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Sunday, November 14, 2010

THE BIG BANG, ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM AND THE UNIFIED FIELD





The one constant of the universe is no longer light at 186,000 miles per second for even light particles are subject to Asymptotic freedom or the force field of love ~ this driving urge to unite which exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest within ourselves. Thus, we are all united and part of a loving and indivisible whole and we resist it at our peril: Allen L Roland

William James, the great 20th century philosopher/scientist, profoundly observed that the science of the future must depend upon what he called a “radical empiricism."

In other words, our journey to understand the history of the universe, we know, must not depend only on our five senses and our scientific instruments. A genuine Unified Field theory must combine the objective observations of the scientist and the subjective knowing or consciousness of the mystic.

In other words, If we cannot find truth within ourselves, or trust the inner knowing that is the essence of our true self, ~ we can never fashion a reliable science. For a science divorced from the heart will be misinterpreted by a mind that is afraid to comprehend its own essential knowing ~ much as Bose & Einstein misinterpreted the obvious attraction of light photons as " a spooky tendency to want to travel together " when, in reality, they had found the Unified Field ~ whose principle property, which effects atoms, photons and even galaxies, is the urge to unite.

It is Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit priest, paleontologist and explorer of the soul, whose life's work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution, who stands impatiently at the summit of man's quest for the ultimate truth ~ proclaiming to all that this primal urge to unite is god and love.

As such, God is love, the ultimate life force ~ an evolutionary process with which we all participate as co-creators.

To Teilhard, not only is love the most universal, the most powerful and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces ~ but it is also the primal and universal physic energy.

By fully surrendering to love that truth has not only appeared in my mind but I prove it every day, as a psychotherapist, by Jump starting my client’s hearts. I do that by having them take responsibility for love, rather than running away from it, and healing themselves in the process.

Nobel physicist, Erwin Schrodinger believed that mind by its very nature is singular and one ~ that consciousness is not confined to separate, individual brains ~ that it is ultimately a Unified Field.

My work is, in essence, the reinterpretation of Teilhard de Chardin in light of the current coming together of mankind ~ as it slowly surrenders to its innate urge to unite and makes a painful shift from ego consciousness to soul consciousness.

As an example of our present need for a ' radical empiricism ' let's use the before mentioned Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Bose and Einstein discovered evidence of a primordial urge to unite existing even within the subatomic particles of energy that make up light, but they were blinded to the implications of their discovery by "scientific" prejudice.

Picture, if you will, some gigantic scientist peering through his trusty microscope at you and your lover ~ someone you have chosen to spend your life with ~ and dismissing your deep soul connection and union as a mere " spooky tendency " to want to travel together.

Has this scientist seen the full picture of you? Or has he missed an important subjective part of the picture?

And if so, was there a glitch in his microscope, or were his perceptions limited because of his preconceived beliefs or his state of consciousness?

Clearly, our beliefs and level of consciousness as observers determines our ability to accurately comprehend what we observe. It also determines the degree to which we consciously experience the Unified Field of love. An open heart, as such, is as important for accurate scientific inquiry as is a powerful microscope ~ if not more important.

It is only through the heart that one sees clearly ~ what is essential is invisible to the human eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery / The Little Prince

Science will surely remain one-eyed and lacking in depth-perception until it acknowledges the equal validity of subjective, sensory and spiritual experience. And it will continue to record the letter of mere mechanics, and miss the true spirit that brings it all to life, until it comes to recognize the universal urge to unite, even within the molecule itself, as being the universal attractive force of love.

No one describes this scientific impasse more tellingly than Lincoln Barnett, author of The Universe and Dr. Einstein:

"A theoretical concept is emptied of content to the degree that it is divorced from sensory experience ~ for the only world man can truly know is the world created for him by his senses. Beyond that point he stares into the void.”

We are rapidly reaching the point where psychology, science and religion are all becoming aware of the growing need for a radical empiricism.

NASA released several years ago the first cosmic portrait of the birth of the Universe ~ from a point the size of a marble.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/12/tech/main540289.shtml

One of the biggest surprises revealed in the data is that the first generation of stars to shine in the Universe first ignited only 200 million years after the Big Bang, much earlier than many scientists had expected.

In addition, the new portrait precisely pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years old, with a remarkably small one percent margin of error.

