Saturday, August 27

            I was sad to read of the suicide of Mike Flanagan, age 59.  May he rest in peace and my prayers for his family.  He won a Cy Young award as a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in 1979 and helped them win the World Series in 1983.  I followed those teams since they were the Orioles and had Cal Ripken, Jr. on them.  It reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote, “no one great or small can be ruined except by his own hand and terrible what the world did to me, more terrible was what I did to myself."