One of the hardest parts about recovery is facing the reasons why I chose to drink in the first place.
For me, sobriety is not enough. I can be sober with the best of them.
My problem isn’t just my relationship with alcohol.
It’s deeper than that.
Alcohol was never the root. It was the escape.
The numbing. The coping. The running. The silence.
It was the way I tried to carry pain I never really faced.
That’s the real work for me now. Not just putting the bottle down. But finally dealing with the things that made me want to pick it up in the first place.
The trauma. The shame. The grief. The anger.
The things I buried.
The things I convinced myself I could outwork, outrun, or outlast.
I can’t heal by pretending those things aren’t there.
So this season for me is about more than sobriety.
It’s about honesty.
It’s about healing.
It’s about finally facing what’s underneath all of it.
That part is hard, but it’s necessary, and my recovery demands it.
There’s just no way of knowing that.
The more likely scenario is that he doesn’t make enough of an impact and is still recovering from elbow surgery. There’s just no way a trade for him makes any sense for this team. It’s way too big of a dice roll and the cost would be insane.
Go after bullpen help and get another legit RH bat.
@SeahawksForever How you feeling if the M’s pay out the ass in prospects and an MLB arm if Skubal comes here, is still injured, and they get bounced in the playoffs again?
At least you added the caveat that IF it guaranteed a WS.
Aside from that, you don’t trade the best pitching prospect in baseball for a rental. I don’t care who it is.
Sloan is the most promising pitching prospect we’ve had since Felix.
I’d do Kirby and Farmelo, but that’s it. Let Detroit say no if they chose to, and move on.