That's almost an ounce. Really makes you wonder if he's just lazy (buying in such bulk) or trying to actually sell some himself. It's such a weird in between weight, when you think about it. I would have to seriously work hard to smoke an ounce in a month and it would have to be for no less than like $5,000 that I get paid to smoke that much in a month, I'm pretty sure. probably many times more if you make it a bet, even a bet where i lose nothing if i fail.

but then, it's such a tiny amount to try to be selling, unless he has already snorted his entire signing bonus or something. it just makes you wonder, when it's that intermediate range

i'm sure he buys the weed for his whole crew

Not around potheads many I take it. Buying a ounce for yourself isn't unusual nor really that much to smoke within a couple weeks by yourself. My guess on the weight is he bought a ounce(28 grams for you uncool people) rolled a blunt(cigar with the tobacco replaced with pot), smoked it and that's what the cop smelled. That why only 25.9 grams in the baggie. The peanut butter cups aren't that hard to make and also are sold at some medical marijuana stores.

My problem is the way he got caught. A known sports figure doing it in public. ******ed.

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I was high as **** when I wrote that post. Even in my lost years I was buying an eighth a week, so that's a half ounce per month, and I was basically never not stoned if I was awake. Maybe I underestimated how much i was smoking from other people and I was good at keeping mine to myself, but I dunno, I don't think so. Maybe I just smoke better weed, and I'm good at not wasting it. Smoke tobacco if you just want something to smoke but are already baked. Wait another hour before packing another bowl. Maybe that's it, too, the inefficiency of smoking rolled things.

Blounts are the worst.

He may have also gotten shorted on the sack.

So, Freddie Freeman + JJ + a prospect for Joey Votto? Too hopeful or was I in the truck with Jordan? Reds are taking offers because he will earn a buttload. Probably couldn't afford him with Chipper's contract.

Sad news over at one of the longest running Braves blogs on the net.

From: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/20...r-a-great-guy/

Looks like any sort of free agent signing will be out of the question unless we can somehow get someone to take on Lowe's salary (not likely). Still the very real possibility to upgrade via trade, but again we'd have to take a hit on the actual players in the deal in all likelihood to make the money work for us.

Ugh, really wish we would just get new ownership who would raise the payroll $20m or so.

mark bradley actually wrote a column today that beause the braves got ko'd by the giants and basiclaly by the cards, they could be in the ws. what a moran

offseason is so depressing to be a braves fan

still, we soldier on

Hey guys, I'm not sure if anybody is still around here these days since things didn't work out but I need some help. The wife and I are coming down for the Clemson/GT game Saturday and I'm looking for some good pizza (preferably deep-dish) in ATL. We went to some place a few months ago on Ponce kinda next to the Majestic but it was only pretty good.

Also, not to be a downer, but the Braves lost one of their biggest fans Thursday before last. My best friend, Sam Looper, who was the first person to ever be treated for Muscluar Dystrophy, died at 31 years old. One of the things I talked about at his funeral was how the last time I got to see him was when we went to Wild Wings and watched the Braves complete the collapse in their final game of the year. As ****ty as the game was, we got to hang out for an extra four innings, talk, laugh, and drink a few extra inning shots. He watched every game on TV except when we'd go down a few times a year... always on his birthday, June 25th. We (his family and friends) will keep be there on that day for years to come. It was shocking and sad but he was supposed to die by 15 years old but instead made MD his bitch for 31 years.


Now, Pizza... Where do I go???


Btw, TDome, thanks for checking out my band. I'm Daniel (lead guitar.)

Hey man, really sorry for your loss.

I'm curious what you mean about first person to ever be treated, though. My uncle died of muscular distrophy at age 18. He was a huge Braves fan, watched all the games on TV in the 70s, saw 715 live and all that. My grandmother (his mother) was a passionate baseball fan from Chicago (but moved to Alabama before my uncle was born, obv) and a big Cubs fan, who only added the Braves to her heart because of her son. If it wasn't for my uncle, I could have ended up a Cubs fan or Padres (my first T-ball team) fan or something terrible like that -- my grandmother sat me down when I was about five years old (living and breathing baseball at the time, but largely teamless other than the local minor league club) and explained to me why I should be a Braves fan.

I'm glad you guys are going to keep going on June 25th. I know that every time I'm at any baseball game, wherever it is, however big or small, I think about my grandmother. I think about the games we went to together and how she'd have a big grin to know I was at a game.

