They’re Jesus freaks who believe that in playing baseball, they are glorifying God.

The Sox, according to this article in the Boston Globe, have more evangelical Christians than any other team in baseball.

”This is our platform, our place to speak our faith and live our faith,” pitcher Mike Timlin said. ”This is a special gift from God, to play baseball, and if we can spread God’s word by doing that, then we’ve almost fulfilled our calling.”

What a load of crap. As if God gives a damn that the Sox won the World Series. (If so, he must really love the Florida Marlins, who have, in their short existence, won twice as many World Series as the Sox have in the past nine decades.)

I wonder what Timlin, Curt Schilling, et al have to say about Johnny Damon’s stripper wife. (Perhaps they’ve tried to “convert” her? She could be Schilling’s only save of the year.) And I wonder if they’ve read the article in the new issue of Boston magazine about the well-known Sox player who was recently conducting a flagrant affair with a 19-year-old freshman at Northeastern University?