Strike four your out " But I could not see the ball, there was too much smoke "

At the begining of the 2005 NFL season I was ready to give Ricky Williams another chance. He had dealt with his family resposibilities, drug addiction and was committed to playing another year with the Dolphins. Run Ricky Run. My feelings have changed. There is no defending him nor do I fell sorry for Ricky Williams. There can be no saying he wasn't propertly warned. With his fourth positive drug test, the years supension handed out by the NFL was not only just it was the NFL's duty.
Ricky never seemed cut out to be a football star. He always seemed as though he was a hitchhiker who had been thrown into a stretch limosine. Now he might be free of the NFL forever. Free to grow his beard, read his books, teach yoga, meditate or even live in a tent.
I am not mad at him for screwing up the Dolphin's season or even sad for him. If you were to tell him you were sorry for him he would say " Don't sweat it I am not " When he was ask about the NFL decesion to suspend him for the 2006 season he said "Right now I am happy, I've got gas in my car ". Statements like these sway people to view Ricky as a circus clown at best and a loser at worst. Some will say Oh! he fell off the wagon again or maybe he just did not read the lables on his alternative diet. It hardly matters, he used up all his get out of jail cards a long time ago.
Ricky does not care about anybody but himself. Selfcentered is a charastic of addiction. I can speak to that fact from self awearness. All that yoga, touchy feely spirtualistic stuff, globe trotting retreats and holistic medicine dose not make one an enlighted and humble being if one thinks he is so above everybody else that one does not need anything more than the basic necessities of life.
It's probely best to wish him well for he is an insteresting soul even though he never seemed suited for the athlete lifestyle. Ricky is more of a God's will sort of man who seems content to travel through life as a peice of driftwood carried by the current. Now that I can relate to. He will never have problems with his serenty that's for sure. I can just see him now, setting in the dark in the Lotus positum with a big smile on his face. How wonderful! But Ricky you still can not pitch your tent in my back yard.