Mike Trout's fiancé's brother suspended 50 games for PED use

[nate]

2 hours ago, beatlesrule said:

So?  Dude is too young to be worrying about that stuff and you don't need to get married if you're in love.  I'm just really hoping he is smart enough to at least get the pre-nup.  Marriage is on the way out anyway so I have no idea why he would make this mistake.

lol

[Stradling]

25 minutes ago, OregonLAA said:

Lol this forum sometimes 

For a brief moment I thought I was just being old and out of touch with reality.  This is ridiculous, right?  

[nate]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

For a brief moment I thought I was just being old and out of touch with reality.  This is ridiculous, right?  

Marriage is on the way out man, wtf you talking about

[Stradling]

Just now, nate said:

Marriage is on the way out man, wtf you talking about

How's the wife?

[nate]

2 minutes ago, Stradling said:

How's the wife?

on the way out, how about yours?

 

(not really though, 10 years happily married)

Edited July 29, 2017 by nate

[Second Base]

Married my wife when she was 21 and I was 22. You either grow together or you grow apart. We've grown together and have been married for nine years. Though there was familial speculation as to why we got married so young (she had to be preggers, right? Nope not for eight years), the fact was I'd lived through Iraq twice and it gave me a thirst for life and an unmatched certainty in things. I knew the second I saw her, and I didn't bother letting whatever else society said stop me from marrying the girl of my dreams. We went to college together, traveled the world together, and as I said, have grown together.

When you don't complicate life with every idiotic standard a corrup society has placed on you, you may find love and its choices can become rather simple. I'm guessing Mike loves his future wife, and they probably want to start a family soon.

As for Cox, I'm wondering if this is an ADD thing, as it was with Chris Davis.

[Stradling]

7 minutes ago, nate said:

on the way out, how about yours?

Great, granted we got married when I was 45, so I wasn't too young.  Happily married for almost 15 months.  

[nate]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Great, granted we got married when I was 45, so I wasn't too young.  Happily married for almost 15 months.  

15 months of living the life from what I can tell

[Stradling]

Just now, nate said:

15 months of living the life from what I can tell

Dude, it's been pretty great.  We've traveled quite a bit.  I'm in Austin, flew in Wednesday night so I can play in a tournament and so we could see her daughter.  In the last year I've been to Austin four times, Italy, DC and New York, Philly and I'll be in Boston in a couple months.  

[nate]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

Dude, it's been pretty great.  We've traveled quite a bit.  I'm in Austin, flew in Wednesday night so I can play in a tournament and so we could see her daughter.  In the last year I've been to Austin four times, Italy, DC and New York, Philly and I'll be in Boston in a couple months.  

I've noticed... rub it in some more

[tdawg87]

This convo is gay.

[Stradling]

Just now, tdawg87 said:

This convo is gay.

How's the husband?  

[nate]

1 minute ago, Stradling said:

How's the husband?  

going down

obviously

[tdawg87]

8 minutes ago, Stradling said:

How's the husband?  

Life partner

[OregonLAA]

47 minutes ago, Stradling said:

For a brief moment I thought I was just being old and out of touch with reality.  This is ridiculous, right?  

The fact people are trying to tell Trout what to do in his love life. Just priceless

[Second Base]

23 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

This convo is gay.

I used to think the way you spoke about Trout was gay, and then I realized it was just your masculinity recognizing the alpha male in this whole situation, and there's nothing wrong with that. 

[Jobu]

1 hour ago, OregonLAA said:

The fact people are trying to tell Trout what to do in his love life. Just priceless

They tell him what to do with his career all the time.

[Lou]

15 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

This convo is gay.

 

15 hours ago, Stradling said:

How's the husband?  

 

on his way in

[Lou]

15 hours ago, Stradling said:

Dude, it's been pretty great.  We've traveled quite a bit.  I'm in Austin, flew in Wednesday night so I can play in a tournament and so we could see her daughter.  In the last year I've been to Austin four times, Italy, DC and New York, Philly and I'll be in Boston in a couple months.  

Strad is Trout's advance scout. 

[tomsred]

Is this thread for real?  I'd like to take a moment and redirect you guys here:  https://discuss.micechat.com/forum/lounges/micechat-main-lounge/gibson-girls/15477-the-marriage-advice-thread

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 7/28/2017 at 4:49 PM, Stradling said:

For those of us that don't know what this really does, how does this make you a better baseball player?  Is it just something that helps with concentration or alertness?  Is it basically an upper?  I think back in the day the players used greenies.  Would it be similar to that? 

Generally speaking, it is used to treat attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. It is classified as a central nervous system stimulant. In the beginning, it was only recommended for use in young children, but it is gaining in popularity for treatment of adults with ADHD. Ritalin releases dopamine in the brain, so there is a potential for addiction if it is used over a long period of time.

[arch stanton]

When my brother was very young my mom refused to put him on Ritalin but when he got too wound up she'd actually sit him down and feed him coffee. I guess the caffeine can have the same effect on some people. So maybe when Percival was drinking all that coffee he was actually self-medicating?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Caffeine increases activity in some people, but it has a paradoxical effect on others.

[TroutBaseball]

Ritalin is for sure a performance enhancer. That's why there's an illegal market for it in Silicon Valley.  A psychiatrist once told me that if his own son was good enough to play professional baseball he'd tell him to do whatever he could to get a prescription for it.  MLB gives medical exemptions for Ritalin but the number of players with those exemptions far outpaces the ratio of adults using it in the general population.  Adrian Gonzalez has publicly complained that too many players are abusing the personal exemption rules for Ritalin.

[Stradling]

13 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Generally speaking, it is used to treat attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. It is classified as a central nervous system stimulant. In the beginning, it was only recommended for use in young children, but it is gaining in popularity for treatment of adults with ADHD. Ritalin releases dopamine in the brain, so there is a potential for addiction if it is used over a long period of time.

Thank you.