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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by nuzzy62 View Post
    I'll help keep it here.

    I think there are too many whites on this thread.

    Sorry I'm late.
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    Re: Too many whites?

    For all the people who "don't believe in God", I think Josh Hamilton thanking him should be no different than if he thanked his wife, or his mother, or Santa Claus, or Mario Mendoza.

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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP View Post
    For all the people who "don't believe in God", I think Josh Hamilton thanking him should be no different than if he thanked his wife, or his mother, or Santa Claus, or Mario Mendoza.
    Agreed.

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    OFG does bring up a good point though. No one is proselytizing about Santa Clause, let alone his mother or Mario Mendoza. More importantly is the point he's making about trying to turn the tables on religion and actively proselytizing for Atheism...
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    Re: Too many whites?

    Yeah I just read a SI article from a few months back and Hamilton mentioned his wife but not God. Obviously doesn't do it in EVERY interview!

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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP View Post
    For all the people who "don't believe in God", I think Josh Hamilton thanking him should be no different than if he thanked his wife, or his mother, or Santa Claus, or Mario Mendoza.
    How about for the people that "do believe in god"? Should it be different for them or not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RickD View Post
    Yeah I just read a SI article from a few months back and Hamilton mentioned his wife but not God. Obviously doesn't do it in EVERY interview!
    Or SI didn't print that part...

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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by RickD View Post
    Yeah I just read a SI article from a few months back and Hamilton mentioned his wife but not God. Obviously doesn't do it in EVERY interview!
    maybe his wife is God and thus no need to mention her twice
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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by filihok View Post
    How about for the people that "do believe in god"? Should it be different for them or not?
    I don't think it "should" or "shouldn't" be anything. Like others have already mentioned on here, it's OK to disagree. In fact, it's a good thing. Even if Josh Hamilton brought up God, said his favorite Bible verse, crossed himself, and encouraged everybody at home to build a better relationship with Jesus Christ, I wouldn't have complained about it either.

    The fact that a lot of people didn't give any thought at all to this sort of thing at all until it was brought up on the forum here speaks volumes. ("Oh, he talked about God? You're right, he did!!!!! That changes EVERYTHING!!!!!111oneone") My pulse rate doesn't increase when Josh Hamilton talks about God. I'm secure enough in everything I believe (or don't believe) in life that it doesn't affect me when somebody talks about something I may not share a belief in, especially when I have a choice not to subject myself to it. (Even though it is the opposite where I enjoy discussing or debating alternating viewpoints. After all, none of us know everything.)

    To me, it was a wonderful interview of somebody who's been through a lot and has made it out alive and almost won the Home Run Derby, you know, the reason he was there. That's gotten lost in all of this just because he brought up God, which to me, is that "fill in the blank" thing.

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    The fact that a lot of people didn't give any thought at all to this sort of thing at all until it was brought up on the forum here speaks volumes.
    You got me there...
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    Re: Too many whites?

    I don't think he should be encouraging anyone to get to know Christ or anything like that but stating his personal views is what the media is all about. Shouldn't this part of the conversation really be in the other thread?

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    Re: Too many whites?

    He can say whatever he wants. There's that little thing you Yanks call Freedom of Speech, or is that not still part of the American Constitution?

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    Well he can't say "whatever" he wants, but under the laws of the constitution he does have a very large array of things that he CAN say.

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    Re: Too many whites?

    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonGM View Post
    I think that was just an expression. Dude got nearly a $4 million signing bonus. I think he had the money.
    Maybe he just liked !@#$%*& guys?

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    Re: Too many whites?

    The Home Run Contest is getting to be too much like the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest ... the guys the fans want to see don't want to do it or there is a stupid rule about eligibility which keep outtheguys who want to do it.

    A-Rod's swing get messed up by doing what? Swinging his bat at thrown balls? Dude, you get more messed up getting divorced by your wife who is going to take you to the bank and ****ing around with Madonna.

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