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THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 2022 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 3B CONTINUED Minister’s Comer years. One could compare the Jewish Shema ... “Listen, Is rael, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your being, and all your might”.... to Christianity’s Lord’s Prayer ...”Our Father who art in heaven” ... .because the prayer is recited morning and evening and is a basic personal belief. Mark has Jesus in the Temple teaching following his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday a few days earlier. He has been pretty busy throwing out the mon eychangers and facing reli gious questions from Jewish religious leaders. He asked them in Mark 11:30 “was the Baptism of John from heaven or men?” They reasoned, “if we say from heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, of men; they feared the people would rise up against them. And they evaded the question answering “...we cannot tell.” Jesus, responded “nei ther will I tell you by what authority I do these things?” Would you have answered honestly or stepped aside with a false answer? Fast for ward to Chapter 12 and these religious leaders are again asking Jesus another question as to the greatest command ment ... Just To Ask? Surprise. By answering their question with the Shema he quieted them “and no man after that dare ask him any question. Have you ever asked, how do I figure my financial tithe ... before or after taxes? Why should I go to church to worship God with a bunch of hypocrites? Why are we sending food to Africa to feed hungry children when we have hungry kids here? If they are a preacher I am Elvis Presley? Question: Is it possible we could be asking religious questions like the Jewish leaders to attempt to justify our own misconceptions and agendas? Answer... love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength and All your neighbors. Seniors church events All events in the seniors church events calen dar are open to both men and women regard less of church affiliation. Please email events to articles@pickensprogress.com Ongoing Events Fellowship Presbyterian Church Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. - Dancercize - In its 4th year, this popular class is still a fun way to exercise. 4th Monday of each month, 10 a.m. - Bible Study and missions outreach, both lo cally and internationally. Episcopal Church of the Holy Family Yoga - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the Conference Center. Gentle Yoga - Tuesdays at 11:15 a.m. at the Conference Center. Tai Chi - Saturdays at 11 a.m. at the Con ference Center Welcome Hands Quitters - 1st and 3rd Sat urdays of the month at 10 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Prayer Shawl Ministry & Pet Ministry - Last Monday of each month 10 a.m. - noon in the church office to knit and bless com pleted prayer shawls and to make pet blan kets for blessing and distribution, representing the caring hands of a caring con gregation. Concert-Evensong series to resume: In fall 2022-spring 2023 Holy Family will re sume the popular Sunday afternoon Concert- Evensong series with this abbreviated schedule: •October 16, 2022 •December 18 (Lessons & Carols), 2022 •February 19, 2023 •April 16,2023 Continued From Sports Page Racing free the whole stage with Logano dominating most of the stage and winning it. Stage 3 started on lap 240 with Larson in the lead after beating Logano off pit road during the stage break pit stops. The 4th caution of the race and 2nd caution for inci dent would come out right after the restart when Chas tain and Kyle Busch got to gether from Chastain coming up into Busch and Busch coming down on Chastain. The race resumed on lap 246 and Logano would take the lead back from Larson. The 5th and last caution of the race flew on lap 251 for Bell spinning out in turn 4 due to clipping the apron in turn 4 a little bit. The race resumed on lap 257 and stayed green the rest of the way. Logano con tinued to dominate the race until Harvick passed him for the lead with 67 to go after battling with him for the lead for many laps. Towards the end, Bell, on 11 lap fresher tires than Harvick, started to make up a lot of ground on Harvick and got down to just under half a second behind him. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t enough as Harvick would hold on to win at Richmond and win his sec ond straight race after being on a 65-race winless streak. As for how the overall race was, it had good racing and was better than the spring race was. Stage 1 was really good with many battles for position, some really good driver battles and good amount of passing, which was due to drivers being able to run the bottom, middle, and top lanes in the turns. Stage 2 started off the same but due to the pit stops and the stage staying green the whole way, the field got re ally spread out which led to not many battles and passing for position happening. Stage 3 was kind of the same as Stage 2 but was better since it had more passing due to several drivers being on dif fering strategies by pitting later. The ending was also pretty good because it had a long battle for the lead be tween Logano and Harvick, and several intense final laps with Bell closing in fast on Harvick. So it wasn’t a super exciting race but it definitely could’ve been worse. It was simply a fairly enjoyable race. Next week, NASCAR heads up to New York to race at the Watkins Glen Interna tional. Road courses haven’t been great this year aside from COTA but Watkins Glen has provided great rac ing in the past