BoSox Have The Most Born Agains In MLB

[stopbush]

No comment.

Oh, hell: Go Yankees!

Faith binds many on Sox
Evangelical Christians give sport a spiritual context

By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | August 31, 2005

They gathered in a makeshift house of God -- a brick-walled retreat in Fenway Park otherwise reserved for postgame interviews -- and prayed for dead and dying loved ones. They prayed for American troops in hot spots abroad. And for the poor souls in the path of Hurricane Katrina.

As the Sunday baseball crowd streamed into the park less than an hour before the defending world champions played their 128th game of the season, a dozen members of the Red Sox -- the largest group of evangelical Christians on any team in Major League Baseball -- joined an equal number of coaches and staffers in sharing a bond of faith that is fast becoming the stuff of national renown among religious figures in sports.

The service was conducted by the Rev. Walt Day of Baseball Chapel, a ministry that provides all 30 major league teams with a chaplain. Moments earlier, Day had turned a stuffy storage room in the visitors clubhouse into a chapel for five Detroit Tigers.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/08/31/faith_binds_many_on_sox?mode=PF

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Who gives a shit?

:eyes:

[redsoxliberal]

2. read that article... counterpoints:

Francona voted for Kerry.
Theo voted for Dean, then for Kerry.

Henry, Lucchino and Werner offered their private jet to Kerry to pursue Ohio issues if he needed it.

Steinbrenner donated to GWB 04.

[Zenlitened]

3. "Our Lord Jesus of the Win Column"

When they get on camera and thank god for the win -- Nixon once said it half a dozen times in a single brief interview -- that's just repulsive.

:puke:

[Dave Reynolds]

4. This needs a copycat,

something with BoTox.

I wish I were bright enough to come up with it.