The complicated, conflicted legacy of Jose Fernandez took another turn Thursday. It is a tragic saga that won’t stop looming over the coming Miami Marlins season in ways at once touching and troubling.
Nothing about this is easy.
The latest development — that investigators have determined Jose was driving the boat that awful night — now becomes a part of the reality of a young man’s life and death.
Fernandez was responsible for his own demise and that of two buddies in that boat. That now has been officially declared.
Does it change nothing? Or might it change the way some consider the totality of his life’s story?