I'm wholly in your camp on the lawn thing. And I say this as a guy that - many moons ago - sodded the front yard and diligently had the local company come spray it quarterly. Then one day I saw a puddle on my drive that resembled the Arctic after the Exxon Valdez hemorrhaged oil into it. About the same time I developed stage 3 cancer and…
I'm wholly in your camp on the lawn thing. And I say this as a guy that - many moons ago - sodded the front yard and diligently had the local company come spray it quarterly. Then one day I saw a puddle on my drive that resembled the Arctic after the Exxon Valdez hemorrhaged oil into it. About the same time I developed stage 3 cancer and decided to try to get all of the chemicals out of my life that I could. The grass treatments were the first to go.
Now in no way am I saying that the lawn stuff contributed to my illness (correlation doesn't mean causation right ... or is it the other way around?). And I'm sure for most folks exposure to that stuff is fine. But I figured that for my particular set of DNA that started growing cancer at age 48, I'd do my best to eliminate everything that might exacerbate it that I could. No judgment at all on my many neighbors that still do the lawn treatment thing, but I now appreciate scrub grass, clover, etc that has gradually taken over my once pristine zoysia yard. Ditto my backyard that we've let go pretty native as well. I know this, the animals like it.
As for Votto ... it is indeed a conundrum. Given what I've read about Joey, he'd be the last guy to want to disrupt the team's mojo and I think of all the superstars out there that are in his position, he might just be okay with a lesser role once he comes back. But man, what a problem the Club is developing ... too many good players? Who'd have thunk that?
I'm wholly in your camp on the lawn thing. And I say this as a guy that - many moons ago - sodded the front yard and diligently had the local company come spray it quarterly. Then one day I saw a puddle on my drive that resembled the Arctic after the Exxon Valdez hemorrhaged oil into it. About the same time I developed stage 3 cancer and decided to try to get all of the chemicals out of my life that I could. The grass treatments were the first to go.
Now in no way am I saying that the lawn stuff contributed to my illness (correlation doesn't mean causation right ... or is it the other way around?). And I'm sure for most folks exposure to that stuff is fine. But I figured that for my particular set of DNA that started growing cancer at age 48, I'd do my best to eliminate everything that might exacerbate it that I could. No judgment at all on my many neighbors that still do the lawn treatment thing, but I now appreciate scrub grass, clover, etc that has gradually taken over my once pristine zoysia yard. Ditto my backyard that we've let go pretty native as well. I know this, the animals like it.
As for Votto ... it is indeed a conundrum. Given what I've read about Joey, he'd be the last guy to want to disrupt the team's mojo and I think of all the superstars out there that are in his position, he might just be okay with a lesser role once he comes back. But man, what a problem the Club is developing ... too many good players? Who'd have thunk that?