I also think this is the perfect place for the media to couch this in controversy - since Barry has been such a jerk to them in the past.

And don’t be fooled by pics of Barry now, vs. Barry then. Same thing in Reggie Jackson, Mark McGwire, Hank Aaron, even Babe Ruth got much larger.

Here’s the bottom line, it takes skill and diligent practice to hit a 93 mph fastball (inner half) out of the park. Roids don’t help it much - if any. I know from experience (not me, but my many teammates).

The Lubbock LL team plays MY town’s LL team in the first semi-final game today at Waco. In fact, they’re playing even as we “speak.” The winner will play the championship game Friday night on ESPN.

I know you’re hoping it’s Texas West, but I’m hoping it’s Arkansas!

I think it might be high time you ‘fess up. You have been preaching at times while on Altoids. Am I right or am I wrong?

How do you define “it”?

I was in “The City” tonight when he broke it. People were going crazy and they were lighting fireworks all over San Francisco. As huge of a baseball fan as you are, I think you would’ve enjoyed it simply for what it is (even if you can’t get too excited).

I hear Barry Bonds is going to pay 15 million for the baseball. That’s what one San Franciscan told me while I was in Carl’s Jr. tonight.

Peace Man!

I’d really like to know what it is that makes him such an insufferable prig! He can be downright rude. It’s really a shame that one of his personality is “breaking” the records of Ruth and Aarons. Truly a shame; a concept [shame] totally out of Bonds’ reach, imo.

I think Jimmy Allen new Babe Ruth. I think he even used one of his gloves.

For anyone who is interested, brief summaries of our classes thus far can be found at http://theologiahighland.blogspot.com/

We’re going to wrap things up tomorrow night with by asking some “so what?” questions in connection with Wright’s “fresh perspective.” How does it impact the way we think about ourselves, our purposes, and our future? How does it change things on the street level, where discipleship is played out on a day-to-day basis?

I am glad for Bonds. It is my opinion that most people have tried and convicted him already because he is not a friendly, accesible athlete. The fact that he was not liked that much when he left Pittsburgh gave people he rubbed the wrong way ammo to jump all over him for alleged steroid use. It also seems that smaller parks and a mound six inches shorter add more home runs than anything.

I’ve gone back and forth, but as of this moment, I have no problem with Bonds breaking this record. This recent cloud of controversy has obscured a brilliant career by a player who has always been one of baseball’s great ambassadors. There is NO QUESTION that Barry Bonds is perhaps the best all-around athlete to have ever played the game of baseball — he can run, jump, field, and hit. That’s a complete player. This might be another conversation if all he did was hit a bunch of homers, but it isn’t — he’s done it all.

Re: the baptism record

In the CofC, that record has to belong to Marshall Keeble, an African-American who preached throughout much of the 20th century (the good times and bad times for blacks, mind you) and reportedly baptized tens of thousands during his lifetime. (in 1930, he wrote to the Gospel Advocate stating he had baptized 15,000 to that point. Estimates range between 20,000 and 40,000 before his death in 1968)

His wife Laura — “Sister Keeble” — died on March 5, 2007, at the ripe young age of 108.

Re: Paul’s “Fresh Perspective”

Love it. Like Wade said in the comments of your original post on this topic, sometimes I feel like I’m “following N.T. Wright as he follows Paul as he follows Christ.”