so we’ll see how next week at The Glen turns out. Next Week - Go Bowling at The Glen Technical Advisor - Scott Korowotny August 14-August 20 August 14th: On this day in 1937, the Detroit Tigers set the major league record for runs scored in a doubleheader with 36. This took place dur ing a two-bill with the St. Louis Browns, where the Tigers jumped out to a 12-0 lead in the opener before winning, 16-1. Game two saw Detroit score 16 unanswered runs on its way to routing St. Louis yet again, this time by a 20-7 final. August 15th: On this day in 1997, the Los Angeles Dodgers organization retired the number two that was worn by manager, Tommy La- sorda, from 1976 until 1996. Lasorda com piled an overall record of 1,599-1,439 during his tenure with the club. He also led the Dodgers to eight division champi onships, four national league pennants and two World Series titles. Lasorda was twice voted the National League’s Manager of the Year and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in ’97 as well. August 16th: On this day in 1965, the American Foot ball League awarded its ninth franchise to Joe Robbie, an attorney, politician and head of a tobacco company. Robbie partnered with comedian, Danny Thomas, and to gether, the duo founded the Miami Dol phins. The team’s expansion season took place in 1966 and since then, the Dolphins have captured five AFC crowns and two Super Bowl titles. Miami’s lengthy run of success also included the NFL’s only perfect season in 1972. August 17th: On this day in 1969, both of New York’s NFL franchises met for the very first time in a preseason game at the Yale Bowl. To the average fan, this contest didn’t mean a whole lot, but to the fans of the Big Apple, it meant everything. Seven months prior to this New York Bowl, the Jets pulled off a stunning upset of the heavily favored Balti more Colts in Super Bowl III. It was a vic tory nobody saw coming, but it was still considered a fluke when the defending champs took the field with the Giants. All the Jets did was jump out to a convincing 17-0 lead before routing New York’s glam our boys, 37-14. Reigning Super Bowl MVP, Joe Namath, completed 14 of 16 passes for 188 yards and three touchdowns. His last was a one-yarder to tight end, Pete Lammons, which came with 7:10 remaining. This afternoon saw the Jets rise as the em pires of the Empire City. August 18th: On this day in 1915, the Boston Braves hosted the St. Louis Cardinals in the very first major league game ever held at Braves Field. Boston shortstop, Rabbit Maranville, went two for four and drove in the park’s first run on a second inning single. The player that scored that run was left fielder, Sherry Magee, who led off that frame with a base hit. Braves’ starter, Dick Rudolph, was credited with the facilities’ very first win, striking out six batters in a complete ef fort. Boston went on to record a 3-1 victory over the Cards. August 19th: On this day in 1990, Chicago White Sox closer, Bobby Thigpen, became the fastest pitcher to collect 40 saves in a season. Thig pen tossed a hitless ninth as the White Sox defeated the Texas Rangers, 4-2, at Arling ton Stadium. The ’90 campaign turned out to be a record-setting one for Thigpen as he racked up 57 saves, the most in major league history at that time. Anaheim’s Francisco Rodriguez eclipsed that number by posting 62 of his own in 2008. K-Rod’s total re mains the all-time mark. August 20th: On this day in 1980, Pittsburgh Pirates leadoff man and center fielder, Omar Moreno, set the major league record by stealing 70 bases for the third consecutive year. Moreno also had a single on the game’s first at-bat, but followed that up with a groundout, flyball to third and strikeout. The Pirates blew an early lead and dropped a 5- 1 decision to the Houston Astros. Moreno completed the ’80 campaign with 96 steals, which remains a Pittsburgh franchise record. It’s also the most ever by any single-season non-league leader in major league history. Continued From Sports Page Gartrell now which includes first a player’s batting average, on- base and slugging. Currently, the Braves latest rookie sen sation Vaughn Grissom’s line is off the charts at .429/.500/.810 for example. As for pitching metrics, the most telling and useful meas urement beyond the old earned run average is walks plus hits per innings pitched (WHIP). Currently, Astro Justin Verlander leads MLB in that category at 0.86 which basically means that he al lows less than one base run ner per inning. Beyond these terms, the sabermetric lovers have dozens of superfluous stats which are pretty much twenty gallons of crap in a five gallon bucket. Other new stats are in fact more a kin to trivia than sub stantial data. I refer to them as “Ego Numbers” because they tend to be somewhat in teresting to fans and appeal to player bravado. Exit velocity means the speed with which a baseball bounces off a bat in miles per hour. It’s fantastic to hit the ball 110 mph but if it’s right to a defensive player, it’s still an out. Right? Home run distance infor mation is cool, but as long as it clears the fence, a 320 footer counts the same as a 520 footer. Right? “Barrels” means the num ber of baseballs put in play which came off the “sweet spot” on the baseball bat (the thickest part of a bat where it is meant to strike the ball). Again, a player may figura tively “knock the cover off the baseball”, but that act doesn’t automatically trans late into a base hit. How many flukes and in field hits did the Mets get when they took four of five games from the Braves less than two weeks ago? 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