Originally Posted by
HigherGround
It's the Tour's party, and they can invite whoever they want to. Or not.
He needs to accept the fact that he's lucky to have a career and a team at all, and focus on getting his life straight. To play devil's advocate, maybe he's better off keeping busy by racing rather than having time off and being left on his own... but that doesn't seem to have worked so far.
If he wasn't a superstar, he would be getting on with his life's work right now. Certainly, QS would have thrown him under the bus.
Sadly, there are different rules for different people and it all comes down to money.
... Brad