O'Dowd and company bend over backward in the article to say they are "tolerant" of other views on the club, but that's contradicted by statements like this from CEO Monfort: "I don't want to offend anyone, but I think character-wise we're stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what they've endured, are some of the strongest people in baseball. I believe God sends signs, and we're seeing those." Assumedly, Shawn Green (Jew), Ichiro Suzuki (Shinto) or any of the godless players from Cuba don't have the "character" Monfort is looking for.First it was the Air Force Academy shoving right-wing Christianist dogma down its cadets' throats, now this. Ol' Doc Dobson clearly rules the roost out there in that Rocky Mountain spring air.
Meanwhile, I'll take particular delight in knowing the Rockies will never win a World Series, precisely because it takes pitching and defense; the former, it is said, being 75% of the game. And everybody knows pitchers despise playing in Coors Field, it with its mile-high airless space facilitating game scores more suitable to the gridiron, invariably marked with a moon-shot or three hit by players not on steroids. Inevitably, then, Colorado will never carry a rotation and/or bullpen that could get them to The Promised Land... er, other than in their own wretchedly faithful minds, that is.
The upside to this? Red Sox Nation need be embarrassed no longer by the Carmine Hose carrying the friggin' mantle.
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