12/20/06
Softball: Your Judeo-Christian Good-time Sport
Dear People,
Jeff's team barely held off my own, 17-16, in one of those taut see-sawing thrillers where the lead changes hands so many times that at the end of the day, there's only a 50-50 chance that the more loveable, deserving and athletically superior side actually ends up winning. I'm not implying anything about this last game, but it does remind me of that brutal Biblical maxim, "Your team may be righteous and playeth better, but the Lord can be surly and just doesn’t care. Deal with it." (Leviticus 6:19).
The point is that next Monday morning marks the 2006th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, give or take a decade. Jesus, of course, was the Bible's go-to protagonist, and so out of respect, I was thinking that we wouldn't have a game this week. But then it suddenly occurred to me that if I don’t organize one, I’d be giving in to those sicko secular progressives who are out to destroy our way of life, the US&A, and even Christmas itself.
Indeed, most scholars now accept that the rich Hebraic values of 1st century Judea were marked by a profound devotion to family, an unabiding faith in piety and an insatiable obsession with Samarian-style stickball. Even I was skeptical at first, and yet Matthew and Luke both claim that before he met Mary, Joseph was a pinch-runner for the Nazareth Rams. Luke goes even further, telling us that on the day he held the baby Jesus for the very first time, the Joester turned to one of the wise guys and proudly beamed “the kid’s a ringer.” Talk about your prophetic understatements!
OK, fine, I’ll stop here, before I dig myself any deeper. But if we as a community weren’t meant to play on this, of all weekends, then I don’t know what. And therefore there will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11AM, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning…Raymond
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