Atlanta Braves Pitcher Derek Lowe Arrested For DUI

Was he out with his wife after a long road trip? Or was he out with other players? I’m a Vols fan, I’ve been referring to them as the CrimiVols. The University needs to clean up their act. Are the Braves getting to the point they too need to clean up their act? Enough with the bad press guys, the Braves should be better than this.

I don’t make 15 mil a year, but if I go out and even have a couple of glasses of wine, I hire a car service. The alternative is just not worth it. I would rather be poor than kill someone.

Lowe drives a Porsche Panamera 4 door coupe. No speeding?

With Roger and Derek, they’re getting even for giving them Andruw.

What in the world? something isn’t right, time for leadership to reign it in.

I am in the same camp as those who feel this kind of crap dwarfs what RM did, but they are both huge stains on the organization. Without actually hurting someone physically, I cannot think of two more negative public relations nightmares. Get it together Braves.

We’ve got a lot of young studs on the Team and in Gwinnett. If we tolerate this, it would send a message to them.

Originally I was going to say wristslap Roger, but I think he needs at least a 10-day suspension now.

While I doubt we can do this, if Lowe’s contract is voidable and he’s found guilty. We void it. He’s expendable given our depth in the minors. (you do have to factor the on-field into this also) If it isn’t voidable, then give Lowe a two-week suspension and give Minor a couple starts.

Some sort of message has to be sent.

…Lowe was our last big name pitcher option after the Yankees outbid us on Burnett. IIRC, Lowe has always had some not so great personal attributes, so while I am surprised this happened now, if I didn’t know the player who had done it, I probably would have guessed him.

for discipline in this situation?

they said failure to stay in lane which means he was probably drunk.

I saw some comments about if you refuse to take a breathalyizer then you must be hiding something (or for good reason). To me, that’s ridiculous. You shouldn’t be forced or compelled to give up any rights you have “just because”. Your rights are there to protect you, even if you have done something wrong you shouldn’t feel the need to give up rights that you have.

Secondly, “failure to maintain lane” is a BS charge. It’s an excuse to pull someone over. One of my close friends was pulled over in Henry County last year (race weekend). He had been out with his friends on spring break at a pool-hall and had a few beers. As soon as he jumped on the freeway (before even getting past the on-ramp) he was pulled over for “failure to maintain lane”. I was talking to him on his cell phone at the time (which is more dangerous than drinking and driving if you ask me).

The cop pulls him over and asks if he’d had anything to drink. He admitted to having a few beers. Cop gives him a field-test. Of course he fails! The field test is COMPLETELY subjective. Even if you do everything right, they can still take you in.

Next, the cop gives him an on-site breathalyizer. The thing says he is .012 over the legal limit. He is arrested and taken to the jail. Once at the jail, he is given another breathalyzier (you can only be convicted of DUI from the breathalyzier at the STATION because the field-ones are so unrealiable — ask any DUI lawyer). Guess what the station one read? More than HALF UNDER the legal limit.

So how does one go from being .012 OVER to being more than half UNDER you ask? He wasn’t over the limit to begin with! Since I’m in law school my friend reached out to me and I called some attorneys for him. Attorneys around here can tell you how faulty the on-field tests are and you can only be convicted if you are over the legal limit from the station breathalyzer.

Let us hold our judgment on Mr. Lowe until we know the results. I was just disappointed at the people coming out in the court of public opinion claiming his guilt when everything involved is so subjective.

(BTW, my friend had his record expunged after the Solicitor General dropped the charges for not enough evidence to have a case)

Lowe’s DUI is higher up the “headline ladder” on ESPN’s front page than Roger’s headline ever made it.

He doesn’t look as ripped as some celebrity DUI pictures. Nick Nolte comes to mind! Moylan tweeted about having a great time last night, wonder if a bunch of Braves were together partying last night.

Maybe Derek did it just to take the attention off of Roger

Maybe now Liberty Media won’t like all the bad press these last two incidents are creating and sell the Braves to a real owner.

to my comments above about refusing a field sobriety test. I did want to note that this was at 10 PM…not 2 AM (wasn’t Furcal’s DUI real late in the night). I’m not ready to crucify a guy that refused a field sobriety test and was driving home at 10 PM (assuming he was driving home) and has not had any previous run-ins.

Again, if he was driving drunk, shame on him…and he got lucky that a) he didn’t hurt anyone, and b) regardless of whether he was drunk or not, he learned not to put himself in a situation like this again.