Sunday used to be the day for Sports! Softball practice in the morning, baseball on TV all afternoon and into the evening. Later in the year, football. When we weren’t playing sports, we were watching sports.
Yeesh, the time I wasted!
No mas, no mas. The seats Patty and I used to get in Yankee Stadium now cost ten times as much, if not more. A 5-cent pack of baseball cards, with gum, now costs $5–without gum. Not to mention Gay Day at the ol’ ballpark. I thought you used sports to get away from stuff like that.
Oh, but playing sports, and not just watching!
It’s as bad as politics. You want to learn what’s dirty about politics? Join a men’s softball team. Whispering, backbiting, forming little cliques that politic against each other–all that fun you can have without ever picking up a bat. Or try basketball at the YMCA. Guys you know in ordinary life as friends and co-workers turn into werewolves on the basketball court.
Sports brings out the worst in people. After a lifetime of playing and watching sports, that’s what I’ve learned.
Have you noticed there are no “sports” in the Bible? Except for a passing mention of the gladiatorial games in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 15:32)–trust the Romans to provide that.
