Smart and down right LOL postings like this are why I look forward to reading your blog each day. You should be writing for ESPN (no offense to hardballtimes.com). However, I hope you are wearing a hat today, because I’m guessing that the sense-of-humor challenged among us will rain down their righteous indignation on your head for making jokes about Good Friday. But hey, funny is funny.

BobS

You’ll be a long time in purgatory for that one…but you’ll be with friends.

Craig - don’t count on the music being better, you’ll be listening to Madonna nonstop.  For comedy, you’ll be stuck with Phil Mahr - and when was the last time he was funny ... or relevant.

As for baseball, Bud Selig and company step in it again.  Baseball’s concern for fans is at an all time low.

mch—Legend has it that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his talent and fame.  Sucks for him, and it would suck for me if I end up with him, but at least it beats Madonna. As for comedy: George Carlin used to end his set by demanding that God strike him down if he truly existed and when he didn’t get zapped, said some disrespectful thing or another.  Carlin always cracked me up, so that’ll be good too.  The way I see it, the only really great artist I’d be missing out on is John Coltrane, and while that’s a loss, I’ll have Miles Davis, so it balances it out.

As for baseball’c concerns for its fans, again, I don’t mean to be disrespectful here, but I am certain that a freezing cold night game would inconvenience more non-religious Tigers’ fans than the currently scheduled Good Friday day game will inconveneince devout ones.  I will be shocked if the game isn’t a sellout and if TV and radio ratings aren’t as high as they usually are for home openers.

Maybe that’s a sad comment on our society and maybe it isn’t, but I think it’s an accurate picture of where we find ourselves.

First, don’t ever badmouth synergy.  Second, this mackerel-snapper loves the idea of solemnly contemplating the miracle of Christ’s death and resurrection, as well as the beautiful ebb and flow of the universe, at the ballpark.  For surely, baseball was divinely inspired.  But, of course, Good Friday is meant to be a solemn time of reflection, respect, and awe.  Better, then, to hold Good Friday services at the park before the game (or during).  It’s not like the Tigers are going to be doing anything worth cheering about anyway.

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Let’s talk about Magglio Ordonez’s support for Hugo Chavez.  I also hear he secretly wants to play for the Yankees or Red Sox and has a crush on Mike Piazza, because of the latter’s Italian machismo.

Jason—you forgot the part about posting pictures of scantilly-clad women.  That really drives Google Image searches.

While I’m commenting again, I feel it necessary to add a bit more depth to this.  Yes, I am being cutesy with this post, but my original inspiration for making it was the mild confusion I felt at the complaints set forth in the article to begin with.  I just shared this sentiment with someone offline, but I’ll reproduce it here for general consumption:

Though I’m off in the wilderness now, I had a Catholic upbringing.  I can’t necessarily extrapolate what kind of Catholic I’d be as an adult, but I think my former religious temperment (and my parents’ religious temperment) would have counseled me that sacrificing things I normally enjoy in the name of my faith is a better course than complaining that I may have to miss out on something, which is what I think is going on here. 

Maybe it’s infantile of me to think of it in these terms, but I view this thing about the Tigers game like complaining about McDonalds having a 99 cent special on Big Macs on a Friday during lent.  The whole point is to give something up.  Personally, baseball is way more important to me than meat, so wouldn’t I welcome the test to my faith that a Good Friday game presents?  Wouldn’t a single baseball game be pretty insignificant in the face of my faith?  Why should I care what the Tigers do?
But like I said, I’m a little messed up with this stuff.

@GBS: That’s good stuff!

Craig, sorry you have to go this far to explain yourself, your upbringing.  If some don’t like or appreciate your attempt at levity, so what?  Don’t let it get under your skin, lest you become ARod-esque in wanted everyone to like you!

People just get waaayyy too uptight when the issue of religion is raised.

Detroit’s on the East Coast? Man, Global Warming is advancing faster than I expected…