WHAT BASEBALL COULD LEARN FROM OLD SCHOOL CATHOLIC NUNS
Sometimes these posts are like knuckle balls. As Bob Ueker would say, “the best way to catch a knuckle ball is to wait till it stops rolling and pick it up.” Sometimes the best way to get to the mesasage I’m shooting for is to wait till you. Have read the whole thing and pick up what you can use no matter what I’ve floated out there in my delivery. In fact, that would. Make me smile—if writing this were about me—and some days it is.
Anyway, I will get to the peace and joy part a few paragraphs from now, however, as this baseball themed week rolls on it is not really possible to ignore the elephant in the. Batter’s box. The “illegal” sign stealing antics of the Houston Astros in the year they won the World Series. I don’t know what the rule book says about such activities and the penalties for them, however I’m pretty sure the Sisters of Mercy and the Franciscans and the Holy Mother’s of Divine Terror (I don’t know if that is an actual order of service, but it might be. Like the special ops unit like the Navy Seals) had a code to deal with finding out. Who was the culprit in almost any situation. So here’s what baseball needs to do.
Get like three of these nuns and bring them to the set of Sports Center. Gather all the Astros players and coaches from the 2017 team as well. Make the Astros stand on a red line in the studio and turn loose the might wrath of the nuns. Here’s what I imagine. the first. Nun would. Give a resounding lecture on how this cheating was wrong and unacceptable and that. A full confession was the only salvation. She would pick out a few players and ask them if they agreed. Thinking they would get off the hook each player would of course agree. Then Nun 2 steps up...walking back and forth in front of the. Team and says “now I know all of you didn’t cheat, but it’s not right to do it at all so we need to find out who. Did. Now’s the time to let us know who was involved so that we can get this business over and move on.” Of course the team members would stare at their feet and at each other, however no one would speak out either to admit their own guilt or to rat out a friend. Finally Nun 3 swinging a very well made yardstick would step forward and shake her head. She would then tap the stick on the ground a couple times and start in. “Since none of you can seem to remember who did what, we are left with no choice but to figure everyone in this line is guilty. Therefore all of you will get some punishment like your team will get two less outs in each 9 inning game...the first chosen by your. Opponent and the second determined. By a random drawing. Every batter who doesn’t make a statement will start with one strike in their first at bat every game and two strikes in their second at bat in every game until the players who had the most to do with this come forward. These players will serve a 25 game suspension where all. Salaries are donated to a randomly chosen charity. This starts in two minutes if no one comes forward. I want all you young boys to think about the sins you have. Committed and how disappointed your mothers and friends are in you. Okay two minutes starting now.”
Now. A lot of national advertisers would pay big money to run their. Commercials during this event and Vegs could have an over/under on the number of players who. Might crack. All proceeds of course would go to charity as well and the league could force the Astros to use holy water before stepping to the plate until this all got settled just to reinforce the effort to find justice.
Peace and. Joy—-
Baseball is a game in which the most successful hitters fail seven out of ten times and the most successful fielders aren’t allow to fail more. That’s a few times in a hundred. Each game approaches perfection in some aspects and repeats failure in others. Seeking Peace and Joy in baseball means accepting failures and yet cherrshing each new opportunity to take your next turn at bat, field the next ball hit in your direction or make the. Next unhittable pitch dance along the black stripe on the outside corner. Cheating the process. Of the game or the rules disturbs the chances for. Learning the lessons connected with probable failure and with unexpected success and in the end cheats all the players. For me this serves as a reminder to avoid cheating myself of experiences even if there is. Fair chance I can’t control or won’t like the outcome. If there is no action, then learning isn’t likely to happen and so as Yogi says “We can’t win when we make all the wrong mistakes.”
Anyway grab a bat take a swing straight up no garbage cans or scoreboard cams.
See You Tommorow
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