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Shooting Victim Had Planned Dodger Tryout
2006-12-17 18:41
Multiple reports indicate that Sean Bell, who was killed by police the morning of his wedding day last month, was training for an open tryout with the Dodgers in Vero Beach next season. After playing in high school and at Nassau Community College, Bell's career stalled in 2003. He became a father, had some run-ins with the law. But he was attempting a baseball comeback at age 23 before he died, and though the odds were just about insurmountably against him, apparently he did have an invitation from the Dodgers in hand to at least come show his stuff. This is a footnote to a much larger story, of course - I just hadn't known about the Dodger connection until tonight. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
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which is?
I wasn't under the impression that this was something to kick and giggle about ?
The fact that Sean Bell did have the tryout on his agenda does underline the tragedy of the situation, but obviously (but it still evidently needs to be said) it doesn't make his death any MORE tragic and it doesn't make the trigger happy police (even Republican NYC Mayor Bloomberg referred to the situation as a…uhh… "excessive use of force"…) any more guilty than they already are…
To see how the police bullets just flied around the entire neighborhood, see the film from surveillance cameras at www.democracynow.org
from far away i feel back in the "crux of the matter"(to use last week's cliché)as far as Baseball is concerned. But the sad discussion (quantitatively and qualitatively) of this topic just to serves to remind me why I'm glad left the USA
(but that doesn't keep me from missing baseball…and Mexican food…)
I mean, over 100 posts about ketchup(!) and just 6 posts about the Sean Bell calamity which tragically is more intelligently and sympathetically discussed here in France than in the USA.
I definitely give credit to Jon for bringing up the subject.
Ultimately, I understand your frustration (for lack of a better word). I'm just not sure anyone had anything insightful to add to such a tragedy. It's not that ketchup is more important than this, it's just that the pressure isn't as great to be meaningful.
There are certainly other places in the U.S. that are discussing this topic, passionately.
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