Jim Leyritz was driving with a suspended license

by Dex on Jan 2, 2008 12:31 PM PST in News

I was just starting to feel a little bit bad about being so harsh in regards to Jim Leyritz, when I learned that he was driving with a suspended license. UGH. That dude deserves the harshest punishment possible.

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What an arrogant ass.

He really, really believed that the laws created for mere mortals didn't apply to him.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 2, 2008 4:15 PM PST 0 recs

damn

karma for taking parting shots at T Gwynn...

i loved him in 98, his homer against Houston in the playoffs still vividly lives in my mind as a great Padre moment...right up there with hairston's homer to bring us to the playoffs this year.... oh wait...Hoffman blew our entire season. i forgot.

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by Peavyforprez08 on Jan 2, 2008 5:33 PM PST 0 recs

by the way

if your in vasgersian withdrawl turn to the fiesta bowl on fox. i can close my eyes and almost feel like its padre season again if i zone out what they are saying....

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by Peavyforprez08 on Jan 2, 2008 5:35 PM PST 0 recs

It's a beautiful thing.

I never imagined I'd ever be hearing Matty V. calling an Owen Schmitt TD run.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 2, 2008 6:45 PM PST up 0 recs

Jim Leyritz's Driving with a Suspended License

Interesting comment on Leyritz. I just took the exact opposite position here:

http://www.marylandlawyerblog.com/2008/01/jim_leyritzs_drivers_license_w.html

Ron Miller www.marylandlawyerblog.com

by RonaldMiller on Jan 3, 2008 7:41 AM PST 0 recs

I see your point

I guess to me, the suspended license thing was the final straw that there was absolutely no reason for him to be driving at all. In other words, not only did he know that he was going to be getting wasted, but he should have known that he shouldn't have legally been driving anyway.

by Dex on Jan 3, 2008 8:57 AM PST up 0 recs

What got me

was that it was suspended because he failed to appear. They write your appearance date on traffic tickets (trust me, I should know) so it seems like the suspension could have been easily avoidable, except he decided his time was too important to be wasting on something like showing up for a minor traffic offense or even making the neccesary phone calls to rectify it before the date given. The whole thing reeks of him feeling above the law and that's why it made me a little bit extra-sickened.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 3, 2008 10:53 AM PST up 0 recs

A Failure to Appear (FTA)

shows the exact same disragard for the laws that driving with a suspendd license does. About the only reason to have a suspended license that I (or any judge) have any sympathy for is a license that has been suspended for failure to pay fines (and only if you truly cannot afford to pay the fines, something that this ass cannot say). An FTA is the same as flipping off the officer that ticketed you, the judge, the court, and the rest of society that supports the law that you were violating when you were ticketed.

And most jurisdictions don't require you to appear for minor infractions (like 5 miles over) - the small infractions are prepayable. So the jurisdiction that suspended his license clearly felt that driving while on the cell phone was an important enough issue to justify requiring an appearance. And the ass didn't even have to appear himself, in most jurisdictions a lawyer can appear for you - and he could afford to hire a lawyer to appear for him if his time was too valuable.

COMPLETE ASSHOLE MOVE. FTAs are a d-bag move at it's heart. It was just a warning of the assholeness that was to come. They take your license away for a reason. He wasn't supposed to be driving at all, he absolutely shouldn't have been driving drunk, and he most f*cking definitely should not have killed someone.

I'd say he's pretty much the lowest of the low right now. I'm going to forgt he was ever a Padre.

by Demoira on Jan 3, 2008 12:31 PM PST up 0 recs

Leyritz

Again, believe me, if he got drunk and killed someone, it is beyond awful. Way beyond awful. But a suspended license for talking on a cell phone? I appreciate the point about this being an indicia of arrogance but some people just lose track of this kinda stuff. (I did in fact recently!) My point is we should focus on what really matters. The suggestion that "he should not have been driving" because he had a suspended license is faulty, I think. If he had been pulled over for speeding, it would not have been a big deal. The only reason the suspended license is a big deal is because he killed someone. And that, my friends, is what the real big deal is.

Ron Miller www.marylandlawyerblog.com

by RonaldMiller on Jan 3, 2008 1:39 PM PST 0 recs

second ronald

the suspended license is like the color of the gun someone shot a person with. it's irrelevant.
he drove drunk and killed someone. anyone can have bizarre things happen when they're driving and cause an accident. bee in the window, heart attack, screaming kid hits you with a buzz lightyear. driving drunk is a decision. and it cost a poor woman her life.

-- Ugh, kid, you just tweezed my wang!

by garth on Jan 4, 2008 12:27 AM PST 0 recs

I think it's relevant

just because it lends an insight into his mentality. The fact that he has a history of living like he's above the law should help prevent leniency. Just because it was a non-fatal offense doesn't change the fact; if you steal a dollar, you're just as much of a thief as DB Cooper. Let's nevermind for a second that he was suspended for failing to appear and look at the original offense- driving with one hand holding a phone to your ear is dangerous. Studies have been conducted and it was found that this is essentially a chemical-free way of driving under the influence and laws were put into place to protect drivers. By not obeying that law, Leyritz made it clear that he has no respect for other human lives in his path, foreshadowing what was yet to come.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 4, 2008 9:24 AM PST up 0 recs

D.B. Cooper!

To describe D.B. Cooper as a "thief" is like describing Liberace as a "pianist". Miss out on all the weirdness.

by Dex on Jan 4, 2008 9:55 AM PST up 0 recs

But you see what I mean, right?

When you strip away the backstory and legend, they each basically did the same things as Ken Lay and John Tesh, respectively. Circumstances and time just obscure reality to make us think otherwise, much like how Charles Oakley is remembered as a good rebounder but Dennis Rodman is that guy that wore a wedding dress to a book signing and had sex with Madonna.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 4, 2008 10:40 AM PST up 0 recs