Marlins' prospect already ruins career before it starts

Top Marlins' prospect, Jeff Allison had a bright future ahead of him. Then he had to make the ultimate mistake. Raising more eyebrows on 'acts of stupidity' in baseball, this week the 21-year-old overdosed on heroin. He was found on the bathroom floor of his apartment unconscious by a friend. Then he was rushed to the hospital. Medford police in Boston found piles of drug paraphernalia in Allison's room. How crazy is this kid? He's willing to risk his life and professional baseball career just to get a wicked buzz.

With all the focus, for the most part right now on the steroids investigation leave it to one of these minor league players to go and do something obscenely stupid. Now attention has to be put on all drug use and misconduct. These players today think they can get away with everything, taking things for granted like not getting caught getting high on weed or odd powdery substances in clubhouses. Sure no one will know their secret until they're laid sprawled out on the floor motionless. I can't possibly understand why any player would think drugs such as heroin will help them perform better.

If anything veteran players need to set the right example for rookie and minor leaguers, who are naive and too influenced by peer pressure. Allison may have squandered a meaningful baseball career, unable to see the light of day outside the Marlins farm system. This further incident of drug addiction/abuse should teach other players to stay away from harmful substances and not gamble with their life.

Still, it won't surprise me either when the baseball world gives the Bonds case and steroid investigation their undivided attention if players use this opportunity to freely and casually smoke weed, chronic, blunts, crack, and whatever they can get their hands. They may even sit right in the dugout, satisfying their sick addiction DURING A GAME without even realizing it because they'll be so high. Major League Baseball nor any sport for that matter will never have control over this rising problem.