The Colorado Rockies like players with "character", meaning players who've accepted Christ as their personal lord and savior. Sounds like a strange way to run a professional sports franchise, but hey, who can argue with the results? The Rockies are an awe-inspriring 27-29 so far this season. Sure, that's only good enough for last place in the NL West, but they're not as deeply mired in last place as they've been in past seasons. Take that, you nonbelieving scum!
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Yeah, that sounds right. Trouble is, this sort of "first" doesn't manifest itself in wins or playoff money. It's the kind of "first" you get only in the afterlife, which brings to mind a terrible old joke that closes something like this:
FATHER: You've done well, son. You'll get your reward in heaven.
SON: And just what will my reward be, dad?
FATHER: A bail of hay, you jackass.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
The Colorado Rockies like players with "character", meaning players who've accepted Christ as their personal lord and savior. Sounds like a strange way to run a professional sports franchise, but hey, who can argue with the results? The Rockies are an awe-inspriring 27-29 so far this season. Sure, that's only good enough for last place in the NL West, but they're not as deeply mired in last place as they've been in past seasons. Take that, you nonbelieving scum!
I'll make you a deal asshole.
If you can find an athiest team that has done better I will donate another $500 bucks to this forum, now put up or shut up.
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The Colorado Rockies like players with "character", meaning players who've accepted Christ as their personal lord and savior. Sounds like a strange way to run a professional sports franchise, but hey, who can argue with the results? The Rockies are an awe-inspriring 27-29 so far this season. Sure, that's only good enough for last place in the NL West, but they're not as deeply mired in last place as they've been in past seasons. Take that, you nonbelieving scum!
I'll make you a deal asshole.
If you can find an athiest team that has done better I will donate another $500 bucks to this forum, now put up or shut up.
Ooooo...do fantasy teams count?
Do you think we could fill a card on a fantasy basis? Y'know, cherry-picking known atheist players? Everybody knows who all the atheists and apathists are, right?
Or, rather...Say a new franchise was awarded and the new team owners decided that all of the members of their team would not attest to any higher power....as a matter of character. Do you think the result could field a decent team? I do.
The Colorado Rockies like players with "character", meaning players who've accepted Christ as their personal lord and savior. Sounds like a strange way to run a professional sports franchise, but hey, who can argue with the results? The Rockies are an awe-inspriring 27-29 so far this season. Sure, that's only good enough for last place in the NL West, but they're not as deeply mired in last place as they've been in past seasons. Take that, you nonbelieving scum!
I'll make you a deal asshole.
If you can find an athiest team that has done better I will donate another $500 bucks to this forum, now put up or shut up.
That isn't the point, is it?
If you have God Almighty on your side you should never be finishing last. REGARDLESS of where the so-called "atheist teams" are finishing.
Furthermore, if choosing your players by "character" doesn't help you win baseball games, then what is the point?
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If you can find an athiest team that has done better I will donate another $500 bucks to this forum, now put up or shut up.
What would make a team "athiest" (sic)? Or is it enough to not wear Christianity on the uniform, so to speak? And as Sauron pointed out, these fellas must be worshipping the wrong god or something. Or he just sucks at baseball.
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Those lucky chosen "will be treated to an hour and a half of Christian music and a testimonial from the ace pitcher John Smoltz." Smoltz is the player who in 2004 opined on gay marriage to the Associated Press, saying, "What's next? Marrying an animal?"
Interestingly enough, neither Heaven nor Hell has any vested interest in baseball. It's the whole steroid thing, it really ruins the game for both of us.
We did try to get an intramural softball league running a few years back. That was an unmitigated disaster. The flaming swords of the Heavenly Hosts kept igniting the ball when hit. When the Infernal Furies proposed using the decapitated heads of sinners...well, let's just say that didn't go over too well.
So, out of the professional sports, hockey is definitely Heavenly. For obvious reasons, we can't get a rink functioning in Hell (we might have to talk to the folks over in Anaheim about the logistics of that, I love them Mighty Ducks). That leaves Hell with NASCAR, which works out quite well for us (it's the gas fumes, y'know).
Well, if people find it appealing to play on a team of like minded people, then I am happy that they get that opportunity. I can appreciate the "character" aspect of the team, although there are non-Christians who have character, as well. Anyway, maybe a little more character is needed in sports. It pretty much sucks when a kids is told to get lost when he wants a player to sign a ball at a Spring Training game, maybe these Christian guys are nicer as a policy.
You know you're safe offering that because you know there is no such thing as an atheist team. Nobody was saying anything about an atheist team doing better until you poked your nose into it.
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...maybe these Christian guys are nicer as a policy.
* Dingfod laughs and laughs
I'm not saying that Christianity in general is nicer, but some Christian groups stress being nice so that they are a light unto the world. Maybe it is there policy that they must be nice to the little kids who want their autographs. Anyway, I know nothing about this group, so I really don't know. I was just trying to see a good side to this group.
On the other hand, I suppose the group could be considerred bigoted, excluding all but Christians, if that is the case.
The reason I laughed was that in my experience, groups of Christians are no more and no less nicer than any other groups that I've encountered, people are just people, regardless of their associations.
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