When we observe the red shift of galaxies outside our local group, every galaxy appears to be moving away from us. We are therefore led to the conclusion that our Universe is expanding. This is called Hubble expansion, after Edwin Hubble, who discovered the phenomenon in 1929.

But as the Universe expands is it, in reality, feeling an increasing innate urge to unite?

Yes, all those Galaxies in our expanding universe are awaiting their innate call to union ~ as the millions of people on our expanded crowded planet are also awaiting our innate call to union.

Then, what is the call?

The call, quite simply, is love or the innate universal urge to unite.

Let me use the findings of the recent Nobel Prize winning researchers, Politzer, Gross and Wilczek, to prove my point.

They won the 2004 Nobel prize in physics for their studies of the “strong Force “ ~ the powerful and mysterious energy that holds the nuclei of atoms together.

They explained the mystifying qualities of the strong force, which holds together the fundamental building blocks of nature, called QUARKS, to form protons and neutrons ~ two of the basic components of atoms.

Now, this is when it gets interesting.

Independently, they developed the theory and the mathematical equations to show that Quarks are held together by the strong force which, unlike any other force in the universe, gets stronger as the quarks get farther apart ~ a concept now known as “Asymptotic Freedom “.

The simplest analogy is to a rubber band encircling two objects.

When the objects are close together, the rubber band fits loosely. But as they are drawn apart, the rubber band stretches, trying to pull them back together.

Now, here is my take on these findings as applied to my Unified Field of Love and Soul Consciousness.

The strong force in the atom is the urge to unite which is the principle property of my Unified Field.

It is the same urge to unite that Bose and Einstein found when they discovered that photons (light particles) have a tendency to travel together versus act randomly ~ which eventually led to the discovery of the laser.

It is also the same urge to unite that Teilhard de Chardin speaks of when he wrote ~ If there were no real propensity to unite , even at a prodigiously rudimentary level, indeed, in the molecule itself ~ it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up in the ' hominized ' or human form .

It is also the same urge to unite that loved ones feel when they are separated from each other ~ and the further apart the stronger the pull to be back together.

Since I'm a twin, I can really relate to this urge to unite when I was sometimes separated from my twin in early childhood.

This would also seemingly explain how the urge to unite would increase as the Universe continues to expand.

As such, it is a force that is stronger than Gravity !

Thus, the one constant of the universe would no longer be light at 186,000 miles per second for even light particles ( photons ) are subject to this force field of love ~ this driving urge to unite which exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest within ourselves.

And this would also explain why mankind is in the process of uniting while we seemingly are dividing and pulling away from each other.

And finally, on an individual level, it would explain the power of love, altruism and social cooperation and how we can no longer resist our innate pull and urge to unite versus separate.

Then we have Mike Purton, writing in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1366352,00.html

on 12/02/04 of the greatest religious discovery of the 20th century;

"Physicists call it entanglement, and it describes the state of two or more particles once they have interacted with one another. From then on, irrespective of time and space, a correlation will always exist between them. What happens to one will affect the other - even if they are now at opposite ends of the universe ...For if matter emerged from energy in the singularity of the big bang, it would seem to follow that all the particles of which it consists are in that state of correlation. They have not become entangled, but at the fundamental level they have never been - and can never be - separated. "

In summary ~ the great dawning and, I would add, inevitable realization of psychology, science and religion is that our separateness is an illusion measured by the state of our consciousness and that our ultimate reality, once again measured by the state of our consciousness, is the realization that we are all united and part of a loving and indivisible whole (The Unified Field) ~ and we resist it at our peril.

Very young children are aware, as I was, of this universal truth and consciousness which would explain Teilhard's quote ~ " Till the very end of time matter will always remain young, exuberant, sparkling, and new-born for those who are willing to love "

As such, those who we love deeply become part of us forever.

Starting with my twin and beloved grandfather ~ every person

I have deeply loved in this lifetime, as well as in past lifetimes, still lives in my heart. A thread of love that exists beyond time and space.

Or, as Longfellow so eloquently writes, " The thread of all sustaining beauty that runs through all and doth all unite.”

