Comments on: Miguel Cabrera receives probation, fine for his DUI charge

By: ernst2k

ernst2k — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:35:56 +0000

He wasn’t pulled over. He was already on the side of the road.

By: skids003

skids003 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:29:52 +0000

You reckon he can afford a driver? Not that driving without a license is a big deal.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:12:20 +0000

Correct.

My boss makes fun of me for using manifest “too often” in my writing (as if such a thing is possible), so I am sensitive to its correct use/meaning….and, as a lab/research group, we take pride in our submissions being well written.

By: rcali

rcali — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:25:42 +0000

O.J. killed two people and got off easier.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:18:05 +0000

Well, some of that is certainly true: we haven’t all the facts. The trouble is that the facts that are there seem pretty compelling. He’s a person with a severe alcohol problem who publicly threatened a good number of people and was driving drunk, recklessly, and in a clearly dangerous state when pulled over. That were you, would you get a $500 fine, probation and a 1 year suspension?

What bugs me is that is if it were you or I, assuming we don’t have effin millions and an entire organization to back us, could we have beat that charge? I’m guessing not.

Furthermore, how is literally getting away with it doing him any good? Sure he was drinking water. Maybe he’s had all the help a person could have got and is now clean and sober, forever & ever, amen (I hope thus this in fact the case, so help me dog). But its bad optics to be seen getting away with it. Diminishes the law. Emphasis the gap between how unfairly its applied from one person to the next with money being the grease. The law does not serve as a deterrent for him. But don’t you or I try that. Not unless we can hit baseballs around.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:07:32 +0000

Ok then. Lemme see if I got this straight & can use it correctly in a sentence: being pedantic is manifest in some people?

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:02:22 +0000

Go back to school.

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:56:00 +0000

Making money for itself?

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:51:46 +0000

“Who cares if he drinks? He just won the friggin batting title and is the best pure hitter in the game. As long as it doesn’t affect his on field performance then you should stay out of his personal life and mind your business.”

No one’s mad at him for drinking, idiot.

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:49:28 +0000

He just needs an “accountability partner” and soft-focus ESPN interview and he can be a “redemption story”.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:49:18 +0000

Things do not “manifest themselves”; they simply manifest.

By: frank433

frank433 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:43:20 +0000

I don’t understand how this allows his problem to manifest? He had an awesome year, and was caught on camera drinking water while his teammates celebrated with champaign. Should his fine bankrupt him to prove a point? Or should he be ordered into in-patient rehab? The truth of the matter is that we don’t know if he has a problem. We also don’t know how much of the story is true. Would the average person receive more of a fine or a stiffer penalty? Possibly. But, the average person also won’t have to be heckled in every city they visit.

By: joelgold

joelgold — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:43:18 +0000

And this has what to do with him driving drunk, threatening and endangering innocent people, and getting off with a slap on the wrist? If you can hit a baseball the rest of your actions don’t matter? C’mon.

By: texasredd

texasredd — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:27:35 +0000

Let me put this in perspective for you:
2011 stats
Batting ave. .344
RBI 105
HR 30
OPS 1.033

By: papacrick

papacrick — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:22:16 +0000

Who cares if he drinks? He just won the friggin batting title and is the best pure hitter in the game. As long as it doesn’t affect his on field performance then you should stay out of his personal life and mind your business.

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:39:47 +0000

Our judicial system at work…making money for itself.

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:25:24 +0000

Scotch corrupts.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:17:10 +0000

Slap on the wrist, in other words. Jeez. He needs help. Like, lots. All this does is enable his problems to manifest themselves.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:13:18 +0000

$500? Don’t they know he has kids to feed? Is his family just supposed to starve? Harsh, man, harsh.

By: cerowb

cerowb — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:03:04 +0000

He has no reason to. What lesson did he learn? He’ll pay his nickel and hire a driver. This is disgusting.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:01:27 +0000

Craig, what could Cabrera have been charged with if he was charged for crimes for all of his alcohol-related matters? Like, maximum penalty?

By: natsattack

natsattack — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:00:27 +0000

I hope he never touches another drop of alcohol in his life, plays well, and lives happily ever after.

By: muckthefets23

muckthefets23 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:54:57 +0000

If that’s all he got for that kind of a DUI stop then he got off easy. Most of the time DUI’s come with multiple fines, court costs and programs that you have to attend to “rehabilitate” yourself.

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:53:38 +0000

Celeb gets off. No film at 11.

No surprise, either. Power corrupts.