Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Blockade Billy

Read a short baseball book by Stephen King: Blockade Billy, about a rookie catcher for a fictional American League team. A good read, that got a little bloody near the end. 

Stumbled across an old photo of Steve Norman, before I knew him. Before the beard. Also young Frank Gudger and Bill Heyser, and Walter Teem.

Baseball is changing the configuration of MLB baseballs for 2021, so they won't be quite as juicy. Fewer home runs. Just as many strikeouts, if not more. Mike Trout recognizes the problem.

Took my dad to the doctor today. It warmed up this afternoon. The doctor Donald Robinson had played linebacker at Tech in the early 70's.

Started "One Shot at Forever" about Brian Snitker's hometown high school baseball championship team from back in the 70's.

Climate change and global warming – the science, and a Christian perspective. A 14,000 word article. Since 1880 the earth's temperature has risen about 0.4 degrees. Today's scientists ignore worldwide evidence of the flood, which created the earth's coal supply and brought on an ice age. Pre-flood carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than current levels, yet plants, animals, and humans thrived, contrary to what climate change experts say could happen in the future. Shared by my Living Science teacher friend David Cain, who knows his stuff. 

The only known 1933 Boston Redskins jersey was discovered in a storage locker that sold for five dollars - The Washington Post

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_sports_2021_02_16_boston-2Dredskins-2Djersey-2Dauction_&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=l8DUauAvzYhdeoseUFyBYVW3AFlGd5lBW-WAdna-wMU&s=8KTNV2jLQjdBm3xWbKVl9j0bcC7DOqA8gnKuS7nzeGY&e=    

Some kid at Yahoo can't understand why the Cleveland Indians would deep dive into demographics when researching fan attitudes about a possible name change.

https://sports.yahoo.com/indians-name-search-turns-carefully-105534669.html 

Godlessness in the Last Days,

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

Some years ago a newly elected politician proclaimed, "We are the children of the modern age!" A good question for us to ask is, "What has the modern age given us?" The answers are disheartening: crack cocaine, satanic cults, instructions on safe sex, misdirected individuals who would rather save a spotted owl than an innocent baby inside a mother's womb.

The modern age has given us a liberal media that paints Bible-believing Christians as right-wing zealots and fanatics. Difficulties like these should not surprise us. Paul told Timothy that in the last days:

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, . . . lovers of pleasure rather than loversf God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. (2 Timothy 3:2-5)


Then he cautions us, "Have nothing to do with such people" (2 Timothy 3:5). Despite the wickedness of the world, we serve a mighty God who provides the wisdom we need for every situation. It is often hardship and difficulty that provide the right atmosphere for spiritual growth.

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