Who is Manny Corpas and Why is he Nasty?

[simon]

Corpas came from out of nowhere to the casual fan and turned in the
most dominant month of July for any closer in baseball. This leads to
the question, who the hell is this guy?

http://simononsports.blogspot.com/2007/08/julys-most-dominant-closer-was.html

[simon]

that perish; this their way is their
folly."

70Eccles. 3:18. "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of
men."

[71]1 Cor. 1:25 "The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness
of God is stronger than men."

[72]Ovid, Metamorphoses, iii. "No one is happy before death."

[73]1 John 2:16.

74Cor. 1:31. "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

75John 14:6. "I am the way, the truth, and the life."

761 Cor. 6:17. "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."

77Gen. 4:7. "Unto thee shall be his desire."

78Office for Holy Saturday. "Which won for us a Saviour."

79Office for Good Friday. "Which won for us God's hallowed members to
embrace."

80Hymn Vexilla regis. "Worthy God's hallowed members to embrace."

81Luke 7:6 "I am not worthy."

821 Cor. 11:29. "Who eateth unworthily."

83Rev. 4:11. "Thou art worthy to receive."

84Office of the Holy Virgin. "Make me worthy."

[85]Matthew, 7:7, "Ask and it shall be given you."

86Is. 45:15.

[87]John 8:30-33. "Many believed on him. Then Jesus said: 'If ye continue...
then ye are my disciples indeed, and the truth shall make you free.' They
answered him: 'We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man.'"

88Rev. 22:11. "He that is righteous, let him be righteous still."

[89]Circumcidentes cor. Rom. 2. "Circumcision is that of the heart."

901 Cor. 15:33. "Evil communications corrupt good manners."

[simon]

the Chinese standpoint a religious duty for
a father to leave a son, upon his death, to continue the family
sacrifices. Therefore if the father has no son by his first wife, he
will "take a second or third or fourth wife until he procures a son."
"A family being in urgent distress, and requiring immediately a
certain sum of money, take one of their female children, say five
years old ... to a wealthy family, where the child becomes a member of
the family, and has, perhaps, to look after a baby.... But the child
may be sold out and out. In that case invariably a deed is drawn up."
And this is the state of things concerning which Dr. Eitel says: "Few
foreigners have comprehended the extent of social equality ... the
amount of influence which woman, bought and sold as she is, really
has in China ... the depth of domestic affection, of filial piety, of
parental care," etc.

He adds:

"Considering the deep hold which this system has on the Chinese
people, it is not to be wondered at that Chinese can scarcely
comprehend how an English judge could come to designate this
species of domestic servitude as 'slavery.' On the contrary,
intelligent Chinese look upon this system as the necessary and
indispensable complement of polygamy, as an excellent counter
remedy for the deplorably wide-spread system of infanticide, and
as the natural consequence of the chronic occurrence of famines,
inundations, and rebellions in an over-populated country. But the
abuses to which this system of buying and selling female children
is liable, in the hands of unscrupulous parents and buyers, and
the support it lends to public p