My take on Fantasy Bishball

A few weeks ago, LarryD over at AoftheA submitted the idea to do a bishop-catholicy-version of fantasy baseball. The idea is simple enough. Draft a team of bishops, get points, etc. Well... that's about all I understand really, so maybe it's not so simple. Anyway, after getting tweets from other bloggers about it, I decided to draft my own team of Catholic bishops... Actually, I'm going to see if I can name 30 bishops. The Pope, even though His Holiness is technically the Bishop of Rome, will be excluded. Even Larry considers restricting the pool to just North American bishops. These are all living bishops.

In no particular order:
Bishop Leonard P. Blair*
Archbishop Timothy Dolan
Raymond Cardinal Burke
Donald Cardinal Wuerl*
Archbishop Dennis Schnurr
Justin Cardinal Rigali
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo*
Francis Cardinal George
Bishop Soto
Archbishop Michael Sheehan*
Archbishop Chaput

okay... i think 30 came from a tweet. i've done more investigating and the teams are maximum 4 bishops. the 4 i'd pick are *ed above. i feel an unfair advantage picking 2 cardinals, but this is just for funzies anyway. the ones i starred i've actually had some very indirect interaction. Bishop Blair's See is my own Toledo Diocese, so it's pretty much a given i picked His Excellence. The good bishop has continued to amaze me in his vocation as the steward-shephard of our diocese! We've also shared a few meals. Their Emenences Weurl and DiNardo both played huge roles in this year's March for Life Masses, which i attended. That's very indirect i know, but both have been outspoken in their respective support and promulgation of Authentic Catholic Faith, especially on very controversial matters. Lastly, Abp Sheehan gave a talk at the 2009 Coming Home Network Conference. Though I attended 2010's Conference, I was given all the 2009 talks to listen to, rating His Excellence's talk 4 stars.

Okay... i'm pooped. enough for today.