I'd have to dispute that one Ash. You may be right about doctors recommending it back then but the scientific studies backing the benefits of marijuana today are significantly more valid than anything done back then involving alcohol.
Yeah, the May short, spot start caused a lot of grief and was frustrating but the GS by A-Rod loss to the Yankees later that weekend drove me the battiest.
While it's debatable whether Harper should have shown a bit more hustle on that particular play, what isn't debatable is what a complete tool Papelbon is.
Id love to hear from Arcia, to hear what he thinks contributed to his struggles this year and what he feels he needs to do to make the 25 man next Spring.
Bill James wrote a pretty good article called "Responsive performance by starting pitchers", which he included in Solid Fools Gold, examining pitcher "clutchiness". Lots of room for disagreement in it but he seems to believe it exists to some degree.
We're talking about merits, currently marijuana is criminalized, Coca-Cola, for example is not, the point is merits have nothing to do with it, criminalized or not. Does that make you feel better?
Ask Mollie, he keeps trotting him out there. Not to defend Perk (he has been awful since the break), but this whole bullpen has been killing us since June. Why is that so hard to see?