Lasting Legacy of Jose Fernandez

Jose Fernandez died September 25^th in a boating accident with two friends early in the morning. Jose Fernandez was the Miami Marlin’s star young pitcher who was expecting to get paid a lot of money this offseason.

The death of Fernandez not only affected the Marlins organization but baseball as a whole. Fernandez was described as the spark in baseball. He was what baseball needed many said.

I sat down with baseball enthusiast Kyle Hiser to asked him what his reaction was when he heard the news about Fernandez

“When his teammates, manager, and general manager all broke down and cried at the press conference after the accident, it really hit me in the feels. I have never felt so much emotion in a two minute video I’ve watched on TV.”

Fernandez was known to play with a little swagger and cockiness. When he struck somebody out he would get fired up. And if somebody hit a homerun off of him, he expected that person to show off to him, and he would respectfully tip his cap and say you got me.

I also sat down with huge baseball fan Bryce Gustafson and asked him what he got out of the death of Fernandez.

“It really brings you down to Earth and it shows you that nobody is invincible. Not even one of the best young pitchers in the game was vulnerable.”

Many believe baseball is a dying sport. It is a sport where it is not as exciting to watch as a sport like football is. Baseball takes a lot longer, with a lot less exciting plays. And baseball plays six out of every seven days. Which means you don’t have to wait a week every time you want to watch your team play.

Fernandez played baseball like a little kid. He had a ton of excitement when things were going well, and would take losses and bad performances hard. Fernandez played the game like everybody should according to many baseball players including Washington Nationals outfielder, Bryce Harper.

Hiser went on to say, “I was crushed. He was a phenom and has so much talent and potential. I was most hit by his love for the game how he played with charisma and excitement.”

Fernandez’s death made us remember that it is just a game, but it’s a fun game. Fernandez by no means a hall of famer, but his lasting legacy of the way he played the game will forever be remembered as one that everybody should play with.

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I looked at a video and print stories for Jose Fernandez. They both really describe what Jose Fernandez was about and talked about how he had a legacy on the sport. In the print story, it talks about what Fernandez did that made him the way he was and that resulted in why so many people loved to watch him play. In the video story, it talked about how he played with such passion and flare, and it also showed him doing some of his best plays or most emotional plays. The best was a video of him catching a line drive that went right to the him hard up the middle and he snagged it and got an exciting look on his face as he stared down Troy Tulowitzki, the man who hit the ball. Tulowitzki looked at Fernandez and said “did you really catch that?” Fernandez looked at him and yelled “yup.” Seeing this side of Fernandez makes the print stories almost useless unless you want to hear all the background of him, like some articles do about his death. Overall I think that video is better for entertainment, but I believe that print is better for knowledge.

Madison Bumgarner faced the New York Mets last night. And Bumgarner was Bumgarner. Bumgarner was his typically October self. He went out and threw 9 shutout innings, giving up just 4 hits in a winner takes all playoff game in a 3-0 win over the Mets. The article goes on to attempt to explain how he has been so good and effective, especially in the postseason. His teammates go on to explain that he is unexplainable. He is a legend and there is no doubt about it. You can’t explain how he does it, but he does it consistently. One thing that bother me in this article was the use of “verrry.” They used that to describe how good he has been, and I think the author could of done it a lot better. Overall this was a good article and some of the stats within blew my mind about how he is in the postseason, and I don’t really get to surprised by too many things.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17726162/san-francisco-giants-madison-bumgarner-owns-october

Jose Fernandez died Sunday morning in a boating accident late in the night on the coast of Miami after finding out his girlfriend was pregnant and he went out on the boat to celebrate with two friends. Jose Fernandez left the baseball world and sports world in shock. It made think about Jose’s legacy. Jose, a 24 year old, no where near ready to be put in the Hall of Fame. Jose may not have been a hall of famer, but he did leave a lasting legacy on the game of baseball. Baseball is in a time of dyer need for some personality, or fun. People say that Jose had fire. Jose pitched with a sense or cockiness which him fun to watch. Jose, when no pitching, would sit in the dugout and have a good time in front of the camera, he would dance, and he would also be cheering for the Marlins teams louder then any fan. Jose may be gone, but his legacy will live on forever. Overall this article is great no matter if you are a sports fan or not. This article will touch your heart and make you feel a certain way about sports that you haven’t felt in years. I would recommend this article to anybody and everybody. This article relates to the class because it is written with very short, and concise sentences and has pictures and videos in between paragraphs so you can see what they are talking about.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17649775/jose-fernandez-reminded-us-all-good-baseball

