A Practical Joke by Karma

Just a quick note.  Right before the Marlins lost their second straight game to a last place Reds team, I had a rather strange experience.  In the 9th inning down 2, I cracked open a fortune cookie, and it read "Do you believe? Your faith will soon be rewarded."  On the reverse side of the paper, the 'learn chinese' word was....FISH.  That's right, FISH.  And just like the succers who hit when they have 17 in blackjack because they 'feel lucky' I suddenly thought that there was no way that the Marlins would lose the game.  Hermida gets on first....a wild pitch and he moves to second.....I was really starting to believe now.  I was about to crack open the Yellow pages and look to see where I could get this fortune laminated and framed in 24 karat gold....and then Hanley, Cantu and Uggla are retired, my heart is ripped out, the baseball Gods are laughing at me, the fortune is ripped into a million pieces, and here I am sitting on my couch wondering how I could somehow think that a random fortune cookie that one fan read would actually change the outcome of a baseball game 1,000 miles away.  But nevertheless, for a moment I truly did, and can do nothing but laugh about it now.  Now I'd just like to see the Fish salvage a split against a team that is among the league's worst. And I'm not ordering chinese food ever again. EVER

P.S. Tonight's Mega Millions is over 160 million.  If the winning lotto numbers are 1, 10, 15, 43, 51, and 4 (those were the numbers on the ticket before I ripped it up).....you will hear a 24 year old man screaming at the top of his lungs tomorrow, no matter where you live.......