Let's Get a Few Things Straight…

I do not believe in letting other people control me, and you should not either. When I am subjected to foolish, silly, moronic, or stupid behavior, I now seek to eliminate it. Maya Angelou said, “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” This is a Dodger Fan Board, and I really love dissent and well-thought-out opinions that are different from mine. For example, I never believed the Dodgers would sign Shohei Ohtani, but I also never believed he would defer most of the money to get it done. I had myopia about it, but Andrew Vincent Forte always proclaimed that they would sign Ohtani, and he was right.

I just don’t tolerate foolish, silly, moronic, or stupid opinions. Life is too short for that. Thirty years ago, I had just started a company called “WaterMark Technology.” I had five salesmen working for me, and one (his name was Ken) was a very dear friend. Without boring you with the details, all of the salesmen banded together and tried to make me do something I knew would not work. I went along with them for 30 days, and then, in our sales meeting, I announced that what they had asked for was not working and that we were going back to the old way.

The next day, I got a call from our main supplier (we were a dealer for this company) and was told that all five of my salesmen were in his office and trying to take the dealership away from me, but the company said they could not talk to them because they were in my employee. This was before cell phones, and everyone had digital pagers, so I said, “just a minute.” I then sent a group page to all of them which simply said, “You are fired.”

FYI, they did not get my dealership, and a few months later, my father died, and then my wife died, and I became a single parent and sold the company. It was several years later that I started US Water Systems in my garage. I’ll get to the point (shortly). Fourteen years later (I had never talked to my friend), when he called me one day and said, “Do you think we can bury the hatchet and get along?” Of course, I said we could, and he is still one of my closest friends. I am like the Marines: NO GREATER FRIEND – NO WORSE ENEMY!

I have nothing personal against anyone that I ran away from this site. Just don’t say stupid shit over and over again! So many posters at other sites say stuff about me that is patently untrue. I don’t care. They think they know me… they don’t! They do not define me, and I have better things to do than argue with them. Goodbye, Good Riddance! Come back when you get it fixed!

One poster said, “It is a darn shame that Eric let his feud with Mark affect him so much.” Well, he may have a feud with me, but I have no feud with him. I just will not participate in his self-destructive behavior where he tries to drive away people who genuinely care about him (Eric knows this and needs to continue to get help to stop it.). Bear sent me a nice e-mail a couple of weeks ago. I have nothing against Bear and Jeff, and I will respond when the time is right. Godspeed to them both!

Back to Dodger Baseball…

Sometimes, you go to war (or a baseball game) knowing that you are likely to lose. Case-in-point: Jack Flaherty was under the weather at his last start, and nobody who has been sick has ever had a good game, right? Remember Curt Schilling’s bloody sock? The Dodger Braintrust decided that the best opportunity they have to win the NLCS is to have a bullpen game today, and Doc is going to throw eight or nine relievers who will be asked to just get three outs each. The haters cannot understand this… that’s why they are haters.