101 RBI’s, 31 home runs, and a .323 batting average: all stats of a Major League superstar.
Two run-in’s with the police and a .26 blood alcohol content (at 6 am on the morning of a game day), seem more like the numbers of an unemployed drop out, not Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera.
Think about that for a second. Cabrera’s BA was nearly three times over the legal limit.
During a recent home stand, Cabrera has been getting pretty comfortable the bar at the Townsend Hotel in Downtown Birmingham. Instead of spending time at home with his wife and daughter, Cabrera decided to party it up at the Townsend until six in the morning with whom else? Players of the White Sox.
As a diehard Tiger fan, this comes as a severe disappointment to me and shows a very poor example. Ultimately, this situation has made Cabrera the butt of several jokes told by sports writers across America. This situation only proves one thing. Miguel Cabrera is completely immature and totally out of line.
The story doesn’t end there. A month later, Cabrera arrived at his home, drunk yet again. At nearly six in the morning on Saturday before the Tigers game against the Chicago White Sox, BPD were called to the Cabrera residence regarding a domestic dispute between Cabrera and his wife. Police were then called to the scene and drug tested the boozed up Cabrera. BPD then took Cabrera to the station where they awaited Detroit Tigers President, Dave Dombrowski.
Drinking while driving is not a joke. The fact is that Cabrera was not arrested for any alcohol offence. Now a drunk in Birmingham might not be too uncommon, but the fact that police did not arrest him or cuff him is irritating.
An all star setting a poor example, of course not a first, (*cough* Kobe). But unlike Kobe, it is most likely Cabrera won’t be facing jail time, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve to spend time behind bars.
Average citizens of Birmingham would have their life altered by after facing a drunken run in with the cops, but it seems that this is just a minor bump in the road for Cabrera.
Like Mitch Albom, I call foul play. In a domestic dispute where you have an abused wife and a completely drunk husband, it’s pretty obvious the aggressor was. In light of the 2009 Playoffs, I suspect Dombrowski is playing cover up and asking the BPD to stay quiet on the situation until a later time.
To sum up this entire situation, the word pathetic comes to mind. It doesn’t matter who he is or how high his stats are. A lowlife hits their wife is not a role model. Busting open her lip and destroying her phone in a drunken rage is downright awful.
“Baseball is a lot like life,” Ernie Harwell once said. “It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.”
What exactly are you doing with your opportunities, Cabrera? Ernie, fans, and the Tigers organization have been let down.
