More bad news in the baseball world
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Lareux
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Noooooooo!! Fuck this sucks. My favorite young pitcher, was looking forward to him maturing and growing into a dominant, top of the rotation ace in the years to come. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
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Lareux
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How is this not on ESPN.com yet though, even though they're sourced in the article? As if anyone needed another reason to not follow that shit organization, they have plenty of articles up now about politics (through the left's eyes, of course), and even a couple of stories and a video about the dude who set the false alarm in the Steelers' hotel...but nothing about Yordano. Fuck outta here.
hugh613
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It's not up on Kansas City Star or MLB either. Probably just waiting on verification.
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Lareux
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ESPN "confirmed it" in the article that was posted...which is why I found it odd.
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Lareux
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Graphic pictures to follow. Mods can delete if necessary. This is from the Twitter feed of the Dominican national police colonel...
Fondybadger
CTG Partner
Lareux, can you remove the picture with the body in it? I just woke up and not the picture I think most people want to start their morning with.
Fondybadger
CTG Partner
Sports Illustrated, among other sources confirming
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Lareux
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Ex-MLBer Andy Marte also died in the DR in a car accident yesterday. What the fuck is going on down there.
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Lareux
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Sure. That's kinda why I wrote what I did before posting it. Jeebus.
hugh613
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Andy Marte, not Starling Marte.
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Lareux
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Yes. I edited my post. Probably as you were posting this.
Play2win
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Now
My top two favorite young mlb pitchers are no longer with us, awful
Play2win
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Same
Accident I believe
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Lareux
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I read they were unrelated.
KJ
Bump. Set. Shuma!
This is so upsetting, twice is brutal
Play2win
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source said same accident now I'm seeing different
nbafan88
Pretty much a regular
Now I understand
He wrote the message in white, five letters, two numbers, an expression to the world on a cool October night in Kansas City.
In the hours before Game 6 of the 2014 World Series, Yordano Ventura sought to pay tribute to his friend, Oscar Taveras, the Cardinals outfielder who had died days earlier in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. So he put the memorial on the front of his blue cap — “RIP O.T. #18” — and then went out and pitched the best game of his life, seven scoreless innings in a 10-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
On that day in 2014, the performance was both heartbreaking and inspiring. On Sunday, it turned haunting after Ventura met a similar fate, dying in a car crash on a highway in his native Dominican Republic.
The news of Ventura’s death rekindled the same sadness felt more than two years ago. It also sparked the same questions about the dangers of the roads in the Dominican Republic, the island country home to so many of the world’s best baseball players. On the same weekend that Ventura’s career ended too soon, the baseball world also mourned the death of Andy Marte, a former major-leaguer who died at age 33 in a separate crash in the Dominican.
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The issue is never far from the minds of baseball executives, the fears real and constant. On Sunday, Royals general manager Dayton Moore said he worries about the dangers “every day.”
“We’re always (cautioning our players),” Moore said. “And I’m more intentional about it, to the point where it’s probably maybe even goes in one ear and out the other. But we’re constantly saying things.”
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The roads in the Dominican Republic have long been among the most deadly in the world. In 2013, the World Health Organization released a report on road safety and vehicle-related deaths. The Dominican Republic ranked first in per capita fatalities with 41.7 deaths per year per 100,000 people. When stretched out over 70 years, a study in the Washington Post found that, over a lifetime, a Dominican person’s odds of dying in a car crash are one in 480.
The factors that led to the crash that killed Ventura remain somewhat unclear. There was no sign of alcohol at the scene, according to Moore, who was briefed on the incident. But officials will not have the results of a full toxicology report for close to three weeks. Moore told The Star that Ventura was driving on a mountainous stretch of highway and that foggy conditions may have played a role. He was also not wearing his seatbelt, which caused him to be ejected after he lost control of his customized white Jeep.
The road conditions in the Dominican, on the whole, do not measure up to those in the United States. But in a 2014 report after Taveras’ death, the Economist magazine noted that in a recent Global Competitiveness Report in the World Economic Forum, “Dominican road quality actually ranked well above average, ahead of countries like Italy and Norway.”
