Crime in Sports - #246 - The Shirtless Cocaine Hunter - The Unseemliness of Josh Hamilton

Episode Date: February 16, 2021

This week, we explore the life of a man who had every opportunity to be a true legend, but never seemed to waste a chance to squander his talent, and all that everyone bent over backwards to hand to him. While on the right path, he was a hall of fame level talent, but just when you think he was "good, now", he would end up shirtless, and looking for cocaine! A truly messy tale! Have all the promise in the world, screw up, but have everyone make sure that you land on your feet, then screw up a whole bunch more with Josh Hamilton!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!! Contact us on... twitter.com/[e-mail]/Crimeinsportsinstagram.com/smalltownmurder  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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quite the show for you here we have a famous baseball player a guy who really is an MVP I mean it doesn't get any bigger than that. Shitloads of home runs and everything. Josh Hamilton. Oh.

Also a personal disaster. Just a disaster in his personal life. It really is. He's got a real problem, and he never can kick it, and it just keeps coming back and keeps coming back. Joshua Holt Hamilton. Holt. Holt.

Oh, boy. He was born Hamilton. Holt. Holt. Oh, boy. He's born here. Born May 21st, 1981. He is from Raleigh, North Carolina. Born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, which I could see him as a North Carolina guy for some reason. He looks like most people you see wandering around North Carolina. Yeah.

Just kind of has a look of- A little swagger. A North Carolinian look. I don't know why that is. As he jumps out of his Ford F-250. That's what maybe it is. Maybe it's just a truck. Yeah.

Makes me put him there. He rolls coal on unsuspecting pedestrians. Yeah, yeah. The worst people. We've talked about a lot of guys on this show that have a lot of problems. Some of them are violence problems. Some of them are violence problems. Some of them are sexual problems, aggressiveness.

Some of them are financial. They're greedy. Some of them are drug problems and alcohol problems. And we've seen that a lot. Substance abuse is pretty prevalent. It's pretty prevalent. And it seems to be the one that keeps rearing its head a lot when it keeps coming up.

it and it seems to be the one that keeps rearing its head a lot when it keeps coming up and josh hamilton's a guy where you think that like somebody like that has a substance problem that you would imagine it would be in a position where they're they're a talented athlete of some kind or in any profession you could say you would think that when presented with enough motivation, this is what people don't understand about drug dependency and alcohol dependency is it's so strong that even when you're presented with an amount of motivation that I can't. Most people are never given that opportunity. Yeah. Like a silly fairy tale amount of opera. Like, not just like, hey, you can have you'll get a promotion down at the DMV if you stop drinking. Like, oh, I'm making extra dollar an hour. Oh, boy. That's good.

But we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars. This guy goes, crack is really good, though. I really like crack. That's how good crack is. He did the math measurement in his head uh how much crack that buys that's what i mean immediately he thought of that and crack he was like oh my god like tyrone biggins that'll last me a while yeah like a chapelle show character when he wins on uh fear factor and buys a fifty thousand dollar crack rock

that's that's what i'm saying like the motivation there is just fuck think about that if you're so that just blows me away dude i can't i can't even and that's i'm lucky i'm lucky that i don't have that like i like weed but if you give me a hundred million dollars to never smoke weed again hey would you do it i'm not smoking weed anymore i have a hundred million dollars i think you'd say fuck you it's legal i'd fuck you, it's legal. I'd say, fuck you, it's legal, probably. Yeah, and I'd be like, I'm better with weed. So it's not like, nobody's better at anything smoking crack.

No. Nobody's better at anything smoking crack. But I assure you, assure you that I am much better at this show when I'm stoned. Much better at it. Like, trust me, it's a fucking fact. So, you know, it depends on what you're doing, I so uh smoking crack i probably wouldn't be as good no so or at least as you know you wouldn't know what the fuck i was saying everything would be doo-doo baby it would be shit this doo-doo baby so and there is no addiction and history in his family really it's not like his father's generation like in his immediate family Really? It's not like his father.

First generation. Like in his immediate family. But you don't know if there's a, I don't know if there's a grandfather or grandmother because that's, those four people are your main whatever. But his parents, neither one of them have any addiction issues whatsoever. Also, he's got two brothers and a sister. None of them have any addiction issues wow that's what i'm saying this is uh it's very you know i mean perhaps the money opportunity gave him the

opportunity to be a drug addict no he was like that before oh my god he's a mess beforehand we'll find out how it happened but he's got like uh it's i don't know how to describe him for that because i can't i can't put it into words of like, if you're the person in your family, you can't blame a family when they have one fuck up. If you have four kids, one of them is going to be a fuck up. Yeah, every family's got one.

It's just the odds of the universe. You can't do it. I hate that when they do that with people too. They'll blame like, it'll be somebody famous and they'll fuck up and they'll say, well, they're parents, saying well their parents blah blah blah they have like three other kids that are fine it's like no no no if all of them are fuck ups that's probably the parents certainly on them if three are good and one is shit the parents probably did a good job right

75 of the kids are good it's not bad it's not bad that's a c that's good i like it so yeah he's got a sister his parents uh here and his sister uh an older brother jason i'm sorry he only has one brother i messed that up so either way though his brother's fine he's got a brother named jason and his parents are tony and linda he uh attended athens drive high school in raleigh where he is uh an outfielder like he is in the majors and also a pitcher when he's not playing the outfield on days like that. As a high school senior, he ran the 60-yard dash in 6.7 seconds, which is fast. That's pretty fucking fast for a baseball player that's not a speed guy. Not much running.

Because he's a power guy, too. Well, baseball, the speed counts in sprints. So it's all sprints. You don't have to run 100 yards ever. You run you run 90 feet at a time and that's what's important or in the outfield from here to there right that's important he's only got a sliver of that place to cover it's not yeah he's in the whole thing exactly so it's not an endurance thing exactly baseball it's a sprinting thing and at pitching he's clocked at 97 miles an hour not bad pitch so that's right that's major league level there that's you know an hour. Not bad. So that's major league level there.

Scouts see that and they go, that's major league arm. Plain and simple. In high school, this is ridiculous here. In high school, he hit 529 in 25 games. Jesus Christ. With 13 home runs, 20 stolen bases, and 35 runs batted in and 34 runs scored you know we just put him into the minus i mean that's just silly making us look dumb that's just stupid that's just then 5 30 5 29 that is silly what the fuck he's considered one of the top two prospects for the

99 mlb draft him and josh beckett, who became a very prominent pitcher here, made a shitload of money and world series champion and all that kind of shit. So at Athens Drive High School, he was named Baseball America's National Player of the Year in 1999. Wow. This guy is the epitome of, he's not an underdog. He's not Dennis Rodman.

He's LeBron of baseball. Exactly. He's not Dennis Roddog yeah he's not dennis rodman who's lebron of baseball exactly he's not dennis rodman who grew eight inches after high school and worked at an airport until a shitty college coach noticed he was tall right not anything like that this is doing the basketball equivalent of dunking on everyone yep this is i mean you can hear the robert redford the natural music playing in the background he's also everybody says he's a polite yeah nice down to earth southern boy christian yeah you know like baseball major league teams are looking at him as like drooling like oh christ if this kid could hit home runs and be this marketable oh my

god this is beautiful holy shit bible belt's gonna love it oh he's gonna be selling all sorts of fucking grits or something. I don't know what people buy down there. He can be playing for the rival. People will buy tickets to see him. Baseball will see him. That's all there is. People will buy tickets to pray with him.

They're going to buy tickets because he prayed before his at-bats. When he did down on one knee, everybody's going to do the same. When he stands up from the dugout, everybody will say. And they all said amen amen hallelujah so he says at this point in his life he has it is 100 clean living yeah he says quote straight edge oh boy quote i never had a sip of alcohol, never tried tobacco. I wasn't a normal high school guy. I was focused on what I wanted to do, play baseball.

Which is, again, there's a middle ground that you have to go to. You can't be too much of a robot. Then you're Tiger Woods and you have problems. You can't be too much of a crazy person. There has to be a little steam. You've got to have a vice. There's got to be a little steam blown off you know once a couple times a season you and your teammates you go get shit faced in somebody's backyard and you wake up under a tree right it's good for you and it's good for

it's a good life experience for you that you need to have it once in a while and he didn't have it yeah and that's bill cosby what that straight living looks like that's what i mean you know my thing i don't trust anybody who's got no... You don't drink or smoke or swear or anything? Well, if you don't... You fucking weirdo. I have a rule. If you don't curse and you're an adult, you're a pedophile.

I'm positive of it. If you never curse, I'm talking never, and you're mad at other people for cursing and you're an adult, I guarantee you, you touch kids when they don't want you to. Fucking guarantee it. You got to keep it clean for the kitties you are a pedophile normal people adults yeah something happens in the fucking asshole yeah that just that's just adult world man so anyway he's a he's a weirdo he uh initially though he signs a letter of intent he's gonna go play college baseball which i mean mean, you're turning down a lot of money. If you're going to be a top major league draft pick, if you're going to be a lower draft pick, it doesn't matter. You play college ball, try to raise your stakes.

But if you're going to be a top draft pick in high school, yeah, you are talking about millions of dollars in signing bonus. So that's and that's irrevocable. That's your signing bonus. in signing bonus. So that's, and that's irrevocable. That's your signing bonus. So you're talking about,

do I go to college and play for free and do all of that or do I immediately in two months get $8 million in my bank account? Which would I rather do? Why would you do the other?

That's well, because a lot of times if you do well in college, then your price is even higher because teams like, they like the college guys because they're more mature and they're more major league ready because they're 20-21 years old when they come into the league

whereas an 18 year old kid that kid's never been away from home so his first couple years on the road you're just trying to get him to know how to do his laundry or not do his laundry but you know get food for himself and not be homesick and yeah it's a different thing.

So there's more, more work has to be put into a high school player and they're less of a short thing. If a guy's good all through high school and then amazing all through college, he's showing a consistent level up. Whereas if a guy's great in high school, you don't know if it was just shit competition or so you're getting more money. So anyway, he then decides, fuck that. I'm going to the majors or I'm going to baseball. I'm going to the majors. Or I'm going to baseball.

I'm going to get drafted. I don't want to. Really? Yeah, he goes, I don't want to play baseball. Skip college. Well, what they do, too, is he signs a letter of intent. And that puts more pressure on the teams, too. So then you have to declare whether you want him or not type of thing.

And for him, he can do that, get drafted. Because they draft kids that are going to college just to see if they can sway him away. So he can go here. If he gets drafted too low where there's not that much money he can go to north carolina state okay if he likes the draft position and he can get a big signing bonus he'll go there so it makes sense for him and the draft here is 99 mlb draft and uh number one overall pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Josh Hamilton. Holy shit. Number one overall pick. Guess what?

You're signing that contract because you're getting millions. And to Tampa, who's got, fuck, they're fairly new at that point. Is that their first season? Oh, they were brand new. 99. This is their second year. They've got all the money. Because 98 was Diamondbacks and Devil Rays.

So 99. They need, well, they need, they want to build something, you know, and they're looking at him as a, you know, that's a future building block. Number two overall, another Florida team, Florida Marlins pick Josh Beckett. Oh. So there you go. They're one and two. Two, well, good picks for a while here. Nobody really that great gets picked again until the number nine overall is barry zito

the a's pitcher there for a long time and then ben sheets to the brewers right after him old ben shits there alex rios mike mcdougall carl crawford's in this draft by the devil rays in the second round brandon phillips uh justin warneau a lot of these guys could still be playing a shit pile of them yeah hank blaylock in this draft uh a lot of guys guys could still be playing. A shit pile of them. Hank Blaylock in this draft. A lot of guys. Yeah, there's so many. Victorino, Shane Victorino, fucking Albert Pujols. How about that?

13th round. Really? Pujols was that deep. So Hamilton and Pujols got drafted together. Number one overall. Number 402 overall. Think about that. Wow. And Albert, wherever he's from from that's not that embarrassing of a name and then he got to america yeah and

they were like what it's albert what your last name is and albert asshole last name is shithole what is happening how'd that happen what happened how'd you how'd you get shithole as a last name so he decides to sign with the devil race he goes fuck it i'll just do this uh signs for a signing bonus of 3.96 million dollars so would you rather go to college or have four million dollars right now it's not bad if you're 18 years old what 18 i would if i was 18 and you said you can have four million dollars or i don't give me the what we're done with or i'm already going to what oh thanks this way right where are we going for that four million yeah but there's an or fuck you do i get four million i already decided i never have to work again so just give me that do i get four million in the

or is that a positive is it or four million and something else? No? Well, then fuck you. Or you're going to have 12 million. Which one is it? No, thank you. Jesus Christ. So 99 goes to the Devil Rays.

And this is just single A in rookie ball. Appalachian League. He plays in Princeton, New Jersey. And then he plays for the Hudson Valley Renegades, which is the team where I'm from in New York. It's right there on 84. The kid that I sat next to in first period my senior year was their mascot. He had the big stupid raccoon head in his car all the time. There's a Hudson what?

Renegade. Got it. Hudson Valley. And now they're now the Yankee affiliate. Really? Yeah. They went from the Rangers to the Devil Rays all around, and now they're the Yankee affiliate this year. Makes sense to be Yankees. That would be nice. Yeah. You can see the Yankee affiliate. Really? Yeah. They went from the Rangers to the Devil Rays all around, and now they're the Yankee affiliate this year.

Makes sense to be Yankees. That would be nice. Yeah. You can see the guys coming up. So Josh that year, you know, he's just basically trying to play. He plays like 72 total games and has a 312 batting average. So they don't care then. They're just trying to get you acclimated to the road.