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/big-bang-asymptotic-freedom-and-unified.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )


Weblog: http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com
Website: www.allenroland.com
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Horse Racing's Greatest Stretch Runner / Zenyatta



Photo by John Gress / Reuters

Jockey Garrett Gomez rides Blame, right, to edge out Zenyatta, with jockey Mike Smith aboard, in the Classic race at the Breeders’ Cup in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday.

In some ways Zenyatta’s greatest race was her last one, the one she lost by a head, for 72,000 spectators at Churchill Downs clearly saw the heart of a champion who passed 11 horses in the stretch and only a scant fraction of a second kept her from passing blame at the finish line and retiring undefeated: Allen L Roland

I’m not usually into horse racing but the Zenyatta story caught my attention ~ undefeated in 19 races, always coming on in the stretch and the only girl racing with the boys in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The race left 72,000 spectators, a national TV audience, including myself, breathless but I’ll let Joe Drape, NY Times.com, who was there, tell the story ~ this is sports writing at its best !

Stretch Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTl2fdMXfv8

LOUISVILLE, Ky. “ Her owners, Jerry and Ann Moss; her trainer, John Shirreffs; and for that matter anyone who had watched and loved the great race mare Zenyatta knew that the real running ~ the edge-of-the-seat-drama ~ really didn’t start until she turned for home. Nineteen times before, Zenyatta had looked desperate and in trouble at the top of the stretch. Nineteen times before, she had found a gear to rocket past her rivals in the final strides.

So when jockey Mike Smith cornered the big girl and squared her shoulders toward the finish line in dead last, the more than 72,000 people here at Churchill Downs rose to their feet and held their breath. Zenyatta not only had 11 horses to pass, she also had a dozen or so lengths to make up.

This time, however, Zenyatta was in a different kind of trouble. This was the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, with a field full of thoroughbred racing’s royalty. They were boys. She was the only girl in the bunch, and at age 6 the oldest of the lot.

Zenyatta had started sluggishly, too. Sure, she always spotted fields some daylight, but Smith was worried before they hit the first turn. Her stride was uneven and looked like a rocking horse’s, with a wobbly glider. Dirt was hitting her face for the first time ~ Zenyatta had run 17 of her previous races on smoother synthetic surfaces.

Somehow, Smith settled her, and Zenyatta picked up some steam rounding the far turn. But now Smith was stuck inside, a wall of horses ahead of him.

He angled her left, one path, two paths, three paths, and it was not pretty. Zenyatta’s strength is power, not agility, and she looked like a bull trying to fight her way out of a ring.

“I needed to cut some corners somewhere,” Smith said.

When he finally got her outside and clear, Zenyatta charged. She shot by Musket Man and Paddy O’Prado and absolutely gassed the Preakness champion, Lookin at Lucky.

There was only one colt left, and he was a good one. Blame had won 8 of 12 in his lifetime, and 5 of his last 6. His rider, Garrett Gomez, had threaded Blame between two rivals and still had seven lengths on Zenyatta with the wire getting closer.

“At the eighth pole, I thought I was going to get there pretty easy,” Gomez confessed. But then he peeked beneath his arm and saw Smith and Zenyatta getting bigger and bigger.

“I knew she’d be coming,” Gomez said. “She’s the best I’ve ever seen.”

Smith was fanning Zenyatta, a mare he loved, with his left hand. She dug in, and Blame’s lead grew smaller with every stride. With 20 yards to go, Zenyatta was at Blame’s tail. Then hip. Then neck. There was a roar, the flash of a finish-line photo, and then silence.

Gomez thought he and Blame had won. Smith knew they had.

“She ran her heart out,” Gomez told Smith.

The photo finish will show that a dwindling head separated Zenyatta from a perfect 20-0 record. The race chart will say Blame covered the mile and a quarter in 2 minutes 2.28 seconds and rewarded his backers $12.40 for a $2 bet.

The sight of Smith in tears, his head buried in his hands, moments after the race, showed the fuller story. It told of how a kind and fast horse can lead to heartbreak as well as majesty.

Smith was inconsolable. He is a Hall of Fame rider who has been on the best horses in the world. But Zenyatta, he would tell you, “was the best ever, a gift from God, my everything.”

It didn’t matter to him that this was a race for the history books, and Zenyatta was just as amazingly noble in defeat had she been in her prior victories. He, Shirreffs and the Mosses have campaigned a thoroughbred who transcended the racetrack. They shared her with casual fans, which in turn fell for Zenyatta’s charisma and mastery.

