Field of Deets

Here I am with my day late baseball talk, seems to be my MO for discussing the sport during the post-season.

I could not have been more wrong about Game 6. The Cards, from the little I saw (I had to work), were lazy and played shitty. Jesse called it that Mulder would be out early.

W.S. prediction - going against the experts cause no way in hell am I picking the team from Chicago. Houston in 7.

Bagwell as a DH is like giving Houston a great player from another team just for the W.S.

The White Sox will take game 4 in Backe v. Garcia, so Houston needs to get four wins from Clemens, Pettitte, and Oswalt. Oswalt will get 2 and no way are either Clemens or Pettite going 0-2.

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Hurricane Wilma is fucking shit up, Hurricane Harriet is headed toward the Senate Floor in a few weeks, Sadaam Husein's lawyer was kidnapped, some mother who was "hearing voices" (obviously not the same voice Ray Kinsella was hearing) threw her three kids off a pier, a millionaire senator won over 800,000 in the lottery, there is an aruement going on about who should control the internet, the UN or the US, what about the citizens of the world controlling it?, sharks are attacking, teens are killing, Karl Rove still has a job (and it's not in a prison)...

Shit is so crazy everywhere all the time. And this is just the shit I pulled off the cnn.com main page. It's not even all the crazy shit that's going that doesn't get national attention. You cannot escape The Shit. It is all over the place and everyone is affected one way or another by it.

This week a bus full of Chippewa Falls High School band students hit a jack-knifed semi and five people died. A co-worker of mine, a drum instructor at Chi-Hi, was banged up pretty good. You really cannot get away from it.

It sucks and it doesn't. It sucks when it affects you directly. It's inconvenient, and often times much more than that, life altering. And when it doesn't affect you, you still think about it. But without the bad how could we ever appreciate the good? If everything was all good all the time, then what would we argue about? Do we need to argue? Would we all run around like a bunch of kids following Phish all over the place getting high and being oblivious to everything except toking up and jamming to a Trey solo? (Yes, I know Phish broke up.)

We need the bad to keep us grounded. We don't want to be the Phish followers who only worry about themselves and having a good time at concerts getting high. There isn't anything wrong with that, but if the whole world was like that we would be in some serious shit. It takes thinking of others to keep things on this planet moving even remotely in a sensible direction. We need to have our happy bubbles popped, and sometimes exploded, every once in a while. It doesn't need to be a major tragedy, but just something small to keep us an even keel does a lot of good. It's the bad things that make being happy so great.

Side Note:
How do people who just follow bands all over the place on tour fund their life? It's omething that's always bothered me...

So here's a good thing for you:

Researchers have created a drug to fight cancer in women, a drug they say that has benefits that doctors haven't seen in a decade. It is supposed to cut the chance of relapse in half in a certain population of breat cancer patients.

I love hearing about advancements in medicines ability to fight cancer. I'll love it more and more as I get older and older and my chances of being diagnosed with it increase. Exciting things are coming out of cancer research right now. My grandpa was just accepted to an experimental drug program at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN, to try to fight his cancer.

It's things like hearing about this drug that make me wonder, "If this had been out 13 years ago, would my mom's cancer relapses have been prevented?" There's no way of ever knowing four years after she died, but it's a curious thing. For eight years after she beat breast cancer she fought relapses and if this a drug that can prevent that from happening in other women then we all ought to start picking up stock in Genentech, the manufacturer.

So appreciate the bad times for making the good times so good. Have a good Friday.

Until The Next.

Are antibacterial soaps bad?