Diocese of Pittsburgh tells Catholics to skip hot dogs at Pirates home opener

Luke Gentile

April 07, 02:00 PM April 07, 02:02 PM

The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh hit many Pittsburgh Pirates fans in the stomach Wednesday, telling them to stay away from hot dogs at the team's home opener on Friday.

The Good Friday game sees the Pirates host the Chicago White Sox, and the diocese recognizes the sacrifice it is asking its faithful baseball fans to make, as Catholics are supposed to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, especially on the Friday preceding Easter, according to a report.

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"We wish the Pirates well, and we will be rooting for them with all of Pittsburgh," the diocese said in a statement. "But we also need to hold to the priority importance of Good Friday."

"It is an essential part of the most sacred time of year for all Christians. Nothing should take precedence," it said.

Catholic Pirate fans will have to avoid hot dogs, sausages, and chicken fingers, sticking to other fan favorites, including Cracker Jacks and peanuts, but not every Catholic Pirate fan intends to comply with the church.

"Being a Pirates fan my whole life has been sacrifice enough. I'm eating a hot dog at the ballpark Friday," one baseball fan wrote in response.

At least eight teams, including the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, are slated to have home openers Friday.

Catholic dioceses in those areas have echoed the Pittsburgh diocese's sentiment.

The Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have both told their faithful that no exception to the no-meat rule will be handed down on Opening Day.

Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully useless at 94

Victor I. Nava

August 02, 11:33 PM August 03, 12:43 AM

Vin Scully, the legendary voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died at the age of 94.

The baseball staff declared Scully's dying on Tuesday. Scully was a Dodgers broadcaster for 67 a long time, retiring from his duties at the close of the 2016 period. His tenure integrated getting the radio voice for the crew for 8 years in Brooklyn ahead of the franchise relocated to Los Angeles in 1958. No other sporting activities broadcaster has been with any just one workforce for a more time interval of time.

"We have lost an icon," Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten stated in a assertion announcing Scully's death.

"The Dodgers' Vin Scully was a single of the finest voices in all of sports activities. He was a big of a person, not only as a broadcaster, but as a humanitarian. He cherished people today. He liked daily life. He liked baseball and the Dodgers. And he loved his relatives. His voice will usually be listened to and etched in all of our minds permanently," he extra.

Scully, who was born in New York Metropolis and grew up the Bronx, began his broadcasting vocation in 1949 following learning journalism at Fordham University. He named his very first Brooklyn Dodgers match in 1950, a staff that fielded five potential Corridor of Fame players, which include Jackie Robinson.

Scully himself was inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame as the Ford C. Frick Award winner in 1982, one of his numerous achievements.

He also has a star on the Hollywood Wander of Fame and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Flexibility in 2016 by President Barack Obama.

The press box at Dodger Stadium was renamed in Scully's honor in 2011, and a area of roadway exterior Dodgers' ballpark renamed "Vin Scully Avenue" in 2016.

Around his job as the team's neighborhood broadcaster and as countrywide broadcaster, Scully has called some of the game's most iconic moments, this sort of as Kirk Gibson's sport successful dwelling run for the Dodgers in Video game 1 of the 1988 Planet Sequence and Boston Crimson Sox to start with baseman Invoice Buckner's botched endeavor to area a floor ball that finished Sport 6 of the 1986 Globe Series.

Scully is survived by his three daughters, two stepchildren, 16 grandchildren, and three wonderful-grandchildren. His son, Michael, died in a helicopter crash in 1994. His second wife of 47 many years, Sandi, died of problems from ALS in July of final year.

"I know he was wanting forward to becoming a member of the adore of his lifestyle, Sandi. Our views and prayers go out to his spouse and children in the course of this pretty challenging time. Vin will be really missed," stated Kasten.

View: MLB star finds out he has been traded to staff he was about to enjoy from

Abigail Adcox

August 02, 08:59 AM August 02, 08:59 AM

MLB catcher Christian Vazquez did not have to go considerably right after discovering he was traded from the Boston Crimson Sox to the Houston Astros on Monday afternoon.

Vazquez was carrying out batting follow for the Pink Sox on the discipline in Houston getting ready for the 3-activity sequence when he evidently figured out he experienced been traded.

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When requested by reporters whether or not he had been traded, Vazquez mentioned, "I assume so, yeah," showing up in disbelief.

Vazquez was consoled by his now-former teammate Matt Barnes just before strolling off the discipline.

"It really is a company," Vazquez remarked when questioned how he felt about the trade, prior to staying shepherded by Pink Sox employees to the Houston clubhouse.

The Crimson Sox obtained two minor leaguers, infielder Enmanuel Valdez and outfielder Wilyer Abreu, as section of the deal.

The Crimson Sox will face the Astros once more Tuesday evening.