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RIP Oscar

Post by Chest Rockwell » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:07 pm

Young man with his whole entire life ahead of him. He would have been a fun guy to watch in our hobby too. So sad...
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by Edwards Kings » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:56 am

Just saw this...man, makes you think....
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by Cobb » Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:01 am

Chest Rockwell wrote:Young man with his whole entire life ahead of him. He would have been a fun guy to watch in our hobby too. So sad...
Very true Kent. Heartbreaking.
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by Winston's Empire » Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:55 am

Man I hate stuff like this. Young kid, so talented with his whole life ahead of him just gone.
Makes you really scratch your head and thank God for today.
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:36 pm

Incredibly sad news and it was almost numbing to see this on Twitter last night. It was like a bad rumor that you were hoping someone would disprove, but it never came. Just very sad for Taveras and his fiancee. Our thoughts go out to all families involved and to the Cardinals' organization who had been developing a very promising young man/player.

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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by GoCrazyFolks » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:22 pm

I am grateful that I was fortunate enough to watch the young man play in the minors several times as well as at Busch. You can always tell when a player has "it" and this kid certainly did. Enjoy and appreciate every day everyone.
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by whale4evr » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:21 pm

A bad thing gets worse. Looks like he was drunk at the time -- 5 times the legal limt. Don't know what the legal limit there is but even if it is .05, .25 is pretty messed up. :(
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by poopytooth » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:05 pm

Hopefully it stops one person from drunk driving. It is a shame, for his family and his girlfriend's.
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Re: RIP Oscar

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:47 pm

whale4evr wrote:A bad thing gets worse. Looks like he was drunk at the time -- 5 times the legal limt. Don't know what the legal limit there is but even if it is .05, .25 is pretty messed up. :(
Very, very sad and two lives shortened because of it. .25 is VERY messed up. Incredible that someone couldn't have talked him out of driving at that level.
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