From: rgibson@pipeline.com
Subject: Dude, You Must Renounce the Braves. This is too too much
Date: June 1, 2006 7:38:39 PM PDT (CA)
To: wayne.ross@mac.com
From: wayne.ross@mac.com
Subject: Re: Dude, You Must Renounce the Braves. This is too too much
Date: June 1, 2006 7:43:12 PM PDT (CA)
To: rgibson@pipeline.com
Yeah I read about this on the Braves website the other day.
I look on the bright side, if all those folks are Braves fans and they pray for the Braves to win, it can’t hurt. Lord knows the Braves need some help with their pitching (I hope).
Wayne
From: rgibson@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Dude, You Must Renounce the Braves. This is too too much
Date: June 1, 2006 8:03:39 PM PDT (CA)
To: wayne.ross@mac.com
Well, that does it.
I cannot stand it anymore, and I am sacrificing my next door neighbors small dog to the Flying Spaghetti Monster in order to place a curse on the Braves. THIS WILL BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE GOAT CURSE< THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO>>>and the Braves are doomed. AIDS will spread throughout the team, and the entire Atlanta region. Frogs will rain on them all. Ted Turner will marry Elizabeth Taylor who will dump him for Eddie Fisher, who is dead. The first born of all Atlanta pitchers will spontaneously combust. Fungus will infest the Braves lunch table. Locusts and bats will descend on all fans doing the tomahawk chop, which will do them no good in fending off the bloodsuckers, and the rats that eat their eyes.
OR else you can email this slime agent of the Bravos and tell her off. And send me a copy. If you do, I will spare the dog.
beth.marshall@turner.com
best r
From: waross@interchange.ubc.ca
Subject: Faith Nights at Turner Field
Date: June 1, 2006 10:09:44 PM PDT (CA)
To: beth.marshall@turner.com
Dear Ms. Marshall,
As a long time Atlanta Braves fan, I’m writing to express my profound disappointment and extreme displeasure after discovering that the Braves will be sponsoring a series of so-called “Faith Nights” this season (http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060518&content_id=1459708&vkey=pr_atl&fext=.jsp&c_id=atl).
While I understand the Braves motivation to tap into the Christian entertainment market—a crass money-grab—the nature and scale of the planned events amount to a corporate endorsement Christianity. And perhaps more importantly, the limitation of “Faith Night” activities to Christian music and testimony implies that “faith” is a concept that only applies to Christians!
Will the Braves be holding “Judaism Nights,” “Islam Nights” or for that matter “Flying Spaghetti Monster Nights”? (I might be tempted to attend the latter.)
I certainly understand the long tradition of the baseball clubs providing special ticket prices and other amenities to groups, including church groups, but “Faith Nights” is really beyond the pale.
The Braves hold a special place in my heart, I have been a devoted fan of the club since they were in Milwaukee. I saw my first Major League game in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Braves 4, Reds 3—April 12, 1968).
I attended many Braves games while living in Atlanta in the late 1970s-early 1980s—often I was the only person sitting in my row—but I never lost faith in the team.
I now follow the Braves religiously from my home in Vancouver, British Columbia. But, I must say “Faith Night” is an abomination and should be abolished immediately!
I would much prefer the Braves emulate the attitude Mr. Ted Turner has expressed in his assessment that Christianity is a “religion for losers” and that employees who show up for work on Ash Wednesday with smudged foreheads are “Jesus Freaks” (The New York Times, May 28, 2006, p. 11, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/opinion/28opquiz.html).
The Braves were losers for a long time and old-time, hardcore Braves fans, like me, already know what it feels like to be part of a “religion for losers,” we made our commitment to the Braves long before all those Division pennants. We don’t need another religion interfering with the one we’ve got.
Yours truly,
E. Wayne Ross, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Curriculum Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
604-822-2830
wayne.ross@ubc.ca
From: rgibson@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: Faith Nights at Turner Field
Date: June 1, 2006 10:19:20 PM PDT (CA)
To: waross@interchange.ubc.ca
Hey Dude
This is a great classic. Can I put it on the www page?????
Wonderful. Heartfelt. Funny. True. Nailed em (well, maybe that is not a good term). best r
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