Hey, I'm back!

It's been a long time since I have posted here. I've been too busy with other outlets for my writing. So here I am. I've dropped my subscription as a Glenn Beck Insider, which means I can't post any more on their message board, which means I have to channel all the stuff in my brain someplace.

So this is the place.

And there's lots of stuff. Not just the Jesus stuff, but a lot of other stuff, too. Right now, I've just finished reading a book called Fun Is Good by a guy named Mike Veeck. His dad, Bill Veeck, was the one-time owner of the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. When he owned the Indians, he decided to have a midget pinch hit for him, just to attract attention. It did. He walked on four pitches. But the lords of baseball decided it was a bad idea to allow midgets to pinch hit (and they were probably right), so Eddie Gaeddel's career lasted one plate appearance.

Mike Veeck had his own moment in history: Disco Demolition Night. Between games of a double header between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, the younger Veeck offered that if people brought disco records, he would blow them up in a dumpster between games. They did. He did. And by the time the drunken anti-disco forces had left the field, the White Sox had forfeited the second game. He was fired the next day. Twenty-six years later in Chicago, people still talk about Disco Demolition Night. They do not talk about the '79 White Sox.

Veeck recovered from that to become successful at marketing, promotion, and running minor league baseball teams. It is not uncommon for his minor league St. Paul Saints to outdraw the major league Minnesota Twins. His book is a how-to guide about his life and how he implemented Fun is Good. In organizations that are open to it, Fun is Good is tremendously successful. In organizations that aren't...well, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are one of those organization. Let's just leave it at that.

I am working on Fun is Good at work. I am hoping it works for me, too. As I try, I will publish some updates here. I have some cool God stuff, too, like why it might not be a good idea for priests to marry. And other neat stuff about baseball, sex, beer, and life.

Y'all come back now, here.