God Or The Game?
Sports fans in southeastern Michigan are faced with the ultimate dilemma this year: what’s more sacred, Opening Day or Good Friday? Due to the quirks of the religious calendar, Major League Baseball’s opening day has fallen on one of the most somber holy days in the Christian calendar. Granted, it’s easy enough to pass up on that ballpark hot dog, but Tigers fans are faced with a particularly knotty problem. Opening Day games for the Tigers traditionally start in the early afternoon –their game against the Texas Rangers is slated to start at 1:05 pm.
Unfortunately for Catholic sports fans, however, Good Friday mass is also traditionally held between 12 pm and 3 pm. In a heavily Catholic town like Detroit, that has a lot of devoted and devout sports fans up in arms, particularly as this is the only MLB game being held during Christian holy hours.
God or the game? I’m not touching that decision. Perhaps the Archdiocese would like to take pity on sports fans by holding a mass in the stadium at noon? Good luck, folks…
Thanks to our good friend Taco for bringing this to my attention.
