Monday; September 18
I have watched a lot of baseball in my lifetime, and I have rooted for a lot of bad teams. However, every-once-in-a-while I will find myself in a pennant race – and this year is one of those years. As I invested myself in scoreboard-watching, one of the things I have noticed is that it is much easier to lose ground than to make up ground. If you string together a few wins, it seems like you can make some steady (but slow) progress but if you get into a losing streak, you can find yourself spiraling out of contention quickly. I realize it’s not true, but it seems like you have to win twice as many games to make up half as much ground – but, when the losing starts, the drop is quick and devastating. The reason I bring this up relates to a situation I read about recently. No, it wasn’t in this week’s news, but it could have been. Genesis 4 chronicles the first murder in the history of man but it could have been prevented. When God came upon Cain, he was already in a foul mood, so G