Angel Villalona: Not such an Angel.
by astrosfanforever on Sep 20, 2009 4:38 PM EDT
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Murder is a really good way to become a prospect bust: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/12236985. That's awkward.
What effect does this have on the Giants? Who becomes their #1 Position prospect now? I mean it's fair to assume Angel Villalona will never pick up a baseball bat again except if they let them play in prison. This is very bizarre. My apologies Giants fan, but I guess maybe someone should've told him that killing people is bad?
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I'm fairly certain ...
you’re a retard.
LinceCain and pray for rain .... or for someone to take Zito off our hands.
Isn't Posey still eligible
Anyhow … certainly a story to track. I’d say ouch or something … but that doesn’t seem like it would do justice to the situation. Let’s let the process play out …
The Giants are definitely doing their part to make sure that Posey is still eligible.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
20 years in prison
if found guilty. Authorities already have arrested him after been searching for him for 12 hours.
Ugh.
He’s gone.
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turned himself in
Apparently shot a guy in a bar (allegedly of course).
wow crazy situation
baseball related im sure giants fan are happy they have garko/ishikawa for a few yrs now at 1b
Villalona was a couple years a way anyway...
Maybe the guy made a Pedro Cerrano joke. “Pedro no hit curveball…”
So this probably hurts his prospect standing, right?
I want to see John put him in his Top 20 with “Tendency to shoot people” as a negative.
by thejd44 on Sep 20, 2009 6:01 PM EDT reply actions
That would be hilarious
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by David Tokarz on Sep 21, 2009 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Put a Milo on him
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
by PaulThomas on Sep 20, 2009 7:24 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm going to blame this one on his lack of plate discipline.
by mrkupe on Sep 20, 2009 7:30 PM EDT reply actions 15 recs
re plate discipline
I don’t know if personal RECs do anything, but you’ve been REC’d for that comment, my friend!
OJ Simpson
Good comp??
Who loves orange soda?
No way, man
One used a machete, one used a gun. That’s like comparing a power guy to a speed guy.
by Lunkwill Fook on Sep 21, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yeah, but
OJ used a knife and killed 2 people (one of whom was a girl), so I don’t think he’s really that great of a comp. Plus, both OJ and Urbina were in their prime, while Angel still has his age 27 power spike to look forward to.
by OldDutchPots on Sep 21, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
c'mon
He had at least two more Naked Gun sequels in him.
There aren't many details available yet
Given that everyone knows that he received a $2M bonus, he could have been a big target for robbery, extortion, etc., so perhaps this was an act of self-defense or some other similar situation.
He has an initial court hearing today, so maybe more info will be presented.
Shoot first, ask questions later
I am told often by my teammates that the streets of the D.R. are dangerous. At times they exaggerate no doubt, but the latest data puts the murder rate at 23.57 per 100,000. This is much higher than the United States’ rate of 5.8, but also much lower than the famed city of Detroit, which posts a rate of 46.
Still, most of my Dominican teammates claim to carry a pistol with them wherever they go.
“Everyone else has a gun, so you have to carry one too,” one of them told me recently. “Especially if people know you are a baseball player, they might try robbing you, so you have to carry one for protection.”
I don’t know how much of their pistol-packing claims are based on truth and how much are based on myth-building machismo, but enough of them have made the statement that it seems plausible that a plethora of guns fill the streets of the D.R. With that many loaded weapons around, nothing good can come from an altercation.
http://minorleaguelife.blogspot.com/2009/09/villalona-teammate-turned-murder.html
This is what I actually meant to post..
Right-hander Waldis Joaquin, a fellow Dominican who played with Villalona at low-Class A Augusta last season, didn’t address his former teammate’s case specifically. But Joaquin pointed out that in his country, people occasionally shoot first and answer questions later if they’re being hassled by a group.
“Maybe if you have five people in one fight, you don’t want to leave, and if you have a gun, you [fire it],” Joaquin said
All via: http://deadspin.com/5364288/giants-teenage-prospect-now-a-murder-suspect
He did go to Florida State
So he probably already has shot someone in his life. And shoplifted. And taken a fake online course. And missed a field goal wide left or right vs. the Canes.
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