Schuerholz, leaves dynamic duo October 12, 2007

“John Schuerholz is an unbelievable judge of talent,” Chipper Jones once said. “It almost seems like he has a crystal ball.”  That crystal ball lead to fourteen straight division titles and a World Series for Cox and Schuerholtz.  From Sid Bream’s infamous slide into home against the Pirates to win the first division title to the Baby Braves, Schuerholtz constructed a club that won because of the farm system he built.  Still today the combination of Cox and Schuerholz have won a 160 more games then the next closest team in the National league, sense they came in 91′.  Schuerholtz is not leaving the team but moving to team President and leaving his hand picked replacement Frank Wren, his right hand man of eight years.  But how do you replace the greatest GM of the modern era?  As Jason Stark said, “Its like trying to replace Babe Ruth at the three hole in the Yankees order.”  To end this post i will leave you with a video clip of the Braves from my youth.  The two plays that stick out in my mind is the Otis Nixon catch, (I was sitting just above the wall in Fulton County Stadium) and of course the Sid Bream slide.

Sojourn, worship anew. October 10, 2007

So one of my favorite professors at Southern, Rob Plummer, came by Verizon today to buy some phones from Jed and gave him the new Sojourn worship CD.  By the way Rob can be credited with my first date with Emily, who is now my wife, at Havana Rumba.  Sojourn Community Church is reaching the art community here in Louisville, where Dr. Plummer serves as an elder.  I have listened to some of there music before that they have on-line, and its great.  They take old songs and new ones, they themselves wrote, and really make great music.  This is what Christa Banister of Christianity Today had to say about it.

“But every once in a while, I receive an album that pleasantly surprises me on all fronts. Not only is the packaging impeccably and cleverly designed on Sojourn’s Before the Throne, but the worship band for Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky also managed a far more impressive feat: They actually wrote worship music that I didn’t feel like I’d already heard a million times before. Hard to imagine, I know.”

 Read whole article here.

You can sample four of the tracks here.