Super Tuesday almost became UGLY Tuesday

I'm not sure how any of this is related but yesterday there might have been too much energy directed in too many different directions and it created some havoc in certain areas....

The stock market dropped 370.03 points and I heard nothing until this morning....I assume the only way it could have trumped the primaries was to fall in the 700 point range and then the political pundits, chit chatting all night on both network and cable, might have woven IT into their reports.

370 is just not big news anymore.....BUT IT IS....because when it drops 370 there is a special reason and the reason this time is a serious indicator of the economy. The SERVICE-SECTOR report showed a number of 41.9 for the month of January...December was 54.4

Numbers below 50 show an economic contraction and contraction is a word that the stock market does not enjoy hearing....along with those other famous terms like SLOW DOWN and the ugliest of them all....RECESSION. Of course I realize that Depression is a far uglier term but with all the safeguards built into the stock market I don't see Depression as a viable possibility.
RECESSION on the other hand has a chance and in fact some business guru's are indicating that we might already be in ONE.

The fact that Mike Huckabee won primaries in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and West Virginia created such a storm that it turned into a Tornado and ripped through one of the states that supported him.....I sure hope it's not some strange religious elemental war starting between the Mormons and the Evangelical Christians.

That could get ugly....but they both want to remember not to piss off the Catholic elemental spirit soldiers...and of course the Jewish elemental factions are way beyond my understanding but we don't want them pissed off either.

I sure hope the Stock Market plunge and the Tornado in Tennessee didn't have something to do with Pau Glasol's first game with the Lakers. People in Memphis are probably a bit pissed about losing their only true star and in return they get to watch Kwame Brown drop the ball out of bounds...again and again and again.

If they are pissed enough to create a Tornado then we all have huge problems.

Which by the way.....we might ALL have huge problems!

If the White House is not occupied by a Democrat next January....I'm telling you that our problems right now....will seem small.

AND RIGHT NOW....THEY AREN'T SMALL.

THE HOUSING SECTOR is in shambles.
THE TRADE DEFICIT is ridiculously out of balance
THE WAR in Iraq should be the WAR in Afghanistan

WAR SHOULD NOT BE THE MAIN METHOD FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRACY

but through of of this negative stuff....
there appears on the horizon a savior....the best of the best....the quickest of the quick....the fastest of the fastest....

on the horizon appears a savior known as

SPRING TRAINING

BRING IT ON BOYS......STEP UP TO THE PLATE MEN....THROW THAT PEA DOWN THE PIPE ROOKIE.....CATCH THIS ONE MF.

Oh to be in the outfield for Spring Training is to be once more reconnected to the best things in life.....of course I can't personally be in the outfield but trust me when I say that as the Center fielder takes off in pursuit of the deep drive up the alley....I AM RIGHT THERE...not putting my glove out too early but using all my foot speed to run down that little pill....and then at the last possible second I stretch out my arm and the ball settles in the web with one third of it visible to the crowd.

It might have been Johnny Damon or Willie Mays or Andrew Jones or Duke Snider or Matt Kemp or Mickey Mantle.....IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, but it wasn't....
it was
me
and
it
was
you

and that's what makes baseball the greatest game ever invented.....

Those of us who have had the pleasure of playing the game, at any level, can seriously identify with the gestures needed to achieve success in baseball. And of course each of us has failed miserably at one time or another....

EVEN THE GREATEST PLAYERS WHO HAVE EVER PLAYED THE GAME FAIL 70 PERCENT OF THE TIME ON OFFENSE.

In a year where a player only fails 60 percent of the time on offense...
LEGENDARY STATUS IS GRANTED AND THE HALL OF FAME AWAITS.

I AM SO THANKFUL THAT SPRING TRAINING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER BECAUSE I SERIOUSLY NEED A BREAK FROM THE POLITICAL BULLS..T THAT HAS DOMINATED OUT LIVES FOR THE LAST FIVE MONTHS.

AND KEEP IN MIND....IT ISN'T EVEN THE REAL ELECTION YET....but of course during the real election we are preceded by playoffs and World Series so that makes everything mellow....

If you don't like Baseball....your summer will be screwed by political nonsense.....unless of course you don't like baseball OR politics....

IF THAT'S THE CASE.....this article was really stupid......FOR YOU.

if not.....

PLAY BALL

MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC ALEVEY