Clint Frazier Thread

I believe he’s convinced his Yankee days are over, or is making a strong statement that he wants them to be over. There would appear to be some emotional deficits for him to deal with. Perhaps this will be the point where he realizes he must address his narcissism and move toward growing into an adult. Some never achieve that (I didn’t) and some do so because of a turning point in life (actually my turning point was the birth of my handicapped child)...

Utah, I had a sibling that was born several years before me that passed away at 23 hours. I know my mother carried that sadness with her along with many others her entire life.

The birth of my physically handicapped son was definitely a turning point in life. A young couple, first baby. Anticipation. Then the joy is still there, but it’s muted by the realization that you will never know “normalcy” again.

Michael was born with Spina-Bifida. Back then it was commonly known as “open spine”. The odd thing is that my ex-wife had said several times as childbirth approached that she hoped her baby wasn’t born with open spine. I would suppose that to be because she had a cousin whose baby was born with Spina Bifida some half dozen years earlier. But it was like she knew.

She smoked back then, and being two years older than I she was the first to want a baby. I negotiated that if she quit smoking I was ready. Sadly, she lied to me, and continued to smoke when I was not with her. I caught her once, and she lied that “it was just one”. Perhaps that prompted her to wonder if she was harming the baby. We’ll never know, I suppose...

yeah...thanks....I lost my first wife at age 46 to the cruel disease of lupus...but she was so ill for years that she wanted release, and it was actually a sweet time as her condition became so dire that we knew it was a matter of days....I held her close, and she died in my arms on a Saturday morning...comfortable before death through a liberal use of morphine that hospice had given me, and at peace in repose...……..it was all right...I had come to terms with it....

Losing a child though was different....seeing his struggles to breathe can still haunt me dreams today...Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy lost a newborn son to the same problem....I am told that medical condition is not an issue at all any more...*sigh*

So sorry for the hardships you guys have gone through. Hugs for everyone! We have to stick together on this forum.

Absolutely. There's no shame in taking medication. I've been on my bipolar drugs for years now and though they've made me fat ( ), they've kept me stable as well.

I’m not a fan of marijuana. I was pretty neutral about it when I moved here, though I have no desire to use it.

Pueblo had a plan, but they have poor planners. They anticipated that they would be the single most inviting and accommodating city and county in the state to replace the dead steel industry and increase the tax base. The political promises were that the infrastructure would be improved because of the additional tax base.

Several problems arise when relying on marijuana for such. It’s against federal law, therefore the business is done strictly in cash. No banks. No way to track the real amount of money being made by the less scrupulous growers. Even though the tax base has indeed grown, the number of indigents that have entered the area to be able to legally buy marijuana has put more beggars at the red lights, and more people in line for services at the government installations. The money is mostly a wash at this point.

They also did not have the foresight to designate particular areas for grows nor for dispensaries, so you can be at a toy store and have a dispensary two doors down, or a residential neighborhood and catch the smell of a legal grow a few miles a way when the wind blows just so.

I understand that Nevada has designated areas that can be used fotmr anything to do with the product, which keeps the odor, the “riff-raff” and to a degree the intoxicated driving away from the cities and towns, unless you go to the more rural area that has been set aside.

I don’t care for another reason for people to drive intoxicated, especially one without a proper toxicity test. I don’t like pulling up to a red light and seeing smoke billowing out the windows of the car next to me and the odor emanating out the window into mine. And my scruples are not such that I would wish to be associated with a product like that.

It’s truly not easy money, either. The cost of a proper and efficient set up, accompanied by the risk and the expertise required are not in my wheelhouse. I actually admire the courage some of the growers have shown to put their necks on the line. Any operation of size is generally backed by an investor with no knowledge of the business, but full power in the financial respects. Most growers have the expertise of many years of growing the product illegally, but little money due to lifestyle. They often have criminal histories.

If that’s more than you wanted to know, that’s what you get for asking... 🤪

He probably needs a mental health day or two, and he is taking advantage of the travel window to report; however, it’s probably not a good look that Tauchman was sent down a day later and already hit a home run in his return to AAA.  I wonder how the teammates at AAA feel about the delay?