I was reading a local paper again, and this happened about 6 hours from here, there was an 8th grader Rodney Torelli Now a senior, that went to middle school or a jr. high, he was never soppose to walk again after having his legs crushed in a terrible car accident when he was three, we wanted to sign up for the basketball team, they were kind of hesitint about it. " I was scared to death about letting him play" said his mother said. Well that year little Rodney didnt play, but he was bound determined he was going to be able to play basketball, the day after his mom told him it wasnt a good Idea, He got out of his chair but fell over, his mom came home to rodney laying on the floor struggling to get up. " oh my gosh what are you doing rodney" is what she said, rodney looked at her with tears and his eyes and said " Im going to be able to play mom, I will walk again" His mom spent the entire night laying down in bed weeping knowing her son wouldnt walk again " I thought I had to do something to helpo my son, I could tell he wanted it" A week or so later she took her son to the doctor, the doctor once again said theres nothing he could do, "it seemed hopeless to me, I never thought this would happen" well his mother soon relized she was spending more and more time picking Rodney off the floor, " I thought it was weird but I wanted my son to walk more then anything in the world so i thought I would start from the basics of walking again" Well that she did and over time he gradually started picking up differnt things that he hadnt done before, well over time he did learn how to walk, by his sophmore year in high school, he signed up for the basketball team, he went through three days of strenous try-outs, only at the end to be cut, yes he went home crying, he was hurt, all that work for nothing some people would think, thats not what he thought though, " I may have been cut from the basketball team, but I won no matter what, because i ver came what everyone said and I did learn how to walk again" I posted this because this is something you dont see just everyday, this kid had a goal and reached for it, i hope this inspires you to help someone who may have a sort of handicap, you just isnt sure about them selfs. Nothing is impossible if you just try, thank you for taking time to read this blog.

Rumors have been going around about Sammy Sosa retiring, Im thinking this might be a good idea in Sosas' part. Dealing with all steroid alligations, corked bats, and going from team to team the past few years. Im not a big cubs fan, but i can tell you that they are all laughing deep down in side. Sosa was a big inspiration and role models for kids for many years, and was looking to be in the hall of fame, now all of that has changed, he is hated by most basball fans, laughing stock of the league, and washed up, incase  you havent noticed sosa has dropped in every statistic possible accept in strike outs, Im thinking that "Slammin Sammy" should slam the door on his career before his career is completely deminished.