SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Matt Bush is 30 years old, but he still looks like he just walked out of a high school yearbook. He could be your son, your son's friends or your son's teammate at almost any Dallas-Fort Worth high school.
He is short and slim with close-cropped dark hair, olive-smooth skin and soft eyes. He is polite, respectful and soft-spoken, and he looks directly at the person he is addressing. Sitting in a conference room in the front office of the Rangers' Surprise, Ariz., complex, Bush talks openly about his past.
There is nothing in Bush's demeanor to suggest that alcohol almost destroyed his life, or that he spent over three years in a Florida prison after pleading no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol with seriously bodily injury.