I was thinking....damn....and the guy had mickey Mantle talent and is throwing it all away, and then I got to thinking that Mantle was sort of a knuckle head himself. Medical science of that day was not what it is today, and today Mantle would likely have been over his knee injury perhaps forever. The fact remains that he likely played lots of games drunk and that led to reinjury as well. So,so many guys with other world talent never take advantage of what they were lucky enough to be born with. How many lifetime minor league players wish they had just a bit of that "pixy dust" that others were born with and completely disregarded?