The issue, experts say, stems as much from cultural factors as economic ones. In the Dominican, both seat-belt and drunk-driving laws can be insufficient. In 2014, Taveras was reportedly found to be legally drunk at the time of his crash, which also killed his girlfriend, Edilia Arvelo.
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As a result, the Royals and other major-league teams stress education and awareness on the issue. But in the aftermath of Sunday’s two tragedies, baseball faced this reality: Even Ventura, a man who knew the pain of losing a friend in a car crash, could not escape the same fate.
“You see them as tremendously talented athletes,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Nothing could ever happen to them because they’re so strong, they’re so young. But then you see this.”
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RIP
its has a lot to do with culture, unfortunately. So sad.
He wrote the message in white, five letters, two numbers, an expression to the world on a cool October night in Kansas City.
In the hours before Game 6 of the 2014 World Series, Yordano Ventura sought to pay tribute to his friend, Oscar Taveras, the Cardinals outfielder who had died days earlier in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. So he put the memorial on the front of his blue cap — “RIP O.T. #18” — and then went out and pitched the best game of his life, seven scoreless innings in a 10-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
On that day in 2014, the performance was both heartbreaking and inspiring. On Sunday, it turned haunting after Ventura met a similar fate, dying in a car crash on a highway in his native Dominican Republic.
The news of Ventura’s death rekindled the same sadness felt more than two years ago. It also sparked the same questions about the dangers of the roads in the Dominican Republic, the island country home to so many of the world’s best baseball players. On the same weekend that Ventura’s career ended too soon, the baseball world also mourned the death of Andy Marte, a former major-leaguer who died at age 33 in a separate crash in the Dominican.
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The issue is never far from the minds of baseball executives, the fears real and constant. On Sunday, Royals general manager Dayton Moore said he worries about the dangers “every day.”
“We’re always (cautioning our players),” Moore said. “And I’m more intentional about it, to the point where it’s probably maybe even goes in one ear and out the other. But we’re constantly saying things.”
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The roads in the Dominican Republic have long been among the most deadly in the world. In 2013, the World Health Organization released a report on road safety and vehicle-related deaths. The Dominican Republic ranked first in per capita fatalities with 41.7 deaths per year per 100,000 people. When stretched out over 70 years, a study in the Washington Post found that, over a lifetime, a Dominican person’s odds of dying in a car crash are one in 480.
The factors that led to the crash that killed Ventura remain somewhat unclear. There was no sign of alcohol at the scene, according to Moore, who was briefed on the incident. But officials will not have the results of a full toxicology report for close to three weeks. Moore told The Star that Ventura was driving on a mountainous stretch of highway and that foggy conditions may have played a role. He was also not wearing his seatbelt, which caused him to be ejected after he lost control of his customized white Jeep.
The road conditions in the Dominican, on the whole, do not measure up to those in the United States. But in a 2014 report after Taveras’ death, the Economist magazine noted that in a recent Global Competitiveness Report in the World Economic Forum, “Dominican road quality actually ranked well above average, ahead of countries like Italy and Norway.”
The issue, experts say, stems as much from cultural factors as economic ones. In the Dominican, both seat-belt and drunk-driving laws can be insufficient. In 2014, Taveras was reportedly found to be legally drunk at the time of his crash, which also killed his girlfriend, Edilia Arvelo.
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As a result, the Royals and other major-league teams stress education and awareness on the issue. But in the aftermath of Sunday’s two tragedies, baseball faced this reality: Even Ventura, a man who knew the pain of losing a friend in a car crash, could not escape the same fate.
“You see them as tremendously talented athletes,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Nothing could ever happen to them because they’re so strong, they’re so young. But then you see this.”
Rustin Dodd: 816-234-4937, @rustindodd. Download True Blue, The Star’s free Royals app.
RIP
its has a lot to do with culture, unfortunately. So sad.
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Won't be known for sure until the toxicology report comes back, but there was nothing "alcohol related" found at the scene of the accident.
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Lareux
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They may, they may not. The thing is they're young kids with everything going for them, and feel as if they're invincible. You can tell/warn them all you want, doesn't mean they're going to listen. They still want to go home in the off season, and obviously will be driving to get around. It's a horrible tragedy (all of them), but outside of teams telling them they aren't allowed to go home or telling them they aren't allowed to drive if they do go home, there's not much they can do.
