10-year Marliniversary: Fernández wraps up stellar rookie season with gem, first career homer

[Mike Ferguson]

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[Guest kommenter]

This is really disgusting to glorify a mass murderer in this way. Everyone needs to read the official Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission report which states that Fernandez intentionally got drunk and high on cocaine and committed two acts of vessel homicide. Had he lived, he would have spent his life in a Florida maximum security prison. Saying that he was just among the people to die in a boating accident is like saying Hitler was among the people to die during the gas chambers accidents. Jose Fernandez was a cocaine addict and mass murderer. We should glorify his victims - Emilio Jesus Macias and Eduardo Rivero - not Jose. The Marlins recognized this by removing his shrine, the City of Miami recognized this by cancelling plans to name a street after him and his family recognized this by finally paying the victims' families. It's time Fish on First recognizes it too.

[Ely Sussman]

His mistakes off the field have forever stained his legacy, but his accomplishments and exuberance on the field will still be celebrated here.

[Guest kommenter]

You need to change your policy of celebrating mass murders. Hitler was known for his exhuberant speeches, but no one honors him. Every time someone honors the killer, they bring new hurt to the Macias and Rivero families. How about a piece interviewing them and telling their story? The author of this piece, Mike Ferguson, has a picture of his two young beautiful girls on his X homepage. If they were killed by a drunk and drugged driver would you honor their killer for his exhuberance? In his profile, he says he is a Christian, but he does not act like it. And making matters worse, the article falsely states that the killer was a passive victim of an "accident". The official government report stated that he committed two acts of vessel homicide. Under the law, when you drink and take drugs then get behind the wheel, that act is intentional, not an accident. Think about the victims rather than your own immature glorification of a deceased baseball player. No one else honors him ever since the truth came out.