The last thing my grandmother said to me was to ask me a baseball question that was a clue in a crossword puzzle she was doing. She had to leave it in a voicemail, and I never got back to her.

When he was 9 years old, I thiiiink in 1990, he was the first person to have an experimental cell therapy treatment. Before this they had only tested ways to treat the disease on animals and the only thing that they could do for MD patients was to try to make their life more comfortable. All of the Jerry's kids donations were going to things like buying wheel chairs, hospital beds, etc.

Basically, they would take muscle cells from a healthy person, grow those cells (there's a word for it but I can't remember it... cultivate maybe?) and then inject those cells into the patient. My buddy's dad, who's a natural born badass, was the first person to have the muscle cut out. That first time though, they weren't sure if anastasia would mess things up... they gave him something to bite down on and cut the **** out. Later, they tried with anastasia and his dad, me, his cousin, and another friend of the family did it. I'm not sure of how successful it was (it certainly seemed like it made a huge difference for him) but since then the idea of treatment and eventually, hopefully, a cure has become more accepted as a possibility by the rest of the medical profession.

Back when all of that was first going on, Sam was called the "pioneer of cell therapy treatment" and they parade him all over for interviews and whatnot... he was on the Today show and a bunch of other stuff and in our hometown they made a civic holiday called "Sam Looper Day" where they would shut down Main St. and have a big festival and auctions and ****. He lived an amazing life for a guy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

He was a HUGE Braves and Clemson basketball fan.

As for not getting back with your grand mother about the crossword... I can feel your pain, I had all kinds of free time after poker went down but only went back home and hung out with him a handful of times during that 6 month period.

It feels ****ty but, much like I get the feeling you were with your grandmother, there were a hundreds of hours/days where I was there.

woot!

http://www.talkingchop.com/2011/10/3...owe-to-indians

lolhio

Yes! Only got $5M back.. but couldn't expect any more than that.

Best Braves news in a long time. I came to post here as soon as I read the news, as I assume all the regs will do at some point today.

Any salary relief at all is just a bonus, just icing on the cake of NOT HAVING DEREK LOWE ON THE ****ING ROSTER JESUS CHRIST.

Yeah I'm glad we got this done right away, so now we have an extra $5m to spend (hoping we spend it). If somehow Wren can get ownership to increase payroll by like $10m just for this year (a bunch comes off the books after this year) then we'll actually have a bunch of wiggle room to contend for someone like Beltran.

We also picked up Hinske's option so he'll be back.

The Lowe deal is really good for both sides. Obviously for us we needed the roster space more than even the salary relief. Getting to save $5m is pretty huge for us as well. Once Wren let the cat out of the bag publicly after the season and said Lowe wasn't expected to be in the 2012 rotation it became clear that he was worth less to us than pretty much any other team in MLB. At $5m/yr the Indians have to be happy to get a guy that will probably throw 200 innings.

Next order of business will probably be to get a SS for a year. I'd be fine with resigning AGon if it's on the cheap, but I kind of feel like he'll get some decent offers in the open market since a bunch of teams need SS's and he plays amazing defense.

Then I think we try and get rid of Diaz, and sign a corner OFer who can hopefully also play CF in a pinch. If we get a big name, we move Prado to a utility role or trade him. I'm pretty against trading him b/c of the Chipper situation and the uncertainty of how many games he'll be able to play.

I don't think we offer Moylan arbitration at this point considering he's coming off another major surgery.

I guess we could just keep Diaz, but then we have to carry 5 OFers or actually let Heyward play CF a few games a year.

Getting rid of Lowe was obv great for us, but agree it is a good price for Indians too. His peripherals were good, and seems to be a worthy gamble to hope he can be a slightly below averagish innings eater for a year. We just have better, cheaper options is all.

Gonzalez will be 35 and coming off a pretty bad offensive year. Maybe we have to give him $3 million but think that is about it. If we he leaves for whatever reason, think we plan on having Pastornicky be the guy and just resign Jack Wilson for cheap as insurance/back-up.

Can't see Moylan coming back, just not a good cost/benefit option given the risk and our other options for his spot.

Haven't looked at it closely, but with Prado being able to slid into the 2B/3B positions, is it a big deal to carry 5 OFs?