So if you hit 312 with 10 home runs and 55 rbi and 18 steals yeah you're like this fucking kid's gonna be ready real real yeah he's real uh 2000 before the season he is the pre-season baseball america which is the scouting whatever number 13 overall minor league prospect in the country in the entire minor world baseball system yeah great pretty goddamn good uh he plays in 2000 for charleston in single a so south carolina they send him to single a to kind of like they said the rookie ball is just get your feet wet yeah and it's close to home that's great that's i mean this single a is you're actually going you're gonna go play a whole season you're gonna play some more games it's 96 game season so it's a little longer get you on the road he has 400 and our 391 at bats and uh hits 302 shit 13 homers 61 rbi 14 steals so again take him to the next level he doesn't slide yeah that's

pretty goddamn good so much so that before the 2001 season, he is the Baseball America number one prospect in the entire. In all of it. All of everybody who's not in the majors. He's Mr. Baseball. He is Mr. Baseball, the one everybody's looking at. Joshy Baseball. Joshy Baseball. He's the guy that whenever trades come up or anything,

they're like, you know, other teams want to throw him in the mix. And they're like, nope, not even happening. Not happening. He's our guy uh so much that's that's impressive i mean to get what the fuck imagine having that life i was never nobody ever looked at either one of us for anything how it's like oh man the future's so unlimited for that person that never happened with us i was i was so not wanted my dad didn't i didn't meet him till i was 28 yeah we were like who people with us were like oh i hope you're not homeless i hope you hope you pull something together like so unwanted i was grateful to be paid 50 for a show

quite often a lot and up till a few years ago as a matter of fact up until over the moon grateful so excited up until what about three four years ago five years ago at the most was like and we'd still do it yeah we'd still do it shows and we saw this five years ago yeah now we don't do that for other reasons yeah it's not even for the money it's a principal thing and time and i don't want it's time to ruin my weekend for that nope well and it's what you're doing is you're using me to draw yeah to draw people for other so someone else can get paid so somebody else makes money uh no that's not how this works no if we're gonna go somewhere we're gonna get paid for it not some fucking other guy right who half the crowd didn't come to see

right it's not happening so yeah it's us so uh let's just say this grace this is grace for josh i think right number one overall prospect four million bucks in the bank that's awesome raised as the golden boy everybody loves him he's the top prospect he's number one overall draft pick better not be grace you get oh that's grace but oh no that's grace he's got problems but baseball i'm telling you like you can't get a better beginning than this he's he's 20 that's fantastic four million dollars and the greatest player who's not currently in the majors like the guy that everyone in the in the whole league is drooling over they cannot wait to get him into baseball and you're paid and you're well liked and everybody thinks you're polite and nice and fuck i had none of this it's johnny manziel uh before he got an ego before he turned

into johnny manziel yeah before he started making dollar this is uh man this is so and it's different from a lot of our a lot of our guys honestly they aren't they don't come from this sort of thing uh the problem is before the 2001 season this is why there's grace because there's a trigger here uh he is in a car with his mother and father oh no and they are t-boned by a dump truck oh fuck which is rough they're driving the pickup they're driving a pickup truck and t-boned by a dump truck i assure you that's a solid ass pickup truck that's a they're from north carolina that's a nice damn truck that's a big one it's a big old dodge ramp it's a big one now i was t-boned yeah and by a uh dodge caravan in the mid in the late 90s mid to late 90s while i was driving like an you know those

like four by four nissan pickups like the like the little ones with the like a hard body yeah like the tie up yeah tires they call it not the little one but it was like a four by four nissan pickups like the like the little ones with the like a hard body yeah like the tie up yeah tires they call it not the little one but it was like a four by four one yeah yeah i don't know what the fuck it's called it's just a hard body pickup truck right what year was it it was like an 85 yeah it's a hard body that's what they call it i don't know whatever they didn't have a model for it yeah they didn't call it like the nissan frontier nissan thing it's just the nissan hardball and uh my dad gave me that because my car is a piece of great trucks no fucking destroyed this thing though destroyed it it was twisted yeah one only had two wheels on the ground and they were in opposite corners that's how hard

she fucking hit me and i hit a curb and flew all the way around it was really bad yeah that's why my neck's fucked up to this day i hit like the car, then a curb, and then I landed into another car. Nissan hard bodies didn't have airbags. No, fuck. It had a door that was tinfoil, and she hit me right in my door. Oh, no. Didn't hit me in the other side. My passenger seat was more than halfway onto the, or my driver's seat was more than halfway

onto the passenger seat. That's how hard she pushed me over with her fucking Grand Caravan, which is why my neck is fucked up. Yeah. Got hit with a Grand caravan and then hit two curbs and a car so it's like three fucking whiplashes yeah in a row bang it's bad so uh anyway yeah that's oh it's four bangs james it's bang from the car first that's the curb curb car oh my god that was bad that's what happened that's horrifying that's it was how scared were you oh dude i i was mad that's the thing i'm sure the funny a lot of people when they get scared they get mad well i don't know because how dare you scare me i'm a different i don't know i i my i just dropped my friend off as a matter of fact my friend kevin i just dropped him off at his house and he saw me

pull out and go onto the road and then he watched this lady plow no and he said it was fucking horrifying to watch because he said the way the car goes he goes oh my god he's dead right he thought i was because it was right in my door the door was all plunged in he goes there's no way i thought you were alive i thought you were fucking dead and i watched it he goes so he starts running across the parking lot the store's parking lot that was next to his house toward the car to fucking try to get me out of the car, I guess. He's running toward it. He goes, I totally thought you were dead.

He goes, I was fucking preparing myself to see your bloody remains in there. Inside out in your car. He goes, and the next thing you know, I see your head pop out of the window and I hear you fucking cunt bitch bastard. I'll fucking strangle you, you fucking bitch. and I hear you fucking cunt bitch bastard. I'll fucking strangle you, you fucking bitch. And that was me climbing out of the window, threatening this woman's life who hit me,

going, you fucking cunt bitch, get out of the car. I'll fucking kill you. Now, not the nicest thing to do, but she almost killed me. So I would have fought her at that point. She was like a 70-year-old lady and I wanted to kick her fucking ass. I said, get your, I swear the guy was ready to fucking kill her she did she fucking almost

killed me dude it was and it was all her fault she went through a thing and plowed through it was totally her fault wasn't an accident it was her not paying attention so i wanted to kill her dude so he anyway she he was like i knew you were okay once i heard that it was not at least alive not only is he alive he's got all his senses about him because that's the exact reaction i would expect out of him or there's internal bleeding and he's gonna drop dead oh i could have dropped in the middle of a fit i was covered in glass i'm getting out of glasses falling all off of me as i'm screaming shit i'm like taking out of the hood of my jacket glasses flying everywhere that's terrifying bitch yeah it was it was bad the cops were there and i was yelling at them and i've been yelling at this old lady from across the parking lot and they go look i get it the guy goes look i get it that was this one's it's

egregious i'd be mad they're like this is all on her like it was it was one of those where they didn't even everyone was cool with me saying this that's how much it was her fault it's not good no it was fucking awful and then i didn't have a goddamn car it was like right before right before like the it was the end of my senior year in high school and I delivered pizza for a living. So I had no job. I was so fucking mad. It was bad stuff.

So destroyed my life. Thank you, lady. So Josh and his family are hit the same way. Hit the same way. By a little bit bigger of a truck. By a dump truck. That's what I mean. So that a dump truck, I can't imagine the impact there josh injures his lower back uh his mom who was driving suffered

even more injuries than that and uh so they all ended up going to the hospital and all this sort of shit but josh has a back injury and he can't he can't really play right right now because he's got to recover from a back injury so obviously now at this point though he's got free time yeah because he can't play and he's got four million dollars in the bank yeah so you give a 21 year old kid four million dollars and no job and free time and free time i don't care who you are you are gonna fuck that up bad some trouble there's gonna be trouble um what he started doing is he started hanging out in a bradenton florida tattoo parlor what that that's what was his hangout why you know he's always covered in tats half of them are from this era when he was just hanging out at a

tattoo parlor why do you do that unless you're selling drugs to people there's no reason to hang out there unless you do tattoos or sell drugs i used to sell drugs to tattoo parlor people and you do that yeah but not people that go into tattoo parlors generally enjoy drugs yeah sometimes nowadays no because now it's everybody it's yeah it's 60 year old ladies who plow a knee with minivans right tattoos your it tech has something tattooed yeah it doesn't doesn't mean anything anymore. 0 1 0 0 1 0. All that shit. It's not. He's got fucking codes. He's got ones and zeros. He's got digital code in there.

Or the matrix thing tattooed on his back. He goes, if this code here, it's actually Rolling Stones painted black. Zero and zeros and ones. If you were to scan this, you'd'd go to the myspace website yeah it's a upc it's a real one jesus you could read it with the scanner on your phone so he starts hanging out and getting shit loads of tattoos and also starts hanging out with the tattoo parlor people sure and the tattoo parlor people you know where they love to hang out when they're not doing tattoos? I'll give you one guess where they like to hang out.

Crack houses. No, no, no. What other business might they go to? Bars. Strip clubs. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Bradenton, Florida.

You betcha. Yeah. Strip club. They're going to strip club. Hanging out with fucking. So this is what he's doing. Yeah. He's turned into Florida trash.ida trash the epitome of trash

hey you want to go from the tattoo parlor over to the strip club cool let's go over to ace tattoo in the dollhouse that's what we're doing tonight it's gonna be great come on it's wednesday it's c-section scar day come on now it. It's all C-section afternoon. It's going to be amazing. It's the best on this day. Lobster lunch and C-sections. Let's do it. It's going to be so good, boy. I'll tell you what.

Lobster in the afternoon, crabs at night. You know what I mean? You know what I mean, buddy. Right? Right. You know what I'm talking about. Unbelievable. And that's what his life has turned into.

Literally devolved into. Devolved into from everything being wonderful to I'm gonna go to the strip club i'm gonna go to the tattoo parlor get some tats and then when they close up shop we'll all go to the strip club and hang out and i'll probably pay for everything too because i have four million dollars so everybody knows that nobody else in here has four million dollars yeah i feel like he's picking up a lot of tabs sure you know what i'm saying and trying to. Oh, and when you hang out with people, not all of them, obviously, when you hang out with Bradenton, Florida, tattoo trash and you go to fucking trashy strip clubs, you know what you end up getting into there?

What? Well, number one, of course, booze, because you're going to the strip club, so everybody's going to drink. But that particular section of the world really has a hankering for cocaine yeah the that little those two worlds mixing yeah if you're you could be a shake yeah it's a lot tattoos and stripping and coke and all this type of and two o'clock two o'clock in the morning and it's it's all goes together and josh is happy to to wade into these waters oh boy because he's got nothing else to do

you can't you can't go to work nope free free time's a bitch and i can't oh god jesus as much as it's a dream this sounds amazing at 21 i'm gonna be honest that's what i mean 21 year old me would be jacked oh my god four million dollars i never liked coke but our strip club will drive with a smokestack in it i don't like and i don't like tattoos strippers or coke but the rest of it sounds great i like the money this is a brantley gilbert music video this is this is yeah this is boy this is getting bad yeah and he's in florida too where it's all and he said uh later on that his first line of coke was like that was his true angels saying yeah it was you know this yeah you hear this a lot from people who become serious addicts where the first time they had something they were like i knew that was the

greatest thing not that was pretty cool right you know what i mean yeah like that's the normal drug thing is somebody takes something they go yeah it's pretty fun yeah but. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like that's the normal drug thing is somebody takes something. They go, yeah, it's pretty fun. Yeah. But they're like, oh, my God. It was the I heard. Yeah. Harps played. Yeah.

It was wonderful. Arnie Lang says that about heroin. The first time he tried it, he said the first time he tried, he goes, this is going to be a problem. Yeah. Right. That's what I'm saying. And this is already the best thing in my life.

And I'll never stop this. Never. And that's what he said. He said the first line of Coke, he said later on, it gave him the adrenaline rush the same way he felt when he hit a 450-foot home run. Wow. He said it was the same fucking rush. Better than sex.

Bruh. Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine what it feels like to hit a 450-foot home run. It's got to feel amazing. In a game? Forget it. Just to fucking smack some shit and then watch it go that far holy as nine men on the other team in different uniforms stare at it

stare at it and then turn around and then turn around and act like they're really concerned with their shoelaces or something on the ground in front of them yeah or that one lace on their glove that won't quite be right i'm gonna going to fix that. That vault doesn't matter to me now. Well, that's none of my business. That one's for somebody else. Once it crosses that plane, it's like, none of my business anymore. I've got other shit going on. That's for a drunk dad somewhere.

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Anytime you want. But I am 40 and I know that $4 million does not go far. Nope. Not when you're dropping nine. I'll bet he's dropping $1,000 on bar tabs for him and his dropping thousand dollars on bar tabs for him and his friends buddies he's pissing money away and in a second pissing money away also on drugs it goes quick on coke it goes really quick they're doing shots in the bar they're not sipping uh amstel's no coke is the worst too i can't i it's expensive no it's just the worst i hated coke i tried I tried it. It's so much. It's so bad, dude.

It doesn't... I don't know what feeling you're supposed to get, but it just makes me more me, which is exactly the opposite of what I'm going for. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I'm just all... I don't want to be like that more. I don't want to be all, what's going on, and fucking all hyper fucking aggressive and really picking shit apart.

I don't need that i need to might be good for you i kind of do like weed keeps me i like weed it's just i don't like keeps me at like a societal level of functioning where i'm not a psychopath i like being high i don't like being stoned and there's a very fine line between the two you like a little buzz if you give a little too much then you're fucking it's over and i'm like yeah i can't do this with anybody i gotta go home see that's like that's how i am somebody give me a ride i need to leave and i can't get there i need to go but that becomes an issue for me and then i i try to communicate with somebody i turn my head and then that feels like it took five minutes and everything's fucked yeah i don't like being stoned it's kind of like how I am with booze where you see me.

