Josh Hancock's Death Could Teach Many Lessons

The Chicago Cubs had defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 8-1 at Busch Stadium on an average Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. Five hours after the final out, a reliever who helped send the Cardinals to World Series glory last fall was dead, the victim in a terrible car crash on I-64.

Joshua Morgan Hancock, 29, has consumed enough alcohol to exceed the legal limit twice over. With possibly a bag of marijuana in his SUV and a female acquaintance on the other end of his cell phone, Hancock diverted his attention enough to miss the tow truck that was helping a disabled vehicle. He slammed into it, dead on the spot.

A few weeks later, I am listening to a radio broadcast in my hometown of Cincinanti and this guy tells everyone about how baseball teams provide beer to their players in the clubhouse after a game?

It looks as ifsome of the teams in professional sports have opened the floodgates to a whole load of trouble. In a world where the average joe spends all his time treating superstar ballplayers as if they were God-incarnate, sports teams are offering up every single perk they can find to please even the ballboys! Everything from money under the table to a full spread covering the entire clubhouse, to even from what I have heard have been the so called "groupies" that are brought in by NBA teams.

Translation: I guess the only way to win is to get degrading. It is a sick way of buying into a sick culture and it all needs to be outlawed.