i don’t think he’s the type of person that would take well to getting sent down.

somtimes to a fault. He strikes me as a person who over analyzes things and thinks they are smarter than they really are. That is why he kept running AJ out there in the #4 slot when he wasn’t hitting his weight. Somebody finally slapped him upside his head with a stat sheet and Ron realized he had to move AJ and Hamilton down in the order.

He’s not really even swinging the bat, just kind of softly guiding it towards the ball.

He looks worse right now than Davis did at his worst.

CD can’t play the OF. Bring up Boggs, his shoulder seems fine now.

I’d put Crush in a shared time situation with the other 2, and he would earn more playing time by playing well at the major league level.

I think it would absolutely send the wrong message to the team to make CD a full time player, and take time away from the more productive Hank and AJ.

I have a couple of friends that insist he’s back smoking hubs….makes me so mad…..

They also insist that he was on roids last year……I hate the steroid scandal for this reason alone.

Maybe we need to fly Clay back to Arlington so he can toss Hammy his pregame bp….something, who knows.

That’s a truly ignorant declaration to make period, much less definitively. You don’t have any experience w/ people in recovery, do you?

I’m not saying Hamilton is teetering on the verge of a relapse or anywhere near it, but this notion that because you’ve been moved by a speech of his you saw, or his tear-jerker of a book, that therefore you can deduce that he has climbed the mountain of sobriety once and for all, or even for the foreseeable future, is ridiculous, and I wish people would stop spouting it.

The rate of recidivism amongst addicts is in the nineties, percentile wise. That’s right, over 90% suffer a relapse at some point. It is almost always a case of 2 steps forward, 1.9 steps back. So no, we have no damn idea whether drugs are/will be an issue, and that “we” includes Josh himself.

I think Josh has a lot of things working in his favor. He has a job he loves, teammates and family who support him, his faith, and best of all, he was smart enough to hire a fulltime babysitter. I’ve always been shocked that wealthy people/celebutards don’t go the babysitter route-it makes such uncommonly good sense. I also think another advantage he has is that he wasn’t an addict for years and years. Shorter “habits” are obviously less fearsome.

But FYI: rare indeed is the recovering alcoholic or addict that doesn’t have a compelling, powerfully uplifting message about how “they’ve seen the light and and are turning over a new leaf once and for all!”

He may very well beat it but it won’t be b/c the odds are in his favor.

Your foundation strength is your midsection strength, no matter how powerfully developed the arms and legs may be – they primarily leverage that total strength along planar lines to swing with power, and are counterfeited when forearm or thigh muscles bunch up due to extra effort. (See why 340 yard drives in golf are all from total swing effectiveness not attempts to power the ball). Young usually applies a composed swing at the ball. Cruz hits most shots very bvery hard, reflecting his immense central strength, but doesn’t uppercut or jack at the ball.

If Josh has either residual pain, residual weakness, or unhealed repair to the abdominal or side area, he simply can not physically but his old rotational strength and bat speed out there.

he doesn’t need to start “letting the bat go.” That’s a large part of his problem. He’s swinging at everything. He needs to be more patient at the plate and stop swinging at bad pitches.

what conversation is gonna break out at LSB :) Your corner sports bar for Rangers fans.