Not to sound blasphemous, but I think I'd like to see Jesus serve as Commissioner for Major League Baseball. Actually, I think it would be a good idea if He headed up the NFL, NBA, and NHL to boot. He would, I am sure, make some needed changes in each of the leagues, the first being the reining in of rampant greed that has so corrupted what once was sport.
Take the seasons, they all run over into each other so that we have baseball playoffs postponed because of snow, and football players succumbing to heat stroke, while the finalists in the basketball playoffs just manage to finish before football training camps open. Jesus would get the league schedules straightened out because He knows, better than anyone, that "to everything there is a season," and it simply runs against nature for the World Series to finish in November, upsets the order of things for football to start around the 4th of July and not conclude until it is nearly Valentine's Day, and for basketball to get started just days after the football season has barely begun and then only crown its champion as the MLB All-Star game is about to be played.
Of course, to get all these seasons back where they belong would mean Jesus would have to shorten them all, which means fewer games, which means fewer dollars. But no one will go out of business if baseball were to hold the "Fall Classic" the first week of October rather than the last. And no NFL owner will go belly up if the playoffs were scheduled for December and the Super Bowl was held right around New Years. Not one NBA franchise would sink if the whole season, from training camp to Championship was made to fit between the beginning of October and the beginning of May. As for hockey, its a WINTER sport! Winter doesn't last from September to June in most places, and neither does interest in the NHL.
Of course, it is pure greed that has driven things to this point, and I realize it is un-American to suggest there is something wrong with greed, but hey, this blog is "What Would Jesus Do?' and He is not American. So, please Jesus, come and stop the proliferation of seasons that don't know when to begin, and refuse to know when to end.
While I'm on the bandwagon, I'll offer one other thing that Commissioner Jesus would do soon after taking office. He would get rid of all the pornography (Read "cheerleaders") whose presence and purpose has nothing to do with sport, unless lasciviousness and lechery are now competitive. Scantily clad women shaking their pom-poms, and whatever else they can shake, are intended to appeal to nothing remotely connected with any of the games they appear at. Their sole purpose is to lure in viewers-spectators through, if you will excuse the expression, their titillating routines. Of course, several generations of "Sportsmen" who have grown up on the pornography of SI's annual swimsuit edition will settle for nothing less than all the flesh that can be exposed, even cheering "wardrobe malfunctions" at Super Bowl halftimes.
Yep, if Jesus were Commissioner things would definitely change. As things are now, pretty much every professional sports venue falls into the category of idolatrous and lascivious temple to "gods" of greed and sex. Anyone else smell fire and brimstone in the air?
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