This is a tactic regularly employed by Venezuelan robbers, by placing an object on the road and engineering a forced stop, or in this case a crash, they will then rob the vulnerable occupants as they’re stopped and helpless. News outlets in Venezuela report that the vehicle and occupants inside had been completely looted by the time authorities arrived on the scene, adding to the evidence of foul play. https://halohangout.com/2018/12/07/luis-valbuena-death-investigated-as-foul-play/ Venezuela is such a sadly ****ed up country. Oh, the 2 other people in the car who were wearing seatbelts survived. The 2 who died were not.
His bat flips, unlike many others, were never malicious unless it was against the rangers and odor(only done in retaliation). There was a joy about his bat flips and they will indeed be missed.
4 arrests made. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loc...ction-with-luis-valbuena-death-502199801.html Couple of good remembrances from Hinch and Luhnow. Also: League president Juan Jose Avila told Union Radio that he was evaluating the possibility of forbidding players to travel in private cars to move between games, saying if the players had been on the team bus, "nothing would have happened to them." Venezuelan teams tend to travel in buses protected by security forces.
That 15 team will always have a special place. First meaningful ballgames in a decade and so much fun with no expectations and a bright future. It was quite the motley assortment of flawed players and colorful characters. Whatever little heartbreak I might have held was entirely wiped away in 2017. It's all good memories now. Life can end so fast RIP
It's a ****ed up country full of desperate people and minimal rule of law. eta: I was thinking that was Venezuela also, was in the Dominican. What they did here is pretty much murder.
Yea different countries but same circumstances crushing poverty + minimal rule of law. No amount of poverty justifies either actions of course.
R.I.P Valbuena. Was pretty bummed out this morning when I heard it on the news. Always thought it was hilarious how he would bat flip literally anything
