that's where we differ. I don't admire someone who gets themselves hooked on drugs, basically ruins the lives of all those they supposedly are close because of their selfishness. I'm glad he's clean now, but sorry, I don't think he deserves any admiration or sympathy. :idunno:
July 16, 200917 yr You're making a huge and inaccurate assumption RM. No one has ever said they want him to fail or wish he had stayed hooked on drugs. It's not even in the same ballpark as someone battling cancer. Last time I checked cancer isn't something you do to yourself. All his struggles and tribulations were by his own causing. He talks about his "faith" and puts that attitude forward in the public eye, but from accounts I've been told from someone who experienced them first hand (numerous times), it's all a charade. The real Josh Hamilton is not the one that the public sees. Some forms of cancer are caused by what we do...is it safe to assume you have no sympathy for those people? Is it safe to assume that you have no sympathy for anyone who has a problem, disease or otherwise, that was caused by their own decisions?
July 16, 200917 yr Some forms of cancer are caused by what we do...is it safe to assume you have no sympathy for those people? Is it safe to assume that you have no sympathy for anyone who has a problem, disease or otherwise, that was caused by their own decisions? Is that the only way to contract those forms of cancer? I didn't think so... A person could never smoke a cigarette in their lives, and still die from lung cancer, so the situations are completely different IMO. How else but deciding you want to use the drugs, do you become addicted? When you engage in an action, such as drug use, where the only outcomes are addiction or death, why do you deserve sympathy when you do in fact become addicted or die?
July 16, 200917 yr The innuendo's are getting old. You're not going to hurt his feelings posting why he's not the Christian he portrays. That's all I saw in the links provided. BP unhappy because the focus wasn't on winning and a couple of posters insinuating he's not the person he says. Heck, I know people that hate ballplayers that stuck around for an extra hour signing autographs but didn't get their ball signed before the athlete had to leave. And no one is condoning him taking drugs. They've seen too many people that can NOT kick a drug addiction and those that do should be celebrated. If you don't agree, you know nothing about addiction.
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