"Jesus is Loose."
OK, it rhymes. Yeah, it's catchy. Trouble is, it's passive. When a player homers, he needs an active verb - Teix sends a Text message, Georgia juices one, A-Rod - uh - theoretically launches an A-bomb, killing millions of innocent people - but Montero -- he merely is... now, upon us... loose.
Like a demon has been loosed.
We must wonder if John, who often speaks in parable and metaphor, has an ulterior motive: Is the Voice of the Yankees symbolically calling for the young player to be traded, by the use of Dante's Inferno as a literary metaphor?
"Jesus is Luc(ifer)."
Is Sterling, with each Montero homerun, quietly calling for the Yankees to banish the rookie from the One True Kingdom, to be sent to the netherworlds of Seattle or Cleveland? Is he saying that some horned devil has been loosed upon the cathedral of the Yankees? This is not a Grandyman. This is not an el Capitan or a St. Nick, or even a Gardener. This is a caged demon, being set loose upon defenseless humanity.
Imagine 800 "Jesus is loose" calls over the next 20 years. Could a Christian-based nation survive? Is John calling for the Beastmaster?
John's call is similar to Mel Allen's call when Bill Skowron homered: "The Moose is loose."
ReplyDeleteSterling's call is deplorable. We couldn't get one Biblical reference?
ReplyDelete"Jesus saves!"
But no, Sterling has taken a great opportunity away to open up new doors for numerous calls.
Think about it. Jesus hits one on the road in Fenway. They throw the ball back:
"Forgive them, George! For they not know what they do!"
Jesus hits a sac fly for a RBI in the 5th ending, putting the Yanks ahead:
"Jesus sacrifices himself for the sins of all Yankees Universe!"
We needed hope. Jesus is light, but Sterling has pulled a Judas Iscariot and betrayed him.