I have a glass and a half of wine and I'm like, that feels good. That's enough. I love being shitfaced. There you go. I hate the feeling. I don't like the bubble guts from beer anymore. I don't like being drunk from beer. I like whiskey and wine and sometimes tequila because it keeps me like it doesn't take a

lot and it's an even keel. It's a smooth ride. we figured out what substances are it takes fucking 20 years to figure it out what substances agree with you and what substances are uh i guess i don't even know what i want to say detrimental or not or whatever but i'll tell you what coke is rarely a plus in someone's life rarely a plus i've i don't think I've ever seen a functioning Coke head. I mean, I have, but it always turns bad. It always eventually gets out of control. It'll get you and you're not functioning anymore.

So he had a torn quad muscle and a back injury and an elbow injury. So he was kind of really having a tough time here with all this shit. Legs, body, arms. He's fucked up. Yeah, he only plays in 27 games in 2001 and he's in double a starts out but then they end up putting him back in triple a to try to work everything out um he hits 200 oh so not great he's injured yeah it's over man it's like grace yeah no he's got a lot a lot of good coming up 2002 season comes up and he's healthy okay for this he's the number 18 prospect now coming up. 2002 season comes up and he's healthy for this.

He's the number 18 prospect now because he was hurt and everything like that. But he does well. This year, single A again for 2002 or A plus. It's like the mid-level deal. 56 games. He hits 303 this year, nine home runs, 44. So back on track. That's it.

He's a 300 hitter again. Everything's fine. So back on track. Yeah. That's it. He's a 300 hitter again. Everything's fine. 2003 season.

He's the number 33 prospect in the whatever and everything. Because he's getting a little older now, of course. During spring training of 2003, everything's great. Healthy. Yeah. Back. Going to do it well. He fails a drug test.

Uh-oh. Mm-hmm. He fails a team drug test. What is it? Ooh, that's not good. It's Coke. Mm-hmm. He fails a team drug test. What is it? Ooh, that's not good. It's Coke. He does Coke. Okay.

He's into Coke. Stays with it. He's into other stuff, too. He'll do weed and whatever, but, I mean, Coke is his baby. That's his rider. And later on, it's crack. Yeah? Because he can't afford it eventually.

Well, also, too, I mean, if Coke is intense and crack is more intense, why wouldn't I just smoke crack? Why would I stick to this low level i'll tell you why because nobody thinks crackhead is a positive label no well cokehead rarely is either but it's much better than crackhead it's it's a couple of ticks but not too much better it's it's instead of sleeping in an alley you're like you know fucking stealing from your relatives it's a relatives it's a different it's a different deal right crackheads when you've been kicked out for stealing from your relatives already then you're a crackhead but cokehead's not good either it's a fucking

mess it's just somebody unreliable yeah it's it's a goddamn mess coke is is never good for anybody so he fails a drug test and at the start of the season, he shows up late several times during spring training. And this is coming up in the Devil Rays camp. It's a major league training camp. You can't do that in a major league. You just can't. There's no fucking way they're going to keep you around. You're in the system now.

You're in spring training. You're trying to make the team. You've got to be perfect, and you're not only failing a drug test, but now showing up late, too. You seem like a fuck up. So midway through, they reassign him to the minor league camp. Like, you're not even hanging around here anymore, asshole. You go with the people who are definitely not making this team. So he leaves the team.

And then he resurfaces a few times. And he would, like like disappear for a week. Oh, boy. From the team, from minor league team. He'd just disappear. And they'd be like, where the fuck is Josh? We don't know. And then he'd show up again and he was fine.

And then he'd disappear for a couple days. Oh, no. This is a bad sign. Yeah. How would they not see that and go, I think there's a problem here. We need to get him help. He eventually takes off the rest of the season for personal reasons. I'm going to take a little vacation i'll be back take a quick powder for i don't know half a season or so

but i'll i'll be spending that four million don't worry i got that going for me so oh my god what the kind of balls do you have there there's a lot of fucking balls uh he was hoping to return to spring training with the devil rays in 2004 but he was suspended 30 days and fined for violating the drug policy put in place so he's fucked there a failed test is one uh there's a positive result uh for a drug more severe than marijuana they don't they won't they won't publicly ding you for that one, but it's Coke or some shit like that. So a month later, they suspend him for the entire season after two more failed tests that month. He knew the stakes. He knew they were testing him.

They told him you're going to get tested over repeatedly now for the next month, blah, blah, blah. And he fucking did it anyway. Wow. Enough to where they just suspended him for the rest of the season. Two more failed tests in a month. That's expensive. Dude, that's not good. That's expensive, and it's fucking, well, he doesn't get paid shit for the minors anyway.

Yeah, but it's fucking up your life. It's fucking up your life. You're throwing your life away for this shit. He couldn't stop for a month. No. Just a month to get clean tests and go, oh, yeah, it was just an anomaly. Holy shit. he's a disaster yeah during this this time this is when he's really in bad shape i mean he's a fucking

a mess for the next few years he meets a businessman he meets a guy named michael chadwick now this guy's a businessman he's got money. And he's also a former addict. So he's trying to help Josh. He sees Josh as a guy who has all the potential in the world, obviously, and who is throwing it away. So this guy wants to help him. He just wants to help him. He's a guy. He does like he helps drug addicts and tries to do like counseling and shit like that. He's trying to help people who are in a position he was in as a successful guy and he sees this guy and also so

what he has no nothing exactly personal but if he gets this guy back on track and then he gets in the major leagues and then he's a hero yeah so he could make you feel good for like that anyway so maybe he's just a big devil ray fan and really wanted to shore up the outfield he really wants a reason to wear that stupid hat yeah it's a dumb hat so he doesn't know so chadwick also has a daughter we'll talk about in a moment here uh-oh uh he makes an attempt to steer josh in the right direction and uh chadwick's daughter is named katie yeah and katie ends up as uh josh's future wife okay katie has a young daughter at the time from a previous relationship. Katie, you might also know from one of the Real Housewives shows. And more importantly, because I'll talk about it because I watched it and it's just crazy.

She was on that Marrying Millions show as well. Really? With some like 20-year-old boyfriend who was a friend of her daughter's. What? It is weird, dude. She's was a friend of her daughters what it is weird dude she's made a career of marrying people with money no no she's the one with money oh it's some 20 year old 20 year old dude jiggle oh dude yeah it's got like this puffy fraggle hair it's like sideshow bob he's a fucking moron this guy and she's like so are we hanging out tonight and he's like i don't know dude like he's like playing video games she's got like guy and she's like so are we hanging out tonight and he's like i don't know

dude like he's like playing video games she's got like three kids she's like 46 with a fucking big giant house and millions of dollars she's like i don't know my girlfriend wants to hang out with me and like buy me rolexes and stuff but i got like call of duty tonight i'm supposed to play with like three dudes i got a pizza on the way you know yeah i don't want them to knock on the door of an empty house. That'd be rude. That'd be fucking rude, dude. Then they'll ban me from Uber Eats.

If I get banned from the Eats, then what am I going to do? What am I going to do? I'll starve, bro. I already got banned from Grubhub. So you don't want to get banned from Grubhub. Then what? You're done. There's no hub for my grub.

There ain't no hub for my grub, man. I mean, I looked, but I was like, oh, where's my hub? Oh, grub there ain't no hub for my grub man i mean i looked but i was like oh where's my hub oh looks like i can't no grub and this bastard is marrying a woman would like to what it's wild oh don't worry we'll talk about it wouldn't it be great to be handsome is he handsome for florida probably not really i don't think but i mean it might be if you're an older person he's younger all right you got to look at it think but i mean it might be if you're an older person he's younger all right you got to look at it that way i think it's a matter of of objectivity and subjectivity here so uh it's all in the eye of the

be looker of the poon holder beauty is in the high eye of the poon holder absolutely that's how it works so she uh they he michael chadwick tries to steer him in the right direction he meets katie um uh katie during this time he's sort of likes katie this guy's trying to help him he's trying to figure out baseball he says in this time he would quote wake up in the cab of my pickup truck or in places i didn't recognize with people i don't know oh no he described waking up in the front lawn of a trailer that he didn't recognize in some shit area somewhere he just woke up was like i don't know where the fuck i got here oh don't know what i did last night don't know where i am that doesn't give you a clue josh don't know where my car is. What?

Who knows? Where am I? Where am I? I've never. Literally. Yeah. Not just, where am I? Oh, okay. No, I don't know where I am.

I've had moments where I go, where am I? And then it's my own bedroom. That's. Thank God. Yeah. That's. Where were we? Imagine it was a strange front lawn of a strange trailer.

No. How much panic would set in at that point? I'd be checking for am i cut yeah where's my do i have both my kidneys yeah anything been harvested nothing harvested wait it's my butthole sore no okay so nobody okay that's helpful i still have my foreskin yeah is there jizz stuck to any part of me no good start licking the inside of your mouth to make sure it doesn't taste like it no pubes in there that's good no checking good just here just there oh boy he said at this point oh my god this is wild he um well later on he'll end up marrying katie obviously uh so i'm not really spoiling that

but he will end up at one point pawning her ring for Coke. Oh, no. For Coke, Jimmy. Not for rent. No, no, no. For Coke. He stole her ring and pawned it for Coke. Imagine that. He burned through,

this is amazing, $100,000 in crack in six weeks. That's fast. Dude. Oh, boy. Okay. How much? That's so much crack.

How big of a pile is that? That's so much crack how big of a pile is that that's so much are you giving other people crack you have to be supporting somebody else's crack's not a social drug no coke everyone hangs out does it together a lot but crack is very personal cracks person like two people go smoke crack like they're like a team that gets cracked together you know what i mean it's their crackies they're correct like dope sick love yeah cracky teams right but like this this is this is weird a hundred thousand and six weeks imagine spending a hundred how terrible would you feel about yourself if you spent a hundred grand on drugs in six weeks yeah i feel so i felt like a scumbag i put a thousand dollars in a stripper's uh thong one night when was this oh long time i

was gonna say not recently jesus you have kids i am cheap as fuck yeah i was gonna say i you don't know how cheap jimmy is so i was like when did you do this what did she do she saved your fucking mother from a burning building 2006 i refinanced the house oh there you go there you go i had 40 grand in my pocket not a wise decision i put a thousand in the strippers long and i felt like a piece of shit i bet for so long i bet it i had buyer's remorse yeah well not buyers just givers because you didn't buy anything it took me about four days to like get over that i bet it's a waste of fucking money that is a waste of money as i mean it's nice yeah someone working you can use a thousand dollars more and i'm saying that to give anybody if

if you could afford it it would be one thing if you're a millionaire but if it's refined money i'll be giving that away there were so many days between that day and uh my divorce that i really wished i had not given that woman that my back damn it thousand dollars whoops a daisy so um and that's not a hundred grand no no so yeah no a hundred grand hundred and he got to enjoy that hundred grand for six weeks i got like literally six minutes yeah that six weeks for him i mean for, it sounds like a nightmare. A six week crack bitch sounds like a fucking nightmare. But if you love crack, that could be great. That's the six weeks of paradise you just went through.

Like, that's all. That's a Bahamas for six weeks. Every crackhead would dream of just six weeks of smoking as much crack. Your only limitation on how much crack you smoke is from how much crack you can smoke. Right. Not from how much you can afford or how much you have, how much you have. Just how much crack you smoke is from how much crack you can smoke. Right. Not from how much you can afford. Or how much you have. How much you have.

Just how much can you smoke. How much can your body take? Sounds awesome if you're a crackhead. So he does this. He ends up, like we said, he's going to marry Katie eventually here. And going to kind of try to help him several times get into drug rehab and all this sort of thing. Going to kind of try to help him several times get into drug rehab and all this sort of thing. Now, Katie had no clue that he was even into drugs until about four months into their relationship.

I don't know if she wasn't paying attention or what, but she finally suspected he was up to something because, I don't know, she's not blind. And then they broke up for about a year and a half because he was on drugs. Now, also, Tampa Bay at this point found out that he's a drug and an alcohol addict. Break up, too. Yeah. Everyone's breaking up with him. The team, his girlfriend. They are especially concerned about his crack habit. They don't really think that's going to yield positive results for the future.

They don't see their cleanup hitter crack being a good supplement for him yeah try hgh or something like that maybe but the rocks on a championship ring are rarely crack they're rarely crack and he probably tried to smoke his championship ring rocks uh they decided to send him to a rehab center and they did that so he leaves for a little bit and goes to a rehab center. First of, I think this is the second, third time he's been in there, but it's innumerable times

of going to rehab. So 2004 season, he does not play at all. No playing, rehab, recovery, that sort of shit. November 2004

is when he gets married to Katieie yeah katie decides to marry him i guess he's doing well trying to stay clean yeah and um yeah she's gonna marry him december 2004 she's pregnant oh so now he's really got to get his shit together not only does he marry now he's got a little girl i think it's a little girl coming he's got and also his wife has a daughter from previous marriage so he's setting an example for somebody right away right that's there um so he's got a lot of pressure on him 2005 he doesn't play again he doesn't play all year tampa doesn't want him to play they want him to they think he's a mess and they want him to number one draft pick millions of dollars and he's just in rehabs and shit and relapsing coming back uh so will he ever play again they must be thinking

yeah it's been years is he ever gonna fucking play again out at all this is his third year of not playing like he's played he's not played as much as he's played yeah so that's got to be discouraging they probably i'm sure they've kind of written him off by now. It's not going to be shit for him anyway. May 21st, 2005, he is arrested. This is a problem, especially when you're trying to show this body of good work behind you to try to get back in. Progressing. Yeah. He's sober for almost eight months, and it's his 24th birthday.