Gomez understood what he had done by defeating Zenyatta, and was not entirely comfortable with it. He won three races this Breeders’ Cup and readily admitted that the victory atop Blame here was the biggest of his career.

“I really do have mixed emotions about it,” he said. “She’s been an ambassador for racing. We had a lot of people out here supporting her. She going for 20 of 20, and she came up a head short. I’m glad I was able to give her the defeat, but at the same time I wish she could have gone out 20 for 20 at someone else’s expense.”

Instead, Zenyatta went out at the expense of Smith. Or at least he thought so, and he couldn’t stop replaying the race.

“I got away slow and got squeezed out of there,” Smith tried to explain, tears swimming at the corner of his eyes. “I couldn’t level her off. If you have to blame anyone today, it would be me.”

Soon, the tears streamed down Smith’s face, and what could have been weighed too heavily on him.

“It’s my fault,” he said. “She should have won and it hurts.”

Smith lifted his head when he was asked how good his horse was.

“She ranks up there with the greatest of all time,” he said.

Zenyatta had run like one of the greats. Blame’s trainer, Albert Stall Jr., knew she had, too.

“In defeat, she didn’t lose anything,” Stall said.

Smith, however, had wanted to make sure the horse he loved got the accolades he felt she deserved.

“If I’d have won this, you could arguably say she was,” he said. “To come up a nose short.”

Smith swallowed. “It’s too hard,” he said.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/sports/07breeders.html?src=twrhp

Blame’s trainer, Albert Stall Jr, was correct ~ “ in defeat Zenyatta didn’t lose anything” ~ for millions of people, including myself, will never forget experiencing her giant heart and will to win, which will live far longer in our memories than a narrow defeat at the Breeder’s Cup on Saturday, November 6, 2010.

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/horse-racings-greatest-stretch-runner.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )


Weblog: http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com
Website: www.allenroland.com
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Friday, November 5, 2010

OBAMA STILL DOESN'T GET IT / HE FAILED TO LEAD




President Obama still doesn’t get that the 2010 mid-term elections were a referendum on him ~ and specifically his failure to deliver on the mandate of change that he promised in 2008. His progressive and Independent base fled the scene but he still doesn’t get that his spineless passivity has left him alone at the table still drinking his own kool aid: Allen L Roland

I’ve read all the postmortems on the midterm elections which was not a surprise to me ~ mainly because I’m one of the millions of Americans who voted for change in 2008 and saw Barack Obama as an agent of that change and was quickly disappointed by not only his cabinet selections but his reluctance to deliver on those promises he glibly offered before his election. As Ted Rall correctly writes ~” People are pissed. They hate the bailouts, but the bailouts aren’t the main point. More than anything else, the American people are angry that their government doesn’t even pretend to give a damn about them.”

Or as Marshall Ganz also correctly wrote in the LA Times ~ “ The nation was ready for transformational leadership, but the president gave us transactional leadership ( horse-trading, operating within the routine, maintaining, rather than changing the status quo). And, as is the case with leadership failures, much of the public's anger, disappointment and frustration has been turned on a leader who failed to lead.”

David Degraw , author of The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America, and his forthcoming book The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III offers an incisive analysis of the Mid Term election and how Obama got what he deserved ~ “ The Obama referendum came in and he got what he deserved. When you run on change and leave the same criminals in positions of power and don’t hold anyone accountable for obvious crimes, and allow them to continue to commit those crimes, you deserve to lose your power. This is what happens when you put Tim Geithner and Larry Summers in charge of the economy, and support Ben Bernanke for reconfirmation as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. This is what happens when you keep Robert Gates as your Secretary of Defense and General Petraeus in charge of your wars. This is what happens when you lie to protect the interests of BP over the American people. This is what happens when you bailout Wall Street and the health care industry and sell out everyone else. This is what happens when your rhetoric is the opposite of your actions. The past two years have clearly exposed Obama as a spineless corporate puppet and he deserves to be voted out in 2012.”

DeGraw goes on to define the real problem ~ “ Hopefully by 2012 the American public will finally understand that they must support Independent candidates and alternative political structures, and cannot vote for Democrats or Republicans, if they ever want to achieve the needed change. Both parties serve the same corporate masters. Yes, there are some differences between the two. The Democrats serve half of the top economic one percent, and the Republicans serve the other half. We have Neo-liberals to the left and Neo-cons to the right, leaving 99% of us without representation.”

