To celebrate Good Friday, Mike Lupica went on a hot-button bender, linking the tragic death of that Angel rookie to the Jim Carrey video that staggered out of Joba Chamberlain's DWI case last week in Nebraska.
It was vintage Lupica: Sharpen a moral wooden stake, then drive it into the reader's heart. And, of course, he's right: Joba better clean up his clown act before he replaces Plaxico Burress atop the NY shitlist -- or far worse. Chew on this Lupician mouthful:
This wasn't the way it ended for Joba on Highway 77, south of Lincoln, Neb., driving his BMW with an open bottle of whiskey next to him near the intersection of Old Cheney Rd., going 71 in a 55 mph zone. Maybe now, after a $400 fine and nine months' probation and the loss of his driver's license for 60 days - this after some court dates got postponed around his spring training schedule - Chamberlain fully realizes how truly lucky he really was last October.
You get the point. Lupica should have been a family court judge. He'd lecture everybody 24/7, and they'd have to listen.
Well, here's a lecture he could have considered:
In the horrible aftermath of that DWI death, will baseball consider banning beer endorsements?
Isn't it rather questionable when the announcers decry the tragedy, the DWI crime, and then break to a Miller commercial?
Amen... Well said.
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Sheesh... I hate the man. Put him
and Schilling in a cage and I'd fight them both to the death, right now!
I'd pay to see that.
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