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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Undisclosed? Don't we know it's been a problem for a while? How does rehab change it? Although drug use isn't a disease, any more than fatness is. What's next, perversion, thus disqualifying michael jackson?
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Well actually the idea behind disqualifying people from wild card contention for these reasons is that, despite the 50 Cent picks and the like, the
spirit of the wild card is to pick a true wild card. Someone who has no reason that they might be more likely to die than anyone else, thus shocking the world when they do die. Application of the rules relating to wild cards is necessarily difficult because at least some of the analysis is subjective. That is why I had a hard time with determining eligibility. And why I might throw that portion out if we do it again next year.
I did not pick Michael Jackson as a wild card in my big pool because I wasn't sure if there would be some obvious mental illness disqualifier, but sure enough, that pick was allowed there, so I have allowed it here. In the same spirit, some morbidly obese comedian with a coke habit is not really a "wild card" in that if that person died, no one would be surprised. It just depends how far you want to take the analysis. I will be watching what the person running the big pool does with respect to this Whitney Houston thing. THe guy who runs it has been doing so for many years and this stuff has likely been encountered there before. If he doesn't do anything to wild card Houston picks there, I'd be more inclined not to do anything about them here.
Rehab is short-hand for drug problem. It is not perfect because celebs entering rehab either have admitted to the problem and are trying to fix it, or they haven't and some outside force (such as law enforcement) has pushed it on them. The first scenario seems to make them better off (if the rehab takes), the second just shows that they have a problem.
