This weekend all the NFL sideline t-shirts read LOVE FOR DAMAR. What happened to #PrayForDamar ?
Speaking of Damar, I saw a clip from the Bills / Steelers game. Rookie Steeler QB Kenny Pickett took off on a nice scramble, only to be blasted downfield by his former teammate at Pitt – Damar Hamlin.
BTW: Pickett finished the season as one of the highest rated QB's in the NFL.
DENISON: Every one of us, every moment of every day, is Damar Hamlin. Each of us is one heartbeat from eternity. Each of us needs help and hope beyond ourselves. We were made to depend on our Maker, not just on Sunday or in a recognized crisis, but every moment of every day. The power of faith resides not in its act but in its object. We can take the wrong road in faith that it is the right road, but we will still be lost. Still, our instinctive response to pray when confronting a crisis we cannot solve ourselves reveals something about us.
Barton Swaim began his Wall Street Journal editorial on Hamlin by referencing “the question of when prayer on public grounds is and isn’t permissible. American liberals have been obsessed with the question for sixty years. The idea that prayer is improper at big-time sporting events was forgotten on Monday night. Suddenly prayer was back on the list of things anybody could talk about or do on camera.” NFL players across the league prayed for him and for each other.
Falcons / Bucs: Brady played until the last series just before the half. Since the Bucs had already clinched the division and a win wouldn’t improve their playoff seeding, they could’ve rested all the starters. Two receivers did not play, to heal nagging injuries. I’m sure Brady wanted to play the whole game, but the coach pulled him to give the backups some snaps. You could see how restless Brady was over on the sidelines.
The win by the Falcons meant their draft position won’t be as good as it could’ve been. ATL QB Ritter looked okay. A team can’t improve if they draft a QB every year. I wish the Falcons wouldn’t use a high round draft pick on receivers so much. See Ritter fumble, then “throw” the ball, but he had already dropped the ball? Hopefully a rookie mistake. The coach rolled his eyes.
Saturday morning I played golf with the vet and the professor. Back home C fried eggs and made grits. She wanted to go to Athens, but we didn’t leave home until after 1 pm. We took Winnie, which meant I was pretty much stuck in the car while C got her coffee and visited her shops. It was 3 pm when we arrived. Lots of traffic. We didn’t eat.
Got home at 7 pm. Six hours of stress. Fell asleep on the couch after making myself a ham & cheese sandwich. Slept past 9 am. Showered and dressed for church. JFBC parking lot was jammed. I dropped C off and found a spot in the last row. Wasn’t looking forward to the long walk. Just then a shuttle pulled up with an empty seat by the cart driver. I took it.
C made stir fry. M ate with us. I rested, but also hung up clothes upstairs and did dishes and laundry. Watched Falcons and cat napped. Picked up a few items at Kroger. Supper was a chicken salad sandwich. Went to bed early.
I watched some golf yesterday as well. Leader Colin M was doing well early on, but missed an eagle and had to settle for birdie. Saw later than Rahm came back to win from being down 7 strokes.
What’s wrong with Kentucky? They lost to Alabama this weekend, then to South Carolina at home.
Skipped the gym Monday morning. No small group Monday night. There was a football game on TV.
RUSTY STAUB [SABR Bio] was the first full-time DH to record 100 RBI in a season. In 1977 he DH’d in 156 games for the Tigers, played no other position that year, and had 101 RBI. The next year Staub DH’d all 162 games and had 121 RBI. Rusty was only the second major leaguer to homer as a teenager and as a forty-year old. Ty Cobb did it first. Later Gary Sheffield and Alex Rodriguez. Staub was the first player with 80 pinch-hit at bats in a season, with 81 in 1983. Ichiro currently holds the record with 100 in 2017.
Right fielders with 150 career assists since WWII:
RF…..Assists ..GG.led league.career WAR
Aaron........179..... 3........2.......... 143.0
Clemente...225...12........6............ 94.8
Walker.......150.... 7........3............ 72.7
Evans........155.... 8........ 3........... 67.2
Staub.........159.....6.........5........... 45.8
Barfield......154…..2.........6........... 39.4
Callison.....159......4.........4........... 38.4
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