A new chapter for Josh Hamilton’s book?

February 3, 2012

Reportedly, the four-time All-Star and MVP fell off the wagon earlier this week, hoisting a drink (or more?) at a pub in Dallas. Fellow Texas Ranger Ian Kinsler supposedly came to the establishment to convince his teammate to leave.

Of course, I feel sorry for Hamilton, if all this is true; I’m a benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy and weary of the tweets and smart phone  camera shots that are ubiquitous these days. I’m surprised there hasn’t been any YouTube videos posted. On a recent episode of Southland (highly recommended, if you like cop shows), a police officer had to defend himself from a young woman who was attacking him during an arrest. He smacked the teenager in a crowd of her friends, all of whom seemed to have a phone and who were taking pictures, which were immediately posted on-line. This type of citizen reporting can get a bit tiresome in many cases where the incidents simply do not require it. Or have we just become an nation of TMZ zombies?

Of course, the cynic in me wonders if this just wasn’t some ploy to get new material and add to a revised edition of Hamilton’s best-selling 2008 memoir, Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back.

 

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