Hooker suspended

So much for one of our top young pitching prospects...

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What kind of positive are we talking about

Are we talking illicit drugs or PEDs? Having just read Josh Hamilton’s book, this is scary to me for the young man. Either way, hope he can overcome this.

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by scoot on Apr 9, 2009 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

with more money than most kids his age have access to. Kids make mistakes, things like this are going to happen. Here’s hoping that this was a pot smoking thing and not a steroid thing, mainly because steroids could really hinder his long term development.

Probably 50% of college kids try pot at some point and it’s not really a gateway drug like our government claims that it is. As long as he gets treatment for it, if that’s what it is, I’m not going to worry too much about his long term development.

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by fourstick on Apr 10, 2009 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

Treatment for pot?

Think we might be being a bit too drastic?

Life's a river, kid, you gotta go where it takes you.

by KerouacCardinal on Apr 10, 2009 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions

No

If he has a “substance-abuse” problem then he needs to seek treatment for it. (See: Spiezio, Scott)

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Apr 14, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions

pretty sure

they don’t suspend players for smoking pot. Say what you want about it but pot is hardly a performance-enhancing drug unless you’re a competitor in a hot dog (or Snickers bar) eating contest.

by chuckb on Apr 10, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

it seems he was though

Hooker suspended

Hooker, a seventh-round pick of the Cardinals in 2007, was cited for a "drug of abuse’’ violation. Drugs and substances that fall under that classification include marijuana, cocaine, morphine, codeine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy, GHB and PCP.

Let’s just hope that it was pot, or even Tylenol 3 ( how do you abuse codiene?).

* sarcasm might be involved in this comment

by mattyfrommo on Apr 10, 2009 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions

You abuse codeine

by taking a lot of it.

Classic underachiever.

by spants on Apr 10, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

or by telling it it's stupid and will never be anything.

the truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark/ it scares you witless, then you see things clear and stark -- macmanus

by tom s. on Apr 10, 2009 6:19 PM EDT up reply actions

LOL

Classic underachiever.

by spants on Apr 10, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions

hm

As far as I know most of those drugs leave your system quickly, with the exception of marijuana. That makes me lean towards it being pot…but

I know Josh Hancock had marijuana in his car on that sad night. It seems like there are a few stereotypical stoners in baseball. Do they really care if a player tests positive for THC?

by leefyg on Apr 11, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

if you poke through the regs, they don't randomly test for "drugs of abuse."

they only test where they have a reason to test.

so maybe if you don’t walk around reeking of weed or consume an extra-large pizza in front of the testers you don’t get tested for marijuana.

the truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark/ it scares you witless, then you see things clear and stark -- macmanus

by tom s. on Apr 13, 2009 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions

You're talking a small dose of codeine

They’re talking about hydrocodone, which would include drugs as strong as Vicodin. It’s what was prescribed to me post-knee surgery when I had by ACL reconstructed, and it will knock you on your ass at doses above 400 mg.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Apr 14, 2009 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions