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Discussion in 'Los Angeles DODGERS' started by irish, Apr 2, 2017.

  1. Bluezoo

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    I'll get to it.
    Reading the books written by present day Dodger observers about the team now, is a very interesting dichotomy to the Dodgers then, like The Boys of Summer.
     
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    No kidding.

    Those guys actually did something.
     
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    Bro in law's parents in Santa Rosa aren't sure their home is still standing and a good friend in Napa had to evacuate last night.

    Mother Nature is a real bitch this summer/fall.
     
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    That will probably always be...at least for a while. Dodger tradition and greatness was really eststablished before, well before, the advent of the nineties.
    No matter how many tout the FOs, the GMs, the individual achievements, the
    perceived "elite"status of NLW consecutive championships, what they have done in recent years, pales from the teams of the past...undeniable.
    But very interesting, besides the stark comparison of post season results, are the inner workings and the player and brass personalities coming into play on the teams we watch every day on the field. Fascinating.
    What great players were paid then,( as to even mediocre ones now), is mind blowing...i.e. Koufax and Drysdale. Compare to Kershaw and Greinke.
    And forget about the value of $ then to now...not even in the vicinity of equal.
    Players union. Agents.
     
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    Incredible...saw a report on a neighborhood where all that was left of homes were the chimneys...a wasteland of charred homes, and one chimney after another, jutting up from smoldering remains of lives. Jaw dropping.
    Like a dystopian panorama...
    So very sad.
     
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    There are so many ways to F with us that are super easy but the terrorists dont know our way of life as well as we do to exploit them... yet. This guy in Vegas for instance planned his shit out the way I would plan out a character like him. We are getting new timelines and wrinkles as the FBI releases some of the truth. Shit is eerily close to something in on my stories.
    I write apocalyptical (revealing) children stories as a fun hobby to help understand the world. Many of these stories involve terror plots and how they are defeated by kids ingenuity. I am always afraid that if I were to ever publish some of those terror plots and that someday a terrorist does something similar that I will feel directly responsible as the intellectual father of that attack. Its scary as fuck when you put your mind to popping the bubbles that we consider our worlds.
     
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    could be terrorism from antifa as well when you look at the areas that were hit
    might be what the vegas shooter was down with as well
    reminds me of the guy who shot up the senators playing softball
    and as Ruve says, they haven't even scratched the surface of the damage that can be done
    without a doubt there are incredibly strong forces from inside and out that want to destroy our way of life
    and the masses are basically completely dead in the eyes, not sure what to do or who to believe
    a trip to the local store has turned into a mind fuck in many ways
    have had two near fatal accidents in recent weeks with people just driving into the intersection on red lights
    and no one can be counted to stay in their lane at any time
    everyone looking at their fucking phones and literally trippin
    fear we are never going to see the time where sanity or love will rule
    this appears to be end days
    fucked me up to write that last line
     
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    It is the end of days of our world.
    Luckily this planet has had many worlds come and go.
    When one world goes another one is just around the horizon.
    Im sure there is a scribe writing the next chapter right about now.
    The planet will always be alright, it can never die away.
    Its only the wind that blows.
    We follow along or get blown to bits and bytes
    Like the deer sheep looking at the light.
     
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    We have tons of Eucalyptus in California.
    I dont know in the north how it is with them but we got that plague everywhere here.
    They breath out fumes that are flammable.
    They shed flammable paper-like substance constantly.
    They bleed a resin that is flammable like tar.
    They spread like crazy and grow like bamboo and have roots that come up and shoot new trees from themselves.
    1 Lightning strike can take out a whole forest if the conditions are right.
    Total burning spurs even more growth.
    In California they are a pest.
    But the boiled leaves are good for arthritis so fuck it.
    Im surrounded by them at home. They all burned down about 18 years or so ago.
    And are huge again.
     
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    still incredibly sad
    we've lost our way
     
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    spot on
    when i bought my first house my fireman brothers both pointed out a eucalyptus in the back yard and said that has to go
    it was pretty cool and i didn't want to take it down
    they described them as roman candles in a fire spitting flame and hell everywhere
    i removed it
     
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    They're also constantly dropping shit and losing large branches.

    One of those branches cost a good friend his son in law a few years back. Driving on 101 near Paso Robles and a branch went through his windshield, killing him instantly. Fucking things belong no where near a highway.
     
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    Remember what I am always saying about the Phoenicians, about the word give voice, phonics, about the adrenaline and the histamine, the egg and the fiery cock that produced it, nurtured it, birthed it, and then became it?

    Then when you remember that you won't be sad at all.
    You Member?
    If you don't member then you better you better you bet.
    Unless you have no idea what I'm saying.
    Then go ahead and be sad for a little while longer.
    But the sun will come up tomorrow.
    Unless it won't.
    But that's another story for another sunny day.
     
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    if it was still phonicia there would be no syrian refugees
    actually, not true...
    they'd flee to lebanon and trek onto the mediterranean
    like cubans, but better prepared
    but where would they go?...
    greece? nope
    egypt? probably not
    best bet would be likely be spain
    long trek but they were seafarers so...
    there's a joke in there somewhere i just don't know what it is

    racist
     
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    don't koala's like eucalyptus?
    problem solved
     
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    I could have sworn it was the Koalas and Pandas.
    Part of their terraforming California for the eventual China/Australia plan to take over the US through the pacific via these cuddly teddy bears that will maw your face off.
    Pandas are the Orcas of the land.
    If they are killer whales then the Koalas are the fighting dolphins, the Manatee.
     
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    I think we need to send you a pamphlet.
     
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    I can show you the landmarks.
    There is breadcrumbs.
    But im gluten sensitive so imma need a little help along the way.
     
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    Sounds like a business opportunity here...and you already have a man in Koalaland, or very near it.
    Is it used for anything in CA.?
     
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    Grandfather on my father's side, a Belgian immigrant, planted eucalyptus along Los Alamitos Blvd as a wind break for their farm. Some are still there. They're on the Los Al side of the 405 near the Ayres and just before you get to the large shopping center.

    So you've got Grandpa to blame for some of that shit.

    A little PS.......in that shopping center there's a Sprouts Market. That's about where my grandparents home was located until Rosmoor moved them out around 1960. Bixby family owned the property. My grandparents (and my father and uncle after them) were sharecroppers.
     
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