This is not a joke is it?
Terrifying -depressing -ghastly etc :-(
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Subject: Re: God is a Reds fan
Well, I listened to the game (but not to the Reds commentator) & the
reason the Reds won was because the Mets' closer screwed up real bad.
He did that all by himself and God had nothing to do with it. Unhappily
for me there are only three reasons to watch baseball: the Mets, the
Merts and the Mets. -- Pierre
On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> For Americans, especiall, this column is a necessary reading
> experience, I think:
>
>
> Jesus is a Reds fan [PERMALINK]
>
>
> If you've been wondering which baseball team has been anointed by God,
> the answer is the Cincinnati Reds. At least that's the gospel
> according to a Cincinnati sportstalk radio host named Andy Furman.
>
> I wish I'd known this before I made my National League picks. But
> reader Michael Vines only hipped me to the good news on Tuesday.
>
> When the Reds opened their season at home against the New York Mets
> Monday, Furman led into the game broadcast with a fire-and-brimstone
> sermon extolling the virtues of God, U.S. troops, Pope John Paul II
> and the Cincinnati Reds. You can hear it yourself at mlb.com, where
> you can listen to either team's radio broadcast of every game all year
> if you're inclined to pay $14.95.
>
> The first Reds broadcast of the season starts with Furman talking
> over "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." That ridiculous cliché, more
> than the whacked-out nature of the sermon -- which at one point has
> the Reds looking down from heaven -- is a clue the whole thing might
> be a joke. But if it is, I don't get it. A transcript:
>
> "Whether it's Vietnam, whether it's the Persian Gulf War or whether
> it's Iraq, whenever American soldiers are marching around the globe:
> God almighty -- God, who called home John Paul the Great -- will
> determine once again the path and the mark, a great American victory
> overseas in the Persian Gulf area now, in 2005.
>
> "As God is my witness, as sure as there is a pope in heaven today, as
> sure as the mighty Ohio River flows in between Ohio and Kentucky, as
> surely as the Furman brothers sitting next to me now, circumcised, as
> sure as I'm sitting here, once again, God will say, 'It is time for
> the Reds to march.' From the Civil War to World War I to World II to
> Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War, and to Mosul and to Fallujah, one
> baseball team has been called by God to look down from heaven above,
> and to represent him.
>
> "It's not about football, Andy. It's not about basketball, Randy.
> It's not about swimming. It's not about field hockey. It's not about
> bowling. It's not about tennis. It's about one sport that God almighty
> has determined to represent America, and that sport is baseball.
>
> "And the one team, the one team that is best represented is the
> oldest and the best franchise. Whether it's G.I. Joe or the Doughboys.
> No matter what it is. Say it loud, Furman brothers, the Reds are No.
> 1. God bless America, and God bless the Cincinnati Reds on 700, WLW."
>
> Reds fans can take comfort that God's on their side, but would it be
> blasphemous to ask why He can't do something about the pitching?
>
> It's from King Kaufman's Sports Daily. Whew. Who could have known...
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2005/04/06/wednesday/
> index1.html
>
> Doug
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> He saw the dark as a ragged garment
> spread out to air.
> Through its rents and moth-holes
> the silver light came pouring.
>
> Denise Levertov
>
>
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