Triple C News - July 29

Hey, everyone! 

Hope you're having an awesome day! 

I really hope your day's awesomeness is just because you are loved, watched over and cared for all day and night! 

Hope your day is amazing no matter what happens! 

With all the blessings we have… Who cares if it's rainy all weekend?  

Who cares if it's hotter than you'd like outside?  

Who cares if your favorite team loses? 

Even if Wednesday they really needed to win to stay in step with the Mets in the NL East 

and were only playing the struggling Phillies

and Charlie Morton (who has been awesome!) was strong thru 4 innings 

and then he had a lead-off walk in the 5th (you always pay for a lead-off walk!) 

and then he threw a terrible (!) pick-off throw to 1st and the guy he walked made it to 3rd (!) 

and then a guy hit a single to score the guy on third 

and then Robinson Cano had a throwing error to 1st so now there were runners on 1st and 2nd 

and then a single drove the guy on 2nd home (2-0) 

and then a sacrifice fly scored the guy on 2nd (3-0)

and then after a single, a walk, and a double steal there were guys on 2nd and 3rd 

and then another single scored both of them (!) and the inning ended 5-0 

and they never looked back…

I mean, who cares?! 

Right?!!

Speaking of the Braves… 

Did you know that the Atlanta Braves were first the "Boston Braves"?  Before they were the "Boston Braves", they were the "Boston Bean Eaters" 

(The 1934 St Louis Cardinals were called the "Gas House Gang" but that might have been more appropriate for the Bean Eaters!) 

Then they were the "Boston Doves”, the "Boston Bees”, and then the "Braves". 

The Los Angeles Dodgers were originally the “Brooklyn Dodgers”. (One New Yorker said that the only consolation in the untimely passing of Abraham Lincoln was that he didn’t have to witness the Dodgers going to LA.) They put in trolley cars in Brooklyn in 1914, and folks going to Ebbets Field to see their team had to dodge them. 

So the team was called the "Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers". 

And then just the "Dodgers".  

(I wonder if Freddie Freeman knows this?)

If you steal a player from another league, like the Pittsburg Athletics did in 1890, folks might call you "Pirates" and it might stick! 

When a city is famous for making beer (Schlitz, Pabst, and Miller) it makes sense to call your team the "Brewers"… 

Did you know that the word "Christian" is only in the Bible three times? 

It was a nickname, sorta. 

Kind of a team name. 

Actually, it was a "name-calling" name. 

Luke wrote that "believers were first called 'Christians' in Antioch" Acts 11:26) 

Called that by other people!

"A great number of people believed and turned to the Lord…"  (11:21) 

Lots of folks were turning to Jesus. To Jesus Christ. And they loved Him! And they wanted to be like Him! Maybe it was awkward for them at the beginning. Maybe they were trying too hard. Or maybe folks around them thought "turning to" and relying on anyone but yourself was weakness… 

But the new believers DID turn to Him! 

And they wanted to be like Him! 

They wanted to be like Him so much that those who didn't understand His humility and His kindness and His gentleness, called those who tried to be those things,"little Christs"… 

Or "Christians"! 

What if we who know Him were just so….

like Him… 

so kind…

and/or so gentle and sweet…

and so truly humble…

or filled with peace all the time…

that others would say, "Man! That guy is…Jesus-y!" 

What if folks just called you "Jesus-y"? …

(Even when your team loses 7-2 because they couldn’t come back from a 5-0 5th inning?)

That’s it for sports!  Now the news!

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