Anthony Box 🏟⚾️🏌️

Christ follower, husband of 28 years, father of 3, 4 grandsons, @alabamabsb alum ‘94, golf enthusiast, administrator at AHFA, member of Gump Twitter, 589!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting.

Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye.

I asked a woman at the store what it means.

She said, "Roll Tide."

I asked what it means.

She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar."

So I began collecting evidence. I kept a list. I am not embarrassed about the list.

I have now heard "Roll Tide" used as: hello. Goodbye. Thank you. I am sorry. Congratulations. That is unfortunate. I agree. I disagree. And once, in a hardware store, as a complete set of instructions for installing a ceiling fan.

I heard it said at a funeral.

It was appropriate. It was the most appropriate thing anyone said that day.

I began using it. Carefully at first, the way a man handles a borrowed sword.

I said it to a cashier. She said it back.

I said it to a police officer who had stopped me for a broken taillight.

He looked at me for a long moment. He looked at my face. He looked at my taillight.

Then he said it back, and nodded once, and did not write the ticket.

I wish to be extremely clear that I am not claiming those two events are related.

I am also not claiming they are unrelated.

A man at a gas station heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him Japan.

He said, "Roll Tide."

He meant welcome. I knew he meant welcome. There was no ambiguity at all.

I have been in Alabama eleven days.

I have one word.

It has been enough for everything.

I have started saying it in other states.

It does not work in other states.

I said it in a warehouse store in Oregon. One man turned around.

He was from Alabama. He said it back. We did not speak after that. We did not have to.

I say it anyway.

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

The type of swag you cannot teach…

“What can we expect from you in the 2nd half?”

Labaron Philon: “A lot of cookin”

LMAO

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

What a play by Jarvis! 👀

#BravesCountry

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

First career home run for Jim Jarvis!

#LocalFordDealer | #BravesCountry

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! President Trump dropped this gem from Marco Rubio CALLING the rise of communism years ago

MARCO NAILS IT: "At the core of democratic socialism is Marxism, and at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security. We're going to provide you free healthcare. We're going to provide you free education."

"But the problem is that when they can't deliver on it or when you're not happy with it, you don't get your freedoms back. And by freedoms, I don't just mean elections."

"I'm talking about the right to choose your own doctor, the right to make healthcare decisions for yourself, what your kids learn in school, what schools they go to, all that stuff you lose control over."

"And you don't get it back just because the security they promised you didn't happen."

"So that's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country. It's a reason why people flee countries that have this stuff!"

"It's a big deal for America, and I hope people start waking up to that reality." 🇺🇸

Rubio knew.

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Shaq caught wind of this 7-foot-3 kid in Kemah, Texas who powered through the police academy only to fall one point short on the state exam. His whole dream of becoming an officer looked like it was slipping away right there.

Then Shaq jumped in and covered the guy’s living expenses for the next five months so he wouldn’t have to juggle a second job and could zero in on passing that test. Because of that extra push, Jordan Wilmore got back in, nailed it, and just got sworn in as a Kemah police officer.

[USGA @USGA]

Annie Hayes said forget getting it close, she's going to knock it in! 🦅

It's an eagle 3 for the lone competitor in the Women's Seated Players category.

[USGA @USGA]

Fortune favors the bold.

@OneArmGolfer Tommy Morrissey goes for it in 2 on the par 5.

Comes up wide right of the green... but it doesn't matter as he drains the eagle putt anyway!

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%.

He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same.

The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after the election.

The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022.

It’s amazing what happens when election fraud is cleaned up.

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

My son in-law asked me to teach him how to grill and I might have ruined him.

My daughter got married three years ago. Her husband, Kyle, is a good guy, works in IT, polite, laughs at my jokes even when they're not funny.

But the man cannot grill.

Last summer they hosted a Fourth of July BBQ. Kyle was in charge of the burgers, i watched him flip them eleven times in six minutes. They came out gray, dry, tragic.

I didn't say anything, my wife kicked me under the table twice as a reminder.

Two weeks ago Kyle calls me.

Kyle: Hey, Can I ask you something?

Me: Sure.

Kyle: Would you teach me how to grill? Like, actually grill?

I was honored, genuinely.

Me: Absolutely, come over Saturday.

He showed up at noon with a notebook, A notebook.

Me: You're not taking notes.

Kyle: I want to remember.

Me: It's grilling, not calculus.

I started with the basics, Charcoal vs gas, heat zones, when to flip, the importance of letting meat rest.

He's writing everything down.

Then I got to seasoning.

Me: Most people overthink it, salt, pepper, garlic powder. That's it. You don't need seventeen spices.

Kyle: What about marinades?

Me: Waste of time unless you're doing chicken.

Kyle: Really?

Me: You're adding moisture to something you're about to dry out with fire. Doesn't make sense.

He wrote that down.

Then I said, "And if anyone ever tells you to flip a steak more than once, you walk away from that person."

Kyle: Why?

Me: Because they don't respect the steak.

He stared at me.

Kyle: Are you serious?

Me: Completely.

I could see his brain trying to figure out if I was messing with him. I wasn't.

We grilled for three hours, burgers, steaks, brats. He did great, listened, didn't rush, the kid has potential.

At the end I sent him home with leftovers and a meat thermometer.

Me: Use this, don't guess.

Last weekend my daughter calls.

My daugther: What did you do to Kyle?

Me: What do you mean?

Her: He's obsessed, he bought a new grill, he's watching YouTube videos, he tried to explain 'heat zones' to his mom, she had no idea what he was talking about."

Me: That's good.

Her: He grilled chicken at 9pm last night because he wanted to 'practice his sear.'

Me: Sounds like he's taking it seriously.

Her: Dad, He told my coworker her husband was 'disrespecting the steak.'

I started laughing.

Her: That's not funny, she thought he was crazy.

Me: He's not wrong.

Her: You created a monster.

Me: I created a man who knows how to grill.

She hung up on me.

Yesterday Kyle sent me a picture of a ribeye with perfect grill marks.

The text said: "Flipped once."

I've never been prouder.

[Capauri @capauri]

maybe deleting in the morning but america from an immigrant’s perspective. i came here 2 years ago.

i began actively disliking europeans since coming here. every attitude except the american attitude sucks. i had to stop walking around with noise cancellation turned on in case somebody drive-by complimented me on the street, because it happens so often, and i’d hate to be rude and to not respond. do you even know what kind of stares you get when you speak to a stranger on a european street?

everyone in america wants everyone else to succeed; in europe, everyone wants you to remain comfortably within the crab bucket. in europe i was told everyone on america was just fake nice. that’s giga cope. americans are smarter than you, europoor - americans understand that if you succeed, they succeed by proxy. you get nothing from poor, defeatist neighbors. if everyone’s successful and everyone’s generous, then everyone succeeds. this mindset is the only objectively correct mindset on earth - everyone else is wrong. everyone else thinks success is a finite resource , which is incorrect. if i succeed, then obviously all of my friends succeed, because i love them. i obviously love you, dear reader! you are on this platform like me, you think like me, you want humanity and civilization to persist forever like me, you live near me! i want you to do better than me! you doing better than me benefits me! if i do better than you, it will only benefit you too, because i love you, and want to share with you!

i want everyone to do better than me - it’s not a finite resource, afterall. if you’re better than me now, that’s great, that just means i have more to learn from you while we both shoot for the moon. this is just not the case anywhere else on earth and it’s too easy to take this mindset for granted, and that’s what i found makes America so unique.

[MLB Scoring Changes @ScoringChanges]

OK, I have a definitive word on the CJ Abrams play from today's @Pirates at @Nationals game after talking with @EliasSports on this.

This play will stay as a sacrifice fly. The originial ruling of NOT a sacrifice fly was for the exact same reason that I thought, which is that the infielder is not running into the outfield, which is year's past would have been correct

As it was explained to me, in past years, an infielder had to be running almost in a straight line towards the outfield wall to be considered "running in the outfield". Here, since he is running, and he ends up further away from home (157 feet) than when he started (145 feet), this is going to count as a sacrifice fly. That definition is changing, in part from this play to help bring greater consistency, and to take some of the guesswork out of it (the argument that he is running into the outfield as opposed to more parallel).

Now, folks all the time ask "why doesn't MLB publish the OS Manual" and I always say because it is a living document that can have the wording change, and the wording for this play will be modified to something like "more towards the outfield wall than towards home plate" to eliminate any confusion. The big key to this play is that he was running on a full sprint.

Also, and this is helpful for me, but for all fly ball outs that score a run, @Elias reviews to ensure consistency.

So, yes, it's a sacrifice fly, and now that I have that info from Elias themselves, that sort of settles this one. Sounds like the guidelines for this definition will be changing, either this season, or certainly for next season.

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

I've only listened to this like 400 times. Holy shit she's gorgeous but the song is THAT much more 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud?

You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever written.

At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand:

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it.”

The power of that line isn’t just what it says. It’s how it’s said.

Jefferson wasn’t writing from a place of outrage. He was transmitting conviction—moral clarity delivered from a steady frame of mind.

It’s said Jefferson revised the Declaration of Independence with the help of Franklin and Adams dozens of times before it was finalized.

And that deliberate, cutting language, paired with emotional steadiness, is precisely why the words still land 250 years later.

Today, we’re blessed to be the inheritors of the great nation those steady hands wrote into existence.

Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

[Turtle @3ToedBoxTurtle]

Stop being a bitch.