Thoughts on Nick Adenhart's Death

My apologies for writing an article that has no insight relating to baseball, fantasy baseball, or anything else that may be useful to you readers. Just a few musings on a horrible baseball-related event-

Upon hearing of the death of Nick Adenhart, I was first just really saddened that such a promising young career was cut so short. I read some more about him after hearing of his death, and he sounded like a really good kid. His death was a horrendous, atrocious, and devastating event, but for all the terrible things to be said about this event, some good has come out of it. It will no doubt lead to increased awareness about drunk driving, given the national scope of this case, as well as the touching scenario, a young kid pitches a great game, only to have his life cut short only hours later in a terrible accident. Another bit of good done by this tragic event is something that is more intangible. As many of you know, my good friend Steve Guilford is arguably the biggest Giants fan in the state of Illinois, if not the Midwest. As a result, he has absolutely not forgiven the Angels for the 2002 World Series, and in fact held on to the belief that the Giants actually won that world series, up until like last year. Steve hates everything about the Angels, wants to see John Lackey suffer a career ending injury, and might, given the chance, just eliminate them as a franchise alltogether. However when I texted Steve, telling him about the death of Adenhart, making sure to mention that he was an Angels pitcher, he responded "wow, that's horrible". My surprise at this response was significant, I was expecting something like "well he was on the Angels" or something like that. It led me to realize that events like this truly bring people together, regardless of previous allegiances. I was told today that Ryan Theriot was asked about Adenhart's death, and his response, being completely paraphrased here, was something to the effect of everyone has to go sometime, and there's no point in trying to hide from it, or something like that. I found that to be a very astute comment from such a young man, but he brings forth a valid point, there was nothing that Adenhart could have done to avoid such a freak accident, and apparently it was just his time to go. If nothing else, he certainly went out on top, after having one night of great success playing the game that he loves on a national stage in front of his father.