YANKEEs win !

Yankees beat the Phillies in the World Series.
Thank goodness that it was handily without questionable umpire calls or other questionable calls. Thank goodness we were not in Philadelphia during this time since fans in philadelphia are insufferable... not matter if they won or lost.
Thank goodness for small things...

Post season baseball and other thoughts

Phillies up 2-1 over the Dodgers and Joe Torre

NYY playing Angels in Anaheim. Should have seen Saturday night game that A-Rod tied it in the ninth with a solo HR and then Jeery Hairston Jr ran home second to a throwing error. What a game!!!!

BTW, who calls someone else a fag, gayboy anymore??? Nothing but a homophobic, uneducated, dumbass, 60yo lazy piece of s--t.

Max got his blood drawn today for anemia and OT today. Using a toothbrush on his face and firm pressure for massage to try to help overcome his textural sensitivity issues. UGHHHH!

NYY ALCS Post season Watch

Fri, 10/16	Angels	W 4-1	1-0	Sabathia (1-0)	Lackey (0-1)
Sat, 10/17	Angels	W 4-3	2-0	Robertson (1-0)	Santana (0-1)

New York Yankees Post Season Watch

ALDS

Fri, 10/9	Twins	W 4-3	2-0	Robertson (1-0)	Mijares (0-1)
Sun, 10/11	at Twins	W 4-1	3-0	Pettitte (1-0)	Pavano (0-1)

RED SOX LOSE to Angels in sweep!!!

Dodgers to play Phillies

New York Yankees Post season Watch

NEXT GAME 10/9, 6:07 ET versus Minnesota Twins

TV: TBS
RADIO: WCBS 880, ESPN Radio, 92.7 WQBU

Game 1

	MIN (0-1)		0		0		2		0		0		0		0		0		0				2		10		1
	NYY (1-0)		0		0		2		1		3		0		1		0		X				7		9		0
W: Sabathia (1-0, 1.35); L: Duensing (0-1, 9.64) HR: NYY: Jeter (1), Matsui, H (1).

AND BOSTON LOST last night to Angels 5-0

Phillies also lost 5-4 to the Rockies so it will not be a sweep... Games tied at 1-1

Faith healing vs Medicine

No matter what the parents believe... a 2 year old will not be able to decide whether he can or can not follow his parents' beliefs. It is a parents duty to provide for basic life sustaining needs. Having diarrhea, fevers, productive cough, and at the end, inability to eat should have alarmed the parents enough to seek medical attention. No matter what their religious beliefs and ideas about medicine for healing, they should have known that inability to eat and diarrhea are not life-sustaining so that as parents they should have known to seek help than prayer. Prayer is not going to make your 2yo eat or stop having diarrhea.

The boy died in PAIN... This is terrible...

Faith-healing parents charged in death of infant son

By MENSAH M. DEAN
Philadelphia Daily News

deanm@phillynews.com 215-854-5949

On the last day of Kent Schaible's life, his parents and pastor intensely prayed over his 32-pound body, which, unbeknown to them, was ravaged by bacterial pneumonia.

When the 2-year-old boy finally died at 9:30 p.m. Jan. 24 inside the family's Northeast Philadelphia home, the pastor called a funeral director to take the boy's remains to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office.

At no time that day, nor in the week-and-a-half prior, did Herbert and Catherine Schaible seek medical treatment for their son despite his sore throat, congestion, liquid bowel movements, sleeplessness and trouble swallowing, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said in court yesterday.

"All it would have taken is a simple visit to a doctor for antibiotics or Tylenol, maybe, to keep this child alive," she said during the couple's preliminary hearing.

After the two attorneys representing the Schaibles argued for their innocence, Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan held them for trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child.

"When you look at this case, it's obvious that what you have are loving parents who also appear to be misguided," Dugan told the couple. "Your child needed medical care. As parents, that's what your duty is, and that's why you are here in court today."

The Schaibles' case is similar to a growing number around the country in which parents are slapped with criminal charges for turning to religion rather than medical care for sick children who later die.

Herbert Schaible, 41, and Catherine Schaible, 40, of Rhawn Street near Bustleton Avenue, are free on bail and will be arraigned on Oct. 28.

They are members of the First Century Gospel Church, in the Northeast, which believes that the sick can be healed through prayer rather than by medicine, according to statements that the couple gave homicide detectives two days after their son's death.

" 'We prayed to God for victory . . . We were praying that he would be raised up, " Detective Stephen Buckley said yesterday, reading from Herbert Schaible's statement.

Herbert Schaible is a teacher at First Century Gospel Church, said his attorney, Bobby Hoof.

"They believe in faith-healing; that's fine for them," Pescatore said after the hearing. "But this was a two-year-old child."

On Jan. 13 or 14, Kent started showing symptoms of illness that at times improved but generally grew worse until his death on Jan. 24, his parents said in their statements.

" 'He was moody and demanding; you couldn't please him,' " Det. Buckley said, quoting from Catherine Schaible's statement.

Edwin Lieberman, the assistant medical examiner who did Kent's autopsy, said that he had determined the manner of death to be a homicide because the boy could have been saved with basic medical care.

Bacterial pneumonia "is very treatable," he said, but without care he "seriously" doubted if Kent improved at all, as his parents had told detectives.

Francis Carmen, Catherine Schaible's attorney, said that the couple's decision to forgo medical attention was not due to their religion, but because they thought Kent had a cold.

"The commonwealth wants to use [the Schaible's] religious beliefs as a self-fulfilling prophecy that, somehow, because they are different and because they exercise religious beliefs that are not necessarily in line with the majority of us," he said, "that is the cause of them failing to recognize that this child was as ill as he was."

Hoof, on behalf of Herbert Schaible, said that his client did everything in his power to care for his son in the days before he died - feeding him and giving him liquids.

"He cared for his child and thought his child was getting better," Hoof told reporters.

When asked why he did not call a doctor, he said: "He never said that he would not take the child to a doctor in his statement. He never said that."