The Tragedy of Sammy Stewart...
To quite honest, I did not know much about Sammy Stewart at all when he played for the O's, as since I was young tyke when he was coming up.
However, being an O's fan, I eventually learned who he was throughout the years.
Sadly, it was for his life after his playing career. What a shame. The Baltimore Sun's John Eisenburg has an article online and in print about former Oriole's pitcher, Sammy Stewart, reflecting of his life, career and future while jailed for a drug violation.
I am not going to judge Mr. Stewart for his mistake and what his life turned out to be after playing Major League Baseball. We all can trash him or rail against him for his mistakes in life, but we should not judge a man without walking in his shoes.
I will say more anything, I understand what he and his family are going through. He's going through a disease - not a disease of the body, but a disease of the heart and soul. There are a littany of reasons why one turns to drugs in his life, always by choice, but also driven by circumstances, despair, desperation and behavior.
To be honest, one of my immediate family members has now paid the price, mentally and finanically for his drug use, and now his freedom is gone.
To be honest, one of my immediate family members has now paid the price, mentally and finanically for his drug use, and now his freedom is gone.
I can certainly understand how Mr. Stewart and his family feels. More often than not, people chose to wash their lives away with drugs because there is often not a last resort in their lives and whether out of pride, desperation or helplessness, they don't get the help they need and turn to poision and evil.
Drug use is not so much a crime in my mind, but it's a spector of evil which changes the essence of a man or woman. Even though Mr. Stewart is paying a price to society right now, it does not compare to the price he has to paid with his family.
Forget baseball and Mr. Stewart's time with the O's. He needs to focus on getting his life back together and rebuild the love and trust with his family. May his time is jail and faith hopefully serve as a lesson to himself and others about the dangers and desperation of drug use.
Believe me, again I'll say I understand more than you know about Mr. Stewart and his family. It's never worth it in the end, but maybe he'll turn it around sooner rather than later.
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