pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident?
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Horrific news to report this morning, multiple people inform me that Marlins&#39; pitcher Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident.</p>&mdash; Andy Slater (@AndySlater) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndySlater/status/780023610333290496">September 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...104071446.html

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Marlins?src=hash">#Marlins</a> have canceled today’s game against the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Braves?src=hash">#Braves</a>.</p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/780032966525345792">September 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Wow. This is just stunning news.

Ugh, that's awful
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That's terrible... even a rising superstar with millions can have their life abruptly ended, and only 24 years old. Such a sad accident.

This is really sad. He seemed like a good genuine dude.

First thing I read this morning and I think I am about to throw up. It hurts remembering the video of Jeff Loria reuniting Jose with his grandmother in Miami after being separated for years. Defected from Cuba, return from TJ all for naught. Oh, he was going to be a father too.

This one stings. RIP Jose. I will never forget 2013 when the Royals played the Marlins in KC and he single-handedly put that lowly team on his back and led them to a 1-0 win. It was one of the more frustrating games to watch as a fan, but as a viewer of the game it was one of the first times I learned to respect the flat out talent of a young stud like him.

Sad news indeed.

Looks like the boat was going too fast and hit the rocks.


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awful. i thought it was a terrible internet hoax. multiple reports from multiple sources. terrible, terrible tragedy.

Damn, he had a kid on the way too. Brutal.

Awful. Heard something that his girlfriend or something said she was pregnant a few days ago. RIP Jose

Wow.. Just awful. :(

He was a great talent and I remember how he kept kicking the Pirate's ass each time he pitched against us.

Life is sooooooo short in the totality of it all. That's why I live it to the fullest.....Tomorrow may never arrive.

R.I.P.

Immediately brought Steve Olin and Tim Crews back to mind.

ban boats!

Gotta be careful with boats. Too many young people don't fear the water. Rip

Jesus. Just awful. This kid was stupid, crazy good. RIP

First thing I thought of too. High speed in the dark is not safe.

At least police say in this case there's no evidence of alcohol. But we'll see.

summer time is the worst at the hospital. ATV, boating, motorcycle accidents. People being reckless for the adrenaline or because they were intoxicated.

You get one brain and spinal cord, protect it.

Just read ESPN article, just last week his girlfriend announced she is pregnant with his child.

Very sad.

it seems a lot of tragedies happen after a baby is announced..maybe trying to live life to the fullest before the kid comes?

Warming! Do not watch if you do not want to cry.

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If I was a million dollar athlete I would make sure I stayed away from Dangerous activities. Too many lives lost when it could be avoided. Just stupid stuff.

Fixed

No shit. Life isn't hard just take care of your body and mind. Invest wisely. Instead of boating or other dumb shit I would be watching sports and watching my investments make bank

A true shame that it couldn't have been Von Douchebag instead.

Very godly of you.

Do you currently own a car?

Thanks for the warming.

What just happened at the Marlins game could not have been scripted any better. Simply amazing. I am a grown man and I am in tears after what I just witnessed.

I've been saddened about all of this, but watching that lead off HR and the reaction to it was moving to say the very very least.

They played the audio of the solo trumpet playing take me out to the ballgame.

Got goddamned dusty in this Combine. Radio said DeeGordin jacked his first HR of the season wearing his helmet.

Said on the radio that he loved fishing. Ran the boat on a rock and flipped it. Didn't sound high speed.

They said it was wide open. 55-60 MPH

Going that speed would have launched them like a rocket either into the side of the boat or onto the rocks.

http://l.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LGC...85313f8f1461e0

He didn't drown.

I bet the boat did a front flip, well not quite.

That was a powerful tribute. I can't even begin to imagine having to play through that.

Quick question, and I don't want to sound like a dick because it doesn't matter either way. But does anyone think that pitch to Dee Gordon was grooved? Even if it was, it's still one hell of a moment.

Rooting hard for the Marlins now. I hope they get in.

I see people at the Lake of the Ozarks going full throttle in the middle of the night all the time. Such a dumb thing to do.

They're all but eliminated.

I think the wreck happened in a pass called "governors cut". Very dangerous pass even for experienced boaters and that boat was wide open. Very sad

Hadn't heard that.