Oh, boy. And, yeah. You know, I guarantee you sobriety would be much easier for people if it weren't for those goddamn birthdays and New Year's. Automatic celebrations. Yeah, it's a party built in. Automatic drinking days. Yeah. Well, we've built in people.

Some people need an excuse to drink. They feel bad if they drink, even though they're an adult, they can drink whenever they want. They feel like they need an excuse to drink they feel bad if they drink even though they're an adult they can drink whenever they want they feel like they need an excuse so we built in all these little excuses right peppered all over the place throughout the year all over the calendar to make sure to stay reasonably fucking day reasonably tipsy throughout the year yeah it's exactly well i'm gonna be shit face that day then we're going away that weekend there's no way i won't get alcohol poisoning if we go there. Work's even scheduled.

You're scheduled there to coincide. Listen, 5 p.m., go home and drink. Go home and drink. Friday, go home and drink. Go home and drink. And then do that for three days. Yeah, and then come on back. And then come on back.

We'll start over. Sure, your mood will be great with no alcohol on the third day. And Monday, 8 a.m., sure you're going to be nice and cheery. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Saying good morning. So, yeah, it's no shit. So he goes out with Katie and her friends, and his friends,

and he starts to drink, which is not okay for him at all. For him, one drink turns to a crack rock in an alley in like two hours. No shit. In three drinks. Literally. One drink and he is on the path to waking up in a strange trailer's front yard.

That's just how he is. Some people, they can't handle it. He really can't handle it. And I don't know, like I said, maybe if he drank, he seems like there's just an addiction thing in him. But otherwise, you know, maybe if he drank a little in high school, he would have known how to temper himself. Like in Britain, they don't have in England. They don't have the amount of binge drinking that we have here. They don't do it the same way because the kids are allowed to drink when they're teenagers.

First of all, they can drink legally when they're 18. But when they're teenagers, it's acceptable. The parents give them beer or wine at dinner yeah and they know how to have a drink or two and go on with their night and the difference is how it's portrayed too in england like drinks are it's a mature thing yeah exactly you're an adult when you can end here it's like i get shit face too but i mean they also right can drink and not get shit faced where a kid over here oh god if he's touching alcohol he's gonna drink as much as he can till

he's sick thanks every spring break yeah he made it fucking look like a party it was going on anyway idiots everybody's an asshole so he starts to drink and josh's personality flips very quickly when he starts to drink he turns into a different person apparently really he starts arguing with katie while they're out um by the end of the evening he had jumped up on a friend's pickup truck and shattered its windshield in a parking lot wow yeah um also tore a rearview mirror off of the guy's truck and threw it across the parking lot as well incredible hole 97 miles an. Hurls a fucking rearview mirror across the parking lot. Get over there and catch me. Yeah.

Josh smash. Josh need crack. And then he starts fucking just down the street, fucking stomping and shit. Does he have a chemical imbalance that this just like agitates? He's got a real some people, any kind of substance, man. It just boom. It clicks and they turn into a different fucking person. Maybe he's got a real some people any kind of substance man it just boom it clicks and they turn into a different fucking person maybe he's allergic james i don't know it's weird you

see it all the time it's totally off subject but the show below deck about the boat people there they have right now currently they have this chef on there she's really really good she's a fucking amazing chef funny cool all this shit when they go out she has one drink and she's like fucking going up on the stage taking the mic away from the fucking singer at the bar going over here yelling shit telling people to eat her cooter i eat my cooter she's like and they're like oh my god she was the nicest person 15 minutes ago now she's like now she is turning to bethany from florida fuck man you know that look that drunk people have where you can't tell yeah if they're joking or angry and they don't they don't know either

you know what i'm saying they don't know if they're angry how they're how they're gonna react yeah you're not sure you don't know how to react to what they're doing and then they don't know if they're angry how they're how they're gonna react yeah you're not sure you don't know how to react to what they're doing and then they don't know how to react to the way you are reacting to their fucking unquestionable behavior it's so weird dude that's the type of shit that she does and i feel like that's like josh like yeah one drink and he's like what's going on over here is it just an excuse to be how he wants to really be i don't know i don't know it's i mean we don't know the psychology or the chemical or the combination of the two. I mean, I think that's well beyond our pay grade in terms of science and psychology. It's a sure wild card.

It's a wild card, yeah. So he had done all of that, and he gets arrested by Cary, North Carolina police, which is right outside Raleigh. My dad used to live there. He said, quote, I was actually more in control when I used drugs than drinking used to live there he said quote i was actually in uh more in control when i use drugs than drinking that's what he said when i drank i was mean and angry after and after eight rehab centers i also figured out oh eight eight eight he's like 20 fucking three unbelievable i mean wow good effort i guess but it's not work it's not sticking he believes in it he believes in it he says after eight rehab centers i also figured out that when

i drank that's when i started using drugs that's the other thing that loosens him up to do drugs two drinks one drink and he's belligerent two drinks and he's in the front lawn of a fucking trailer smoking crack it took him eight to absorb that that's true but i guarantee you in the first one they told him when you do drugs you drink right yeah or other way around i mean when you drink you end up doing drugs right they told him that every tell us your drug stories and every time you go you notice every single one of those starts with i went out drinking yeah and then it ends up with i woke up with fucking shit loads of like with that crack taste in my mouth right you mouth. I'm saying covered in diesel soot morning crack morning crack breath covered in diesel soot.

It's not a good feeling in the front yard of a strange trailer in Bradenton, Florida. That's a nightmare. Holy shit. That's a fucking nightmare. You see the little badge of the dealer on the tongue of the trailer there you know it and you gotta know it's all gone downhill fast oh christ not even the gators will come near you you're toxic and that guy wakes up and goes not again not again oh god i did it again he says that his wife was fearful of his behavior uh around their daughters

also and would you know fucking kick him out of the house and shit like that so uh he said he was ashamed to call his grandmother or to call his parents so he'd end up at his grandmother's house that's the only person that would take him in and he felt less shame i guess so yeah this was bad uh the punch in the windshield but he punched the windshield that's how he broke it he fucking punched a windshield deliver a lot yeah it does and then wow and then also this is the best part of it broke the windshield with his fist yeah then he took the rear view mirror ripped it off threw it across the parking lot then he got a baseball bat oh my didn't use the baseball bat to break

the windshield or the rear view mirror bare hands for that took a baseball bat and broke it over his knee like bo jackson after that just to say just smash rip throw ah break ah what the shit i'm in a rage i am so strong i'm so angry and strong. Holy fuck, man. So it's misdemeanor damage there to property. And he has a court appearance later on. Obviously, this isn't boding well for him to try to get back into sports here. And he says, don't write him off yet, though. No, that's what he says.

He's been working on his swing for more than two months, and he's in good shape. I mean, he might be getting arrested and drinking and smoking crack, he's in good shape he's got no body fat no he's slim and he's tight he's sinewy yeah he's ready to go he says quote i feel great yeah i bet you do this crack is awesome i feel really good right now i feel great everything is fine physically i believe i can still play. If Randy Johnson was on the mound and I was at bat, I think I could hit the ball and put it in play. That's how confident I am. Wow.

So that's, you know, he has not played a drop of baseball since July 2002. It's been three fucking years. Wow. Baseball is not a sport you take off for years at a time. You take off a month and your swing is screwed. Like it's so built and built and built. And over a few years, pitchers come and go. And eventually you have different style pitchers pitching in there.

Different things coming. And the game's just different. It's a different game. Three years is a long time. It is. Really long time here. But this last mistake here, he's hoping that the baseball is not happy with that. He's hoping to let him back in.

He says, quote, if they ever let me come back to play baseball, I'll make it. If I ever get back and make it to the majors, if I never get back and make it to the majors, I guess it wasn't meant to be. So he's ready to resign the whole thing here. I guess it wasn't meant to be. Okay. So he's ready to resign the whole thing here. And under this, this is sort of like, oh, the sales, Jimmy, the sales. But it's not really the sales because it's from a few years ago. But what the fuck, Tampa?

This isn't a Tampa newspaper. This whole section is just jerk off spas. It's Tampa. But this is the regular newspaper. This isn't like the LA Weekly or something. Here's the oxygen spa. They claim oriental massage, steam sauna, shiatsu, and Swedish massage. Seven days a week.

For your cock. Open until 2 a.m. Yeah. Which is when you really need therapy. That's when most of your therapeutic massage is happening. Just in case you wake up in the middle of the night and your neck and cock are too tight. It's both of them. Or either one, really.

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body shampoo it'll lather right up i swear i swear to god then there's this one that just says great sex exclamation point They're finally just saying it. Yeah. One hour pleasure in five minutes. Now available. What? This is a medication. One hour pleasure in five minutes.

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erect enhanced erections in summer of 2005 josh and katie's's pregnant with Sierra, who's their daughter who will be born. They're separated. Okay. And she is pissed off at Josh for doing drugs and going out and being an asshole in general, fucking up his life and ruining theirs. Yeah. So she gets a restraining order against him. Okay. Yeah.

She ends up saying, quote quote i thought god would use the birth of our daughter to snap him out of his addiction when it didn't i was at a loss i had a lot of anger bitterness and resentment toward josh which makes sense yeah minus the god part the rest of it is perfectly reasonable she sought counsel from her pastor who unless he has some sort of experience in drug counseling i don't think he's really the answer here i think you need someone who knows about that probably which he might be we don't know a lot of times pastors are go to do that and who knows might be his thing uh after some of them that's like their specialty is recruiting addicts and you know

the wait is over so far you're not losing The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that. Ding! The queen of the courtroom is back. I didn't do anything. You wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face. I see he's not intimidated by anything.

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It's streaming. You can say anything. Judy Justice. Only on Freebie. Addicts. So after she aired a list of grievances about josh uh she expected the guy to be like well why don't you fucking leave him you know this is bad for your kids and all that sort of thing katie says this quote he said i needed to forgive him well that's built into the bible

a lot of that in the bible i was like no way are you kidding that sounds so like i was like no way are you kidding oh my god like he's been smoking crack right my pastor was like forgive him i was like no well no way nobody are you kidding are you kidding she's you gotta be kidding he said by sitting home and replaying everything josh had done it was affecting her not josh okay so basically you're just hurting yourself by replaying everything josh had done it was affecting her not josh okay so basically you're just hurting yourself by replaying everything he did you need to forget all about that forget all the shit he's done to you yeah all that and just move on it's affecting you not josh and she said and he was right oh okay excuse yeah uh josh is at his grandmother's house when katie calls him

and he says quote it immediately took or she said it immediately took all those feelings and bitterness away from me if you hold unforgiveness against someone it strangles you but when you forgive you cut it yeah that's true but then when you bring them around your kids and they smell crack it's a totally different problem right then your emotions or what you hold or cut or any of that shit uh they said that uh uh he she said that they definitely wouldn't have been married still without the pastor saying that and phone call and everything so mid 2005 daughter is born yeah sierra's born josh is clean for three days after the birth stays clean for three days after the birth. Wow. Stays clean for three days, and then he ends up diving right back into booze and crack.

Oh, no. With a three-day-old baby. Well, the wife's busy with the baby, so there's plenty of crack time out there. Rather than helping her, I'll go smoke crack. His wife would ask him to run errands, go pick up a prescription, go do that. He'd be gone for hours, and he'd go to the bar instead

and get shit-faced, and then he'd come back for hours and he'd go to the bar instead and get shit-faced and then he'd come back hours later with nothing and just a disaster a mess he didn't he couldn't even get a simple a to b task go here pick this up come back nope drinks instead drinks crack everything who knows comes back the next day with or without the thing that you needed oh no that's bad man you can't depend on this person at all uh at some time during this his father-in-law michael chadwick that's the guy he's the one intervening in all this shit because he used to be a drug addict too right he tries to intervene and uh the reason he has to intervene is because josh josh apparently has run out of

money either that or he's decided he's not going to pay everybody because Josh is in trouble with some drug dealers in town. Oh, no. And the father-in-law, how would he know about that? He knows about that because the drug dealers threatened Katie. Oh, shit. So, now, this guy, the father-in-law's got his daughter, who's got, and two granddaughters, mind you.

One of them brand new. One of them brand new, and and his daughter and they're being threatened by drug dealers because this fucking asshole can't keep himself clean it's probably that would be very as a as a father of a daughter i would be i'd be over there we would be having some chats sit down we'd be having some chat i'll have a drink i'll have a drink and we'll have a talk exactly so uh he has to intervene and he has to kind of try to get josh out of trouble with these drug dealers and this guy has his own very unique way of doing it yeah uh this will do it he uh dressed up in a black

trench coat and uh brought with him uh uh two sawed-off shotguns oh my and went to talk to these drug dealers the father-in-law showed up looking like some kind of i mean that guy means business if you black trench coat two sawed offs i go what are we discussing like the guy from from raising arizona yeah just popping in and smoking a cigar yeah let's be at grenades hanging off of him it would be perfect so he told the drug dealer quote i have your money so he's paying i mean don't tell him to fuck off he goes i have your money if you even try to talk to my son-in-law again i will become someone you really don't like that's what he said so when

someone says that after they brought two sawed-off shotguns you probably believe them and you're being paid so there's you've got no interest in yeah in this man any longer yeah he's caused you trouble yeah first he owed you money and now he's some crazy, but I don't want to deal with this guy anymore. So then they're separated at the time, Josh and Katie, but he still was, this is what I mean, they weren't even together. Yeah. But that's what ended up happening. So Josh ends up then, he's living with his grandmother now, Mary. Jesus. And so Josh ends up then, he's living with his grandmother now, Mary. She confronts him and lectures him and says that he's a person who deserves a better life than this.

