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If this were the NFL, Cabrera would be sitting for 30-40 games. Of course it's not so they just let the drunk play baseball.

Hart5150 said:

If this were the NFL, Cabrera would be sitting for 30-40 games. Of course it's not so they just let the drunk play baseball.

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Alcoholism IS a sickness. Nice to know you have compassion for fellow man. He has not hurt anyone with his drunkness yet....so let's hope he gets help he needs.

So some here want to throw him in rehab and forget about him, like a 24/7 thing, thats not the way rehab goes for everyone .... sure you have your group that need that, and thats the ones everyone hears about ....

So, throw him in rehab and let him out for recess between 7 and 11 pm each night, with weekends being flexible !

Jimbo said:

So some here want to throw him in rehab and forget about him, like a 24/7 thing, thats not the way rehab goes for everyone .... sure you have your group that need that, and thats the ones everyone hears about ....

So, throw him in rehab and let him out for recess between 7 and 11 pm each night, with weekends being flexible !

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I'm not a health-care professional so I can't comment on what he needs, but all I know from what I've read about recent high profile substance abusers, plus a couple people I'm personally aware of, is that part-time rehab doesn't work.

If it's determined by the professionals that he needs a full-time rehab stay, don't you think he should do it?? The organization has a lot of money invested in him and should be thinking about long-term goals and not just a quick fix. (Pardon the pun.)

cosmo_kramer said:

If it's determined by the professionals that he needs a full-time rehab stay, don't you think he should do it?? The organization has a lot of money invested in him and should be thinking about long-term goals and not just a quick fix. (Pardon the pun.)

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Absolutely, I never said otherwise, however your making it sound like Full Time Rehab is the only option and no one has even heard from the Doctors in the know as to what type of treatment he needs.

Your putting him in the Lindsy Lohan group without knowing any of the details.

salsadancer7 said:

Alcoholism IS a sickness. Nice to know you have compassion for fellow man. He has not hurt anyone with his drunkness yet....so let's hope he gets help he needs.

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It's a self induced sickness, I have no compassion for that.

Maybe he should worry about deportation.

Any other Immigrant Worker in this country would be facing a fairly stiff penalty for Drunk Driving, and if guilty, would be looking at an expedited route back to their Home Country. As good a baseball player as this guy is, he does not deserve any special rights here. As a mater of fact, he has already had some breaks, and shame on the Police for not charging him with Domestic Abuse in the previous incident.

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My wife worked with a very nice man from Japan, who was arrested for a DUI, after he was found guilty he was deported back to Japan and told he could not re-apply for entry for a minimum of 7 years.

Hart5150 said:

It's a self induced sickness, I have no compassion for that.

Maybe he should worry about deportation.



My wife worked with a very nice man from Japan, who was arrested for a DUI, after he was found guilty he was deported back to Japan and told he could not re-apply for entry for a minimum of 7 years.

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Some times, those "self induced sicknesses" are made when you do not have someone to show you it is not an escape or when too young to know better. But some of us ain't as lucky as other right?

Sorry, but that "very nice man" is not an important cog to a 100 million dollar corporation that is the Detroit Tigers.

Here's an interesting perspective ....

Posted by Tony Paul (The Detroit News) on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM
Maybe it's now time for deputies to apologize to Cabrera?

No doubt, if all the reports are accurate, Miguel Cabrera has some serious demons. Ones that need to be addressed with some serious help.

But to me, the most troubling aspect of that otherwise incredibly boring police video released to the world Wednesday was the flippant attitude of the arresting deputies -- one of whom sounded like he was wishing he could've dusted off his Taser, and another bragging about the arrest of such a high-profile figure.

"I can't beat the KC and the Sunshine Band," the deputy is heard saying, "but this beats it now.

How ridiculously unprofessional is that?

Cabrera apologized at length days after his arrest -- to his teammates, fans, family, as well as to deputies. Well, the deputies owe one, now, having treated the arrest as if they'd just hit the Mega Millions jackpot.

Cops are paid to protect you and I -- not act like star-struck teen-agers. And I say that not with a bias against cops, but rather as the proud son of a retired Michigan State Police trooper (one who, in a brief chat early today, told me he was equally disturbed by these deputies' behavior).

Cabrera's defense attorneys have to be doing cartwheels over such comments, though -- because a lack of professionalism by authority figures surely can raise serious questions of character, should the case ever reach the trial level. Just remember Mark Furman and O.J.

Jimbo said:

Your putting him in the Lindsy Lohan group without knowing any of the details.

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Thank you, that's exactly my point!! Those headline rehabbers like Lohan and Sheen are perfect examples why part-time or self-imposed rehab doesn't work.

He is a public person with multiple offenses, why shouldn't he be put in that group??

salsadancer7 said:

Some times, those "self induced sicknesses" are made when you do not have someone to show you it is not an escape or when too young to know better. But some of us ain't as lucky as other right?

Sorry, but that "very nice man" is not an important cog to a 100 million dollar corporation that is the Detroit Tigers.

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And that (attitude) there is the the reason that these spoiled brat athletes think that they are entitled and untouchable.

cosmo_kramer said:

He is a public person with multiple offenses, why shouldn't he be put in that group??

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Isn't it obvious? He's a pro baseball player and no one ever taught him is wasn't okay to drink yourself in to a stupor.

Hart5150 said:

And that (attitude) there is the the reason that these spoiled brat athletes think that they are entitled and untouchable.

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It's NOT an attitude....it's a fact of life. IF he was a the biggest sales man or the biggest producer of revenue to a company, it would be the same thing.

cosmo_kramer said:

Thank you, that's exactly my point!! Those headline rehabbers like Lohan and Sheen are perfect examples why part-time or self-imposed rehab doesn't work.

He is a public person with multiple offenses, why shouldn't he be put in that group??

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Because he's had issues TWICE, not WEEKLY ...