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it’s time for society to man up .

have these guys spend 30 days in the slammer BEFORE their case
goes to trial .

even rich guys , like this idiot cabrera .

enough innocent people have been victimized .

So I absolutely get what you’re saying. I hadn’t heard about the resisting issue, and that definitely makes it a little more difficult to get a decent plea. In my county the SA will not dismiss any DUI unless you get a “not guilty” through means of a stipulated bench trial. That’s his version of dismissing a DUI…basically the state admitting they have no evidence to convict and forcing the judge, in essence, to dismiss it.

Being a public defender, we don’t have the funding to get all those experts, which really sucks for us, but I’m assuming the 150 million dollar man can afford to pay his lawyers a little to cover the expert fees.

And sorry once again for taking over a fantasy baseball site with legal argument. Ha!

Anyhow, that he was not seen driving is a good fact for the defense, but it’s not insurmountable. Depending on a number of variables, the prosecutor could easily put together enough circumstantial evidence to show that he had been driving and that he was under the influence while doing so.

As far as the chugging skewing the toxicology reports, he didn’t take a breathalyzer, so I assume he had blood taken at the station. I don’t know what his BAC was. How his drinking near the time of the arrest could have affected his BAC depends on a lot of other variables. But his BAC was high enough that he thought that resisting arrest was a good idea, which makes me think that overall it was too high for his chugging to have much effect.

But I agree with you that it’s not a slam dunk, and even if the other facts are favorable to the prosecution, these sorts of cases are annoying to try because you have to bring in experts and explain how the body processes alcohol, etc. If he hadn’t resisted arrest, I would think they’d offer him a decent plea agreement. A friend of a friend had a similar experience (cops encountered him outside of his car, punching a wall) and got a “wet reckless.”

And I agree that this case is much better than most DUI cases, for the defense at least.

I really wish I was the cop that saw him chugging the scotch. I bet he was like, “You just dropped a round in my fantasy draft, Miggy.” I love that the first thing he said was “You don’t know my problems!”

@DonSlaughtOnslaught: See, we used to go with the Big Gulp.

Their ticker this morning also referenced Miggy “taking a swig of Scotch from a Scotch bottle” which is disappointing, because I like to think of Miggy drinking liquor from a Pepsi Big Slam like my high school friends and I did to be discreet at the movie theater.

McCann
Youk
Hanley
A-Rod
Ryan Howard
Josh Hamilton
Dunn

thank ya

@Wilsonian: Thanks for the heads up!

@mr baseball: Ah… Gotcha

@Lava: Hey, man, good to see you. I’d go with A-Gon.

Grey: I just saw Kurkjian on ESPN talking about Michael Young. Basically, Timmy was sawing that if Young is not traded, Young will still get 600 ABs playing all over the field. Paraphrasing, he said that he thinks the plan would be a lot of DH, a day here at short, a day there at second, some days at third, etc.

My question is how would it affect Young’s value if he ended up with 2B and/or SS eligibility later on in the season?

I’m a public defender in Illinois and this is much more of a defense than I generally get for my DUI clients. And I don’t know how your state is (or Florida for that matter) but Illinois is not a zero tolerance state. You can drink and drive, you just can’t be impaired or legally drunk while driving. With the toxicology reports possibly being skewed and the fact that there are no witnesses that I’m aware of to prove the State’s case that he was driving and was impaired while doing so, this is a case I would gladly roll the dice on and take to trial. Not saying it’s a slam dunk, as generally no case is, but it’s a helluva better defense than most people have when it comes to DUIs.

In a league which counts BB’s and NSB’s (instead of SB), would you prefer one of Fielder, A-Gon, or Teix, all who should give good OBP’s (and thus BB’s), or would you still take someone like Wright over them?

My reasoning for doing the former is that the few steals that some of these first rounders like Wright provide are diminished if they get caught stealing somewhat frequently.

I have the 11th pick in a 14 team league, so I’m pretty sure one of Zimmerman or A-Rod will fall back to me.

I forget that there is a new injuried Santana in town – Carlos Santana
I punt Catchers – unless no one wants him – I am not interested – I am more interested in creating my 4 man bullpen first

And completely off topic/out of the blue but I was going through the Razzball glossary of terms and noticed for Smugshot you reference Jair Jurrjens (Jar-Jar) and his f’ing grin. And that got me thinking the only other player I can think of who always has that f’ing grin on his face is Andruw Jones. Then I realized they are both (and the only 2 in ML history) from the tiny island of Curacao!? Do they force children to constantly have a shit-eating grin on their face or what? There must be more to it!

Grey is there room on your bench for Tito Santana

How deep does a draft has to be to have Tito Santana on your bench

@The Vaporizers: Reynolds one.

@Trevor4G: I like a bunch of their hitters. Their pitching’s kind of atrocious.

I’m getting more and more convinced that you are a closet pirate fan! haha come on just admit it… black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.

Chris Johnson, Dan Haren

Mark Reynolds, Joulys Chacin?

I’m definitely thinking you are going with the 2nd option there. The league is a 7×7 that includes hits and OPS so I was starting to think that Reynolds was going to hurt me with his .200 avg. And if I like the 2nd duo that much better, it would probably cost me like a 6th round pick in our draft (after we keep 8).