And you're fucking your life up and you're a bum. And things that only a grandmother could say to you in a certain way. My grandmother, my Jimmy, my what the hell are you doing? My why do you smoke the crack cocaine? My, you're ruining your life. My, you're smoking the croqu the cocaine i don't know why she said that one time the croquette yeah she found a weed bowl oh no from my my my aunt's cousin was over there and found a weed bowl and she started screaming and freaking out and she goes they're

smoking the croquette she had no idea so then they laughed because they were stoned and she beat the shit out of both of us that's how it works so anyway uh he says that his his last day of drugs at that point october 6 2005 he says at that point turns it all over to god oh boy as we know yeah don't find good don't find religion it's not if you're an athlete it's just not the answer for you. Jesus take the wheel is not the thing. We have proof of that, and it's called 242 episodes. It's called every show. Yeah, it's literally clinical proof. We've gone over the data, the evidence. We have it.

It doesn't work. It's just one more thing for an athlete, because it's an ego thing for them, so it doesn't work. At this point, it's not anecdotal. No, no. So there's something that happened with grandma here the doorbell rings at two in the morning oh boy mary opens it and uh looks out the window looks out the peephole and sees a stranger who she thinks is a stranger but she opens the door anyway two in the morning strange for a 75 year old woman very friendly apparently Very friendly, apparently. And it's Josh. She didn't even recognize him. He has lost 40 pounds.

Oh, no. At this point. 40 pounds lighter. Hasn't slept in days. Gray skin. Just looks like a completely different person. Sunken cheeks. Eyes are glazed.

The whole deal. He looks like shit. Yeah. And he says hello. And he tells her that he's a drug addict. Yeah. And he says that, you know, Jesus Christ, he was mad at one point. So he was telling how he he had burns on his hand because he put four cigarettes out on his hand because he was mad.

Angry at himself. Angry. No, angry at other things. OK. So that was just like he made himself. Yeah. Not at himself. At other things.

Those are bad burns. That's a bad burn and a weird thing to do. It's a psychological, definitely an issue. He says it's not terminal, but there's no cure. It's hell on earth. It's a constant struggle. And it's going to be like this for the rest of my life. So, yeah, he tells his grandmother about all of this.

And they had to sell their house. Him and his wife had a house that they had to sell because they had no fucking money yeah uh he had 85 000 left in the bank out of four million dollars yeah two young daughters you know drug dealers and are mad at him he's he owes rehab clinics money he's got all sorts of fucking problems he says quote i wish we could get the oh this is his her grand grandmother this is a very old lady thing to say quote i wish we could get the, oh, this is his grandmother. This is a very old lady thing to say. Quote, I wish we could get those drug dealers, put them on a boat, stuff them in bags, and throw them overboard into the ocean. It's their fault. That's what she says.

Yeah, it's not, yeah, exactly. It's no. They don't knock on the door. Very rarely do they knock on your door. They don't come looking for you. That's the thing here. You come looking for drugs. You go, well, they stand in one place.

Right. And you come to them. It's like a store. Yeah. It's everything. It's everything. So Hamilton here, he said that he was tired of living a lie, and he had tried to kill himself a few days earlier on an overdose of pills, but he said it didn't take.

And then I woke up. He woke up. He said it's like the fourth or fifth time he's tried this, and apparently he's got a good tolerance and he can't do it. He's a big guy, too, so I don't know if he has the dos dosage down he said there was a night i even thought about jumping off of a building he said i had nothing to live for so i tried to give up there were lots of days like that i let so many people down i really didn't think i deserved to live jesus christ that's that's rough he says um yeah he said he was just so much crack and coke he said but he tried everything he tried

heroin he tried every drug that he could get a hold of if someone had it and that was all there was he was doing it sure just whatever it is to not be josh sober josh yeah he said quote it got so bad at the end that i just started smoking crack i did it so much it was like smoking cigarettes how about that he's just smoking crack like nothing millions of people want to be him and he can't he can't yeah he can't exist five days in in him that's nuts it's fucking it's that's insane anybody but can you imagine no obviously he wants to burn himself let's give him uh let's let him describe something for you let's let him describe a night let's do it in their own words for josh here in their own words quote i remember one time i woke up in a trailer with about five or six

total strangers it must have been 98 degrees in there there was no air conditioning nothing my truck was gone i had no money but i didn't care i was just looking for that next high wow so that's that's josh's life that's josh don't don't know where my car is it's 100 degrees and humid in here but who's got crack oh boy that's great he went from minnesota to california to florida and north carolina to arizona going to rehabs and trying to find some help here uh he sort of is when he's on the right path here he, a portion of his return to sobriety is shown on the Learning Channel reality show, The Real Deal. I remember this. Yeah, because this was a, yeah, TLC.

This was a big deal because he was this number one draft pick who went to shit, and now he's trying to make a comeback. So it's an interesting story. This is when I first heard of him here uh it aired march 31st 2007 and it uh you know it chronicled the renovation of shoeless joe jackson's house which is pretty cool i guess the uh the owner of trademark properties hired uh hamilton as the construction foreman on the show that's how it worked there and they was negotiating the contract of a minor league baseball team and entertaining the idea of giving josh a chance to play fuck again so this is where how far he's fallen he might play on the reality team's baseball we were all reality shows baseball team depressing not exactly number one overall draft pick 2006 the rule five draft comes along

and this is how you can pick up kind who aren't letting go by other teams. In a certain amount of time, if you have a guy, then he's up for a Rule 5 draft. There's all sorts of weird rules in Major League Baseball in terms of rosters. He is drafted by the Cubs that day from the Devil Rays in the Rule 5 deal. So that's something here. He said that this was all facilitated by a manager named Roy Silver who owned

a baseball academy in Florida. Roy Silver. Roy Silver. His name is Roy Silver. Fascinating. And he wants to take him under his wing. If we made a movie about some shit like this our character's name would be Roy Silver. Fascinating. And he wants to take him under his wing. If we made a movie about some shit like this, our character's name would be Roy Silver. Sure would.

It absolutely would. After hearing about Hamilton's desire to return to baseball, Silver offered the use of his facility if Hamilton agreed to work there as well and show kids what to do and shit. So Hamilton started working there in january 06 and uh silver says quote he pulled up in his truck with a bicycle and a couple of fishing rods in the back he had his hat pulled down over his eyebrows he was smoking cigarettes his skin was not a good color he gained his weight back but he didn't look too far removed from his last binge yeah not good no no when that guy pulls up, you go, oh. Oh, bye. Yeah. That's not what I wanted.

But he stuck around. He worked here. He slept on an air mattress at the facility. He cleaned the toilets. He mopped the floors. He cooked meals, cut grass, raked dirt to earn time in the batting cages and on the field. Oh, God. That's what he did.

He worked there so he could play there. batting cages and on the field oh god that's what he did he worked there so he could play there he attended a weekly bible study and worked with kids and he began to get his shit back together here uh silver said i love calling him that he says when he lost the that identity of josh the baseball player he crashed and took on the identity of a drug addict we wanted to get him where he could be a husband and a father again let's start there yeah yeah yeah he he attempted to play uh after a few months with an independent minor league team but the mlb stepped in and said you're still owned oh you've been drafted people have the rights to you can't play for anybody else so uh june 2nd 2006 he was allowed to work out with minor league players and uh participate in minor league games

this is before they traded him or this is uh before he got sent to the cubs there and he uh they ended up putting him on waivers and making him available for any team for twenty thousand dollars so four million dollars it cost him when he first came up his stock has dropped to twenty thousand from four million we'll give you him for $20,000. That's just the claim fee. It's not even like a thing you have to pay for him. Nobody even put a claim in on him. Wow.

Nobody. Oh, God, that's got to sting. Yep. And then that's when he ended up on the Cubs. And then he's purchased by the Reds from the Cubs, which is interesting. So he is on the Reds for a minute here, which is, you don't remember that at all, probably. It's like Josh Hamilton, you don't

even think about him on the Reds. But he is, in 2007, he makes his way to the major leagues. Wow. At age 25, almost 26, finally gets there. Or he should. Yeah. Not after this road. yeah yeah 21 tops he could have been like you know come up young like derek jeter and play for 20 years and he instead a lot

of guys get in at 25 but that's fine not after this road yeah not if they hadn't played for four years five years i mean 2002 was the last time he played crack binges and yeah up in trailer parks not good this isn't isn't a This is a shit Cincinnati team here. They're 72-90. Their manager gets fired halfway through the season. David Ross, Scott Hattieburg, Brandon Phillips, Edwin Encarnacion, Adam Dunn, big redneck. Ken Griffey Jr. still roaming the outfield there. Not bad shit here.

Pretty good. So April 2, 2007, makes his major league debut. He is the 16,645th youngest player to make a debut in the majors. Okay. So not young. Should have been the youngest. Could have been very young. Versus the Cubs is his first game.

He has won at bat, and I guess he's out. That's it. But in 2007, he plays in 90 games so platooning 298 at bats and he hits 292 19 home runs 47 ribbies those are big numbers if you double that at bats that's 40 home runs just about that's a shit that's a big guy he's doing it yeah um but to comply with major league drug policy he has to provide urine samples at least three times a week. Okay. So he is constantly pissing.

That's a lot of piss. That's a lot of piss. You've got to be drinking a lot of water. They always want your piss. Yeah. Every time you turn around, oh, shit, I need to give you piss. Okay. So the Rangers coach, one of the Rangers coaches, said of the frequent testing, quote, I think he to the tests he knows he's an addict he knows an addict he knows he has to be accountable

he looks at those tests in a way to reassure people around him who had faith sure that's good um he says it's proof that hope is never lost that he could do this and he makes three hundred eighty thousand dollars that year not bad so yeah you take care of your family with 380 thousand dollars i would say not bad at all so uh december 21st 2007 though he's traded by the reds to the rangers for uh danny herrera and uh edinson volk uh volquez so 2080s with texas again a shit team 79 83 ron washington was the coach there they good after this, and he's one of the reasons why they get good. Yeah, Josh is amazing after this. This team has, what, Ian Kinsler, Michael Young, David Murphy, Milton Bradley. Oh, no kidding.

Our old pal. Old Miltie. Old Miltie boy. So Texas here, he has 624 at bats in 156 games so now he's a full-time player and he rewards them their faith with a 304 batting average 32 homers 130 ribbies shit 530 slugging he's crushing it absolutely fucking crushing it that's a it's a hell of a stat line not bad 35 doubles awesome doesn't steal bases anymore but he's a power hitter he doesn't he's not on base enough to steal them he's crushing shit he is an all-star this

year awesome silver slugger what happened best hitter in his position and seventh in mvp voting x crackhead crackhead two years ago smoking crack in a 98 degree trailer now fucking all-star awesome crushing 39 30 home runs makes 396 830 dollars okay not bad in 2008 he also starts him and other people i don't know who these people are brian welch and greg ellis greg ellis is that a football player i don't know i don't know who those are it says other celebrities such as them who the fuck are they i don't know some celebrities i don't know who the fuck they are somebody knows who they are right they've got to sound like they're in a band you know brian welch oh he was in um yeah he was in cream right yeah okay midnight oil big yeah big celebrity i know him sure why not that's the uh other guitar player in U2, right? The bass guy.

I feel like anybody that's in their 40s or 50s could say I was in Midnight Oil and nobody would fucking know. Nobody would know, unless they were the bald guy. Unless you said I was the lead singer. No, no, I'm the drummer. You're not a weird, big, bald guy. You're not a bizarre, herky-jerky, bald guy that dances weird. I played bass in Midnight Oil. They'd be like, oh.

Oh, that makes sense. I don't think I've... All I've ever seen is the bald guy dancing around weird. You're in the... There's a... Wow, okay. He really took all the attention. He really did.

Handsome man to take all the attention. Right? Show him. Yeah. Whose plan was that? How fucking hideous were the rest of them? That's the question. That's why we only know one of your songs.

That's it. Because I was like, I'm not sitting through another for that guy. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. They were around for a little while. Yeah? I think in Australia they were... only know one of your songs. That's it. Because I was like, I'm not sitting through another for that guy. Jesus Christ. They were around for a little while. I think in Australia they were big enough forever. I know one song. Yeah, the one that was big on MTV. I don't know.

Yeah, that one. What was it? I remember. It was on MTV when we were kids all the time. So these celebrities, these members of Midnight Oil, they appeared in testimonial videos called i am second okay what do you think that's about second to jesus oh second else to watch yeah in which they share stories of recovering from drug use with the help of the christian faith you betcha this is he gets all christiany now why does why does god get the hit the fucking the reward and credit for your hard

work how about Ron Silver? Yeah, how about that guy? Talk to Ron, fucking silver-haired middle-aged white man brought you in. How about the guy that gave you a job? Yeah. And let you clean shit. How about the one that gave you his daughter and then fucking kept drug dealers away from you with shotguns? Why don't you throw it?

Give that guy credit. Nope. Nope. All Christian. It's all God all the time. All God, all the time. 2009, Rangers are 87 and 75. Pretty good here, all Christian. It's all God all the time. All God all the time. 2009, Rangers are 87-75. Pretty good here, getting better.

