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god cares about american baseball but doesn't care about all those dead Sunnis and Shites and people of darfur or those jews during hitler or the cambodians during the khmer rouge or all the russians under stalin or  or  or or or or or or or how many nutjobs on this globe ?

but god cares about a f$$$ing baseball game.

thank god I'm an atheist.

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

Point one is that the original article is from early June 2006, so bringing it up some 16 months later hardly makes it noteworthy.  Point two is that Denver Post columnist Troy E. Renck refuted it less than a week later.  A few relevant quotes from Renck:

The story stated that men's magazines such as Playboy, Penthouse and Maxim could not be found in the Rockies' clubhouse, but that Bibles were present. Several players read Maxim in the visiting clubhouse during the Padres' series this week. Two separate issues sat on the center coffee table Wednesday.

"I have never seen a Bible (out in the open) in our clubhouse," said pitcher Aaron Cook, who has led the team's chapel service during spring training. "Most of the guys on this team are Christians, but not all of them. And the fact is you don't build a winner around just Christians. If that was the case, everybody would be doing it."

Matt Holliday chose his words carefully when discussing the subject.

"(Religion) is important to me, but it's not how you put together a good team," he said.

Arthur, at least you didn't quote one of the patently-false turds in the Gumbel article, in which he (mis)states that

One side-effect of the policy - one never discussed in American sports circles - is that the Rockies are one of the whitest teams in baseball. The game is dominated by players from the Caribbean and Latin America, but somehow the Rockies have a roster with one fresh-scrubbed all-American farm boy after another. Their catcher is Venezuelan, their second baseman is Japanese, but otherwise they are whiter than white.

Except that, as I noted in a comment on a similar dKos diary, the Rockies have a Dominican centerfielder, a Panamanian closer, an American Latino setup man, and an African-American middle reliever.  And two-fifths of their starting rotation are another Dominican and another Venezuelan.  Another commenter in the same diary mentioned that

Troy Tulowitzski's opening music, heard before 50,000+ people as he comes to bat each night, is "I'm a Flirt" by R. Kelley - hardly "Jesus Loves Me".

Numerous live interviews in the recent run to the NLCS have shown the locker-room environment, and during live shots from the Rockies clubhouse rap music from 50 Cent, Genuwine, and other hip-hop/rap artists can be heard in the background.

And I'll finish by noting that all the champagne flying around the Rockies clubhouse after their improbable wildcard berth, NLDS sweep (boooooooooo!)of my Phillies, and NLCS sweep of the D-backs didn't look very fundie to me.

But who will care after the Bosox send them on their merry way to defeat?

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