Eli Manning retired yesterday with two Super Bowl victories. Four Pro Bowls. He earned more in his career than any other player: $252 million. His brother Peyton earned the second most: $248 million. Maybe Eli played this past season just to pass his brother. Plus brother Cooper’s son, young Arch Manning, was recently named high school freshman of the year in Louisiana. LSU head coach Ed Orgeron has already visited Arch.
When Tim Tebow got married this weekend (in Africa) Louie Giglio and his wife were there. Not sure if Louie officiated the wedding. I looked on line and Giglio was mentioned in attendance, but not much else.
Finished another book by Nightingale author Kristen Hannah, The Great Alone. Kinda rough because it was about a husband abusing his wife. I’ll have to read Magic Hour next. Catherine Norman also reads Kristin Hannah. Nightingale and The Great Alone are being made into movies.
Now reading “Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World” by Andy Stanley. Same content that people got mad about, saying Andy was claiming the Old Testament didn’t matter any more. Pretty sure he was taken out of context. I am no Bible scholar, but to me Andy’s book makes a valid case, pointing out several NT verses that have been ignored. In the beginning of the book Andy goes through the Old Testament, explaining the covenants God made with Israel. Then what did and did not change when Jesus came along, whether Gentiles were to be bound by Jewish laws they’d never studied – or if they were to be beholden only to Jesus and not the old laws. In the OT when a Jew broke one of the Ten Commandments, to be resolved he had to go to a Levite Priest in the Temple and make an animal sacrifice. When Jesus came that was no longer necessary. The New Covenant replaced the Old Covenant, right? Otherwise why aren’t we still sacrificing animals?
Also for some reason instead of going back to the original Greek/Hebrew, a German word was used: Testament, instead of the more accurate Covenant. After Jesus rose from the dead, early church leaders continued to use Old Testament commandments because it kept them in positions of power, as opposed to allowing commoners direct access to God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Speaking of the gym, and speaking of GT, there’s been this guy at the Y who ALWAYS wears a GT T-shirt. He’s got a bunch of them. Wednesday night he came and sat down at the weight machine right next to the machine I was at. We were just about facing each other. I asked him when he was at Tech. “77-82” he replied. That was the exact same years I was there. Scott Petty. He was an electrical engineer who later got his MBA then went to law school. Attends football and basketball games.
Ceil met me at the gym. Later she fixed spaghetti and meatballs. Tossed salad. Watched Chicago Med and New Amsterdam. Man I didn’t see GT/Louisville. I like our Hulu TV. When you turn it on it groups not by channel but by category: TV, movies, news, sports, keep watching. Scroll to sports and it lists every game on right now, regardless of network. I guess GT/Louisville wasn’t near the top.
Left work Thursday around 530. Traffic bad in Roswell. Made it to Johnson Ferry for a Men’s Dinner: BBQ chicken, collard greens, Caesar salad, mac & cheese. Skipped cookies and brownies and rolls. Decent speaker Curt Thompson, a psychologist from Washington DC who’s written a couple of books, like The Soul of Shame, using John 9 as the basis of his talk. About 150 men in attendance – about 26 tables of six or seven. Seven guys at my table, from five different countries, including Gee from Taiwan and a missionary from Albania, who had just arrived in the US for the first time. Now he’s ate collards.
Crazy Friday. Had to fix a big problem and train a lady this morning. Took 2 hours. Used up all my words. Didn’t want to talk after all that talking I did. Not getting much work done.
I received the USA Today clipping about the top college teams in history (#1 was 1945 Army). I love stuff like that. Jeff Sagarin, the rating wizard, devised a ranking based on record, strength of schedule, and margin of victory. Equalized current teams with teams from the past. He did a great job. As I’ve said before, usually those lists some kids lists 8 of the top 10 all-time teams from the last 15 years. This list only one of the top 23 teams was from after 1999.
Women’s basketball – there’s a high school in Tennessee that both boys and girls teams where throwback uniforms like from the 60s or 70s. Unis with sleeves, really old style. I’ll send you a link.
Gonna be a baseball Saturday for me. At 8 am I’m meeting the head of the Malaysian Baseball Federation. They’re trying to get up a team for the Olympics. At ten is the Braves Chop Fest. Not much going on but I wanted to make an appearance. At 1 pm the baseball guys are eating at Slopes BBQ in Sandy Springs, before the 2 pm presentations about Ponce de Leon park. That lasts until 430. Long day but should be fun. If you want to go to any or all of it just let me know and I’ll pick you up.
Not sure if you saw this on the local news, but my bobblehead buddy’s wife had just had a baby boy (named him Dansby). My friend was looking out the window of the hospital room at Northside Forsyth and saw a bobcat walking down the road, crossing the bridge over GA400.
CARL HUBBELL [SABR Bio] was the first pitcher in either league to win the BBWAA MVP award twice - MVPs in 1933 & 1936 The first home run he ever hit was off a Hall of Famer, off Dizzy Dean 26-Aug-1932 Pitched all 16 years of his career for the New York Giants.
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