August 8th, 2009, midseason, there's a problem here. A big problem. This is not from now. This happened in January in the offseason, but it becomes very public in August in the middle of the season at the worst possible time. And it is a pretty lousy relapse that he has here has some uh problems he's doing spring training workouts in uh the at the athletes performance

on asu's campus in tempe he wasn't even at the training facility no he's doing some other shit there i guess and uh he rented a condo nearby there He rents a condo in Tempe and he wants to stay sober. All it is is kids walking around throwing up on their shoes for being so shit faced. That's all that fucking place is. The campus moved the fraternity shit off campus because it's a nightmare. It's too much. He,

uh, this is also right by where his condo is right by Maloney's. Oh, it's not longer around and around i guess uh so he went in there one night like a fucking idiot and uh people saw him and uh watched what happened that night apparently it was spring break oh that too that too not good uh spring break spring training spring training spring break all the excuses for people to get naked yeah but it says it was in january but then it said it's spring break but if it's

it's it's march it's march so yeah it's in january so it's early on a weeknight the bar is a little bit empty though it hasn't filled in yet you know tempe's a late yeah a late crowd according to one person who's a former employee quote this big guy strolled into the bar and politely asked if they could change the television station to the mlb network makes sense yeah he likes baseball and it's funny because there's pictures that i'll show you where you can see fucking al lighter talking about shit on the mlb network in the background it's hilarious just discussing this shit all the baseball stuff yep and it just come out the mlb network in january 2009 so this was like new too uh so here's where it went from

can i watch the game to a little while later he's taking this picture shut off sure oh what is that yeah that's a chick what's down below there on his dick oh god so he's got three college girls around him all their eyes are blacked out they all have their tongues out one is licking his arm yep uh one's just kind of nearby getting in the picture and then the other one is down below at his waist like high with her mouth out with her hand right on his dick webbed out like yeah hand spread he like spider manning his cock here's his cock and she's like i found a cock that's a look on her face here it is no shirt on no shirt and it's very a pub very much a public place and he's making he's making a number one gesture is that

a headband what's he wearing hat oh it's backwards hat okay with a number one that's the bar the bartender took this photo number one babe right here uh yeah then with a number one that's the bar the bartender took this photo number one babe right here uh yeah then it gets worse um that's the next one what is that we have what do i see by the way oh he's taking body shots he's there's a girl on the uh young lady here on the bar who has like whipped cream and shit all over her chest yep he's got his face in between her tits and another girl's taking the shot out of her mouth they're doing the whole thing wow he is right involved his hand is on on a breast well down here it's below a breast looks like either on her stomach or like kind of like holding her still holding her still and there's a round table discussion on the mlb network

in the background you see how lighter who else is on there is that mark grace oh it's the guy the one guy uh matt vaskersian i think he was in the middle uh he was one of the hosts at the beginning and al lighter and somebody else are all james are her tits out they're barely there her bra is out her shirt is oh he's holding her shirt down okay her shirt's down and it's just her bra he's holding her shirt down as he goes in almost looking like he's examining her breast like he's giving his nose is an inch away from her tit yeah but he's got a very concentrated look on his face it's very those tits those tits next time shot we're at this one now oh boy now now it's him on the bar laying down shirtless and they have drawn a whipped cream yeah around his nipples and a trail from his neck all the way down to his crotch this is a married man married man two kids

wow one of the young ladies is also sitting on the bar behind his head yep with her hands pinning his arms down with her legs pinning his arms down yeah and she's holding his hands so he can't get up so he can't like cover himself or you know if he's tickled or whatever and then the other girl is clearly about to mount him i have never had three women this interested she's crawling she's crawling on top of him in a mounting position while the other one is perched above that's hand crotch over there from earlier yeah she's perched above with the whipped cream, admiring her handiwork. In her dick hand. Yeah, in her dick hand.

It's right in her dick web. And have you ever seen a more satisfied look on a man's face than you see right here? He looks the most content a human can look right now. He looks like, oh, it's a warm day. That's a man two years removed from crackhead behavior, and he is basking in the glory of three college girls loving everything that he does. Everything about it. So then it progresses from that. Oh, my.

There's more pictures. So that's the next picture. What is he doing? Oh, is she throwing up? No. What is it? She's bending over, and he's humping her butt. Wow. And look at the look on

his face he is thrilled he's like yeah she's like bent over on a stool while he mocks doggy style on her and she's okay with it likely listening to something by little john yeah so that's the course of the night holy shit 2007 was great oh boy look at him 2008 yeah uh now one of the waitresses went to get the manager to change the station when he asked when he came in there said can i watch that the manager came out and saw hamilton and he introduced himself josh did he said hi i'm josh they made small talk and uh the manager said baseball season didn't start yet right and uh josh said that no and he's a baseball player and blah, blah, blah. The manager was a baseball fan, but not a big baseball fan.

But he finally was like, oh, yeah, I've heard of you. Because, you know, there's a lot of pub about him out there. So he's like, okay. He was in the home run derby was the thing. That was his big claim to fame. So he says, oh, you're the home run derby guy. And Josh said, yes. He said, well, just for that, let me buy you a beer, the manager says. claim to fame so he says oh you're the home run derby guy uh um and josh said yes he said well just for that let me buy you a beer the manager says okay not knowing that hamilton he hadn't

started drinking yet he just came in and asked for the mlb network so this guy just said oh you're the home run derby let me buy you a beer since you're sitting in a bar and you're an adult right i figure you're probably here for alcohol of age don't know that you're an addict that can't do this so he says sure and um you know josh said sure why not because he offered it to him so from there he drank he charmed he uh you know the waitress and bartenders were like when they leave shifts they come hang out with them and all this he was just the the star of the show that night day shots are poured he's drinking he's doing shots body shots girls are lining up he's got whipped cream all over him shirt came off by the second drink yeah he's doing his thing um the person who took the photos arrived about

nine o'clock and that was the condition he was in by nine holy shit that wasn't 1 a.m uh he was pretty well wrecked and but he was friendly. Everybody said he was real friendly, having a good time, just shit-faced. Sure. He didn't even mind the photos. Obviously, he was posing for them. He's got a number one signal up. He's posing for these photos. Should have been holding up three fingers.

Three girls. Three girls. Look at it. Should have been holding up a fucking around zero. I'm turning my life into this. Fuck, I'm ruining it. Yeah. So he's very friendly didn't mind the photos he's hanging out with the wait staff by the way the body shots were i think

two of those girls were wait staff there as well he uh he joked that he was going to the he joked that he was the guy who took the picture joked around and said he's going to send the pictures to espn and josh said, I'll kill you. You better not. You know, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. What do you think here? So the girls ended up leaving.

And at that point, Josh is just wrecked. I mean, stumbling around. And he is so drunk that once the girls left, he goes back to his manager friend. And he's like, hey, man, cool. He goes, you know where I can get some blow? Oh, boy. So now he's moved to his manager friend and he's like hey man cool he goes uh you know where i can get some blow oh boy so now he's moved to he wants coke now yeah so the manager says he didn't know which i find hard to believe he knows every tempe bar manager knows where to get coke he knows very please every tempe bar employee knows where to get coke it's in the back it's yeah where they made your burger hold on let me get bill right

coke here wants to buy something i want something the fuck out of here so the manager manager didn't know so josh says all right well then let's go to a strip club me and you me and you so he says sure and they take him to lay girls good god that's not a strip club ps that is an all nude club that does not serve booze no that's a it's probably the best place for him yeah for him no booze and new girls he's about to be pissed yeah i would say so and uh not good though he um the next day it all comes out um he revealed it he revealed. He revealed that he told his wife about it. He told the Rangers about it.

Major League Baseball. He had to tell everybody about it. And he said that he admitted he had very, very little memory of the whole night and didn't understand the context of the photos or didn't remember taking them. Oh, no. No, he was like, like wow news to me people were showing him that and he goes i guess that's what i did last night because he had no fucking idea it's like oh it looks like i was having fun anyway look at the smile honey it's fine yeah

he didn't see the photos after the release he found out about them by his wife calling him and describing them to him over the phone i'm sure that was a comfortable conversation that was a fun one i bet yeah this is after he already admitted he was out but then she got to describe exactly what was oh in this one you look you have a look of ecstasy as you rub your cock on a bent over college girl that's that's this one uh you rubbing your cock on her after she uh spider manned your cock spider man do you remember that yeah and then then whipped creamed you oh my god just fuck man oh jesus so uh he called a press conference on august 8th yeah because it became public so he had to call a press conference to do it he addressed the photos he apologized and uh you know what let's let him tell it here we won't do it in their own words because it's

long and it's not that funny yeah but it is what he said okay so he says quote i'm embarrassed about it personally for the rangers for my wife my children and my family i would say so it reinforces one of the things that i can't have is alcohol it's unfortunate that it happened i was out there getting ready for the season and took my focus off the number one factor in my recovery, my relationship with Christ. Oh, boy. I took my mind off my relationship with Christ. Took my mind off my Jesus. You want to see pussy.

You love strip clubs. Stop acting like that's what you like is Jesus. You like strange. That's what you like. That's fine. It's fine. Admit that and be like, I like strip clubs, but I can't be drinking and doing coke.

You know? Why does it either have to be I either have to be a complete addict and be like i like strip clubs but i can't be drinking and doing coke you know why does why does it either have to be i either have to be a complete addict or i have to be in love with christ one or the other you know there's a fucking middle ground there also i don't do drugs except for weed which is fine it's legal i don't do drugs i don't really drink i don't do any of that and fucking i don't i don't care about religion so not that that that makes me better, but it's like, I don't know. You could have a little of this and a little of that. He no moderation with this guy.

It's either waking up in a trailer or I have to be at church five days a week. There's no in between, which I guess church is better than either do all the crack or all the Jesus. All that's it. One of the two. So he said, I hate that this happened. I wasn't mentally fit or spiritually fit it just crossed my mind can i have a drink obviously i can't one drink leads to two and two drinks leads to 10 or 12 when i was in aa uh one saying i heard was one

drink is too many and 1000 is never enough alcohol just doesn't mix well with me. I guess not. He's a fucking mess. He's got to feel like, you know, I mean, I don't even know how he's got to feel right now. A dipshit. This is one of those, you got to just collect your thoughts.

You have to collect your thoughts because you know the whole press is talking about you. Your teammates are talking about you. People are talking about you. They're having a little less faith in you now you know what i'm saying yeah a little less faith embarrassment you can feel it yeah and they they they're a little less dependent on you now they're a little less they just worry one day you're not going to show up a little more one day they don't have that faith in you that you are there all the time so he's just wandering the streets and he's just trying to find what to do

with himself and it's really hard i could imagine trying to not drink right you know what i mean so he's like he has to go places where there's no booze first of all because he doesn't trust himself so he found one place with a great smell and no booze and he opens up the door and it's the shawarma man he's right there and he says How is it you've come to arrive here? Why are you here? Why? Four million dollars? You go, four million they give you.

You have wife, woman, pop baby out the vagina just for you. Vagin. Right from vagin. In your arm. And you go, I smoke the crack, I do the shot. I like, shwarmer men like body shot as well hot college girl she come you do body shot off hey feel good

and Swarmer men know the cocaine not now but Swarmer men have problem at one time so just say it like that but you mess everything up you make me sick I don't like you. And I say, sign say closed.

But I would. Except you ask for lamb. I make for you nice. It's okay. Maybe you eat lamb. You don't drink. Get in your stomach something better. At least for the alcohol.

I make for you. I make for you. No, no, never. Sign say closed. You have cocaine. You go. You go. Poof.

And in a poof of shawarma and onions, he's gone. And Josh is very confused because now it's an empty storefront. He has no idea what he's doing, why he's standing there. So after his press conference, when he explained all of that, the Rangers general manager also had to have a press conference. He said, my first reaction in january was one of concern since then i've talked to a lot of people that say it was a it was significant that he came forward immediately and was honest about it well they said i guess he's okay uh he was tested for illegal drugs two after two days after and passed the test so he

wasn't doing anything more and uh that year because 2008 he was an all-star that was his big home run derby year i didn't mention all that but he hit a fucking million home runs in the home run derby and it made him like one of the most famous guys in baseball as people watched him do that that's what you've got to do in baseball and basketball the dunks and the home runs that works people give a shit about it was a mainstream thing it made him like who's that guy crushing home runs? So that year, he's an all-star again in 2009, even though he only plays in 89 games.

Because that was the beginning of the year, before the press conference there. What does he hit here? 10 home runs. He hits.268. He's still an all-star, though. So not bad. $555,000 he makes.

2010, the Rangers have a hell of a year here they go 90 and 72 they go to the they beat tampa in the division series they beat the yankees and the alcs and they go on to lose to the giants in the world series don't worry but they go to the world series so not too goddamn shit well their farm director scott service he's an old player that's weird and one of those guys you don't even remember and then he pops and then he pops up their scouting direct no what this is their scouting director's what's his name i can't see it where am i looking at right here uh oh boy i can't say that no we can't say that we can't say a man's name. That's how odd of a name it is.

Kip, you got to fix your name. More PC. Yeah. Kip Gaisler, I'm going to call him from now on. Kip, change your last name to Queer. Yeah. It's much less rough here. Now, he's an all-star this year.

