I have never taken much interest in baseball as a sport, although I take an interest in its history and lore, and I have been a fan of a lot of the great movies made about America’s pastime, but both my Paternal Grandfather and Father were baseball enthusiasts, and they were fans of the Cardinals. My Grandpa named my Dad Donald Dean McClarey, the Dean for “Dizzy” Dean, the great Cardinals’ pitcher.
Then there’s the Angels and the Padres … Can’t root against them!
If he’s truly for the marginalized he will be a Cubs fan.
Oh oh…
2005 World Series…
hummm
Actually this appears to be the first real controversy of his papacy …. there are conficting reports as ro whether he’s a Cubs or Sox fan
Apparently his brother chimed in and said that he’s a white Sox fan.
But I’m with you Don. Watching baseball is like watching paint dry. I think it’s just everybody gets together and talks and drinks beer while waiting for something to happen.
This is neither the time nor the place for me to engage in a friendly dispute with my fellow TAC commenters about the virtues of the game of baseball, which I hold to be of Divine dispensation. But as a third-generation St. Louis Cardinals fan, I do hope Pope Leo is a Sox loyalist. It would be a hard thing for me to have a Cubs fan in the Holy See. 😁 But I’d probably get over it.