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...game broadened my thinking about sports even more because I realized that I was uncertain why I had returned to Fenway Park. I paged through the complimentary program (the owners still don't get it, do they?) and recognized maybe half of the names on the Red Sox roster and virtually none on the Twins. Then I remembered that I could have easily named the starting line-ups of the entire American League not too many years...
...there in our familiar left field (Section 32 or 33) seats, I realized the unimportance of the Red Sox's roster. I also realized that we weren't talking about today's game and we weren't talking about the season. I also realized why I was there...
...former head of the Society of Biblical Literature, a Guggenheim fellow and a senior Fulbright scholar. I have written a dozen books and more than 100 published articles and have taught at several well-respected universities. The Jesus Seminar Fellows are similarly downgraded to just "rebel scholars." The roster in The Five Gospels shows that the group includes some of the most accomplished biblical scholars of our time. You erroneously report that the Jesus Seminar found that Jesus did not rise from the dead. In fact, we concluded that the Resurrection of Jesus had nothing to do with what happened...
Another bright spot for the Crimson was that many of the players on the team's large roster saw action yesterday...
Call them what you will--replacement players, opportunists, scabs--but, hey, they spent six weeks of spring training playing hard and praying even harder. Each would receive $25,000 if he made the opening-day roster and his team actually played a game. But these guys weren't in it for the money, at least not so much as the warring parties were. A few days before the scheduled start of the season, the Florida Marlins' 38-year-old replacement first baseman, Rick Lancellotti, said, "It's like they gave us a Mercedes without the keys. But at least...