The loss of both Russ Feingold and Alan Grayson, who led the fight against the corporate elite are outstanding examples of how the progressives have been run over by both parties ~ “Two politicians in Congress who actually fought for us against the Economic Elite just lost their reelection bids. Alan Grayson and Russ Feingold lost because record amounts of cash went to funding the candidates who ran against them. Even their own party’s leadership didn’t support their reelection efforts. The bottom line in this money rigged system is that you cannot run against the most powerful corporations and win. They will just pour unlimited funds into defeating you, and your own party will desert you. “

So what can we do? How can we defeat the corpocracy and return the Republic to the people?

DeGraw offers a bottom up approach that just might work if we can get beyond our own political cynicism ~ “ Yes, I sound extreme, but these are extreme times. I’m not going to sit quietly as our future is ripped out from under us. I will not let my family’s well being and our country’s fate be decided by short-sighted greed addicted forces that have looted the global economy and brought poverty, death and destruction throughout the world.

I see the path we are on and I intend to change it!

It is evident that the overwhelming majority of the population has become cynical and feels that it is useless to try to change things. If these people would just realize that they are the overwhelming majority and take action, we can change things. We have power in numbers. We are 99% of the population. If we organize on common ground and fight back, we will win!”

Click on common ground and see how we can all aggressively move on common sense political reforms.

We are the ones we have been waiting for!

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/obama-still-doesnt-get-it-he-failed-to.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )


Weblog: http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com
Website: www.allenroland.com
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

GIANTS WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS !








Tim ( The freak ) Lincecum screams to the world that the San Francisco Giants are now number one after striking out ten Ranger batters ~ as the Giants humbled the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Arlington, Texas. Photo by Paul Moseley / Ft Worth Star telegram

The curse has been lifted ~ 52 years ago ( 1958 ) the New York Giants packed up their bags and abandoned New York for San Francisco and left millions of East Coast Giant fans in the lurch without their favorite team, which had recently swept the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series. New York took a long time to forgive them but finally caved in 2010.

I was elated since I had joined the Navy in 1957, completed my flight training and was stationed in Miramar, California as a Navy carrier pilot and was soon deployed on the USS Ranger ~ which was stationed in Alameda, California across the bay from San Francisco, Candlestick Park and my long time favorite team, the New York but now San Francisco Giants.

It’s been a humbling experience for the past 52 years watching the Giants come so close to a world championship but bow to earthquakes (1989 ), Dusty Baker's poor judgment (2002) and of course bad luck ~ witness Willie McCovey’s line drive smash into Bobby Richardson’s glove in the last of the ninth, two outs and the tying run on third and winning run on second ( Willie Mays ) in the seventh game of the 1962 World series with the New York Yankees. I was there for that moment and never forgot the heartbreak when over 50,000 screaming fans suddenly went totally silent.

But that was still the New York curse from 1958 and the Giants were still 48 years from finally breaking it in 2010 ~ when a ragtag bunch of misfits and castoffs led by a grizzled, wise and veteran coach willed themselves not only to the National league pennant but to the world championship and, in the process, made torture refreshing.

For it was indeed torture to all Giants fans and no one was more adept at applying it then the bearded one ~ their incomparable closer, Brian Wilson.

But in the World Series the Giants suddenly glimpsed their destiny, rose above torture and soared to unparalleled heights by dispatching an obviously awed Ranger team in five games by scoring 29 runs in five games and allowing only 12 runs to the over matched Texans. This included two shutouts in game two and four as well as a one run gem by Lincecum in the deciding game five.

It appears the Rangers believed their own Fox driven media driven hype that had established the Rangers as decided favorites while the Giants believed in themselves and savored the fact that they were underdogs. So now, America’s team is not the far right and up tight Bush loving Rangers but, instead the rag tag castoffs and supremely intentioned cardiac kids from progressive San Francisco.

I savored watching former Ranger part owner George W Bush anguishing in the owner’s box along with Club President Nolan Ryan ~ perhaps a prelude to Bush being eventually tried in the dock for war crimes against humanity.

