Fix You

For the first time in my life I wanted drugs and could not find them. You can buy marijuana at the corner store but good luck finding some Advil PM. A combination of no sleep, traveling, and the weather abruptly changing, left me with a serious cold. I went looking for something to help me sleep to no avail. You can not get basic drugs at the supermarket; you can not get basic over the counter drugs anywhere. I managed to find a liquid antacid at the pharmacy but good luck finding anything to help you sleep. After two hours of searching, I now have a liquid antacid that I can not use because the package is in Dutch and I forgot to ask about dosage and some ibuprofen that I brought from home. Thankfully, my immune system is a rock so I will be fine. I currently feel about 75% well.

Baseball tangent:

I am not in the habit of criticizing coaches because I plan on returning to the profession some day and do not want to generate bad karma.1 It is difficult to be critical when you don’t have a full grasp of the overall chemistry of the team and each player’s physical gifts. Even the die hard fan possesses too little knowledge to make a well reasoned judgment about a coach’s job status.2

I say this to establish my legitimacy as a managerial move critic in light of the most confusing managerial move in history. The Brewers have been sorry for their entire existence. It was not until they lured Ned Yost away from the Braves that the Brew Crew finally began to play baseball the right way. Other than moving Ryan Braun to the outfield, I do not know much about Yost’s strategic moves because I do not follow the Brewers very closely. But this much is absolutely true; They are in playoff contention this year and have had a winning record for three straight years. Imagine the University of South Florida firing their football coach because he couldn’t deliver a national title in three years’ time. To fire a manager with twelve days to go in the season does not make a lot of sense but it is especially asinine when your team is battling for its playoff life against arguably better teams.

1 Exceptions: Les Miles, Bobby Valentine, Lou Pinella, and Dusty Baker.


2 See 1