The World We Live In

If you have ever been to a little league baseball game there is very seldom a time when a batter hits  a scorching line drive that is headed outside the field of play that parents or any spectator is in danger of being hit.  Most the time it is a pop up that you need to make sure it doesn't fall directly on your head.

The higher up you go  in age the balls start leaving the field at a faster rate.  During the current major league baseball season there have been a couple of incidents where spectators were either hit by a broken bat or one of those  scorching line  drive foul balls has hit and injured  fans in the stands.

There is a big controversy right now amongst baseball people, sports reporter and the like about why should they have to have netting up or if the fans will be able to see the game when they do put it up.  Simply those whining about not being able to see a game behind the net has never sat and watched a game from behind the netting.

We all who have ever been to a high school game and watch from behind home plate  where the fencing is are glad it is there.  Most every school now days has knitted nets that run from the end of the dugout on first base to the end of the dugout at third.    This stops those scorchers from attacking in some cases unsuspecting people from being drilled with the ball.

If you watch a major league game these days people are sitting in the stands talking to someone sitting near them, texting, looking at the internet or talking to someone who is at home watching them be on TV and they have called to tell them that they see them.  All the while not paying attention at all to the game and in a split half second can get nailed by a ball.

We need to be protected from ourselves.  Any body sitting near the dug out  and up to 30 rows high had better watch every time that ball is thrown because there is a batter there capable of hitting it 500 feet in any direction and it could be traveling 100 miles per hour.  I am always ready when sitting down the foul lines say at a Durham Bulls game just waiting for a foul ball heading my way.

If you have ever been to a NASCAR race there is safety fencing all the way around the track and if you sit in the first 30 rows at your favorite track that fencing is steel poles and steel wiring.  It is in spots a hindrance trying to look directly at the poles as the cars go by.  Is there a person in the stands that wants to sit there without that fencing in place?  No way, just recently  a car went into the fencing and with all the car parts flying nobody received more than scratches even the driver.

Safety should be a top priority  and all stadiums should have netting at least from end of the dugout to end of the other dugout.  The outfield area will get a hot one every now and then but at least you are near 60 yards or more and maybe somebody will holler look out.

Read the article in Friday's Telegram about Zack Foster the Southern Nash quarterback who has a physical disability which I had never heard about but he has been able to over come it.  The article was about his leadership with his Firebird's teammates.  I heard last weekend at Englewood Baptist several of his teammates accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior and Zack help them all .

Our world is now a world of hate  and people scratch their heads that they can't understand why.  It is simple.  There are too many people who are trying to please themselves first instead of the creator of this world and his son.  There is no way we can ever be satisfied  with what we want because we will always want more. 

Our God in heaven is who we all need to please and when we decide that he is more important than me just maybe the world we change back around.  It is people like a young man like Zack Foster who are leading the way in that turn around.