This article is about a rookie quarterback for the New England Patriots, Jacoby Brissett, who made his first career NFL start Monday night and is the first rookie to start at quarterback for the Patriots since Drew Bledsoe did back in 1993. The article talks about the game as a whole too. The Patriots won 27-0 over the Houston Texans who are known for having one of the best defenses in the league. LeGarrette Blount is also briefly mentioned for back-to-back breakout performances, where he had 105 rushing yards and 2 huge touchdowns. Overall, the article would be good for any typical sports fan. I was also impressed with how fast this article was written. It was on ESPN.com within 5 minutes of the game ending which is impressive, and extremely helpful considering I procrastinated on this assignment.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=400874551

As I walked in the back door of the Library, I saw two young men sitting there. Their names were Zach and Chandler. I introduced myself as Hunter Davis and asked them if I could take a picture of them for a class and explain what the requirements were. Then after the picture I thanked them for letting me take the picture and asked them what they were doing. They were both waiting. Chandler was waiting for his next class to start and was just chilling with his legs up, playing a game on his phone. Zach was waiting for his friend to get out of the bathroom so they could head to the cafe together. Zach and his friend were studying for a test they have coming up.

Four families evacuated due to gas that flooded sewer lines for two blocks because of a Texaco gasoline truck that overturned on the outskirts of Sioux City. Cars are being rerouted to side streets because of the accident on the intersection of 48th street and Correctionville Road.

Fire Chief Charles Hochandel said “The firemen followed catastrophe and hazmat procedures set up beforehand for just such an occurrence.” This event was very serious for roughly two hours until the gas was flushed away. Street and ditched were cleaned thoroughly.

Ten upperclassmen from East High suspended for one week. Students had a rough week at East High, where multiple things have caused an uproar. On Monday, students were said to say that they were protesting a suspension of 5 students from the previous week who were caught smoking marijuana in the school parking lot.

All this rambunctious behavior was following up by a food fight in the cafeteria Tuesday. And was follow up Wednesday with a false alarm sounded three times. Though the 10 students were found guilty. They still don’t know who did it and they are the leading candidates.

Principal Laura Vibelius commented that there was general unrest. “Not so much unrest because of suspensions, but because of summer vacation being so near,” Vibelius said. Sibelius also went on to say she sees no more incidents in the near future.

Fire fighter falls from tree and break leg attempting to save a cat. A local fire fighter, Bob Harwood responded to a call on 102 11th avenue to a cat in tree. The Calico cat was the pride and joy of Suzanne and Samantha Decker.

Harwood fell 15 feet from the tree when some dead limbs broke. Harwood broke his left leg. Harwood is doing “just fine” he said while at St. Lukes Hospital. The cat is also doing just fine as it landed safely on top of Harwood as the limbs broke to pieces.

Local man killed today in car accident. Moyer Quick, a 65 year old man from Sioux City collided with a truck driven by Randy Radin, a 17 year old from Sioux City. The accident occurred on Highway 20, just outside Sioux City.

Moyer Quick was not killed instantly during the car accident. Quick was found killed through an autopsy of a heart failure. It is not official whether it was during the accident, before, or after.

Three survivors were taking to a Marian health center. Survivors included wife of deceased driver Dorothy Quick, 61 and Maxine Steuerwald, a 43 year old women from Lawton. The accident occurred when Quick tried to passed Radin but struck the rear-end of the vehicle causing both cars to enter the ditch.

Radin was later pronounced at 8:17 AM today. Radin was previously kept in intensive care. Dorothy Quick and Maxine Steuerwald were released the day of from the hospital. Steuerwald was the daughter-in-law to the Quick family.