Is Reading The Bible On The Bench, Moments Before Taking The Mound In A Game 7, The Most Desperate Move Ever?

Arite, I'm about to go 16-year Catholic-school education on you all.

Here is what Jesus (ever heard of him?) himself said about people who pray publicly. In the Gospel. According to Matthew. (Glory to you Lord)

Matthew 6:5-15

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

That's my issue with this move and calling it bush league. If you're going to be one of those guys who goes out of there to bring God onto your side in a sporting event, then you need to be on the God Squad all fucking season long. Not just when your backs against the wall. This is called faking the funk. 

If you're going to pull out the Good Book to make sure the cameras pick you up doing it, then you need to be carrying that thing around everywhere you go, at all times, so we know you're an avid bibliophile, like Lebron does with his books.

You need to be like two guys I had to play walk-up music for every at-bat for multiple seasons without breaking mentally- Chris Coglan

and Ben Zobrist's God-awful ex-wife's song, which I won't give the satisfaction of getting clicks by posting here, because she was banging her piece of shit pastor behind one of the nicest guys in the world's backs.

Meaning walk the walk every other day. Unless your take-the-mound-song was some Christian banger like "On Eagle's Wings", stop faking the funk.

p.s.- if that's just a scouting report than Brandon Pfaat is totally fine, and the guy who tweeted this out trying to make him look like a Saint is the weirdo. Stop trying to make sports victories and shit about God. Like he gives a fuck. He's got way bigger fish to fry. And if He did give a shit about sports, does you winning mean he doesn't love the other team as much? 

p.p.s. - from a purely baseball the actual sport standpoint, this year's postseason has been fucking incredible. The amount of close games, the top seeds all getting bounced, making this anybody's title, has made for some of the more memorable baseball in a long time. Actually no because the last few years' post-seasons have all been pretty great too. If baseball's entire season was as exciting, and the players cared as much as they do in October, baseball would be more popular than football.