Does Jesus want the Rockies to lose?
Friday October 26, 2007
Categories: Popular Culture
The Colorado Rockies - the team losing 0-2 in the World Series - have garnered some attention for their faith-based baseball. My friend Patton Dodd, loyal member of the Red Sox Nation (no matter what he might say) even wrote...
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It will be telling, both for the Rockies and for the Christians in the media who have picked up on the team's Christian faith, to see how a Rockies loss in the Series will be handled.
Someone once said that if winning was not important, then why keep score. Now, in the business of baseball ALL players are being paid very well during the season, but once the season nears it's end it's only the best that go on to the post season. All of these guys want to be champions, to be the guy stepping up to the plate waiting to have his Kirk Gibson moment in the sun. Only one team will, though.
I would expect that for those professing Christian faith that it would give the winners honor in victory, and graciousness in defeat, and nothing more. It continues to bother me that folks will try to made God some cosmic oddsmaker, that because the Rockies have more "faith" on their team that that somehow gives them an advantage. Frankly, they have played poorly, and deserved to lose. And I think that every single player in the World Series knows that in the bigger picture, nothing they are doing right now will ever make up the difference for the pain families are feeling now in So. Cal, looking over the rubble of their homes.
This is the kookiest post you have made to date. Just because you are Christian and have faith in Jesus doesn't mean that He gives a hoot about the outcome of a game or that the victors should be celebrated as being emblematic of God's will. Now, if the Rockies went all potty-mouthed in losing, that might tarnish their image as the most faith-filled team, but wins and losses are, imho, not much of a concern for God.
Patton Dodd is G ... well, I shouldn't let a cute rhyme force me into sacrilege, but he is awesome.
His Bnet takedown of The Secret is -- to use the language of ESPN -- an instant classic.
Now what was that I heard once about something going before a fall? ....
Speaking of ESPN -- fascinating article on the faith-based recoveries of tonight's two starting pitchers:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=3083332&sportCat=mlb
Wasn't the last story that the Rockies great, supernatural, prayer-based winning streak was a fantastic Testimony to Jesus?
Now the get their clocks cleaned by Boston and it's "Jesus wants the Rockies to get swept in four games"?
Can't Jesus make up his mind, David?
Okay, obviously as a Boston fan you favor the most humiliating outcome for the NL, which is what you got. So the Boston fans' prayers trumped the locker rook piety of the Rox I guess.
But on the Power of Prayer front the score is:
Mockers & Scoffers 11
True Believers 0
I just wish Jesus would help my Houston Astros finally win a World Series. We're not fans of a big market team like the Boston Red Sox or the Chicago Cubs so there's none of that stupid baloney about our team being cursed by Babe Ruth or the Wrigley Field goat or anything like that, but it sure would be nice to get that trophy on the Gulf Coast and any help by Jesus would be appreciated.
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