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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Ratcliff? Are they remaking The Harder They Come?
The University of Miami football players have cleaned up their act in a big way, but everyonce in a while another of the school’s sports’ athletes keep the “Thug U” image alive. Last night, 19-year-old Frankie Ratcliff, a freshman on the school’s storied baseball program was arrested for trying to sell marijuana to undercover cops on campus. Once they searched his apartment they also found steroids.
Ratcliff was arrested last night around 9 pm after trying to sell the drugs to undercover cops. Apparently he was offering 21 grams for $220. He signed a consent form allowing police to search his apartment. There police found more pot, totaling 101 grams, and 19 vials of steroids.
Ratcliff now faces charges of possession with the intent to sell within one thousand feet of a school, possession of more than 20 grams of cannabis and possession of a controlled substance, and is being held on $20,000 bond.
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1. WillieMays Haze Posted: September 09, 2010 at 04:11 PM (#3637007)Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, to say the least. He was probably using too much of his own product.
I'm surprised this is in the story. Normally, it's just "bused for selling 21 g, which according to police has a street value of $5,000 (or some other ridiculous amount),"
Really would it matter, I have heard this from a cop:
I'm taking you along to the station...I'm charging you with illegal possession of whatever we happen to have down there.
Not if you're already in custody.
He was probably in custody and would have remained in custody while they got a warrant. And cops can also legally not let you into your home unaccompanied while they are waiting for a warrant to be filled out even if you aren't in custody already.
Even if he were at home alone, depending on Florida's laws, the cops might be able to argue that exigent circumstances (like him having time to get rid of the stash) were sufficient to come in without a warrant.
I'm 34 and have never seen an episode.
Then obviously you've never turned on a television set, because as far as I can determine, some version of Law & Order is on every channel, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Well, he can claim his consent is evidence that he was unaware of the larger drug stash. If that fails it is evidence that he is desperately stupid and should receive a lenient sentence because of mental insufficiency.
Hell, even Mr. Hasn't-Watched-TV-in-Eons -- a/k/a me -- has seen dozens & dozens of episodes.
Why do people become so stupid when they have to deal with police officers? They just toss their rights out the window.
It probably has something to do with the fact that cops are trained in how to get you to toss your rights out the window. A little fear and nervousness on your part plus a time-tested patter a la post #6 above equals a voluntary waiver.
ok, I admit on the last one I watched about 15 minutes cause Shatner and Spader (who is looking remarkably like Shatner) were doing a really, really bizarre scene involving some woman's pajamas and Shatner's impotence.
Me too --- it is another step on the path to victory!
I never bought in that quantity, but if I'm doing the math right that's pretty cheap. Probably skankweed. I suppose it's good the kid got arrested, so there's more room in the market for dealers who are actually competent.
I've never seen an episode of those last two, either ... though isn't Boston Legal some sort of spin-off (&/or quasi-sequel to, &/or had some sort of crossover with, or something) of The Practice? I watched the first couple of years of that. At one point, back of course when I had TV, I was quite fond of most of the courtroom-oriented shows, probably from having spent most of my (rather short; I was an editor a lot longer than I was a reporter, since I'm, y'know, a supergenius & all) reporting career covering the courts,
Back in the mid-'90s or so our executive editor in Little Rock decreed that we stop publishing street values in drug-bust stories. Since he was & undoubtedly still is a self-styled libertarian as well as mad as 50 hatters (not that the two are mutually exclusive concepts by any means; I mean, just look around BTF), I figure he was doing his best to remove any price restraints on the local market.
Resisting arrest are ya? Aggressive and belligerent? Officer Johnson prepare the Taser. Any of you hippie fockers even think of videotaping this and we'll have your ass in county too.
As for Boston Legal, I never watched it while first-run but I've really been getting into it the last couple of years in syndication (It airs after the local news on Sundays in Dallas). Great show. Love Shatner's character. Spader, not so much.
I don't know if this is still the case, or even whether it's an NCAA rule or just one at the school I went to, but back in the late 1970s when I was on the baseball team at a Pac-10 school, you weren't allowed to work at all during the school year if you had even a partial scholarship.
Not me, man! I did annoy the guys I was with by singing "I'm waiting for my man" over and over after they made their call.
Can you get decent weed on the East Coast at reasonable price? As recently as 5 years ago, the price delta from East Coast to West Coast was huge for good stuff.
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
Huh. Either I did the math wrong (very possible) or I should have been buying in bulk for the price break. (I'd rather not consider the possibility that my friend always overcharged me.) Legal disclaimer: My stoner days are far behind me. I haven't bought weed in years.
I've never seen any of the regular Law & Orders, but I used to watch a hell of a lot of SVU. I know, I know. I'm not proud of it.
I never bought any on the West Coast, so I can't compare prices. But what I paid back East seemed reasonable enough.
What's reasonable? I would say the price being offered up in this story would be a pretty good deal if it were good.
You know, not that I'd know or anything.
Carleton College = Thug U! Yes!!
Every occasional dealer and home grower I knew probably has a silly grin on his face right now and is saying "Dude! I'm a thug!!"
And what's wrong with some of you -- the first 4-5 seasons of Law & Order are some of the best TV that's ever been produced. Jerry Orbach was f'ing brilliant on that show. The guy who played Adam Schiff was great too -- the show where his wife dies is some of the best acting I've ever seen on TV. The character actors on the side were really spot on. Once McCoy comes along and tones down the righteous zeal and Claire (swoon!) really hits her stride, the show was really, really good.
