Cardinals and Red Sox 2013 World Series

I am going to let you know this now, baseball is my favorite sport. I do not know too much about other sports like basketball and football, but I do know baseball.

The Red Sox have had a tough last few years. Finishing in last place in there division last year, they made some off season moves and dramatically improved there team. The Red Sox have the biggest statistical analyst on there side. Bill James is working with the Red Sox and I think that he is a big reason that they are so successful.  This ball club was fighting for the division title during the regular season. By the end of the season they won the division five and a half games. The Red Sox Shane Victorino demonstrated his power with a grand slam home run in Game 6. I think that he has lots  of confidence going into the World Series. The same thing applies to David Ortiz. He had a grand slam in Game 5.

The Cardinals are a team that did not have the easiest division. Three teams in the Cardinals division made the playoffs. The Cardinals won the World Series in 2011 with David Freeze's walk off homer. The Cardinals have now taken Carlos Beltran with them to the World Series for his first time ever. Beltran has been a great player throughout his career and does not look like he is slowing down. Between Beltran, Freeze and Molina offensively and defensively that is what got them where they are this year. I think that the Cardinals continue doing what they are doing, and win the 2013 World Series.

 

Government Shutdown & Debt Ceiling

During this government shutdown, President Obama did not act very aggressively. He left all of the responsibilities to Speaker Boehner. The speaker was willing to negotiate from day one of the shutdown. It was not until the debt ceiling got closer, did the president decide to talk to the speaker. However when the president addressed the media he said the same thing as the speaker, which was pointing fingers and saying that one of them are waiting for the other to start to negotiate and that they are both ready. The president is the president and if he was passionate about introducing the affordable care act than he wouldn't of been waiting for the speaker. However both sides can be argued, people will say, "If the speaker was so passionate about defunding the affordable care act than he should have taken action.". I just think that the president should take action because he is going to be the one remembered for this shutdown, people are not going to remember the speaker.

While  in the processes of coming to an agreement, Senator Ted Cruz decided that it was his obligation to chime in and speak for over 21 hours. His lecture's main point was dufunding Obamocare, however one would not know this by listening to his lecture. in his lecture he references green eggs and ham, the Nazis, milk in breast, and many more inappropriate topics. Senator Cruz is a senator witch means that he should be able to voice his opinions, but not in such an inappropriate and time wasting way. Senator Cruz spoke for over 21 hours. A lot more productive things can happen in 21 hours.

The agreement that the House, Senate, and the President came to was postpone the debt ceiling to February 7th. This agreement does not do anything aside from give more time to negotiate, and negotiating now a days is the President waiting until the 7th gets closer and the postponing again. The President, House and Senate are not going to agree on anything until Obama opens up to negotiate, the speaker is ready. There are not only two options here, we can agree on something that satisfies both parties, we can take what is most important to both parties and come to an agreement that can involve the two parties main points. Easier said than done, but negotiating would be a good start.