DJ Spinoza
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- Aug 7, 2003
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I'm wary of drawing any hard and fast conclusions with so little information, but to me the idea that a "spokesperson for the prosecutor" is asserting that he smelled of alcohol, but that nevertheless no test was done due to a "procedural error" is really hard to sort out and pretty thin. (See Mackey's tweets, I'm not linking him because he annoys me).
Obviously I/maybe we are biased, but to me it looks shadier if the news ends up being that there was a test taken that somehow got ruled inadmissible into court. It actually sounds like no test was taken on the scene, or presumably afterwards.
People feel very passionately about this issue for obvious reasons, and it's not something to make light of. But based on evidence and reaching conclusions, things don't add up here. It's speculative, but feasible that he would have been drinking given the time this occurred. However, the initial reports about the motorcycle not having headlights, being on the wrong side of the road, etc., have now fallen out of sight too. I just have trouble seeing how all the elements add up and I'm not willing to railroad the guy without evidence. For me it's a lot different of a situation than the common but I guess less widely accepted situation in sports of domestic violence, which the Pirates have their own issues with in terms of Bae.
I imagine due to how passionate this issue becomes, people will already have made up their mind, but absent a big shift in available information, I'm not going to make a judgment. And I think in terms of pure cynicism, there's no way the Pirates would cut him or anything along those lines, as someone else would pick him up tomorrow. None of this, obviously, says anything about whether this will be a hugely inhibiting problem for Cruz, who already may have had trouble reaching his ceiling anyways. I guess we'll see.
Obviously I/maybe we are biased, but to me it looks shadier if the news ends up being that there was a test taken that somehow got ruled inadmissible into court. It actually sounds like no test was taken on the scene, or presumably afterwards.
People feel very passionately about this issue for obvious reasons, and it's not something to make light of. But based on evidence and reaching conclusions, things don't add up here. It's speculative, but feasible that he would have been drinking given the time this occurred. However, the initial reports about the motorcycle not having headlights, being on the wrong side of the road, etc., have now fallen out of sight too. I just have trouble seeing how all the elements add up and I'm not willing to railroad the guy without evidence. For me it's a lot different of a situation than the common but I guess less widely accepted situation in sports of domestic violence, which the Pirates have their own issues with in terms of Bae.
I imagine due to how passionate this issue becomes, people will already have made up their mind, but absent a big shift in available information, I'm not going to make a judgment. And I think in terms of pure cynicism, there's no way the Pirates would cut him or anything along those lines, as someone else would pick him up tomorrow. None of this, obviously, says anything about whether this will be a hugely inhibiting problem for Cruz, who already may have had trouble reaching his ceiling anyways. I guess we'll see.
