When I grow up, I want to be Eddie Sharp — maybe the best minister I’ve known in my life. I’ll miss you, amigo.
He and I have drank so many Diet DPs together over the last seventeen years; we’ve eaten so many “one egg specials” at Towne Crier; we’ve sat side-by-side for so many football and baseball games.
What can I say? He’s got a two-year-old grandson in Austin! Enough said.
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If you didn’t know who Josh Hamilton was before last night, you do now. What an amazing story. (And how about the 71 year old who threw all those pitches. HE is my hero this morning!)
No team in baseball has four hitters this year quite like the Rangers: Kinsler (.337), Young (.302), Bradley (.316), and Hamilton (.310, 95 RBIs).
While you’ve got to figure the AL will win again tonight, how would you like to be pitching to the heart of the NL line-up: Lance Berkman, Albert Pujols (the best player in baseball), and Chipper Jones. They’re batting .347, .350, and .376, respectively.
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Our little beach girl — at the same NC beach where we took her father when he was the same age.
Wasn’t it great to see someone profess his faith in God and Jesus on the “big stage”!!
Eddie’s tenure makes you realize just how quickly 28 years evaporates. I know beyond a doubt there is not a member at University that will not miss him greatly, but life rolls on. Imagine being a 28 year old young preacher staring out at a sea of Biblical phd’s who are so well known they could have gone by their first name - Lemoine - for example. Eddie handled it better than probably anyone else in the world could have. Thanks Mike!
“What can I say? He’s got a two-year-old grandson in Austin! Enough said.”
Now don’t go getting any ideas about that same NC beach! Are we goin’ to have to nail your foot to the floor?
Tim Spivey has a wonderful post on this too. His life changed when he came to Christ.
http://www.matthewsblog.waynesborochurchofchrist.org
As Rick Reilly put it, it was a bad night to be an atheist.
Do we all hit like that in heaven?
I loved that Hamilton began his comments by talking about God’s providence and closed them with the grace of Christ. Just beautiful.
Still…go Angels!
Have you read Josh’s testimony? It is pretty amazing. Here is a great article if you have not:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2926447
I wish I could’ve heard what he had to say and seen the record homeruns-that is awesome!!
Mike,
Thanks for the link to the article regarding Eddie. What a great guy! I have admired his ministry from a distance for many years. He is an outstanding minister. I know that you and others in Abilene will miss him.