While I like to talk baseball and discuss my personal thoughts and opinions on the game I also try to incorporate my personal relationship with Jesus Christ into my blogging, whether it be a post about baseball players who influence me or simply songs that inspire me. I don't think that God has plans for me to be a preacher or even a teacher to some extent but I do believe the Lord has put in me the ability to share His Word. I am taking strides in my life to develop and continue to grow my relationship with the Lord and even though I do stumble and come up short of his desires for my life He continues to work in me.
I am a baseball fan if you didn't notice by my web page design. How could I not know more about this guy Brian Wilson? I now know who Brian Wilson the Major League Baseball player is especially after watching him be utterly dominant throughout the postseason eventually striking out Nelson Cruz to end my beloved Texas Rangers' World Series Championship run. It was a sad moment for me and all Rangers fans. After that final pitch, as he does after every successful game, Brian Wilson turns around touches his wrist, puts a circle to his mouth, makes an X with his arms pointed to the sky and looks up. This is not a taunt to anybody but instead something he started to do for himself and has ended up being the platform he uses for the whole world to see.
My friends at home are great at finding random website links through a multitude of sources. I went back this spring break knowing I'd see more. One of my friends who is all about Deadspin articles told me about Brian Wilson and The Machine. Now, this wasn't the first time I had heard about them and I guess I might have been more informed about who or what they are if I hadn't been working all summer at a camp where I had minimal access to the internet. Even just recently, before Spring Break, MLB 2K11 has been running their promotional campaign for the game with Brian Wilson being a key cog in the process. After seeing him on TV so many times I started thinking, "That guy is so cool... even though he's on the Giants and they beat the Rangers and... they beat the Rangers." Infatuated with the dude's persona I thought it only made sense to do the mo-hawk because I was already trying to find a way to cut my hair short.
This is the video that had me cracking up!
After going through many a YouTube video I saw his interview with Jay Leno. He wasn't being funny (funny as usual) but had more of a talk show talk thing going. Leno asked Wilson about about his postgame X thing he does and he explained that it was for The One God and his father who passed away when he was 17. That floored me! I was like "WOW! This crazy dude has a relationship with the same God I do!? Are we talking about the same Savior here? I can see it but let me dig a little deeper." So I googled Brian Wilson Christian and this was the first video that popped up and I felt overjoyed.
Praise Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior!
