The Carlos Zambrano situation

I've had a couple of requests to comment on the Carlos Zambrano situation, and I've gone back and forth on whether to write about it.

Once a player progresses from ejection to league suspension to team suspension and beyond dealing with the same problem over the course of several years, at some point it crosses the line from being a baseball issue to being a real-life issue. You can only rant and rave so many times before realizing it isn't going away on its own.

If a problem isn't physical, I think it stops being any of our business as fans. All we really need to know is that a problem exists, it has nothing to do with his ability to throw a baseball 90+ miles an hour, it's being addressed, and that the team hasn't set a timetable for his return.

Anger is a very real issue, and a lot of people struggle throughout their lives to control it. It could cost Joe Sixpack his job, or his family, or his health, or land him in jail. The people who love him suffer too. So unless you're part of the solution, if someone tries to get help to make a fundamental change in their life, step off and let them. It shouldn't matter if it's an athlete, an entertainer or some guy from your neighborhood. Wish them well, hope for the best and leave it at that.

Good luck, Big Z.