They hear about poverty, AIDS, and other social tragedies and their faith tells them they must be concerned not just about reproductive rights and marriage equality.
Shea helped the worshiping faithful understand the purchasing power of Christian consumers as an extension of their piety; as form of devotional practice that encompassed the ordinary pleasures of music entertainment.
Baseball is an exhausting thing to care about, a continual source of heartbreak, an elaborate choreography of loss, and a sentimental education in what such losing means.