Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Taking 'God's Team' to extremes

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1	Chicago Cubs	76	48	.613	C1
2	New York Mets	68	57	.544	E1
3T	Arizona	64	60	.516	W1
3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	64	60	.516	W1
5	Milwaukee	72	54	.571	C2
6	St. Louis	70	57	.551	C3
7	Philadelphia	66	58	.532	E2
8	Florida	64	61	.512	E3
9	Houston	63	62	.504	C4
10	Colorado	57	69	.452	W3
11T	Pittsburgh	56	69	.448	C5
11T	Atlanta	56	69	.448	E4
13	Cincinnati	55	70	.44	C6
14	San Francisco	53	71	.427	W4
15	San Diego	48	76	.387	W5
16	Washington	44	81	.352	E5

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Rank	Team	W	L	PCT	Division
1	Los Angeles Angels	76	47	.618	W1
2	Tampa Bay	76	48	.613	E1
3	Chicago White Sox	71	53	.573	C1
4	Boston	72	53	.576	E2
5	Minnesota	70	54	.565	C2
6	New York Yankees	66	58	.532	E3
7	Toronto	64	60	.516	E4
8	Texas	62	64	.492	W2
9	Detroit	61	64	.488	C3
10	Baltimore	60	64	.484	E5
11	Oakland	57	67	.46	W3
12	Cleveland	56	67	.455	C4
13	Kansas City	55	69	.444	C5
14	Seattle	46	78	.371	W4

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Taking 'God's Team' to extremes

2006-12-19 00:11

by Bob Timmermann

No, this is nothing about Notre Dame, but the Catholic Church's Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, thinks that the Vatican could round up enough players to form a soccer team and even be a good enough to play in Italy's Serie A.

Personally, I think the Vatican would be better off forming its own domestic league. Or start competing in UEFA and trying to qualify for the World Cup. I suppose a Vatican team would be on the road a lot as there's not a lot of space for a stadium. But do we really need a Sistine Chapel or St. Peter's when we could build a high quality state of the art soccer stadium.

Think big. Maybe the 2014 World Cup will be held entirely in the Vatican!

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Comments

2006-12-19 00:28:02

1. Eric Enders

When I clicked on this I was expecting you to tell us the Rockies signed Chad Curtis or something.

2006-12-19 00:54:51

2. Greg Brock

Vatican City 2
United States 1

2006-12-19 01:38:01

3. joejoejoe

Bend it like Benedict.

2006-12-19 02:02:22

4. xaphor

While a source of endless humour, this could very well come to pass. Monaco play in the French Leagues and the LA Galaxy play outside of LA, it really isn't that hard to bend a few rules especially with the kitty his holiness has on hand.

The Italian domestic league is currently in dire straights with corruption and violence keeping fans away. This could be a Great Awakening of sorts. :)

2006-12-19 03:28:37

5. Borchard504

Not real funny unfortunately.

2006-12-19 05:32:27

6. dianagramr

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

2006-12-19 07:38:32

7. chris in illinois

Perhaps the proposed soccer team could help fund future lawsuit settlements?

2006-12-19 07:41:33

8. dianagramr

I don't know whether to laugh or nod my head in sad agreement with that comment.

So I'm kinda doing both ....

2006-12-19 08:08:22

9. Bob Timmermann

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The fact that the Galaxy play in Carson, instead of Los Angeles isn't that big of a deal considering that their stadium is very close to the Los Angeles City Limits.

2006-12-19 11:53:30

10. Sandus

Next they'll be presenting a €600 million refurbishing plan for the Roman Colosseum so they can play there.

Will the players have to be Catholic?

2006-12-19 11:55:13

11. Bob Timmermann

Most of the athletic contests in the Colosseum were slaughters I hear.

2006-12-19 11:56:26

12. Voxter

9 - Do they still play in the Rose Bowl? I used to go to their games there when I was in college; it was a bizarre experience. There'd be like, six or seven thousand of us sitting in the bottom rows of this 80 000-seat stadium. You felt like a pinball rattling around in the machine.

2006-12-19 12:07:51

13. Bob Timmermann

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The Galaxy and Chivas USA play at the Home Depot Center in Carson. It seats about 25,000 and was built principally for soccer.

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