Mike Piazza, All-Star baseball player and devoted Catholic, on prayer, Barry Bonds, and forgiveness. -

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The Roundup: 50 Cent and Alba? Boomer to Replace Imus? and the All-Steroid Team
Published 7/11/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Mike Piazza won’t pass judgment on Barry Bonds. (Beliefnet) ...

Mike Piazza's Christian rock album cover art
Published 7/11/2007 by garyclark at Sports Frog
... Jokes aside, and whether or not you're religious, I'll credit Piazza for this, per his interview with beliefnet, he doesn't pray to win and understands why that's stupid: ...

Metal Mike’s Deep Spirituality
Published 7/11/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Beliefnet’s Michael Krass had a chance to ask Mike Piazza “If Savatage and Dream Theatre were both drowning and you could only save one….?”, but instead quizzed the A’s DH/catcher about the Sultan Of Surly. ...

Beliefnet: Mike Piazza: All-Star Christian
Published 7/12/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Beliefnet: Mike Piazza: All-Star Christian From A.J. Pierzynski to A.J. Hidell...Piazza knows about rifle arms! As a person of faith, what is your perspective on the steroid scandal in baseball? There is a lot of swirling and a lot of innuendo, a lot of rumor, a lot of hearsay. And, I think, to get back to balance on a larger issue, Major League Baseball has sort of admitted and sort of acknowledged that there could have been abuse by some players in the past. It s kind of like going back and reinvestigating the Kennedy assassination. It s impossible to really put a finger on where it derailed and where it went wrong. And I think that everybody, in a sense, was realizing that someone--the people and the higher ups--were looking the other way. And some of the players didn t really acknowledge that it was so much of a bad stigma. And so, I think that just the fact of not dealing with it at the time was probably the bigge ...

Ten Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
Published 7/12/2007 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
... , 84% of fans feel that there should be an asterisk next to Bonds' record if it is definitely proven that he took steroids. I'm in that other 16%. In fact, I'm in agreement with Mike Piazza on this issue : Let's allow history to give us some perspective before rushing to judgment. Not too likely, I know. Barry Bonds needed sabermetrics, not steroids. ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, July 12
Published 7/12/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... INTERESTING INSIGHTS: Mike Piazza gives an in-depth interview to beliefnet.com, a spiritual web site, in which he discusses his Roman Catholic faith, baseball's steroids scandal, and how he feels about Barry Bonds breaking the all-time home-run record. ...

Rounding the Bases: Baseball Returns
Published 7/12/2007 by Adam Godson at Bugs & Cranks
... Mike Piazza talks religion. How many beards does one man need? [BeliefNet] ...