Fall down, get up

Josh Hamilton is an outfielder with the Texas Rangers and a recovering addict. A website, which I won't name, recently published pics of Hamilton's public relapse in Arizona last January, titled "The Devil is still in Josh Hamilton."

Personally, I think the devil is still in all of us addicts.

From the Sports Illustrated web site:

Hamilton said he went out to dinner at a restaurant/bar and decided to have a drink. He said one thing led to another and he ended up excessively intoxicated. He said he had trouble remembering what happened that night. "I just wasn't mentally fit or spiritually fit," Hamilton said. "It just crossed my mind that night, 'Can I have a drink?' Obviously I can't and this reinforces that. Since that night, I have not had another thought like that. I know it's something I shouldn't do because it leads to other things." Hamilton said he woke up the next morning and realized what he had done was wrong. He immediately called his wife and admitted what he had done. That was the hardest part.

He was lucky, in my opinion. He only relapsed for a day. Even as bad as it is, it could have been much worse. I have to hand it to him, he realized he blew it, knew he was dead wrong, and got right back on track.