During my daily peruse for content on Cleveland.com, I sift through some of the comments and save a handful to share with you all once a week. So when you’re hungover and clinging to life on a Sunday morning, come on over to Bottlegate and let us talk you off the ledge.
First of all, I don’t think anyone around here dislikes either of these guys as people, they were great in the community, Swish “came home” to try and win a World Series, it didn’t work out and that sucks. That being said……
Oh happy day. Happy frickin day. I don’t know how much cash we’re sending Atlanta and I don’t really care at this particular moment. I also do not give one single shit about Chris Johnson. He can hit lefties and that’s cool. And of course, as I write this….
Source: Indians sending more than $10M to Braves along with Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher in deal, with Chris Johnson going to Cleveland.
Whoa. Still though. Not gonna get into numbers and statistics because that’s not at all what this is about. The Braves didn’t actually want Swish or Bourn and we didn’t actually want Chris Johnson. It’s a business transaction, like Beyonce and Jay-Z’s marriage.
I’m over-the-moon happy with it though. Johnson will be here a year longer than Swish and Bourn would have been but his contract is a lot less annually. Even though the 10 mil we’re sending over essentially makes it an equal swap money-wise, it gives us roster flexibility to get looks at some of our young guys in the OF (Holt, Ramsey, Naquin, Walters, etc). Hopefully this is a metaphorical turning of the page for the club (and for all of the INSUFFERABLE “bro” jokes from all the Dolan critics).
Indians sending more than 10 million could have sent prospects instead the Dolan's stepped up and opened their wallets
“The drone deposited a package containing enough tobacco for seven packs of smokes, enough marijuana for about 70 joints and a dollop of heroin that could yield more than 100 doses at Mansfield Correctional Institution.
While the airborne delivery sparked a brawl as inmates tussled over the package, it didn’t ultimately reach its intended target. Corrections officers found it hidden in a rec-yard equipment room.
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A report said a fight broke out between prisoners in the north recreation yard of the prison about the time the drone was determined to have dropped the drug package.
During the scuffle, the package was thrown over a fence from the north recreation yard to the south yard, where it was hidden in an equipment room, the report said. Officials also searched roofs for any other packages, but found none.
Corrections officers used pepper spray to douse the fighting and about 200 prisoners from both the north and south recreation yards were carefully searched before being returned to their cells.”
Tell you what…being in prison and having a drone fly over you and drop a shitload of drugs is just about as close to winning the lottery as you can get. There they are, rotting in the most miserable place imaginable with no joy or hope whatsoever when suddenly a mechanical angel appears and the one thing left on Earth that can make 99% of them happy starts raining down on their gross heads. That’d be like me sitting in my cube at 3:00 on a Wednesday afternoon and a Roomba bumps into my foot with a bottle of Jack Daniels taped to its back.
Also I know the cat in that video wants to make drones sound super complicated and difficult to use cause he’s an expert drone pilot cause he’s a nerd, but spoiler alert, there ain’t no high-rises in Mansfield, Ohio bub.
Now admittedly I’ve never flown one myself so I don’t know how hard they are to handle but I’ve never been more confident about anything in my entire life than I am when I say, you give me a drone and put me anywhere near that prison and that sucker is gonna end up in the recreation yard.
Kudos to whoever drew this plan up though. So much more comfortable than in someone’s butt.
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