So now, names like Lincecum. Cain, Bumgarner, Posey, Ross, Uribe, Torres, Renteria and Huff are added to all time Giants lore along with Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal and all is forgiven ~ the 1958 curse has been exorcized.

But, to me, the real hero was manager Bruce Bochy who made his decisive moves brilliantly and never took his foot off the staggering Rangers throat. He and his ragtag team of super achievers truly caught “ lightning in a bottle “ and Ranger’s manager Washington looked like a deer in the headlights of this oncoming truck ~ as did Bobby Cox ( Braves ) and Charlie Manuel ( Phillies ) before him.

So what more appropriate face to symbolize this rise from history’s ashes than the irrepressible Tim Lincecum being hoisted by his teammates after game five and screaming ~ Believe it !

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/giants-world-series-champions.html


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

GIANTS vs RANGERS WILL BE NAILBITER / SF WILL PREVAIL IN SIX GAMES
















SF Manager Bruce Bochy /
Leader of the torturous but driven Magnificent Misfits.

The Cardiac Kids
have given their followers a combination of nervous despair and extreme exultation as they prepare to face the Texas Rangers in the World Series ~ which the Giants should win in six or seven games: Allen L Roland

It's wild and crazy right now in the San Francisco Bay area as the San Francisco Giants prepare to battle the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series.

And that's just what this Giant's team is ~ crazy and wild but also intentioned, focused and battle tested for their first World Series title since the Giants moved from New York in 1958.

There are several reasons why the Giants should win in six or seven games including the fact that the Rangers will not have a designated hitter in the four games in SF and their pitchers will have to finally hit and bunt like National league pitchers do every game.

The other six reasons are as follows;

Bruce Bochy. Manager Bruce Bochy out managed both Bobby Cox and Charlie Manuel in the National League playoffs, and managed the Padres in the World Series in 1998 ~ where the Padres got swept. Bochy has been here before, he wants his ring and the grizzled veteran is just as intentioned as his band of misfits.

Tim Lincecum. The Freak is the face of the cardiac kids but beneath his hippie length hair is an intentioned two time Cy Young winner whose record is 56-27 in his first four major league seasons. Lincecum has led the National league in strikeouts ( 231 ) for the third straight season and the Rangers better not take him lightly, along with Cain, Bumgarner and Sanchez.

Buster Posey. Posey won the Johnny Bench award in 2008 as the best college catcher ( Florida State ) and the Golden Spike award the same year as the nation's top amateur player. Posey is the rock of the cardiac kids and a natural field general who batted .305 with 18 homers and 67 RBI'S in 2010. Since Bochy moved him into the cleanup spot ~ Posey has batted .505 with a 21 game hitting streak and threw out 37% of those trying to steal against him. Posey is the heart of the franchise and the closest thing to Johnny Bench that I've ever seen.

Juan Uribe. Uribe's been on this stage before with the Chicago White Sox in 2005 and 2008 and brings an unbridled clubhouse presence, a .984 fielding percentage and the ability to rise to the occasion in the postseason ( 11 RBI in 25 career postseason games ~ including his game winning homerun against the Phillies in Game six ).

Cody Ross. Ross is the sparkplug for the magnificent misfits and has shown up big time in the postseason with three homers, three doubles and seven hits in 20 at bats. He is fearless and his timely hits against Lowe, Halladay and Oswalt have literally inspired his teammates to greater heights. The MVP of the NCLS will not be denied either on the field or at bat against the Rangers .

Brian Wilson. What can you say ~ the ninth inning of game six with the Phillies was a true capsule of Giant torture when the bearded one fired his favorite cutter by a frozen Howard with the bases full, a three and two count and a hostile crowd roaring. Wilson loves this stage and he plays his role to the hilt with his Mohawk haircut, black dyed beard and league leading 48 saves with 93 strikeouts in 74 innings.

Throw in Audrey Huff and veteran Pat Burrell and now you have the magnificent seven with the tenacious and determined Bruce Bochy at the helm ~ against Cliff Lee and a wide eyed Ranger manager and squad who will be fortunate to win two nail biting games.

The Wild Bunch, as Bochy often refers to his team of renegades, appear " to have caught lightning in a bottle."

My Prediction : The Giants in six, maybe seven games.

Allen L Roland http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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