Cubs win World Series against White Sox and castro dies during deciding seventh game

This might just be the year for some seismic events. My son, Paul, is the most ardent baseball fan in our family, and it was during a conversation with him that I worked out my predictions. This year Chicago will have a "cross-town series" pitting the northsiders against the southsiders. Come next October, the windy city will light up with excitement as the two home teams win their respective pennants and vie with each other for the championship of professional baseball. Each team will win three games taking the series to a deciding seventh as the weather turns cool and leaves begin to fall. In this seventh game, the score will remain tied into the bottom of the ninth inning as the Cubs take their at bat. Unfortunately for the admirable White Sox (they've had their turn...now it's ours!), the Cubs manage a two-out homerun by Aramis Ramirez to win the series. Series celebration coverage is interrupted by breaking news that castro has died and people have poured into the streets in mass protest for a change in government. Over the next few days, castro's elite take flight and a fledgling new government asks the US for assistance. Relations between Cuba and the US are normalized. US troops are sent in for peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. The Cubs, in sympathy, change their name to the "Cubas" and go on to win the world series perpetually with the help of Cuban players. I think this might just be THE year!

Why Fariñas halted his hunger strike

I believe Dr, Fariñas halted his hunger strike because he was persuaded by other dissidents that his death would come at an inopportune time since the demise of castro is imminent. Friends and family were always in fear of losing him, so it was understandable that they would encourage him to stop. But fellow dissidents are realistic compatriots willing to sacrifice in the same way as Fariñas. They understood well what he was trying to do, and respected him for doing it. They would be the last people to try to talk him into ending the hunger strike...unless there was a good reason to do so. It was their opinion to which he was most attuned. And their knowledge of the situation in Cuba prompted them to counsel him in earnest to "live to fight another day." Fariñas finally listened. I'm glad he did. I'm glad because a relatively young man who has a lot yet to contribute to make Cuba a free country remains with us for longer than I expected. I'm glad because the end of his hunger strike, I believe, points to some encouraging developments of which not many of us are aware. I know I'm speculating here, and it may be irresponsible of me to do so. But I have never claimed this blog to be an objective news source. And if I can't offer my opinions here freely, then where can I do so? Take it for what it's worth; consider the source. I don't really care if you think I'm crazy or not. This is what I believe.