133 games. He hits.35 359 leading the majors in that 32 homers 100 ribbies leads the league in slugging percentage wow rips it up all-star silver slugger and league mvp as well wow so i mean this is if there's a grace this is like top of the mountain after grace second grace grace to gracie boogaloo here he's doing his thing he uh he also when they won the alcs they celebrated with ginger ale instead of champagne it's a little sticky but because they didn't want him to say so champagne but they didn't want him to you know not as sticky as ginger no no that's all sugar they didn't want him to get the taste and then end up in a 98 degree trailer by morning wanted to be ready for the world series so win for verner's yeah that's all come on let's get that

verner's this year though he makes three million two hundred fifty thousand dollars so back on track money wise i would say 2011 rangers 96 and 66 they beat tampa and detroit in the playoffs and then they go all the way to the seventh game of the world series to lose to st louis damn it yep all the way there two years in a row two years in a row brutal so july uh 2011 in the middle of the season and this i feel bad for j this has nothing to do with anything that happens but this will fuck your psyche up July 7th during a game at the ballpark in Arlington there he flipped

a foul ball do you remember this toward the left field bleacher seats as every time players come off the field they flip the ball some kid in the front row or whatever they just flip it up into the seats it's souvenir flipped it up into the seats it's souvenir flipped it up into the seats a spectator a firefighter named shannon stone lost his balance reaching for the ball and fell out of the stands to his death with his kid standing next to him he

died yeah this kid right there is literally kid watched him plummet to his death yeah and josh hamilton felt fucking horrible about that even though it's obviously not his fault still i mean i would feel fucking terrible yeah i feel like i caused why did i just hand it to the kid in the front row why do i have to throw it so far back and if anybody can't like doesn't need this shit in their in their psyche it's this guy like anybody on earth man doesn't need this shit as him. Hamilton apparently developed a relationship with the guy's son, who was at the game,

and their family to try to, I don't know if that's for him, for them, for a little bit of everybody. Everybody needs to heal on that one. That's a bad one. 2011, though, they are, he's an all-star. Anyway, it doesn't matter.

He hits.298,.25 homers,.94 ribbies. He's an all-star. Anyway, it doesn't matter. He hits 298, 25 homers, 94 ribbies. He's an all-star. He's one of the MVP candidates. He's a top-tier guy here. And he also makes $8,750,000 this year. Oh, he got him a payday. Oh, he got a payday now. Yeah, now he's getting paid.

February 2, 2012. He has another problem here. You give him a lot of money, 2011 through 2012, he signs this deal. By February, he's got a problem already. Fuck. Yeah, he drinks alcohol at Sherlock's Pub and Grill in Dallas there. Now, according to sources, his teammate, Ian Kinsler, was also there.

The newspaper reported that eyewitnesses said that it looked like Kinsler was there to... Babysitting. No, no, trying to get him to leave. He showed up hearing Josh was there and he was trying to convince him to go home. He's like, no, no, no, let's go home. Let's just go home, let's just go home.

And Josh is like... I've begun to defile myself. Exactly bitch i'm sitting right here uh source told the hamilton uh says hamilton told the rangers of the relapse the next day and they put him back in recovery and all that sort of shit so uh yeah they said it was strictly about alcohol no drugs were involved they didn't let it get to that point kinsler interfered before he woke up on a trailer lawn. And yeah, Hamilton's wife, Katie, posted a couple of messages on Twitter. And she said, truly appreciate all the encouraging and supporting tweets we've gotten. God is faithful and forgives.

No, Katie. Gotta put God into it. No, people out there forgive. You didn't get a tweet from God, I bet. You got a tweet from people who said hey hope your husband feels better it's a different thing the twitter account tweet of jesus is usually a bad thing that's yeah i don't want to be tweeted by that guy oh is that did jesus at me oh fuck man he's gonna be mad so uh the con the rangers said they are aware of the situation have no

further comment so that's that 2012 rangers they go 93 and 69 here uh he has another incident this year but a good incident nobody plummeting to their death or drinking or anything like that may 8th 2012 he hits four homers in a game wow which is you know very rare it's like there's more perfect games than four home run who's done that in the history of a bunch of people have done it really yeah a lot, a lot of people. Mike Cameron did it a few years ago. The guys like that's usually a weird off guy. I think Luke Gehrig did it though and a few big guys

have done it, but four in a game is a lot. That's lucky. I mean, you got to get lucky to hit four in a game just that they pitch to you four times. They get to get four hittable pitches in a game is rare. That's absurd. So especially if you're a star you're usually don't get any yard hittable. Yeah a game is rare. That's absurd. Especially if you're a star. You usually don't get any. Yard hittable.

Yeah. That's amazing. Especially him. They pitch around a guy like Hamilton a lot. So that's just people missed a few times, and he made them fucking pay for it. This year, the team lost in the wild card round to Baltimore. So they didn't go very far. Hamilton received more votes than any other player to the All-Star game, getting over

3.5 million fan favorite fan favorite they love him he keeps coming back too they like that yeah uh they he plays in 148 games that year he hits what 285 43 homers 128 ribbies so that is he's smashing some shit yeah he wins the espy award for best baseball player he's got him in espy an espy best baseball player fifth number five in the mvp voting silver slugger and maybe more importantly 13 million 750 thousand dollars for that year holy shit wow that's a fucking salary and if that doesn't get if it's that's not good enough for you october 29, 2012, he's granted free agency. And he's going to go sign with Anaheim and cash in.

December 15, 2012, signs as a free agent with the Anaheim, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, I guess. Five-year deal, $125 million. Oh, shit. $125 million. He's making. Guaranteed making guaranteed what is that 30 grand a year almost 30 grand that's almost 30 million a year five for 120 that's just 25 million a year it is 25 million dollars a year that's wild that's a lot that's a lot of money i did you'd have to you'd have to fucking hit me in the head with a frying pan and knock the smile off my face that I would have all the time.

So 2013, all that for the Angels to go 78 and 84 and finish in third place and not make the playoffs. But that lineup, your outfielder, your lineup in there is Trout Hamilton Pujols. Awesome. That's a fucking murderer's row. I mean, who cares if we win? We're selling tickets. That's wild. Howie Kendrick on that team. There's a lot of guys that can

throw down on that squad there. Not too shabby. He does not make the All-Star team this year for the first time since 2007. Who gives a shit? He doesn't care. He only hit 250. 29 homers, 79 ribbies. So a very less than spectacular season. His slugging went from a few

years ago was 633 this year 432 it's way down so not great but he's the 2013 lou garrig memorial award winner what is that that is a lou garrig memorial award is selected by the tri delta theta fraternity oh great to represent by them to honor the major league baseball player who does the best fucking keg stand no who best exemplifies the spiriting character of lou garrick both on and off the field a fraternity should not be anywhere near this no i looked at the guys who had current had won it beforeuster Posey, Joey Votto, Curtis Granderson, Beltre, Barry Zito, Derek Jeter, Albert Pujols, Trevor Hoffman, John Smoltz. Guys that are known as nice guys that do nice shit. Tony Gwynn, Paul Molitor, Don Mattingly.

Mr. Baseball. Yeah. For this season, you know how much money he makes? $30. $17 million. My God. $17 million. My God. $17 million.

Just from the majors, though, apart from everything else he probably does. Oh, and he's got endorsements out of his ass. Tons of endorsements. Just, I don't know, some sort of douchey sunglasses, I'm sure. He was, you know, any kind of douche product, he's got to be the top guy for that. Some intake for a Ford. Yeah, yeah. Some kind of tribal tattoo pattern that's new. You know, something like that. Some intake for a Ford. Yeah, some kind of tribal tattoo pattern that's new. You know, something like that.

Some intake for a Ford. I love that. 2014 on the Angels. They're 98-64. Not too shabby, but they get swept by the Royals in the divisional series. But the Royals were so good. They had a thing that year. That was their year.

He only plays in 89 games, which isn't wonderful. Hits 263 with 10 homers and 44 ribbies. Who gives a shit? I'm paid. $17 million again. 2015, he has shoulder surgery in early 2015 here, which is not good. Not for an addict. That's a really hard thing for addicts who play sports

because injuries happen. Oh, boy. Then what? Then what are you going to do? There's guys out there that don't take painkillers because of that, and that's, I don't know how people do that. That's dangerous. That's like, my grandmother had the heart surgery.

That was a different thing. When she broke her hip and everything, she wouldn't take painkillers yeah none is she an addict no no she's never had a fucking drug in her life she told them she said they tried to give them to her and she said i don't want to become the drug addict she said like you're 90 of a broken hip how long are you gonna be a drug addict maybe it's the best way to go out who knows she said i don't want to be the drug addict i want i don't take that stuff i don't do i was like okay she just suffered with it did you show her dope sick love and and her fucking teeth through

and the wild whites is that what is that what happened she sees on the news that people do pills and then they're drug addicts and then you're the drug addict she's not wrong but it's not all of them probably not her yeah you know even if she did she's 90 right what are you holding out for you sip amaretto just take the pill start partying do it man what the fuck are you doing enough of the gallon of gallo wine you have under there that shit the fucking burgundy yeah so uh anyway 2015, he has a shoulder surgery, and then he has a problem. With the shoulder surgery, he ends up drinking, which leads to cocaine. Of course.

And he has a pretty good little relapse here. Fuck. He does. This is 2015, so not that long ago. Hamilton's relapse involved alcohol, and he said a one-time cocaine use there, which is better than a lot. But is it all night or is it one line? Well, that's the thing, a one time. So was it just a night?

And then he's like, whoa. He seems like every few years he needs a night. He needs to get it all out of his system and then go, whew, that was a fuck up. I won't do that again. I feel like then he feels sufficiently bad enough about himself for the next three years to not do that but that's not the psychology of it he's an addict that's the psychology of it he's got a problem and it's it's hard so uh he when hamilton realized a drug test which he got three times a week would come out positive he self

reported the relapse he did the coke then he was like i'm gonna fail drug test oh my god i can't do that and then he said fuck i gotta report or else i'm gonna get suspended so the angels confirmed that he met with mlb officials in new york and they talked about a disciplinary issue and that's how that worked mike socia hair turning silver every second said we're all waiting for some information to come out of new york he obviously went up there for a week a meeting and we'll see how everything unfolds but right now we're just in a holding pattern like everyone else we're just holding and hoping it just blows over and you guys stop asking questions and then we'll deal with it on the inside so uh the uh they had a he had meeting with the league and all that sort of shit uh they believe it occurred a couple months back

and involved at least alcohol and cocaine, is what they said. That's what the official deal said. And they said, quote, no word of a failed test because he reported it himself. Now, reactions, people are sad. Michael Young, his former teammate, said, it's just sad news.

I think about a friend and a former teammate and a guy with a family. I empathize. It just has to be a very tough situation for Josh right now. Yeah, I would say. Hopefully he has a lot of good people around him who are helping him through a tough time. But he also knows there's people who he played with that care about him and care about his future and are willing to help in any way. And he said, forget baseball. My first thought is that I hope it's best for him as a person.

Ron Silver comes in. Yeah. Turning silver ron silver roy silver he comes in the academy owner there and he says that uh that there's he can get he can be fine again because he he has a he has inspiration he wants to come back he said back then quote he was inspired but he was driven to get back on the field because he was getting out of the gutter uh he said that he was like a 10 year old kid it was fun to watch he said but now he's it's different he's got a real life he gets a divorce after this uh right after his relapse uh his wife files or he files for a divorce from his wife which is hilarious shitbag i can't take you not wanting me to smoke crack anymore this is really annoying you're really getting in the way of my fun this is a lot it's really in the way they have three daughters together at this point along with

katie's daughter from the previous marriage uh in the petition he outlined 34 requests including he called for his wife to be banned from using his Maserati and his 1972 Chevy Blazer. Oh, he's got fun stuff. Of course he does. He's got millions of dollars. How much fun shit would you have with millions of dollars? A hundred million dollars? Forget it.

A lot. It would be a lot of fun. Yeah, I'd tell my account, let me know when I hit 10, and then I'll stop having fun and just buckle down forever. But I'll have a lot of fun shit by then. I can piss 90 away. I'll be fine. 10 10 i can live forever so he uh he also requested that she be prohibited from quote hiding the children from him from uh allowing men to stay the night while his children are home

and for making disparaging remarks about him or his family. So in March, though, she submitted a petition. Katie submitted a petition of general denial to her husband's petition, and they agreed not to communicate with each other throughout the case. He's not allowed to see his children without supervision, according to the court records. He's also banned from going to their properties in Westlake, Texas, Newport Coast, California, and Valley Mills, Texas. He's got three houses.

Oh, yeah, and this one, the Newport Coast one, they put their... Oh, yes, that's Newport Beach. Oh, yeah. That's beautiful. They put their six-bedroom, eight-bathroom Newport Coast home on the market for $16.5 million. Holy shit.

He has a $20 million beach beach house the property has ocean views an eight-car garage a pool and a spa and like blowjob fairies that float down and it's silly blow you at night this is ridiculous i mean come on what kind of life is this that he's living and now he's getting divorced do you feel bad for him no i really don't i don't feel bad if i really i don't feel bad for him at all but i do feel bad for oh god there's so many these people josh hamilton marketing content manager at graphic business solutions in costa mesa california josh hamilton owner at agathos pictures that is waco texas. Josh Hamilton, marketing coordinator at Select-A-Seat in Wichita, Kansas. Hope it's not

Select-A-Seat at a bar. Josh Hamilton, owner-broker at Hamilton Insurance Partners LLC in Denver. And then Josh Hamilton, PR director at Josh Hamilton PR. The last thing he would be is a PR director. His PR is awful,

Josh. And then finally, Josh Hamilton, this guy, or a couple of them, but this guy is an actor who's been in a shitload of things. He was in movies with Bo Burnham. Madam Secretary, American Horror Story, Born Identity, J. Edgar, Ice Age. He's been in a ton of shit. Poor bastard. And he's, yeah, he's not fucking. Doesn't have $120 million.

Doesn't have $120 million. Doesn't have $120 million. And finally, Josh Hamilton, director of rehabilitation at Rise Rehabilitation Specialists in Queen Creek, Arizona. So there you go. It's here. It's here. A rehab specialist, which he is. And you know what? Let's throw one more in there.

Josh Hamilton, data scientist at Major League Baseball. rehab specialist which he is and you know what let's throw one more in there josh hamilton data scientist at major league baseball so he's josh hamilton and he works for major league baseball in san francisco poor fucking guy fuck every time so uh april 17 2015 he is traded by the angels yeah he needs a change of scenery every little while here with cash to the texas rangers for a player to be named later or cash so nothing basically they gave him away yeah went from four years ago had to have him for 125 million dollars to you can have him back i'm back same team we got him from yeah he's all yours and you have now they're on the hook for paying it back yeah it's your yeah you caught him, and you still got to pay him.

