:hide: I am not saying anything negative about off field behavior by our players especially any of our four outfielders.
People do 100 driving to Vegas. Don't like it but he's a kid, the FO will just have to keep better tabs of him. They can't stop it all but they can certainly make it a top priority to have a sit down with the dude.
Good thing there were no cops on the 405 when I was doing 185 early one morning on my way to play golf!
185 Darth? oh yeah... you did say it was a 550 didn't you... although the 405 is rarely ever that clear. our local OC Veyron track is the final 3 miles of the 241 toll road heading into Coto de Caza where 100+ is routine and the road is usually empty
I know a guy who runs his Veyron there. I did this run between the 101 and 118 before 6 am on my way to Porter Valley CC.
real early... I can see the quick exit dash north on that stretch as it opens up IF it's early enough
The bridge seams get the car a little squirrely at speed though. Things you don't think about when going < 100
We had an old school porn king in our foursome there. When one of us made a bird he'd say, "Uh Oh, there's a fever in the fuckhouse!" Then, after he recovered from his heart transplant we'd all call him Monkey heart and make age gestures before he'd tee off!
neyer's take... Yasiel Puig busted for driving real fast. Again.By Rob Neyer | SB Nation -- Today 12:13pmThere's a fine line between expressing concern and moralizing, and I'm not sure if Bill Plashke's crossed it. Probably, though:The richest team in baseball cannot buy the safety, security or even the simple undivided attention of its most popular player.Yasiel Puig continues to careen toward calamity and there doesn't seem to be anything anybody can, or will, do about it.For the second time this year, Puig has been charged with reckless driving, after his arrest Saturday on an Everglades-choked stretch of South Florida highway known as Alligator Alley. Puig was allegedly traveling 110 mph in a 70-mph zone, a startling pace even on a flat stretch of road built for speed.Puig has now been clocked at least 40 mph over the speed limit twice this year. He was allegedly going 97 mph in a 50-mph zone in Chattanooga, Tenn., in April, resulting in charges that were eventually dismissed when he agreed to perform community service. The arrests fit into a pattern of reckless living exhibited by the 23-year-old outfielder — both on the field and off — since he defected from Cuba and signed a $42-million contract two summers ago."He plays hard, he eats hard, he drives hard, he does everything hard," said Tim Bravo, a high school teacher who was employed by the Dodgers last summer to serve as Puig's full-time companion and mentor.--snip--Colletti said he wasn't inclined to give Puig another babysitter, saying, "At some point, everyone is responsible for their own actions. He's not some 16-year-old kid, we can't have someone on his arm all the time. It's up to him to figure it out like we all have to figure it out."So breaths will remain held, the Dodgers silently rooting that in the 110-mph race of his life, Yasiel Puig will grow up before he blows up.Isn't that basically the same hope we have for every idiotic young man in this country? Which is to say, most young men in this country? When I was a teenager, I did all sorts of ridiculously dangerous and stupid things. Most memorably, I shimmied up the support rods of a water tower in Lawrence, Kansas. Around the same time, I pushed my Kawasaki past 120 miles per hour on a nice straight stretch of road between Lawrence and a little town called Eudora.I didn't have a particular craving for speed or danger. I just figured I was going to live forever. I got over it. Most of us get over it before anybody gets hurt.Yasiel Puig will probably get over it, too. Before he blows up. If Babe Ruth could learn to control his more reckless impulses, anyone can. And let us not fool ourselves into thinking Yasiel Puig is alone. At this very moment, some other millionaire athlete is driving way too fast. You just hope he didn't drink a case of beer before he got behind the wheel.But the Dodgers had to know what they were getting for their $42 million. What does Vin Scully call Puig? The Wild Horse? You give a wild horse $42 million, what do you think he's going to do? Spend his winters sipping skinny vanilla soy lattés and reading Proust?These days, $42 million isn't even a whole lotta money. Especially for the richest team in baseball. Then again, the cost of a babysitter would really not be a whole lotta money. Last I heard, Jose Canseco was looking for work... __
Dodgers talk to Puig after his latest arrest The Associated Press – Sun, Dec 29, 2013 3:39 PM EST LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Dodgers have told outfielder Yasiel Puig the organization is ''very disappointed'' with his behavior in the wake of his second arrest this year for reckless driving. The team issued a statement Sunday that said Puig's behavior ''is a very serious issue to us.'' The Dodgers said they would continue to educate the 23-year-old Cuban defector and strive to further develop his growth off the field. Puig was arrested Saturday in Naples, Fla., after the Florida Highway Patrol clocked him going 110 mph in a 70-mph zone. Authorities said Puig was arrested and charged with reckless driving and taken to the Collier County Jail for processing. Puig lives in the Miami area during the offseason. In April, when he was still in the minors, Puig was charged with reckless driving and speeding after Chattanooga, Tenn., police clocked him going 97 mph in a 50-mph zone. The charges were dismissed in November after Puig completed community service in Los Angeles. Puig was an instant sensation with the Dodgers last season, batting .319 with 19 home runs and 42 RBIs. He helped them reach the NL championship series, where they lost to St. Louis, and he was runner-up for the Rookie of the Year award. Puig signed a $42 million, seven-year contract in June 2012, a record for a Cuban defector. He received a $12 million signing bonus and made $2 million last season. __
I like Bowden but he was pontificating on the situation on The Front Office or Inside Pitch. He was full of shit. He said that he would tell Puig that he will be parked in AAA until he can prove he can handle business off the field as well as on. Bullshit. No one has balls that size and expects to keep his job.
