This Will Get Baseball Fans Through the Next Month -2

1/27/2014

But why can't we play two? Courtesy of: stuckattheairport.com.

Brian Savin

1/27/2014 12:16:32 pm

Old Time photograph that I wish were true today. One can lose all sense of anticipation and excitement if the season is too long. Baseball is now like hockey, over 9 months. I remember when the only thing you get in February was Street and Smith's Baseball Yearbook. And the November Classic was played in October. I liked that.

Charlie Accetta

1/27/2014 12:21:32 pm

Ernie Banks was already on the downside of a wonderful career when I became familiar with him, but he was still good for the long ball and the smiling countenance. There are people like Ernie who are blessed because they bless us. I always had the feeling he didn't really want to play two except that we wanted to watch him play two and he was thrilled to oblige.

Richard Goldstein

1/27/2014 02:36:04 pm

And it's only nine months or so till the Cubs play Game 1 in the World Series.

George Vecsey

1/28/2014 12:37:24 am

medical marijuana?

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"Some of Jesus’ questions were rhetorical; others were meant to challenge or even provoke. In some cases, Jesus used questions to parry attacks by religious authorities who set traps for him. In others, he used questions to enter more fully into the lives of others and to help people look at the state of their hearts. He asked people about their fears and their faith. Jesus used questions to free a woman caught in adultery from condemnation and to inquire whether people considered him to be the Messiah. He probed deeply into questions not many had asked before him, like “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
---(Peter Wehner, long-time White House consultant and writer, in the NYT last week about Jesus Christ’s method of teaching by asking questions.)

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