Ten reasons why baseball is God's game
"The story is told of the aristocratic English cricket supporter who dies and appears at the Pearly Gates. St Peter checks his list, but, alas, the old gentleman is not on it. “There must be some mistake,” the man protests, “I have a permanent seat in the Lord’s enclosure!”
Well, Lord’s may be the home of cricket, but if cricket is heaven – and I write as an American expat who has lovingly lived in the UK for over thirty years – then heaven is as the cartoonist Larson depicts it: a bored bespectacled soul sitting on a cloud, thinking (in his thought balloon): “Wish I had a magazine.” Cricket is indeed baseball on Valium, while baseball is “chess at ninety miles an hour” (Roger Kahn). Baseball is God’s game. And here are just ten reasons why..."
by Kim Fabricius - You can find the 10 reasons here.
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By the way, I like reason #5:
It has its saints – e.g. Lou Gehrig (the
Iron
Horse) and Jackie Robinson (the first African-American player of the
modern era) – and sinners – e.g. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson (who took a
bribe) and Barry Bonds (who is alleged to have taken steroids). And
there is the Great Satan: the New York Yankees.---------------------
A quick thought...
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw - "The prayer I say before I go out there and pitch is not, 'God, let me win today,' or, 'God, help me pitch good.' It's, 'God, just be with me,'" he revealed in a video, shot in 2012. "Whether it be pitching on a baseball mound or living my life outside of the baseball field, it's giving up my life to God that really puts my life in control."
Go Tigers! May God be with us all on and off the diamond. Amen.
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