It is a disease..you are absolutelyt correct..and both the Mets and the Yankees were enablers..getting him to "clean up" just enough so that he could pitch another season..YOu have to hit rock bottom before you can start to pull yourself out of the hole, even with assistance, but they always gave him a soft landng...until now..Do you remember the Yankees' pitcher..I forget his name..who had like a dozen or so drug suspensions, but because he could get out lefties, Steinbrenner kept on giving him another chance..after chance, after chance..