(Don't) Take Me Out to the Ballgame
An AP story about Dodgers first baseman Shawn Green, clearly a very observant Jew:
"[Green] will definitely sit out at least one game of a key weekend series against the San Francisco Giants in observance of Yom Kippur, but will wait until Thursday to make his final decision."
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So apparently it's "definite" but not "final." Or something. The story continues:
``I've bounced back and forth and am just trying to do the right thing,'' he said before the Dodgers played the San Diego Padres. ``It's hard to know what that is. I've really been toying with two different options: Play one of them or not play at all. I will miss at least one game.''
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Wouldn't the worst possible solution be to play one of them? (Who suggested that -- John Kerry?) You can't have your apples and honey and eat them, too. Either you observe or you don't observe.
"[Green] will definitely sit out at least one game of a key weekend series against the San Francisco Giants in observance of Yom Kippur, but will wait until Thursday to make his final decision."
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So apparently it's "definite" but not "final." Or something. The story continues:
``I've bounced back and forth and am just trying to do the right thing,'' he said before the Dodgers played the San Diego Padres. ``It's hard to know what that is. I've really been toying with two different options: Play one of them or not play at all. I will miss at least one game.''
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Wouldn't the worst possible solution be to play one of them? (Who suggested that -- John Kerry?) You can't have your apples and honey and eat them, too. Either you observe or you don't observe.
posted by hellisotherpeople at 7:50 PM
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