Stay tuned. Actually some people get their's on W-day, but not me.

There was an article on him in the Herald this morning:

 

Marlins' Allison says he is done with drug woes

 

Right-handed pitcher Jeffrey Allison, the Marlins' No. 1 draft choice in 2003, said he has overcome his drug problems and is prepared to rejoin the Marlins organization in the spring, according to a lengthy profile in Sports Illustrated that hits newsstands this week.

 

Allison, drafted 16th overall out of a Massachusetts high school, reportedly has battled an addiction with OxyContin, a powerful pain killer, but he would not discuss that with SI. Among the highlights of the article:

 

? Allison, who left the Marlins' Gulf Coast League team in May to return to his home in Peabody, Mass., said he nearly died in a heroin overdose in July. ``I was doing [OxyContin] every day, but on that night, I was unable to get [it] and bought a bag of heroin. I didn't care about anything. You just want to get away from your problems.''

 

His sister took pictures of medics placing a defibrillator on Allison's chest. ''I was basically dead,'' he said.

 

He spent three days in the hospital: ``That was rock bottom for me.''

 

? Allison, 20, who's seeing a drug counselor regularly in Massachusetts, said he has sometimes smoked marijuana but insists he hasn't used an narcotic drug since the heroin overdose. His mother, Noreen, said that since his heroin overdose, the only Marlins official she has heard from is the team doctor, and only occasionally.

 

''The Marlins want me clean -- that's it,'' Allison said. ``I've got to take one step at a time -- baby steps. . . . My parents fight a lot. I've got my own issues. I've got an addictive personality. But I don't want to do drugs anymore.''

 

? The Marlins fined Allison $200,000 last June and have paid him less than a third of his $1.85 million signing bonus. Allison said he has $200,000 in the bank.

 

The Marlins declined comment in the article.

 

-- BARRY JACKSON

 

C/O Miami Herald

"The Marlins declined comment in the article."

 

And so should we.

"The Marlins declined comment in the article."

 

And so should we.

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Hopefully het gets his life in order, period.

 

As for Baseball, who cares? The Marlins will go on without him and he'd go on without the Marlins. It seems to me that Pro Sports is not the best place for a person with a drug problem/addictive personality. The money. The women. The drugs. And playing with the Marlins in S. Fla or Las Vegas, please!!

 

If one day he plays for the big club, great. But I hope that's not a negative in his life.

I really hope he can recover. Many said he was going to be better than Beckett...

I really hope he can recover. Many said he was going to be better than Beckett...

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Better than a career .500 pitcher?!? Awesome.

 

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