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May 04, 2007

WHEN will baseball — and other sports — get serious about DWIs?

St. Louis Cardinals’ pitcher Josh Hancock, killed less than a week ago in a crash into a parked trailer, was legally drunk. He had a 0.157 blood-alcohol level, plus more than 8 grams of pot and a pipe to boot. I’m sure that was only the No. 3 cause, though, the marijuana. Being drunk was No. 1. Talking on a cell phone while drunk was No. 2.

As for the question, the likely answer is: “Not much.” Given that manager Tony La Russa got a DWI arrest in spring training, with nary a disciplinary action by club management, and is going to fight the case in court, it would be stupid to expect more.

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