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Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Salvor_Hardin posted:

Goddamn Dan Haren owns.

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BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Dan Haren is awesome. He should be in a booth somewhere.

DICKS FOR DINNER
Sep 6, 2008

Stand Proud
Andy Marte died, in a car crash, apparently. Weirds me out that he was only 33, feels like an eternity since I heard his name last.

ALFbrot
Apr 17, 2002
Holy poo poo, Yordano Ventura has ALSO been killed in a car crash

https://twitter.com/CristianMorenoD/status/823196072738693120

bewbies
Sep 23, 2003

Fun Shoe
oh my god, what the hell?

well, this sucks. that guy was the most entertaining pitcher the royals ever had :(

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
The gently caress is with talented young pitchers dying in accidents? My god....

That makes his instagram post all the more depressing:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK_lRGMAcbv/

BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 22, 2017

Kevlar v2.0
Dec 25, 2003

=^•⩊•^=

ALFbrot posted:

Holy poo poo, Yordano Ventura has ALSO been killed in a car crash

https://twitter.com/CristianMorenoD/status/823196072738693120

Holy poo poo that's awful :smith:

Jen X
Sep 29, 2014

To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.
Ugh.

ZenVulgarity
Oct 9, 2012

I made the hat by transforming my zen

Good lord

JeterianGiftBasket
Jul 9, 2016

#re2pect
What the actual gently caress?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Nothing on the Royals Twitter or any of their sites.

Holding out hope that maybe they got it wrong??

Not holding my breath, though. But maybe there's a chance??

NiceGuy
Dec 13, 2006

This is my BOOMSTICK
College Slice
Not much to add but holy poo poo. What a tragic year for baseball it has been :smith:

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







Did they hit each other?

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
610 AM sports radio out of KC is talking about it. You can hear it on Tunein if you have the app.

:(

Both Marte and Ventura reported to be under the influence at the time of their deaths.

alpha_destroy
Mar 23, 2010

Billy Butler: Fat Guy by Day, Doubles Machine by Night
Maybe the other driver hit a weak come-backer in his general direction.


:( Despite his temper Ventura was one of my favorites. Except for like the week I was pissed and said they should trade him.

bewbies
Sep 23, 2003

Fun Shoe
there were always rumors that yordano had some issues with alcohol. just....ugh :(

Ishin
Dec 31, 2008

~the animatronic spirit of
so many forgotten waves
This loving sucks.

tadashi
Feb 20, 2006

jfc what a dumb year already

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
RIP to SAS's second least favorite active player :smith:

Seriously, I never had a nice word to say about him, but this still sucks. He didn't seem like an irredeemable scumbag, just immature and quick-tempered. I liked to think he'd grow out of it.

tadashi
Feb 20, 2006

When I was 25, I had no control over my terrible temper, either. I reallydid like watching Ventura pitch and this sucks horribly for Royals fans. :sympathy:

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Your Taint posted:

610 AM sports radio out of KC is talking about it. You can hear it on Tunein if you have the app.

:(

Both Marte and Ventura reported to be under the influence at the time of their deaths.

Any word on who was driving?

Troxartas
Jan 13, 2007

The Old Warhorse
Be careful on if you're on twitter, there's some photos from the wreck going around in case anyone's sensitive to that stuff

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

Julio Cruz posted:

Any word on who was driving?

I only listened for about 15 mins before I had to go and the hosts were just sharing memories.

If they know who was driving I'm not aware of it.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
Young stupid pitchers need to stop being stupid. Jose was under the Influence of alcohol and cocaine and Ventura was at the very least drunk.

Imagine having the young talent we've lost in the last few years on a team. Tavares manning rf and mashing dingers and Fernandez/Ventura at the top of your rotation.

BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 22, 2017

Exodor
Oct 1, 2004
Well this sucks.

And it makes me angry. Ventura was well aware of how Fernandez and Taveras died and he apparently chose to drive drunk anyway.

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe
Well gently caress. :rip: Yordano

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!
Yordano :(

Your Taint posted:

Young stupid pitchers need to stop being stupid. Jose was under the Influence of alcohol and cocaine and Ventura was at the very least drunk.

Did I miss something where it turned out that Jose was at fault for someone else crashing his boat, or is this just a super hosed up post?

Duke Pukem
Oct 23, 2010

Three cheers for dark beer!


jesus christ


:rip:

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

Paracaidas posted:

Did I miss something where it turned out that Jose was at fault for someone else crashing his boat, or is this just a super hosed up post?

Everyone on the boat was wasted and/or coked up, and I don't believe it was ever determined who was actually driving the boat.

Speaking of Jose

https://twitter.com/FlashGJr/status/823236000205901824

:smith:

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

YeahTubaMike posted:

Everyone on the boat was wasted and/or coked up, and I don't believe it was ever determined who was actually driving the boat.

Speaking of Jose

https://twitter.com/FlashGJr/status/823236000205901824

:smith:

It wasn't determined. And if Jose wasn't driving the boat he was impaired enough to let someone who was also impaired drive it.

AsInHowe
Jan 11, 2007

red winged angel
Nothing was learned from Taveras' death. Same with Fernandez.

Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute
:( Well that loving sucks.

AsInHowe posted:

Nothing was learned from Taveras' death. Same with Fernandez.

To be fair we know absolutely nothing about the crash yet besides it happened and Ventura is dead as a result. For all we know he was driving along perfectly fine and then some drunk shithead ran into oncoming and plowed into him.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Last night I was talking with my dad about how Ventura is such a head case that was likely to get himself killed in a bar fight one of these days.

This is kind of weird.

Rand alPaul fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jan 22, 2017

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe
Couple shots I got from the 2015 season.





Whether or not it turns out he was drunk, don't loving drink and drive.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Sydin posted:

:( Well that loving sucks.


To be fair we know absolutely nothing about the crash yet besides it happened and Ventura is dead as a result. For all we know he was driving along perfectly fine and then some drunk shithead ran into oncoming and plowed into him.

The only reports I've seen have stated that he was over the limit, but haven't said if he was driving or just a passenger.

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


This is horrible, even if they were under the influence.

Loss of life like this is still awful. And it's all the more tragic because that one choice may have made all the difference.

fknlo posted:

don't loving drink and drive.

Sandpuppy
Jun 16, 2012

Social Abscess
of the
Universe


RIP Yordano :smith:

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Shockingly people continue to drive drunk despite previous deaths related to such

:rip: though

nmfree
Aug 15, 2001

The Greater Goon: Breaking Hearts and Chains since 2006
https://twitter.com/atf13atf/status/823200191671050240

https://twitter.com/atf13atf/status/823200320792784897

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bewbies
Sep 23, 2003

Fun Shoe
I don't know why I liked this so much, Hosmer and Moustakas' tweets about Yordano are just kind of peak baseball bro I think:

https://twitter.com/TheRealHos35/status/823214095654600704

https://twitter.com/Mooose_8/status/823216055266877440

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