Is that a snarky rhetorical question?
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Posted on 04/10/2012 2:42:50 PM PDT by doug from upland
This guy is only 23?
At a news conference at Dodger Stadium this morning, somebody asked why Clayton Kershaw has made repeated trips to Africa with his wife Ellen, to help orphans there.
The Cy Young Award winner replied, in full earnest, ‘Ellen always asked me, “What do you want your legacy to be when you’re done playing baseball?”’ There are always going to be people better than you, he said, who will break your records, “So you want to be remembered for doing something other than baseball.”
The two work through the Dallas-based non-profit Arise Africa, and are building housing for orphans. The details are in their new book “Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself.”
Ellen Kershaw , 24, has been going to Zambia since she was 18. She felt drawn to, she says, in the 8th grade, after seeing a tv show. But she didn’t think she could do any good. “There’s plenty of people who spend their entire lives trying to change that country, and what could I do as an 18-year old?! But finally, it almost caused me more anxiety not going than actually getting on a plane and going over there.”
It took her husband a little longer. But he’s made two trips with her now, the first right after their marriage -- they were high school sweethearts – and it’s changed him for the good. “Going to Zambia last year I think was a huge leap of faith for him, and it stretched him in more ways than I’ve ever seen.”
Speaking of stretching, Ellen says the kids hang off the 6-3 pitcher “like he’s a jungle gym.” They know nothing about baseball, the Dodgers, or the Cy Young. “If I played soccer,” he joked, “that would be a different story.”
It might seem counter-intuitive, in a sport like baseball where concentration and total devotion are key, but Clayon and Ellen both say their Africa project, and Kershaw’s challenge, in which he donated $100 for every batter he struck out, made him a better pitcher, because the goal was bigger than baseball.
The two speak easily about serving their God, but they don’t present as evangelical. He was raised Methodist, she Presbyterian. Not the revival tent types. This seems to be more about what they say it is: giving back, doing what they can. As Ellen says, “To whom much is given, much is expected.”
If we want a power couple running the Dodgers, somebody ought to give the Dodgers to these two.
Watch the Kershaws talk about Africa in this YouTube video:
Props to Kernsaw btw the Dodgers are on Prime Ticket that former Fox sport 2 LOL! for the first time there is no Vin Scully broadcasting a Dodger game on Opening day making first time I think in 35 years
I agree it is good, and they should be praised for their work. But, I’m just so sick of “Africa” always being this poor, broken, starving, white-man’s-burden, place. When is Africa gonna pick itself up like Japan, S. Korea, China, India,...?
We have the same situation. The world loves us when they want our money but once they receive it, it’s “i hate you” all over again. A bud of mine who worked in Haiti under the Red Cross told me the Haitians were one of the laziest, ungrateful people he witnessed.
When the commies get out of there...which means....??? not until WWIII?
Is that a snarky rhetorical question?
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Not the racial IQ bullpoop again. It’s meaningless to the individual and too fluid over time. Who in the last century would have thought the “lesser races” in SK or China would become so dominant?
As for IQ tests being "bullpoop" I must disagree. IQ tests are used all the time, everywhere from the military to many school psychologists. The data in the book cited above was developed over decades by organizations that tested millions and millions of people. Just because you don't like the facts, doesn't mean that they are "bullpoop".
Just like differnt nations have differnt average heights, and different physical attributes so they have differences in average IQ. It turns out that these correlate pretty well with things like GDP, which makes sense. Hard to have a high-value economy if you don't have a lot of smart people to add that value. Places like the Central African Republic that have average IQs below 70 are going to have a hard time inventing, or even manufacturing the next iPad.
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