What in the wide wide world of sports is going on? A couple of weeks ago Brad Renfro dies, now Heath Ledger goes to the great Brokeback Mountain in the sky.
Renfro was no surprise, as he had a well-known booze and heroin problem, but you never heard that about Ledger. Maybe it wasn’t an accidental drug o.d. but intentional one. Reports say there were sleeping pills all around. If it were suicide, then what the heck. First Owen Wilson tries, then Ledger does it. Is being a rich, handsome movie star that stressful? What beautiful woman to sleep with? What 4-star restuarant to eat for free at? What hot club to get my drinks comped at. What free everything do I want and want now?
How long would these guys last in the real world? Unstopping sewer lines all day only to come home to a 300 LB wife that was 100 LBS when you married her. Shes been eating chocolate cherries while Orca Winfrey convinces her she deserves better than you. Beenie Weenies for dinner while 3 spawns of Satan projectile vomit on the cat. Maybe reality would have helped them cope. Maybe they have pressures I dont realise. Anyway, good bye Joker. Its been real. Its been fun. But not real fun.
