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|   For some reason I really like the opening of baseball season, I feel like it is like the beginning of summer and the end of all the drudgery that comes with winter. Anyways, I have high hopes for both Chicago teams this year...first I think the South Siders do better then they did last year in a very tough AL Central and get 85 wins to get 3rd in their division. On the North Side, 100 seasons after their last World Series it is destiny for the Cubs to win it again! They win 95 games in the regular season to edge out the Brew Crew in the NL Central, and then get really hot in the playoffs where just like in 1908 they meet the Detroit Tigers in the World Series and win it all 4 games to 2! Ya heard it here first! | | |
| When in Europe...do as the Europeans do!
 Mens Capris aka Manpris: Check  Speedo: Check! Backpacking Europe! | | |
| I was reading a column today by Bill Simmons "the sports guy" and there was this section where people were writing in emails, this time concerning Roger Clemens and his return to the Yankees.
Jason T. from Maine writes this:
"I'm happy Roger is going to the Yankees. Trying to bring him back to
Boston made me feel like Forrest Gump at the end of the movie. You
know, when Jenny, the used-up coke fiend, came back to Forrest to die
of AIDS after screwing half the continent. After the last two series,
the amount of hate for the Yankees, at least in my heart, was in
serious decline. Now I feel reinvigorated, full of hate for all things
pinstriped."
When I read that my first thought was, "wow, I really liked Forrest Gump and Jason T. was really ripping on Jenny" but the more I thought about the movie I guess it is true huh? Jenny really did make all the wrong choices, went in all the wrong directions but through it all Forrest from afar continued to love her.....and when the world no longer wanted her and she was all used up Forrest still loved her and cared for her and made her his bride.
Its nice that the spirit can remind us through Roger Clmens, and Jason T. from Maine, and Bill Simmons the sports guy, and movies like Forrest Gump that He loves us. That God through it all loves us, even me the "used-up coke fiend who screwed half the continent."
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| I didn't even care to see the movie, but hey....one month unlimited Blockbuster pass so what the hell right? This always happens to me when I see a movie or hear a speaker share on subjects like this. The realities of conflict diamonds, AIDS or whatever else is hapening; and I realize how lucky, how blessed I am that I can be sitting on a leather couch eating popcorn while I watch "Blood Diamond" on the television while the realities of life are so different for the majority of the world. But this has happened to me in the past....I feel burdoned, frustrated, and helpless.....what can I do....what should I do? Soon my consumption of sportscenter, eating out, and the other comforts of this life I live will probably wash away all hints of even being troubled by this.....just as it has in the past. Theres no better cure to opened eyes then the high life right? or at least the upper-middle class life. Anyways, I usually don't write this kind of stuff....I just felt a tug to write it for my own sake I guess...to remind me of something I don't know what. | | |
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