No dawgs at deh bawpahk fa Saawks fans dat's wicked tough

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040312/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_fenway_park_hot_dogs&e=1

BOSTON - Opening Day ticket holders at Boston's Fenway Park this year who are Catholic face a dilemma: the Boston Archdiocese said since the afternoon game against the Toronto Blue Jays (news) falls on Good Friday, they must refrain from eating meat, including hot dogs, sausages and pepperoni pizza.

"We're already getting all kinds of requests for dispensation to eat meat," said the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman for the archdiocese. However Coyne said that after a meeting to discuss the requests, Boston church leaders decided a baseball game was too weak an excuse to duck the no-meat rule.

"I would hope it was just an oversight when they were doing the schedule," Coyne told the Boston Herald. "I think it's very insensitive to the huge number of people who are Christians and fans."

No hot dogs at a baseball game? That's just wrong.

Kudos to the church for not caving in, though.

Religion and baseball, that's a tough one.

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Peanuts and crackerjack and BEEEEEEEEEEEEEah!
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They can go fuck themselves. Baseball plays on every fucking holiday they're in season for. You gotta play 162 games some time...

ah religion. ain't it grand?

unfortunately, i won't be at the game or i would say "MORE FOR ME"

I heard Dennis Leary and two other comedians on Bob Costa last year saying that their were sure someone was going to drunk and fall onto the field. Maybe this is it, no food and lots of beer.

ON EDIT- that was too many words to try and replicate the accent.

...not not eating one.

If not, I doubt many Sox fans will be pissed.

:)

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Does anyone really still pay attention to that?

to be more sensitive about scheduling stuff on Jewish holidays. It happens all the time. A one-time event that could be scheduled whenever wind up falling on Yom Kippur. When I was in fourth grade they were going to have a little trivia contest for us, but it was on Rosh Hashana for no apparent reason. It was really annoying because it was right in the middle of the week and they could have put it on any other day.

The other day I was talking with some students from Queens University who were complaining that their professors had scheduled exams on Passover and were giving them a really hard time about changing the date.

Perhaps this Red Sox game can be a learning experience for everyone.

GO SOX!!!

It's pretty common knowledge that the whole thing was initiated by some corrupt Pope who had an interest in the fishing industry back in the olden days.

Come on. You don't still buy indulgences do you?

whether or not one ate meat on Friday was a personal choice?

Not that I care one way or another, but I always wonder about the micro managing that so many religions do for their followers...

It's not just any ol' Friday (in Lent).