If you paid that much for "skankweed," it wasn't reasonable. At least not by WC standards.
Good herbs on the west coast are about $50-60 per 1/8 ounce (which is 3.5 grams.) Junk, if you can find someone to sale it to you, is about $80 an ounce (28 grams.) I'm really just curious. The wide discrepancy in prices was always something odd to me- but I'm getting too old to know if that has changed recently. For the sake of 19 year-old east coasters, I would sure hope so.
You'll tend to get deals for bulk, but generally it takes a pretty decent size bag (like more than half ounce or so) to get that kind of rate.
I've seen prices from 5-25 bucks a gram in the NY/DC area, depending on quality and how much you're getting. Maybe Imeat lives in a rural area or out west.
Good herbs on the west coast are about $50-60 per 1/8 ounce (which is 3.5 grams.)
Its generally about 60 in DC. Sometimes you get it at 15 a gram. The best stuff here supposedly doesn't match up to the best on the west coast. NY is pretty standard 20 bucks a gram, sometimes more. But they deliver and its really easy to find.
Junk, if you can find someone to sale it to you, is about $80 an ounce (28 grams.)
That also sounds about right for here too. I'm not positive though, I've never bought shake.
NERD ALERT: I have a stack of scoresheets from all the times I got stoned and watched a ballgame.
I live in Colorado where laws allowing "medicinal" marijuana use have resulted in an explosion of local "clinics" where the product is dispensed (some 15+ in my little town, and that's just the ones I've passed by and noticed myself). As the competition for business heats up so does the advertising, and this weekend for the very first time I saw a local "clinic" advertising its prices in the window of their shop - $13.50 a gram.
Well now I feel better. In Massachusetts I paid $35 for an 8th, $40 or $45 for something unusually good. Not that I was ever dissatisfied with the $35 stuff. My friend, who used to be one of the biggest potheads imaginable, never had any complaints with it either. I had skankweed exactly once, and if I'd actually bought it myself I would have demanded a refund.
No one likes a quitter. ;)
About the same in the city of Boston as well.
The best stuff here supposedly doesn't match up to the best on the west coast.
This is also true, in my experience.
Dagoberto, perhaps we have more in common than our love of the NBA.
That was about what I paid, back in my smoking days, for what I would call good stuff. Not sure how EC "good" matches up to WC good though.
you'll be happy to know Cheech kicked some ass on Celebrity Jeopardy last night!
I have boxes of notebooks and scoresheets filled with years of Strat-O-Matic games that I played stoned. Over 6-7 seasons, I say I played 75% of my games stoned.
EDIT: that might be a little bit of an exaggeration. My smoking days lasted around 5 years, but I smoked a lot in that span.
If, on your next trip to the west coast, you have an unexplainable (to your boss) urge to drive instead of fly, then we'll know for sure. Either way, Celtic fans smoke the cheap ####... quietly. While on the porch with the rest of the animals.
you couldn't really buy less than an ounce.
Yeah but the baggy was worth more than the product! All kidding aside, in talking to people who were living in the 60s and 70s, it really is remarkable how much that world has changed in that respect.
I remember back when a dime bag cost a dime, if you know what I mean. Do you know how much condoms cost back then?
There was a pretty interesting article in The Atlantic a few years back about the sudden rise in murders in Memphis. Apparently when the city tore down public housing and people moved, the crime followed them to the new neighborhoods. A case of unintended consequences.
Yea, good luck finding dank for anything less than $15/g here in the city, unless you are buying quanity, which also seems to be harder to find. Everything has gone towards smaller quantities and higher quality.
I was the Jack Morris of the 70s! Barely did outside that decade.
You're talking about the Section 8 Voucher program, where people who lived in the poorest and most dilapidated areas were given housing vouchers and encouraged to relocate with that money into more established middle-class areas of the city. It's been a pretty big disaster to hear from my friends who still live there.
Ah, but have you never seen a Rocky movie? Or anything starring Bill Murray or Chevy Chase or John Belushi? I don't think I have (in regard to the SNL guys; I know I haven't seen a Rocky flick, because the last I checked I hadn't gouged my eyes out) ... well, except for the hilariously overrated Lost in Translation in Murray's case.
That sounds similar to San Bernardino, California, except there the consecutive mayors had a bunch of land they owned in long established middle class neighborhoods re-zoned for Section 8 Housing. Suddenly a bunch of Sec 8 aprtment complexes were built in solid neighborhoods and crime skyrocketed. The mayors made a fortune from the Feds, but destroyed the neighborhoods.
When there's a bust the newspapers should greatly understate the price of dope, so that the dealers will, briefly, have a harder time moving inventory.
Um ya ya.
The fuck, man?
Not that your judgmental or anything.
Just heroin and ambrosia for you then?
Of course we don't need electric toothbrushes anymore, but that could be seen as a benefit too!
Can't remember ever saying otherwise. If I did, hey, I lied.
Yeah. Except I never quite figured out which to drink & which to inject ...
I think I may have got a contact high at a Tom Petty concert once. Based on my references from comedies, I believed I acquired the munchies, but I could have just been hungry.
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