OLD-FASHIONED TOUGH LOVE NEEDED

If those concerned with Darryl Strawberry, from judges on down, had seen
him from the start -- not as a baseball star who happened to be in trouble
but as a person in trouble who happened to be a baseball star -- he'd be
playing ball now.

This man's celebrity has, in a word, done him in. If the powers that be
really wanted to rehabilitate him they could have put aside who he was (a
major job!), then applied good, old-fashioned tough love. No favoritism, no
release on weekends, no special privileges, just those tried-and-true cure
methods used over and over again on our street junkies until many of them
got clean.

And I'll bet, no matter what it may have taken, Darryl Strawberry, baseball
star, would have made the cut.