L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke is blasting Dodgers star outfielder Yasiel Puig as "an accident waiting to happen" after he was recently ticketed for the second time in eight months for driving more than 40 miles over the speed limit.
According to The Times, Miami police took the 23-year-old Puig into custody on Dec. 29 on reckless driving charges after clocking his white Mercedes traveling at speeds of 110 mph while his mother, father and sister were all in the car with him. In April, Tennessee police clocked him driving 97 in a 50 mph zone.
"By driving in this manner Mr. Puig showed willful and a total disregard for the safety of his mother and the other two passengers and any vehicles on the roadway and placed the life of everyone in his vehicle and every vehicle that he was passing on the roadway in danger," police later said in a statement, adding if the vehicle had crashed tragically "his mother and the two passengers would not
The Dodgers have since commented that the organization is "very disappointed" in Puig's behavior but the outspoken Plaschke insists that alone isn't enough.
"The richest team in baseball cannot buy the safety, security or even the simple undivided attention of its most popular player," Plaschke wrote. He later added that the Dodgers have been reduced to "silently rooting that in the 110-mph race of his life, Yasiel Puig will grow up before he blows up."
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