Jose Fernandez and friends were drunk

[lolz_69]

Any one of you know what it's like to be 24, have super-elite level athletic talent, have a shit-ton of money after coming from nothing, and live in Miami?

Just checking.

"But he had a child" -- doesn't matter. You think you're invincible because you 99% are.

And now we're arguing the legal side of it, LOL. Bit late for that.

"It's so hard to be rich, famous, and talented!

Let's forgive him for committing stupid actions and ruining the lives of everyone around him!"



Guess he found out he wasn't so invincible after all. Most humans are smart enough not to go as far in testing the limits as he did, athlete or not.

[thellama]

I don't know what your gripe is. I get the tributes and all of that probably annoyed you, they annoyed most everybody I'm sure. He did something dumb, not like they ran the boat onto a beach or into another boat, they hit a narrow jetty impossible to see in the dark. Still not a great decision, and I'm sure he trusted the guy driving the boat to not do that... I think we've all almost been killed by someone else either trying to look cool or just being a moron. I was 18 and riding with some kid going way too fast on icy roads, ended up in a ditch in the opposite lane. Not life threatening, but if a semi was coming the other way we would have been shop-vac'ed off the road. Sometimes you gotta realize when you get lucky and make sure not to get into a situation like that again. He won't have that chance, unfortunately.

Just because he's rich (not that rich, he made league minimum, he had yet to sign a FA contract) and had a baby on the way doesn't mean he has to sit in his room every day and stare at a wall or else face the wrath of you if he ends up in a morgue.

[MoneyLineDawg]

No one is condoning the actions....Jose and his friends fukked up, drunk or not

Pretty sure everyone was saying that they were at minimum speeding in a boat during the night which was obviously a poor decision

It doesn't make the fact that Jose and two other young people had their lives cut short any less tragic

I have no clue what you and Rudy are bitching about in this thread

We all know they made poor decisions...but hardly anyone would be left in the world if we all died due to a shitty mistake that we made and continue to make

[gauchojake]

Alcohol is a killer

[nyplayer33]

3am on a boat is drinking..cmon

[AngryMale]

Alcohol is a killer

This needs more awarenes.

[TheMetsSuck]

lot of idiots in this thread who have probably never driven a boat. I've owned a boat over 20 years and have a license to drive up to 60 people. I've lived on my water my whole life and have driven my boat tipsy countless times at night. If you know your bearings and are experienced there is no problem. There is no traffic whatsoever. All you have to do is watch out for lobster pots and buoys which wouldn't do much anyway. This kid got very unlucky. He clearly had a friend who didn't know the area and was driving the cigarette boat or whatever it was like a mad man without a care in the world on the open waters as most people would if they knew the area. Too bad he didn't and there was a rock jetty waiting for all of them. Not jose's fault at all. He floated here from cuba pretty much. His friend can't drive him home on a boat without killing him tragically?

[Ralphie Halves]

"It's so hard to be rich, famous, and talented!

Let's forgive him for committing stupid actions and ruining the lives of everyone around him!"



Guess he found out he wasn't so invincible after all. Most humans are smart enough not to go as far in testing the limits as he did, athlete or not.

Don't act like when you were younger, you just sat around and read books all day. Everybody wants a thrill now and then.

From 17-25, I pretty much did every dumb thing possible to get myself in huge trouble and/or harm or kill myself. I jumped in the Mississippi River, went after a homeless guy that pulled out a knife on me, slid into a 10 ft ditch because I was speeding and changing a CD, got shot at twice, pepper-sprayed a big time drug dealer on his shirt then knocked his chair over because he kept saying rude shit to my girlfriend, challenged 4 Hawaiians to a fight in a bad part of Hawaii (they could have eaten me), let my drunk friend throw an ice pick at my head, I'm sure I'm missing some things. Should have died in Mexico years later too, forgot that one. And I'm sure this is tame by some people's standards here at SBR, especially the drug users, which I thankfully avoided that land-mine.

I was a sheltered kid, I overcompensated and I had some rage issues. I was still a good, thoughtful person that would have broken my mom and dad if I died, but in the moment, especially if you've avoided disaster before, it just doesn't register at the time.

I was and still am "the responsible one" in my group of friends.

We all do dumb shit, we're all lucky to have survived such bone-headedness. Some just don't get as lucky.

[BarkingToad]

Fernandez wasn't driving the boat. What did he do wrong? Nothing ....Is he going to monitor his buddies alcohol consumption? He was only 24. I don't think he did anything wrong except for knowing he was riding in a boat in a dangerous area at night. That said, he dealt with worse, coming from Cuba. I wouldn't be hating on this guy. I'd feel sorry for all parties involved except the driver of the boat.

Even if Fernandez wasn't driving the boat, he was the owner of Kaught Looking (backward K) and all 3 were drunk. I'm glad they were driving a boat instead of a car and hurt others.

[nyplayer33]

Rubbing his memory to dirt???? He's dead..it's over.

[lolz_69]

One less idiotic decision maker in the world. If he wasn't famous, everyone wouldnt even think twice about how retarded he was. Fascinating to see people jerking of to a dude bc he can throw 97 mph

[eidolon]

I think we could all be dead with our own bad decisions, but just didn't have bad luck he did that day.

[zert]

He is not a role model. Not in my book. It is tragic when somebody young dies or is killed in any accident. However some peoples comments are out of line and they should show a little more compassion for loss of life. But that would be asking to much in this place.

