Darryl Strawberry, the drug-addicted Yankees star, went down Monday in Tampa when he was arrested again, this time for driving while impaired. You could have almost predicted it. Knight and Strawberry were tripped up by the weakest parts of themselves, the way a lot of us are. They have this other thing in common. They're both junkies.
Addiction is part emotional, part physical, all disease.
The chief difference between Knight and Strawberry seems to have been that Knight did nothing to mellow himself. He likes this thing he's hooked on, his rage. For Strawberry, the hook had been cocaine. Monday at a north Tampa crossroads, the problem was a potent sleeping pill called Ambien. Strawberry admitted to deputies he was taking it.