San Francisco Giants reliever and Christian on Forum today........

[dimbear]

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Tue, May 21, 2013 -- 10:00 AM
Jeremy Affeldt: Life, Justice and Major League Baseball

San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt is being called the most honest athlete in America, after he was overpaid half a million dollars and handed it back. He joins us in the studio to talk about his new book, "To Stir a Movement," his Christian faith, and his work against child slavery and child poverty.

************ Jeremy has some rather unusual ideas. He presented this proof that God cares about baseball. The distance to first base is 90 feet, and it needs to be exactly that for the game to be played. The mound is distant 60 feet 6 inches, and any less the pitcher would strike out everyone. Any more the hitters would all hit safely. It's a perfect game. I hope nobody tells Jeremy about the lost tribe that put the mound out 66 feet 6 inches. What happened to them was terrible.

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http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201305211000

ooops. Edited to add link. You can download the whole interview. Sort of charming thing.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Reminds me of The Cricket Bag, a routine by David Frost

Even funnier than the Nixon interviews, I wish I had the audio version, Frost really did it up...

www.monologues.co.uk/Celebrity/The _Cricket_Bag.htm

[rug]

2. Do you have a link to this?

I'd much rather read his views on child poverty than snide remarks about the dimensions of a baseball diamond.

[hrmjustin]

3. God is a Mets fan!

Link please.

[trotsky]

4. This is how religion is practiced and believed by the vast majority of people.

Those who proclaim from their ivory tower that religion has grown and moved beyond such simplistic concepts and practices are deluding themselves.

[dimbear]

5. My family is chock full of this sort of believers. Note that, in this case, he has

interpreted Christianity in a good way. It must be almost impossible not to like this guy.

Still, he doesn't really consider that other interpretations, harmful as they are, come from the same holy books.