Sean Taylor Passes Away!!!!
Don't know what else to say........this kid had ALL the potential in the World........Really Really Sad..........
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hmmm
by kumar75150 on Nov 27, 2007 5:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I guess that's
by DJCahill on Nov 27, 2007 6:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
RIP
by DSheppard on Nov 27, 2007 6:57 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I was driving
by tdi1985 on Nov 27, 2007 7:15 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Sad to hear.
by NYTXFAN on Nov 27, 2007 6:57 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Truly Sad
Prayers go out to his family. Really sad.
by Taylor on Nov 27, 2007 7:35 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I feel
by the other dierk in dallas on Nov 28, 2007 12:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Just sad
by Agreen07 on Nov 27, 2007 7:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Even
by brettgardner on Nov 27, 2007 8:04 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I think
by tdi1985 on Nov 27, 2007 10:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
They all said he was in serious
by Agreen07 on Nov 27, 2007 10:28 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
shot in his leg
by ab03 on Nov 27, 2007 10:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah...
by tdi1985 on Nov 27, 2007 11:24 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
It was a random radio report
They basically said he was shot in the leg in his Miami home, without mentioning his condition. I'm sure if I read an AP report I would have known better, but I was on the interstate.
I'm definitely not saying that takes away from what they knew in the beginning, or how serious it was from the beginning... Just telling you what I heard.
by tdi1985 on Nov 27, 2007 11:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
what the hell?
by slash on Nov 27, 2007 6:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
and...
I really don't understand you, go find another thread to find something to bitch about, honestly....what kind of person looks at this as an oppurtunity to complain and bitch about something else???
by slash on Nov 27, 2007 6:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
No
You had a stupid diary and a real dummy reaction to the situation. I said my opinion along with others, including yourself. Stop getting defensive and put more time and thought into your next post.
by brettgardner on Nov 27, 2007 7:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i think the wilbon article sums up the angst
-wilbon
what he says is harsh, but i think a lot of people are going with his line of thought. maybe its a racial bias i cant nail it down, wilbon is black, im not sure a white guy wouldnt get nailed to the wall for saying the same thing.
by Jayslick on Nov 27, 2007 8:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'd sure like to know
He is right about one thing though--he has no idea what happened and his petty and elitist reaction serves only to make him look like a fool.
People sicken me. Nobody--not the worst scumbag in the world--deserves to be burglarized and shot in his home with his little daughter and wife close by. Society doesn't function very well if we decide that this guy probably deserved it so we don't have to care as much. Personally, I hope they find the guy(s) who did it and kill them with the same amount of uncaring evil they themselves showed.
by brettgardner on Nov 27, 2007 9:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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"Personally, I hope they find the guy(s) who did it and kill them with the same amount of uncaring evil they themselves showed."
Those two sentences contradict each other...
by miles on Nov 27, 2007 10:38 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
No
Hell, maybe Sean Taylor pissed a lot of guys off. Maybe some bad ones. Maybe he should have been more careful. But to say that it's no surprise and hardly devote a thought to it is ridiculous to me.
ESPN just ran a segment where they pretended to be sad and did their best job to trash the guy, including among his offenses that he hit the punter during the pro-bowl as if that were some kind of ignominious sin. The guy did his job, and maybe if ESPN did theirs half as well, we wouldn't all be starved for a sports network that didn't have its head 10 feet up its own ass.
by brettgardner on Nov 27, 2007 11:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Re:
Sean Taylor was not a criminal. He did not have a troubled past. He was charged with aggravated assault by an over-eager DA who was later effectively removed from the case. Shortly thereafter, the new DA dropped the aggravated assault charge and Sean Taylor, though protesting while claiming his own innocence, was willing to accept a NO CONTEST plea (like you do with traffic tickets) to misdemeanor simple battery and misdemeanor simple assault. The defining elements of those crimes are the LACK of a weapon and the LACK of serious injury to the "victim" who in this case happened to be a guy that robbed Sean Taylor.
Regarding the DUI attempt, one judge dismissed the charge outright after watching the roadside sobriety test. The Refusal to Take a Breathalizer charge was dropped on APPEAL by Sean Taylor after another judge concluded that the arresting officer lacked probable cause.
Outside those two incidents, there isn't any reporting going on of Sean Taylor "embrac[ing]" a violent world outside his passionate play on the field that frequently got him in trouble with the league. But you can't just substitute spitting incidents and hard hits on the field as evidence that he "refused to divorce himself from" a violent past. It is a game, albeit a violent one, and Sean Taylor played it correctly.
by Skin Patrol on Nov 28, 2007 6:57 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Good
by the other dierk in dallas on Nov 28, 2007 12:15 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Im an asshole
by Jayslick on Nov 27, 2007 10:08 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
see
by Walter Sobchak on Nov 27, 2007 10:12 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Always weird
by Wes Cox on Nov 27, 2007 10:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
This is also strange:
"Police found signs of forced entry, but have not determined if they were caused Monday or during the previous burglary.
The shooting happened in the pale yellow house Taylor bought two years ago. In last week's break-in, police said someone pried open a front window, rifled through drawers and left a kitchen knife on a bed.
"They're really sifting through that incident and today's incident," Miami-Dade Detective Mario Rachid said, "to see if there's any correlation."
Why did he have his family still in that home? He had the financial means to relocate them temporarily, obviously. The knife on the bed thing, I guess, could be nothing, but it also very well could be some sort of sinister message, especially since nothing was stolen.
My wife would demand we leave, especially if we had a young child. Jesus, at the very least, I'd have a alot more than a machet by the bed.
This really puzzles me. When he was rehabbing in Washington, were his wife and child at his FLA. home?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 27, 2007 11:01 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
machete
by ab03 on Nov 27, 2007 11:04 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
there's a reason he wasnt using a gun
by Jayslick on Nov 27, 2007 11:33 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
the alternative shouldnt' be machete
by ab03 on Nov 27, 2007 1:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
sinister message
yeah, the knife laid on the bed is pretty telling, plus the fact that he was shot at close range in the leg. Hate to speculate, but it seems the motive was something other than burglary or murder.
by tricer on Nov 27, 2007 11:09 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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