Yeah, I think there are many who think that pitch was grooved. Over on reddit.com/r/baseball, that view is being discussed, https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/co..._plate/d83ennm

Either way, still a remarkable and moving tribute.

I just saw the tribute, the solo and the HR. Very heavy indeed. Beautiful though.

RIP, and welcome back.

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Yes, if true and I think it is, it's pretty awesome sportsmanship by Bartolo colon too. He threw an 85 mph Meatball over the plate. Pretty cool stuff

I don't think it was. Bartolo Colon doesn't throw very hard to begin with. If you look at pitch charts on most home runs, you'll see a lot of them occur on pitches over the middle. Especially when a pitcher is behind in the count. Why do you think pitchers always talk about working both sides of the plate?

Plus, this is Dee Gordon. The dude doesn't hit homers. Was Colon thinking "let me groove one so this guy can honor Jose with an infield single"?

Also, Mets in the thick of a playoff race and do you honor a competitor's memory by not competing? Colon clearly didn't have it last night, as he got rocked all game. Sometimes unbelievable moments are just what they are.

alcohol involved, per report just released. No shocker

Don't need you to tell us that; we have the OP author to tell us what's up.

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Huckleberry?

More like chuckleberry...

You left out Right.

Ouch.....still a tragedy??

Jose Fernandez had cocaine, alcohol in system during fatal boat crash


Mianmi Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine in his system when he and two friends were killed in a boat crash last month off Miami Beach, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's office said Saturday.

Associate Medical Examiner Kenneth Hutchins listed "boat crash" as the cause of death but also said Fernandez was legally drunk with a blood alcohol concentration of .147.
Fernandez, 24, suffered blunt-force injuries to the head and torso, along with skull and jaw fractures when the boat he was in hit a jetty near Miami Beach in the early morning hours of September 25.


Authorities have not determined who was piloting the boat.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/29/us/mia...ogy/index.html

Do you think that his family deserved to lose him and his child deserved to grow up without a father because of this?

No of course not. But if dude had a family, he shouldnt have behaved so recklessly.

This wasnt an accident. More like stupidity.

He probably wasn't near as drunk as that sounds.

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What a way to go out, snorting coke, drinking, driving way too fast and dangerously. What a waste. Tragedy for his family.

I can think of much worse ways to go.

Cancer, AIDS, Ebola, flesh eating bacteria, eaten by a shark

Dying by fire, drowning, having your head cut off by ISIS

Being a Chiefs fan your whole life

You guys almost have me convinced that there aren't very many better ways to go...

Sounds like he was trying to one up Oscar.

Damn.

Yes. Doing Coke and being drunk while driving a speedboat recklessly in the middle of the night is a deserved fate.


Is it sad? Obviously. But it's not a tragedy and the Marlins are in a tough spot now honoring a guy killed while on Coke. That's a terrible message to send to kids.

.14 isn't all that drunk, really. Especially not with white in your system.

You deserve to be run over by a drunk and coked out driver you worthless sack of dogshit.

It is a tragedy, and can easily serve as a lesson to children that even the biggest stars can be victims of drug use.

Hey, you made the same point as I did!:D

Having a few drinks and a line of cocaine isn't what killed Fernandez and his friends.

They died because whomever was driving was very inexperienced piloting a boat, wasn't familiar with the terrain, while dealing with a pitch black night. It would have happened regardless of whether or not the pilot was drinking or partying.

Also, center console fishing boats don't usually get to a high rate of speed, which points to inexperience. It's not like they were in a Wellcraft Scarab.

No, I cannot accept he was a "victim" of drugs. That's a cop out. A victim of drugs is someone who gets hooked on painkillers. It isn't someone snorting coke and partying on a boat.

White is right in combination

Fine. Semantics. He killed himself due to drugs, but this lesson could show children that it could happen to anyone, right?

The people he loved were certainly victims here.

What? Of course drugs and alcohol are part of the equation. Mix in testosterone and you got 3 guys going way too fast in a speed boat with zero visability in a dangerous environment. I guarantee you had Cocain and alcohol not been involved the likelihood that these three would still be alive exponentially increases.

No. That's not the correct lesson. That could never happen to me, or millions of others who've never touched drugs let alone hardcore ones like Coke mixed with alcohol. It isn't random - it's a choice.


Correct. He victimized his loved ones.

What about Maker's Mark? Could 6 of them get you to do ungodly things?