You said it. Fucking idiot. Even if it's silly to treat pot like a performance-enhancing substance, someone in his position who is subject to testing has to know he's risking everything for a buzz.

APIAD wrote:

Let's just get this out of the way: Nobody should be suspended for marijuana. Period. End of story. A ridiculous, outdated from from MLB.---jeff passan

My opinion is that if truck drivers and factory workers have to pass drug test for their employment then a baseball player with millions of dollars at stake should be able to do the same. If reyes doesnt like it then I hear taco bell is accepting applications. I think it is a requirement you smoke pot to work there.

I agree with Passan in the fact that Marijuana is not a drug I care to see prosecuted at any level. 
Regarding Reyes, he knew weed would get him in trouble if he was tested, he smoked it anyway.At that point, he kind of gets whatever he gets and can't complain too much. It's still largely illegal in the US (although that's starting to change).

I'm not sure I could give up bacon.

Bacon is pretty damned delicious....

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

I'm not sure I could give up bacon.

Anti-semite

I also love to eat lobster in front of my mother-in-law.

I love seafood. Scallops, Oysters, Shrimp, Mussels, Crab, sushi rolls, Clams, conch, you name it. If it eats crap off the ocean floor, I want to eat it.. I love it to the point where if I ever developed a shellfish allergy, I would probably consider suicide...

Yet lobster isn't high on my list. It's not bad, I can eat it, but considering the price, I'd much rather save the 10 bucks in price difference and get myself a serious crab pot. Dungeness crab is the peak of that particular mountain for me too, not king (another oddity).

artie_fufkin wrote:

alz wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

I also love to eat lobster in front of my mother-in-law.

I love seafood. Scallops, Oysters, Shrimp, Mussels, Crab, sushi rolls, Clams, conch, you name it. If it eats crap off the ocean floor, I want to eat it.. I love it to the point where if I ever developed a shellfish allergy, I would probably consider suicide...

Yet lobster isn't high on my list. It's not bad, I can eat it, but considering the price, I'd much rather save the 10 bucks in price difference and get myself a serious crab pot. Dungeness crab is the peak of that particular mountain for me too, not king (another oddity).

I'm going to be a seafood snob here, but unless you've eaten lobster in Maine or the maritime provinces in Canada, you haven't really eaten lobster. There's something about getting a lobster off the boat during the day and eating it that same night. Once you put a lobster on ice and ship it in the back of a truck, it starts to lose flavor. I'd dare say by the time an Atlantic lobster gets to Missouri, you're probably better off ordering something else on the menu. Even a Massachusetts lobster isn't as good as Maine lobster, because the water here is warmer.
It isn't the same with shellfish because you can fry shellfish and they'll taste good even if they're a few days old. Hell, you can fry an army boot and it'll still taste ok.
And to put a bow on this, never order a lobster larger than 1 3/4 pounds. Anything bigger than that is an older lobster, and the meat in older lobsters tends to get leathery. Never go into a restaurant and say you want the biggest lobster in the tank, because you're going to be chewing on it until the rest of the people at your table are ordering dessert. 

I'll give Maine lobster a chance if I'm ever up to the Northeast there. 40 years down, I haven't been there yet.... I'm not wasting 35 bucks on a lobster of any kind here in Missouri though!
 

Maine is sort of the Mississippi of the northeast. The towns along the seacoast between the New Hampshire line and Portland - with the glaring exception of Biddeford - are incredibly scenic. Portland is nice, though in the past 10 years it's gotten more dangerous. Once you start getting past Greater Portland, the hillbilly factor increases dramatically, and the only things between Augusta and the Canadian border are the University of Maine, moose and pine trees.
When Sheryl and I were dating, we took a trip to Orlando. We got delayed at the airport for our flight back and sat next to a couple from Millinocket, which at the time had more paper mills per capita than any other city on the planet. You can't imagine how enthralling it is to hear a 2-hour discourse about paper production. 
If you ever want to see the quintessential New England seaside town, go to Kennebunkport. It's like something you'd see on a postcard.

I could survive on cajun food alone. Bob is very wise!