They’ve been at every ballgame I’ve attended. These people just can’t figure out how that umpire can call such things against the team they are there to cheer on. Sometimes that malady is even seen in the catcher.
Veteran American League baseball umpire Bill Guthrie was working behind the plate one afternoon and the catcher for the visiting team was repeatedly protesting his calls.
Guthrie endured this for a number of innings, and then called a halt. “Son,” he said softly, “you’ve been a big help to me in calling balls and strikes today, and I appreciate it. But I think I have got the hang of it now, so I’m going to ask you to go to the clubhouse and show whoever’s there how to take a shower.”
-Submitted by Dicky Love, Christ Community Church, Ruston, Louisiana
When we disrespect those calling the pitches, we do a disservice to ourselves, the game and the fans. Don’t act like that because it can lead to your even questioning how God is calling things.
Isaiah 45:9-12
“Woe to him who strives with Him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’” Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him: “Ask Me of things to come; will you command Me concerning My children and the work of My hands? I made the earth and created man on it; it was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
Give it some thought.
Gary