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by silent_bob on May 1, 2007 5:28 PM EDT

You all know the rest. I really wish that everyone who is casting stones please take a step back. All this speculating, conclusion-jumping, and finger-pointing really makes me ill. I tried reading through the comments after Larry's excellent post - but I couldn't.

Look, people... I know that we search for meaning in such times. But we have to also realize that this Cardinal team is grieving. Tony is grieving. Hell, most of US are grieving. And that's OK. If Josh Hancock was drinking and driving - well, so what? It does not take away from anything he did while he was on this earth.

As Larry stated earlier:

"it's beginning to look as if hancock was driving drunk. should that prove to be the case, there will need to be a reckoning; but that, too, should wait until the man has been buried. there is no hurry to do anything right now --- to play good baseball, to catch the brewers, or to proclaim the moral of the story. just get through the day."

Please. Give it some time.

RIP Josh.

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That's what I'm

saying. I don't care whether he was drinking.

by Toddius396 on May 1, 2007 6:00 PM EDT reply actions

the post

to me is the best newspaper around. but i wished they would have waited to run the article.

SWH

by BRINGBACKWILSON on May 1, 2007 9:35 PM EDT reply actions

I don't judge him any different

he was a good guy bottom line.

we will miss you Josh Hancock JH32

by kyle man on May 2, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions

That's not the point

I don't think anyone on this board is trying to degrade Josh Hancock or anything he did while he was alive....

However, people bring up what could have lead up to the crash to try to get all the facts straight. If we use an athlete, which seem immortal to us at times, as an example of what can happen to drunk drivers (etc.) then we might be able to save more lives in the process.

Thus, I sense some hypocrisy when others "jump to conclusions" and think we're trying to demoralize Josh Hancock. That's not the point (atleast for most of us) don't make it out to be.

RIP: Jack Buck, DK57 & JH32

by gibbons on May 3, 2007 4:54 PM EDT reply actions

Forgot to add

I do agree however that it shouldn't be discussed today because it doesn't make it any less tragic we lost him. In time though, I definitely think it would be wise to educate other young people (and really all people in general) about the dangers of drunk driving. I'm not trying to make a bad example of Josh Hancock, I'm trying to save lives and so indirectly Josh Hancock, even in the after life, is helping to save lives as well.

RIP: Jack Buck, DK57 & JH32

by gibbons on May 3, 2007 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions