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Explained, courtesy of Patrick Hruby, ESPN.com's Stump Page 2:

Dear Stump Page 2,

Since both teams participating in a sporting event engage in a pregame prayer, how does God choose who the winner is?

– Name withheld

Depends on how you view the Big Umpire upstairs:

a) If God is eternal and all knowing, He doesn't so much "choose" a winner as allow predetermined victory to unfold;

b) If God is compassionate and just, He's probably more worried about tsunami victims than the outcome of the A's-Royals game;

c) If God works in mysterious ways, then Bucknell upsets Kansas;

d) If God is spiteful and mean, then thaaaaa Yankeeeees win!

When in doubt, go with the team God has action on. He doesn't like to lose, you know.

Which explains the ending to last year's baseball season: once the Red Sox went down three games to none, the odds were just too good to pass up.

Either that or Joe Buck sold his soul for the ratings.