{"id":1418,"date":"2019-10-31T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:08:43","slug":"its-not-how-you-start-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"It’s not how you start… (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wrote back in June<\/a> that the St Louis Blues hockey team won their first Stanley Cup Championship after being worst in the league with nearly half a season gone. (They won only 15 of their first 37 games, 40.5%.) It’s deja vu all over again with the Washington Nationals winning their first World Series after starting the season winning only 19 of their first 50 games (38%).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nationals celebrate winning the World Series<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Proving, once again, it\u2019s not how you start, but how you finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the Nationals had to win five elimination games, counting the one-game wild-card playoff. In each of those games, they were behind at some point in the game, usually late in the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the first time in any sport that all the games in a 7-game series were won by the visiting team.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World Series Scores<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As Winston Churchill said:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never give up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Nationals’ sweatshirts read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finish the Fight<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nationals Manager Dave Martinez in a Finish the Fight sweatshirt<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At times we don’t know what to do, but quitting is not an option. (2 Corinthians 4.8, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4.7, ESV)
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I wrote back in June that the St Louis Blues hockey team won their first Stanley Cup Championship after being worst in the league with nearly half a season gone. (They won only 15 of their first 37 games, 40.5%.) It’s deja vu all over again with the Washington Nationals winning their first World Series … Continue reading It’s not how you start… (part 2)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-mS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}