[lolz_69]

He is not a role model. Not in my book. It is tragic when somebody young dies or is killed in any accident. However some peoples comments are out of line and they should show a little more compassion for loss of life. But that would be asking to much in this place.

compassion goes to the family of his he supposedly committed to. Not him

[newguy]

I've made bad decisions in my 20s. Who hasn't. Shame this happened either way

[alling]

Fernandez wasn't driving the boat. What did he do wrong? Nothing ....Is he going to monitor his buddies alcohol consumption? He was only 24. I don't think he did anything wrong except for knowing he was riding in a boat in a dangerous area at night. That said, he dealt with worse, coming from Cuba. I wouldn't be hating on this guy. I'd feel sorry for all parties involved except the driver of the boat.

At this point they dont know who piloted the boat. It was his boat. It was idea to go boating past midnight after getting into a fight with his girlfriend. Odds are he was driving the boat.

[Igor_1965]

Alcohol is a killer

Let's drink to that

[RudyRuetigger]

Don't act like when you were younger, you just sat around and read books all day. Everybody wants a thrill now and then.

From 17-25, I pretty much did every dumb thing possible to get myself in huge trouble and/or harm or kill myself. I jumped in the Mississippi River, went after a homeless guy that pulled out a knife on me, slid into a 10 ft ditch because I was speeding and changing a CD, got shot at twice, pepper-sprayed a big time drug dealer on his shirt then knocked his chair over because he kept saying rude shit to my girlfriend, challenged 4 Hawaiians to a fight in a bad part of Hawaii (they could have eaten me), let my drunk friend throw an ice pick at my head, I'm sure I'm missing some things. Should have died in Mexico years later too, forgot that one. And I'm sure this is tame by some people's standards here at SBR, especially the drug users, which I thankfully avoided that land-mine.

I was a sheltered kid, I overcompensated and I had some rage issues. I was still a good, thoughtful person that would have broken my mom and dad if I died, but in the moment, especially if you've avoided disaster before, it just doesn't register at the time.

I was and still am "the responsible one" in my group of friends.

We all do dumb shit, we're all lucky to have survived such bone-headedness. Some just don't get as lucky.

i said, its a statistics problem.

a....times they make it out safe: us

b....times they die: them

c....times they kill someone else: ????

we got lucky and survived. so instead of feeling sorry for them, lets feel sorry for the 3rd group and talk about how shitty a and b were to have done that to c.








its like having 72o in poker and shove all in. sometimes you get screwed, sometimes you screw someone else, but its best to just not fukkin shove in with 72o and we should advocate that.

[innovation]

whose should we fry next?
paul walker, pat tillman, chris farley.....long list, let's roll

as fuked as its sounds what if they die doing what they love?

have to find some sort of medium between couch potato and ignorance of death.....live life or let life pass by you

[kidcudi92]

sbr full of angels and squares

unreal

[Jayvegas420]

Cudi basically Burried a drunk and some unknown poster, who's been here ten fukkin minutes.
Don't mess with Cudi!

[kidcudi92]

Cudi basically Burried a drunk and some unknown poster, who's been here ten fukkin minutes.
Don't mess with Cudi!

its too easy jay, it really is

[slambam]

Wow, came out this afternoon that he was twice the legal limit in alcohol and had cocaine in his system. What a damn moron. The booze doesn't surprise me, but the coke? Way to throw away your life, career, and hundreds of millions of dollars.

[Plaza23]

0.147 alcohol content and cocaine in his system. Doesn't MLB have a drug testing policy? And they honored this guy? Ridiculous. Guy was a loser.

[lolz_69]

I'm sure everyone sucking his rooster in this thread and attacking me will offer a heartfelt apology.

What a piece of shit

[lolz_69]

so just not gonna respond to the fact that you thought it was a felony to drive a car drunk??


idiot

Cocaine is a felony

penetrate you and your defense of this piece of shit

[lolz_69]

What a heroic angel, eh? I'm sure if your kid was killed by his actions you'd be saying to let him rest in piece.

People ignoring this teaching moment just because they hero-worship. Sad.

[lolz_69]

Everyone telling me to "just let him rest" can suck my dick. He's dead because of his actions. One less idiot in this world.

[thecutter]

Coke is cool

[lolz_69]

Coke is cool

not at cool as being alive

[lolz_69]

Jose Fernandez was a lowlife scumbag. Typical low IQ athlete. No one cares he could throw 97 mph. With his decision making, he would have been in jail or dead back in Cuba anyways

[thecutter]

Don't you think you're overreacting a bit ? I get your point but you're just trying to drive home a stale point that you were "right" about him being intoxicated .

[lolz_69]

Don't you think you're overreacting a bit ? I get your point but you're just trying to drive home a stale point that you were "right" about him being intoxicated .

Of course I'm overreacting.

the same way MLB and the media overreacted by painting him as a tragic hero we all shared a circle jerk over.

I DO NOT have an OUNCE of sympathy for a SELF-INFLICTED stupid decision with a family on the way. I want the hero-worshipers to wake up

[thecutter]

Ok but we aren't the media . I do have sympathy for a 24 year old kid knowing he's dead and won't get to reflect on past mistakes later on in life.

[lolz_69]

Ok but we aren't the media . I do have sympathy for a 24 year old kid knowing he's dead and won't get to reflect on past mistakes later on in life.

24 year old isn't kid. His family and child deserve sympathy. Not him.