Musings from Mandy

Here are a few picks from Texas... The Ballpark At Arlington. Nice place, but I wouldn't want to live there. I guess their fans didn't know there was a game that day? Manny, David and Lugo love Sammy Sosa. Plenty of room for everyone... David.

Yeah, um, that's us, the losers with the bunny ears, L to R, Colleen, Katie, Me, and Kerry.

So far so good with Dice-K! I'll be back Tuesday with a monster post and hopefully some fun stories from Texas!

I kind of ignored Florida after the National Championship but I came across this today and liked the story so here it is... CBS always ends its broadcast of the national championship game with "One Shining Moment" and everybody sees this marvelous video collage of all that's gone on during the last three weeks in the march through the madness. What fans couldn't see Monday night was the Florida Gators, sitting on the podium, arms draped over each other's shoulders, swaying back and forth to the music, singing along. Corey Brewer, Joakim Noah and Jack Berry were there at the left end of the podium and they were all three singing along. Corey reminded me of a little kid at Christmas the way he looked up at the video board. You could see the reflection of the bright lights in his eyes, which were moist with tears as he mouthed out the words of the song. If Corey was choking up, Jo wasn't far behind. This was a special moment that they weren't ever going to f...

Read this story about a Red's prospect who plays with one kidney . Be sure to watch the slide show.

I’m a huge believer in karma. I’m currently about 90 pages into the book, The Secret . You may have heard about it, it’s been on talk shows and whatnot. Anyway, it’s about how you can view how you want your life to be, and if you believe enough, it will come true. If you truly believe say, that you are going to be rich then money will be attracted to you. The “secret” is that the power of positive thinking is enough for good things to happen to you in all aspects of life. I’m no a huge believer in religion. I do believe that there is some higher power and that you should try to have good morals, help your fellow man, but I don’t go to church, believe all the Catholic doctrines, ect . As far as The Secret is concerned, I don’t want to say that I one hundred percent believe this in every instance. I don’t think that health is necessarily controlled by what you believe, or what you attract to yourself. I don’t think you can choose to be killed in an accident or lose a loved one....