home run derby
July 15, 2008
I love baseball. I love the fact that there is a almost sleepy rhythm to the game. I love watching a pitcher “work” for a strikeout. I love watching a home run fly into the cheap seats.
Last night added another reason why I love baseball. Josh Hamilton.
All this kid did was to set a new single round record with 28 homers in the first round of Home Run Derby.
Check that.
All this kid did was hit 28 bombs deep into the stands at historic Yankee Stadium.
Even better is Josh Hamilton’s story of how God saved him from a life of drugs and alcohol that almost ruined him.
He said, “When I get the urge to have a drink or do something I’m not supposed to do, I think about what a hypocrite I would be to my Christianity and my sobriety.”
He continued, “My wife told me in the midst of my addiction that God was going to let me get back to baseball.”
Then Josh Hamilton added, “Being able to share my story, that’s what it’s all about.”
In the words of one of the ESPN announcers while Hamilton was clobbering homer after homer out of Yankee Stadium, “It’s not a good night to be an atheist.”
