Pro Sports

Maybe I picked the wrong profession...
The median salary PER GAME is...

$7,099 for major league baseball

$14,024 for the national hockey league

$33,536 for professional basketball

$51,875 for the NFL


But God didn't intend me to be a pro athlete, else he would have given me
a different body.
Best I ever did was play the first position on my high school tennis team.
And I've been serving every since.

3 strikes

I personnaly find baseball so crushingly boring I would happily plunge knitting needles into my eyes to avoid another snap zoom of Joe Torre's nostril hairs.

The above was written by Rick Reilly in ESPN Magazine.
So, he suggests ways to make baseball a better game:

--put in a pitch clock... you get 15 seconds for each pitch
--once a week, every player signs autographs for 10 minutes by the dugout.
--we'll bring in Olympic testing... the World Anti-Doping Agency can test anytime, road or home
--if you're 0-for-4, the crowd gets to pick your at-bat music
--the National League will get the DH.
--We'll fine more players.
--umps will be in charge of rainouts year round
--balls that hit the foul pole are foul...Duh
--a prospect won't be allowed to enter an MLB farm system until he's the age of a college sophomore, just like the NBA
--and if you're the dweeb fan on your cell phone behind home plate waving at the camera, the rest of your section gets to pour beer down your shorts.

[wayne]: is there any sport on TV that is more slow or meditative than baseball? Okay, there's golf. And poker. Will these slow sports still be there in 10 years? Or maybe the 'meditative types' of TV watchers will always be around.

Fat

"This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat." (Leviticus 3.17)

handbells

Last night Pat and I went to hear and see the Westminster Choir College Handbell Choir. Westminster Choir College is historically connected to Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Dayton. The college's campus is in Princeton, New Jersey and is part of Rider University.

It's fascinating to watch a handbell choir of this caliber. They do things with handbells that you would think are impossible--playing music that church handbell choirs couldn't touch with a twelve-foot pole.

The college's choir has performed on the Today Show, at Carnegie Hall, and on NPR, etc.

Music is one of God's good gifts.

from Chronicles

Here's an interesting passage I read today from Second Chronicles:

"May the Lord, who is good, grant pardon to everyone who has resolved to seek God, the Lord, though they be not clean as holiness requires." [2 Chr. 30.18b-19]

The next verse says that God did forgive them.

The context shows that God forgave people who had the right attitude, even though they had not crossed every 't' and dotted every 'i.'

clean

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
- Cecil Baxter

wall

In one of her writings Simone Weil describes two prisoners who are in solitary confinement in cells next to each other. Between them is a stone wall. Over a period of time they find a way to communicate using taps and scratches. The wall is what separates them, but it is also the only means they have of communicating.