Given the angst expressed by many of the folks here about Sean Taylor and whether or not he might have been the "wrong pick", I included this paragraph in my daily offering at
www.sportscurmudgeon.com. Thought some of you might take this as a good sign:
Fans of the Washington Redskins are “concerned” about Sean Taylor. He has not signed a contract yet; he did not have an agent until late last week; he skipped out on the mandatory NFL Rookie Seminar and got fined $25K; some of the fans on one of the fan websites are asking if he might have been the “wrong choice”. Relax folks; here is what you mean when you say that the kid your team took at #1 in the draft is the “wrong choice”. Jeff Allison was the Florida Marlins first pick in the MLB draft in June 2003. Allison signed his contract with the Marlins and got a signing bonus reported to be $1.8M. This spring he reported late to the Marlins minor league camp for unexplained reasons and in May he just left that training camp. The Marlins suspended him and later he revealed to the Boston papers that he had a dependency on the painkiller OxyContin. This seems pretty bleak but today it is reported that Allison had been in the hospital for 3 days because he overdosed on heroin and the friend who was sharing the heroin with him noticed he was having trouble breathing and took him to the hospital.
Memo to Washington Redskins Fans: This is a “wrong choice” for #1 in a draft. So far, Sean Taylor has been a choirboy compared to Jeff Allison.
07-26-2004, 04:06 PM
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