My Kind of Sermon
by Mark Shields
In my Irish-American Massachusetts family, you were born a Democrat and baptized a Catholic. If your luck held, you were also brought up to be a Boston Red Sox fan, which meant that, for you, the Axis of Evil or the Evil Empire was not a totalitarian regime somewhere on the other side of the world, but instead the super-rich, spoiled and arrogant New York Yankees just four hours away by car.
In his recent Easter Sunday sermon to a congregation that included the nation's first family at ...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:11 PM
Re: Paul M. Petkovsek;....It is a game to kids...It is life and death to adults; and more so for those who turn sport into profit.. They may not know it; but they have ruined the game, and they have ruined the game for kids.. And they have ruined it for adults... Sooner or later all those players who once dreamed of that big ball field under that broad sky, or the bright lights finds it is not all it is supposed to be; because it is not fun..It's murder..Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: arthur l. finn
Comment: #2
Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:01 PM
Like religion being a Bronxite results in one being an avid fan of the Yankees. That was when I was 15 and the players stayed on one team for A SEASON OR TWO. Today they stay a week or two. All baseball, make that all sports, is too big a business. It spawns those whining multi millionaires who whine a lot. Where have you gone Joe Dimaggio and Ted Williams too. My thrill then, I'm old, was seeing Bojangles dance on the Yanlee dugout after every NY homerun. A fond adieu to what was a national SPORT!!
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #3
Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:03 AM
Sir;...Perhaps you should consider that The World hates the Yankee Imperialists for the same reason some people hate the New York Yankees...We have the money to buy the big guns and we are not afraid to use them....If we can't beat them, we can buy them... And we never really settle for second place...It is a generational thing, that men born before television located every child on their backside could play... My father could hit pop ups all day long for my brother and myself to field....Not I... But baseball and diplomacy are both becoming third world sports... Parents who want their kid to be a star don't even care if other kids play...Vacant lots are an attractive nuisance...Everyone is too concerned about their precious windows to encourage a good game...So nearly everyone who does play, does not look much like me, and it sort of detracts from the game... But perhaps the long ball I am trying to knock out of the park is this: we can see how the world is beating us, even while we think we are beating the world... We import talent, and pay them peanuts considering the jobs they do for us, and we very often send them home better educated as to our weakness and our laziness and our lack of talent... MSU does not look whiter than many construction sites, or speak better English... But it is certain that those people are not only taking a better education home with them, but very often, a hatred and contempt of us, ready to turn their talents to our destruction...As a country we are seen as wanting to win at all cost, that we have no good faith, and never bargain in good faith, and have no use for good faith... If threats do not work, and subterfuge does not work, and the army does not work, then we corrupt all we can... What James Connolly said of the British, that they would rule Ireland by her banks and her counting houses, is still true today... It is Yankee bankers who run the world, and when the government might have seen this curse lifted from our heads, they instead, propped up the banks to save the world for America's bankers... Is this possibly just some paranoid musing??? Is it possible that the U.S. kept a hundred corrupt regimes in power just by keeping the dollars flowing???Is it possible that they saved their own rotten government with the same device???As much as I once loved the game, to play, and not to watch; baseball, for all its finess, and refinement is still a reminder of our cave man past, where the man with the club got the girl, and everything else worth having... While we educate the world, we are still seeming as cave men, unable to escape the forms of the past, and seize the future... We leave that task to others at our peril...Thanks...Sweeney...
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Posted by: m
Comment: #4
Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:36 PM
It is not the Yankees fault.
It is those that give them the money.
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Posted by: Paul M. Petkovsek
Comment: #5
Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:28 PM
I never could figure out how someone could become a millionaire by playing a game that kids play on vacant lots.
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Posted by: Paul M. Petkovsek
Comment: #6
Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:49 AM
Re: James A, Sweeney You are exactly right, Sweeney! If you want to watch a bunch of kids having a good time, watch them playing. If you want to hear bad language and watch a bunch of adults make fools of themselves, Sit in the stands at a little league game. (Not all adults, just the ones who want to set the worst possible example for their own children.)
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