If you love baseball and love God
If you love baseball and you love God, or if you just love baseball or just love God, you have to read a great post at Mere Comments by Anthony Esolen on the historically amazing St. Louis first baseman, Albert Pujols. A sampling:
I caught Albert saying that he did not want to be remembered as a baseball hero. . What he did want to be remembered as, I’ll tell you in a minute. But first let me affirm that Albert Pujols is going to retire as either the greatest or the second greatest (to Lou Gehrig) first baseman ever to play the game. If he retired tomorrow, he’d be in the top five or six, easy. The man is not only a hitting machine. He is intensely focused on whatever he can do to help his team win a game.
It’s what moves his heart that interests me. He said to the SI reporter, “I only want to be remembered as a man who loved the Lord.” That is how he talks, when he talks. And it occurs to me that even if you considered it only as a social phenomenon, the love of Christ — Christ’s love for us, and our love for Him — is the most remarkable thing in the history of the world.
There’s much more. Read it. Trust me on this one.
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“The man is not only a hitting machine. He is intensely focused on whatever he can do to help his team win a game.”
This is so true of Pujols that he’s a hitting machine, but this quote (below) is really so true.
“Christ’s love for us, and our love for Him — is the most remarkable thing in the history of the world.”
I mean, think about it…. We are constantly being told that December 21, 2012 is the end of time, and that God is going to stop humanity in its tracks. He says “Christ”, but I say “God”.
But how can all this doom and gloom be true when a statement like the above is made by a man like Albert Pujols. Sure, he’s a great player, but it is for him by the grace of God that he’s done so well, and Christ and God’s love for us is so all encompassing. Why would He hurt us?
Albert Pujols is a very humble person and he wants people to know that he is not great but God who is his inspiration to do the best he can. If all the people are like Albert, there will be no wars and politics.