Well, the Red Sox should just mail it in![]() Photo-evangelicalright.com Before I stumbled into this article, I was intensely pulling for the Rockies. But obviously the divinely appointed underdogs in the World Serious are the Boston Red Sox. Now, the majority of my inner voices will be pushing me to cheer for Boston. I can't help myself. The Rockies have taken baseball's equivalent of the endzone prayer by a touchdown-scorer to new levels.
"You look at some of the moves we made and didn't make," general manager Dan O'Dowd said in the only interview he has given on the subject, long before the Rockies' remarkable ascension over the past few weeks. "You look at some of the games we're winning. Those aren't just a coincidence. God has definitely had a hand in this."
I haven't heard this kind of foolishness too much since as a devout Mormon in 1984 when, with an assist from the Huskies, the Lord's BYU Cougars became the NCAA Football national champions.
So many of my bretheren and sisteren saw God's hand in that particular triumph. God worked in mysterious ways in order to spread the truth of the One True and Faithful Church on the Face of the Earth. Right? Well, if that logic held, Notre Dame would have made the United States entirely Catholic decades ago.
The Independent: Batting for Jesus The team's chief executive is a born-again Christian. So is the general manager and the team coach. Their two star players, along with many other members of their regular line-up, are not only believers but attend team-organised Bible studies. Maybe there's something to Dr. Dobson's Colorado Christianity.
It didn't hurt that Colorado is home to several high-profile evangelical organisations. The beer-producing Coors family, whose name adorns the Rockies' home stadium, have a long history of involvement in conservative Christian groups. Colorado Springs, the town where the Rockies nurture their up-and-coming talent, is home to Focus on the Family, the powerful right-wing political lobbying group, as well as evangelical publishers and several mega-churches. So let's pay attention during the World Serious. If a Rockie's pitcher doesn't like an umpire's call, that pitcher better not use profanity ... rather, something more like "Aw fiddle-feathers ump!" ... Or perhaps, "Hey ump! Is that what Jesus would have called?"
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