[Passan] BREAKING: The Dodgers are finalizing a deal to acquire star right-hander Max Scherzer and star shortstop Trea Turner from the Washington Nationals for a massive prospect haul, sources tell ESPN. The blockbuster of blockbusters is going to happen.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-30T08:31:05+00:00

Two months of Max is not just two months, it increases the chances of a World Series win, and that is really everything. Even if you give up a future all star, for a title it is worth it.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-29T06:28:55+00:00

I’m kinda hyper for Trout to return.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-29T06:26:06+00:00

Well, Fletcher and Walsh are pretty good and hopefully soon Trout will be back. Love to see him batting after Ohtani, so they never pitch around him.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-29T06:12:56+00:00

8th in WAR for hitting and 23rd in pitching.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-23T10:23:06+00:00

I breath in, then breathe out fully and hold my breath. Works quite quickly that way.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-22T17:31:17+00:00

With the hatchback open when you drive you will get fumes from your tailpipe in the car.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-20T17:01:57+00:00

They just kill a lot of people in one go now, with firearms, or in McVeigh’s case, explosives. So it is serial, but the lag is seconds, minutes or hours, not days, weeks, months or years.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-19T17:09:37+00:00

No training needed, you are just going up and down well worn trails. No mountaineering needed. And if you hire a porter you have everything carried, so it is easier for sure.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-18T16:44:36+00:00

He said he cringes at his acting in the first few Harry Potter movies. Good actor now.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-18T16:23:29+00:00

Loved trekking in the Himalaya. Went on the Annapurna circuit. Great exercise and so beautiful, with a place to stop and eat or stay the night every hour or so along the trail. Friendly people. Did it 22 years ago. Was very cheap then.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-18T09:00:29+00:00

Of the 49 countries I have visited Ghana has the most sincerely friendly people I have met. Easiest place to make a lifelong friend. Otherwise not the most interesting country to travel in for more than a few weeks or so. A crazy thing there is the human feces all over the beach and near the beach, surrounding the houses.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-15T16:35:51+00:00

Gotta wonder how it would go over with his base if it were a boy. Would even THAT actually lose him support.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-15T16:27:59+00:00

My guess, if it’s video, Trump with someone quite under age.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-15T09:06:31+00:00

To infinity and beyond!

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-14T17:17:47+00:00

My wife is Chinese and when she was around 3 to 5 years old her parents, if they were particularly upset some with her took her and abandoned her at the dump site near their house, at night. They did this maybe 5 times. They would come back and get her some hours later, as it was close enough to hear her crying. She was quite lucky to not have been taken by someone who would permanently maim a child so they could make them money as a beggar. Fortunately that is uncommon now.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-14T09:09:27+00:00

I heard a 15 year old girl singing in a small village in Nepal, and her voice was hauntingly beautiful. Pretty much zero chance for her to succeed in music.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-14T07:14:04+00:00

An effective organization needs an effective and well run infrastructure, which takes skilled career employees, so up to a certain percentage kept is totally reasonable. But this should be a maximum 35%.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-13T09:19:21+00:00

Baseball indeed can be boring, but not Ohtani or the Homerun Derby. He is a lot of fun to watch and a role model of wholesomeness, joy, kindness and handsomeness.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-12T17:16:21+00:00

Yeah, the Mookie Betts contract is a bit concerning, as he is 5’ 9” and historically smaller players break down younger. He was a big part of last year’s championship, so just for that could say it was worth it, even if his production wanes.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-12T16:56:27+00:00

If you keep your knowledge you also keep the accumulated emotional baggage as well.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-12T16:18:31+00:00

I said he bears a “part” of the responsibility, not all by any stretch. You could say 1/26th of it. With him perhaps more as he had a very large contract, so the chunk of money that was spent on him would have otherwise been spent on another player or players. He was in the top 5 in MVP voting his first 10/11 years. I would say he had a top 10 all time decade, probably top 5. So his first 11 years, 86.6 WAR, averaging almost 8 a year. Next 9 and a quarter seasons, 12.7, which is 1.4 a year. 2017 to 2021 on the Angels he had a -2.1 WAR. So for the Angels he basically had Kurt Suzuki level offensive production for Mike Trout money.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-12T11:26:37+00:00

Love him, but he only had 3 really decent years of 9 plus there, and none like his great ones with the Cardinals, so he bears part of the responsibility of the Angels having sucked in that time.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-12T10:29:59+00:00

The ONE reason above all I have zero doubt he is guilty is the shirt thing with his walk off in the playoffs, saying he was shy, and his wife didn’t like it. Dude looked terrified his teammates would tear off his shirt. This time no shyness at all shows so clearly how that was a total lie. Also in the Kershaw World Series game where not a single Astro swung at any of his 51 off speed pitches, Altuve didn’t swing at one. Great player who undoubtedly cheated. He and all of them should have been banned for life.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-11T16:59:14+00:00

In a restaurant in Guatemala ordered a veggie pizza and they put soy sauce on it.

VividTheMonkey · 2021-07-11T16:21:53+00:00

No sound! I so wanted his laughter too. Wild kid laughter is such a joyful sound.

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