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Cardinals: Remembering Oscar Taveras the right way

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You can have sympathy for the weak, the strong, but not for the devil. What about the devil inside us all?

Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

A year ago, Oscar Taveras didn’t wake up because he made a mistake.

The young Cardinals outfielder drank five times the legal limit that the Dominican Republic allows drivers, got into his sports car with his girlfriend and went for a drive on wet rainy roads. It’s a bad decision to drive during a thunderstorm or during a serious downpour.