There aren't really two sides to every story

The painfully moronic Steve Phillips on ESPN.com will try to have you believe that there is another side to the otherwise pretty cool story of redemption being written about Josh Hamilton by just about every other baseball writer around.

Basically, Hamilton was the first overall pick of the draft in 1999, got all fucked up on all kinds of drugs, and was out of baseball from 2003-2005. Now he's in camp with the Cincinnati Reds and looking good enough to make their opening day roster. Phillips' basic point is that this is sending the wrong message to the good, wholesome prospects who behave themselves, and otherwise work hard 'n stuff.

Bullshit.

The dude has other-wordly ability when it comes to hitting a baseball, and now that he has cleaned his life up (reportedly), why shouldn't he get the chance to be the player he's capable of being? The only bad side of this, as it relates to the Reds, is that this dude is better than most of the players they have under contract, despite only having 50 at-bats since 2002.

(read Phillips' version, or the more common [read: happy] version of the story from the far more respected, not to mention intelligent, Jason Stark)