Community

 It's always good to get people together, just not have permanent rules about it. Because when you make detailed rules or beliefs, you inevitably leave someone out.

Truth in Advertising

 Mid-term election coming up. And all candidates do is bash their opponents in their ads. It might be self defeating, as people will remember your opponent more than you. And all the ads take liberties with their ads about what their opponent is for or has done. They really think the voters are morons and can't tell the lies.

It's been said before, but everyone has done something good in the last two years. Write your commercials around that. 

Great Baseball Players

 How do you decide the greatest? People use statistics, but there are so many measures these days and people pick the measurements that will pick their players.

I figure the greatest is the player on the other team you hate to see come up to bat or pitch, but at the same time you look forward to it as he's the best.

Just the one's I've seen.

Atlanta -  Henry Aaron

Houston - José Altuve

San Francisco - Willie Mays 

Los Angeles - Sandy Koufax

San Diego - Tony Gwynne

Cincinnati - Joe Morgan

Philadelphia - Mike Schmidt 

Pittsburgh - Willie Stargell

Chicago Cubs - Ron Santo

St. Louis Cardinals - Lou Brock

New York Mets - Tom Seaver

Montreal - Andre Dawson

Seattle - Edgar Martinez 

Anaheim - Mike Trout

Oakland - Reggie Jackson 

Arizona - Randy Johnson

Toronto - John Olerud

Detroit - Mickey Lolich

Chicago White Sox - Carlton Fisk

Minnesota - Rod Carew

Milwaukee - Robin Yount

Texas - Nolan Ryan

Baltimore - Frank Robinson 

New York Yankees - Don Mattingly

Boston - Dwight Evans

Kansas City - George Brett

Colorado       I NEVER

Tampa Bay    SAW 

Miami           THESE 

Washington Nationals      TEAMS

Boston Braves               VERY

St. Louis Browns         MUCH

Brooklyn Dodgers 

Washington Senators 

God as Joe the Bartender

 All the stuff you read or hear about, no matter what religion, is what people think about God. No real messages from God.

My picture of God is similar to Jackie Gleason's sketch, Joe the Bartender.

He sings old-time songs. My Dad sang old-time songs. My Gal Sal, A Capital Ship, Harrigan, The French Grenadier.

He wipes down the bar. Always nice to have a clean place to eat and drink.

He listens.

Every once in awhile, he'll push a free drink your way.

Amen.

Eligibility

 The Big Ten and SEC came out with a rule that says if you play in the NFL, you can't come back and play at college. Someone should sue them on this. Because the way I figure anyone who is registered for a class at a college should be able to play. There shouldn't be any eligibility limits.

Regular people

 Most of the Bible is about elites and rich people. From Abraham down to Jesus, it's all about the rich. Even Jesus was supported by rich women. Even that story about the rich man and the beggar Lazerus is more about the rich man's plight. Even David, supposedly a poor shepherd was from a rich family. And when he became king, regular people were just cannon fodder to him. What follows is about all I could find in the Bible that maybe has to do with regular people.

God made …….livestock. God created human beings…….male and female. Abel became a shepherd and Cain cultivated the ground.

Abraham welcomed some strangers with baked bread, roasted meat, milk and yogurt.

“Come on,” they said to Aaron,” make us some gods who can lead us. We don't know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.” (40 days and nights is just too long to leave people sitting around.)

Do not harvest the grain along the edges of your field and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners. Your scales and weights must be accurate.

If a man dies and has no son, give his inheritance to his daughters.(case of Zelophehad’s daughters)

The captain of the Babylonian guard destroyed the Temple and the walls of Jerusalem and took most of the people into exile. But he allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind to care for the vineyards and the fields.

Queen Vashti refuses to come to Xerxes’s feast. (Queen Vashti was an elite, but she set an example of not letting the king tell her what to do.)

Don't let anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent.

I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.

Oh, praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, you who serve at night in the house of the Lord.

To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life-this is indeed a gift from God. God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.

There is hope only for the living. As they say,”It's better to be a live dog than a dead lion.” Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to Sheol, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

There was a small town with only a few people, and a great king came with his army and besieged it. A poor, wise man knew how to save the town, and so it was rescued. But afterward, no one sought to thank him.

Better to hear the quiet words of a wise person than the shouts of a foolish king.

Do what is right, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.

Public Ownership

 If cities like Portland are going to own entertainment venues, then they should demand that teams that operate in the city, should be publicly owned and can't move out of the city. Teams should have an ownership structure like the Green Bay Packers and no one entity should be able to own more than 2% of the stock.