Oh, no, no, the Angels still have to pay the contract, too. Oh, really? I'll tell you how it breaks down, how much money he makes. Oh, God. And how much the Angels pay for it. Oh, shit. And he's not even there. It's hilarious. 2015, Rangers are 88-74.

They lose in the division series to the Blue Jays. That year, he plays in 50 games, hits. 253 with only eight home runs and 25 rbi that's for a grand total of 200 career home runs which it seems like he would have a lot more than that he should yeah he really had like four three really good years and then a couple of decent and years around it that year he makes ready for this oh boy 22 million 708 749 dollars oh my god think about that that's incredible the angels paid 20 million point seven one twenty point seven one million of that salary 20 is paid by the angels 710 000 yep so they paid two million the rangers to have him back which i mean just for a curious onlooker it's worth two million you know yeah uh 2016 he's not in the majors what um he's got some injury problems and he ends up playing for the

frisco rough riders oh boy which is a rangers double a team here hilarious yeah that's what i said to him like the frisco rough riders is that like a gay joke right yeah is that a 70s gay joke you got a town that's storied for gay shit it sounds like a 70s sitcom gay joke punchline the rough riders where are they from san francisco it's fucking cheesy punchline yeah there he is why is it called the san francisco cocksuckers two on the nose san francisco ball ticklers no so the tank ticklers we're gonna not go with that one he only plays in one game with frisco has two at bats and does nothing so didn't quite work out there august 20 i don't know if he took one swing and was like, I can't do that anymore. Jesus, that hurts. So August 23rd, 2016, he is released by the Texas Rangers.

And do you know what he makes for 2016? For one game with the Frisco Rough Riders? What did he make, James? $28,410,000. Oh, my God. That is fucking staggering. Oh, my God. That is fucking staggering. Oh, my God. The Angels paid $26,410,000 of that.

Enjoy your gift, Rough Riders. Wow. Unbelievable. What did they pay? Wow. That's fucking wild. 2017, January 20th, he signs with the Texas Rangers again as a free agent. Signed him to a minor league deal

with the intentions of trying him out at first base oh like because he that was the problem is he couldn't move around the outfield anymore okay and they didn't really want to dh him so like maybe first base he could play or something and uh but he was experiencing discomfort in his left knee and having some problems it's the same knee that he had surgery on so it's you know he's got issues there he goes to see an orthopedic surgeon in houston and it's knee that he had surgery on. So it's got issues there. It's over. He goes to see an orthopedic surgeon in Houston, and it's acknowledged that he would have to undergo another surgery, fucking up his career even further. February 27th of that year, he underwent surgery to repair torn cartilage

and three months of recovery time for that. So he's not even going to be ready until May. On April 21st the rangers released josh hamilton after they find out that it's going to take forever to rehab and all that sort of thing still getting paid though yeah even though he didn't play at all that year getting paid 28 million 410 000 last two years for one game one baseball game 56 56. One, he's made almost $57 million. $56,820,000. Holy shit, Josh.

For two years. That's a Powerball winning. And by the way, the Angels paid $26,000. $26,410,000 of that. So they paid basically $75 million for the last three years of not even having a guy.

Unbelievable. They literally paid $70 million. Enjoy your jerseys and hats that you bought. I mean, wow. Career earnings for Josh. years of not even having a guy unbelievable they literally paid 70 million dollars enjoy your jerseys and hats that you bought i mean wow career earnings for josh 140 million 610 579 motherfucking dollars what holy balls that's the highest paid athlete we've covered uh maybe it's possible has to be has to be it's possible it's close 140 million dollars riddick bow made 100 million but i think he might be the highest uh you don't see a guy that's this big of a star fuck it up that much because you

have a lot of shit going on right uh he said later on he missed playing baseball he said uh but when i look at them look at his girls he I remember why I stopped. I stopped to be a dad. My girls need me to be a dad more than I need baseball. Plus, I couldn't hit a baseball anymore, and my knee was messed up. Also, I don't need a fucking dime. And I don't need shit. Now, 2019, he might need to hide of embarrassment because his ex-wife here, Katie, goes on the reality show Marrying Millions. Now, they were on the

Real Housewives of Orange County I think when he played for the Angels this is different Marrying Millions is a show that has basically older people not all not like it's not part of the show but they tend to be older people who have a lot of money marry or sometimes are younger people who have a lot of money

but it just sometimes older people that have a lot of money and they're going out with somebody who obviously isn't wealthy and it's marrying millions like how do you deal with one person not being wealthy and the other one is so in this scenario she is the millions you know katie hamilton here and she's got her house and her thing and she's it's she's very instagram friendly with her whole house and her shit and hanging out by the pool and all that shit she's got josh hamilton money she's got josh hamilton well and her she's got money too her dad's a very successful businessman who's who died in 2012 so she inherited a shitload of money so she has her own money and she has his money she's fucking paid

right she's paid as fuck she's got anything she wants. What she really wants, though, is some dude that her daughter hangs out with. Unbelievable. Some dude her 19-year-old daughter is friends with that comes over the house to hang out sometime. Somehow, she started hooking up with this dude and became in a close relationship with this guy. He's like 20, 21. He's like, yeah, dude. I don't know't know he's got big stupid sideshow bob hair and he's just like yeah man like you know it's cool

just a california loser he's just like it's cool like i think she's in florida possibly but you know like they end up but she's like he's just a he's a dumb 20 year old kid dumb 21 year old kid she's you know wants she's talking to him about serious things. So then we'll do that and we'll do this. And he's like, cool, bro. I mean, whatever. Like, it's totally like like, all right, mom, we'll do it. Unbelievable.

Because their mom and son age and she treats him like the tone of voice that a mother treats a son and she treats he treats her like, all right, cool, mom. But then then at the same time, he'll come up behind her and be like your ass is hot oh it's fucking weird dude it's weird just like it's weird when there's some 60 year old guy and some yeah on that show there's like a 60 like a 60 year old guy and like a 20 year old chick and you're just like oh well the same goes for love after lockup with it scott yeah yeah remodeled the house and he's got lindsey and she yeah it's 25 year difference dude you don't have enough money to do that right

sorry at least the guy that the 20 year old in law and marrying millions is after yeah he's like a real estate mogul he has hundreds of millions of dollars he owns like in dallas he owns this like fucking house that looks like, you know, a palace. It's a and then he has a palace in Miami right on the water. He's fucking loaded. So at least if you're going to go out with a guy, at least have it be that guy. You don't have it be some some guy that looks like he's been sucking off a curling iron. Buys you a house in Alabama.

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new season and i don't even care that's the thing normally i'd be like 50 i'm so mad that they're making me buy it but i can't stop i know it's crack i'm like it's motherfucking crack he's like i don't care i'll buy it i'll go broke over this that's how much i need it fucking self i'm so mad when it ends and what what you want more god damn it how dare you so patreon.com slash climate sports you can hear that so marriage for millions now so josh seems to be completely fine yeah have his life together seems to have backed off the drinking you applaud him you say good for you hope your life goes great. Until October of 2019. Oh, no.

And we almost did this episode about a year and a half ago, and I'm very glad we waited because this is huge. October 2019, he is arrested. Oh, no. Well, he's got his 14-year-old daughter, and when interviewed by Child Protective Services, his daughter told the interviewer that hamilton started to assault and throw things at her after she made a comment that

upset him okay uh it was a comment don't know here but he's better than you yeah my trout's much better than you he's accused of throwing a full water bottle and hitting her in the chest with it 97 miles an hour he can throw though you shouldn't be throwing things at people then pulled out a chair from under what she was sitting on she was like sitting on had her foot up on the one he yanked the chair out and threw it across the room at her as she as she fled yeah basically then he uh wow he took his daughter to a room, pinned her to a bed and reportedly repeatedly hit her on the back and legs. What? Just beat her over it. Yeah.

I don't even know what to say about that. Broke the chair when he did the whole thing and fucking the chair didn't hit her. chair didn't hit her so he grabbed her by the shoulder but grabbed her by the shoulders out of her chair that she was sitting in picked her up and threw brought her into a bedroom and threw her on the bed she fell down to the floor he picked her up throw to put her over her his shoulder threw her on a bed uh she said at that point that she was telling him i'm sorry i'm sorry for whatever she said upon reaching the bedroom door he tossed her onto the bed, pressed her face onto the mattress and began hitting her with an open hand and closed fist on the back and legs. You can't do that.

To your 14 year old daughter. You don't fucking touch your daughter. It's a bit much. You don't hit your fucking daughter. Not like that. I get your son might need a whack once in a while. I get whatever. But you don't.

Not like that. Not like anything. Your father, you don't hit your daughter because you're just teaching them hey find a guy that hits you later that's what you're fucking you depend on me right well that's what hitting is dependable isn't it no good don't hit your daughter ever so upon reach she does all of that this ripped her sweatshirt and uh then she screamed quote i hope you he screamed quote i hope you go in front of the fucking judge and tell him what a terrible dad I am. So I don't ever have to see you anymore. Oh, you don't have to do it that way.

That is fucking horrible. Apparently, after he left the room, he had the daughter said that he told her to. She said that he told her to gather her things for school. Now get your shit ready for school. You just beat me. She said, I already have. And I already put them in the car. He said, well, aren school you just beat me she said i already have and i already put them in the car he said well aren't you just the perfect child and fucking left it's like whoa whoa unbelievable that is fucking frightening uh she also said that uh uh her

this is uh katie talking about her daughters had told her about previous times that josh had threatened them or been violent to them in november 2017 she wrote in an affidavit that he taped wooden sticks from a hardware store together i'm thinking like paint mixers possibly those things and beat one of the girls with them good lord jesus he also had used a wooden rod with metal ball a wooden rod with metal balls that just sounds terrible it's called a dildo yeah it's uh to to also to hit them a wooden rod with metal balls what is that i don't know but that's a don't hit people with that that sounds terrible in february he hit one of the girls after she accidentally kicked a refrigerator she wrote in the affidavit so he hit her um what the fuck is happening in early

september he reported uh he reportedly told one of his daughters i want to beat the shit out of you as well he's getting like i don't know what i thought you quit baseball for them that's what i'm saying i don't understand it um katie filed for a temporary restraining order on her daughter's behalf he turned himself into the authorities at the courthouse there in dallas and according to the statement the rangers said they were aware of the allegation he said thankfully he doesn't fucking play here anymore so we're aware and we also don't care we don't give a shit he said the texas rangers take the issue of family violence very seriously since this is an ongoing legal matter we have no further comment bye also with our own players yeah also he's not on our team anymore.

Blame somebody else. The Angels paid him all that money. Not us. We barely paid him anything. We didn't pay him shit. We paid him nothing. April 9th, 2020. He's indicted for felony injury to a minor.

Yeah. This is serious. This is bad stuff. This is not a small charge. He's facing between two and ten years in prison for this. Oh, boy. It's a felony. Yeah.

Felony injuring. If he's convicted of that charge, it's two to ten years in prison. So I assume he's going to two and ten years in prison for this oh it's a felony yeah felony injuring or if he's convicted of that charge it's two to ten years in prison so i assume he's going to play this out probably uh he's denied the allegations though saying quote his attorney said quote he is innocent of the charge against him and looks forward to clearing his name in court can't get enough i've had enough watch him clear his name in court or run into him in a bar somewhere when he's having a fucking meltdown relapse or something but you know i i felt bad for the guy for a while and then i didn't because i'm like you know there's a lot of guys in our thing that we have that have these substance problems but they didn't have they didn't have

a nice happy upbringing they had a shit upbringing that's why they have a substance abuse problem and they pull it together this guy's got. Everybody on earth trying to fucking help him. Yeah. And he still pushes it away. And I get it. That's how strong the addiction is. I'm not judging an addict for that at all. But I am saying at some point you still have to be a fucking person in a society that your

kids can trust and shit like that. So also, doesn't it stink of like, I't know white privilege at least a little bit a little bit that he's a he's a full-blown crackhead and still made 120 million dollars in the majors immediately be re not only be they'd fucking take him back they'd be on commercials he was an inspiration he's this he's that which i mean yeah and use him as an inspiration to other people who are having those problems but i can't imagine yeah you know and i'm not sure we're not guys that we don't look for that shit everywhere we really don't it's almost it's embarrassing but call it what it is if it was some fucking crab black guy who just got done smoking crack they wouldn't be like hey no way would you like to endorse gatorade no it's just not gonna fucking

happen albert pujols gets caught with coke and and crack yeah it's not happening for him but this guy it's repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly because everybody roots for him because he looks like he should he's just a nice middle class suburban guy look at him and so you want him to do well and you want everybody to do well but this is like you know he's used he's had every opportunity possible but there it is he's got all sorts of jerseys and figures and shit if you want to buy some shit from he'll be back into drugs right i mean it sounds like that behavior is erratic i don't know if that is because he wants drugs or because he either doing drugs i don't know because obviously i'm not there i'm not saying that's a fact but that stinks of drug use it stinks of

something it's definitely not stable right and if that's his mood swings does he need something does he need to be on something who knows to stabilize that if he can't be around his children without that and the kids aren't doing anything like they didn't burn his house down or something and then he beat the crap yeah like get the fuck out of here so i don't know that's josh hamilton everybody though what a wild ass story really is uh if you enjoyed that story you can tell us about it. And you can tell the rest of the world about it, too. Get on Apple Podcasts, that purple icon, and give us five stars. Takes two seconds, but it really, really helps us a lot more than two seconds worth. So thank you for doing that.

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