I know I haven't done this in a while but I am frustrated and want to get back into it.
The Anaheim Angels are frustrated with the league that Josh Hamilton was not disciplined for his recent drug and alcohol relapse. The Angels are going to pay a significant part of Josh's contract to make him go away, they will ship him off to Texas. He was on the DL anyway with offseason shoulder surgery and not going to come back until May at the earliest. Once news broke of Hamilton's latest relapse and no discipline was handed down it became clear that he was never going to play another inning for the Angels. The Texas Rangers know how to deal with this guy, who has missed a significant portion of his career to drugs and alachol. This is where Josh was before the Angels, where the buddy program was established so that he was never alone. Hopefully Josh will be able to go back and find a since of normalcy in Texas, he's a good player when on. The Texas Rangers are not taking much of a risk here as the Angels are going to be paying most of what's left on Josh's deal. The Rangers need outfield help and their willing to take the risk. Hopefully they'll reinstitute their programs to keep Josh on the straight and narrow and he can show us what he has left.
I think part of this that some people are missing is that Josh filled for divorce from his wife whose father, Josh's father in law, a preacher helped Josh early on with his troubles. I hope Josh goes back to Texas and gets his life back in order and can get back to being the player he was. Josh is a good player and was once a top prospect, when drafted by the hen Tampa Bay Devil Rays before he got involved with drugs and alcohol. Josh is a good man who fell off the tracks and needs to regain his faith in God and find normalcy playing baseball for the Texas Rangers.
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