Blake of the North

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[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

A football thread.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@tchamp_22 Unserious league!

[Ty @tchamp_22]

Breaking news, the WNBA has announced they will allow DeWanna Bonner to decide which team she would like to play for at beginning of the 4th quarter.

[MNRick 🇺🇸🦅 @MNRick_v3]

August 21, 1883. Just after six in the evening, the sky over Rochester, Minnesota turns the color of a bruise. Twenty minutes later, a third of the town is gone. Thirty seven people are dead. More than two hundred are bleeding in the streets.

Rochester had no hospital. Not one.

So a convent school on the edge of town emptied out. The nuns walked into the wreckage in full habits, and a woman named Mother Alfred Moes, an immigrant from Luxembourg who had come to America with almost nothing, sent word to the only doctor in town who could handle that many wounded.

His name was William Worrall Mayo. He was 64, an English country doctor, a hard skeptic on the subject of religion.

The sisters took over Rommel's dance hall and turned it into a hospital overnight. None of them had ever been trained in nursing. They learned it standing up, with Mayo giving orders and the injured laid out on the floorboards.

When the last patient was gone, Mother Alfred went to see him.

She told him Rochester needed a real hospital. A permanent one. She said she had seen it, a great hospital rising out of the cornfields on the west edge of town, and that she wanted him to run it.

Mayo told her the truth. A building like that would cost $40,000. Well over a million in today's money. He said no congregation of school teaching nuns could possibly raise it.

She did not argue with him. She simply told him that if he would take charge of the hospital, the sisters would take charge of paying for it.

Then she went out and did it.

For six years, her sisters taught school and handed over their wages. Every dollar. She bought nine acres of farmland. She hired the builders. She oversaw the plans herself, and when the money ran short, she found more.

Saint Marys Hospital opened on September 30, 1889. Twenty seven beds. Thirteen sisters, none of them nurses by training. Dr. Mayo, now 70, walked in as chief of staff with his two sons, Will and Charlie, beside him.

Those two boys built their surgical practice inside her building. Patients started arriving from Chicago, then from every state, then from overseas. The brothers formalized the partnership in 1919 and gave it their family name.

Mayo Clinic. Today it treats more than a million patients a year and is ranked the best hospital in the United States.

Mother Alfred Moes died on December 18, 1899, ten years after the doors opened. She never saw what it became.

The Mayo brothers always said it plainly. Their father did not want the hospital. The nun did. She built it, and then she handed them the keys.

Millions of Americans have made the drive to Rochester with someone they love in the passenger seat. Almost none of them know that the whole thing started with a 54-year-old woman standing in tornado wreckage, refusing to accept a no.

h/t: Minnesota | FB

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@Trysta_Krick @JrMendiola92 @RudyHarlan8 @CaitlinClark22 Embarrassing for you, Trysta.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

Hey @MLBONFOX @smoltz_john - tidbit about tonight’s game:

A Wisconsin credit union named Marine CU had a charitable partnership sponsorship with Tampa’s Freddy Peralta last year, and this year with MKE Sal Frelick.

Everybody gets a World Series… and the communities win!

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@SamMcDowell11 Hopefully he’s been released Sam, and was just informed. He can stay in Seattle.

[Josh Dubow @JoshDubowAP]

Harrison Butker's 15 missed kicks (10 FGs, 5 PATs) since start of last season are the most in NFL.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@MahomeSZN Missing along with the rest of our faux pass rush.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@whocaresDoug Doug, you’re right, I don’t care.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

CC would have had two techs called before the second clap ever happened. The league is unserious.

[House of Lowlights @HouseLowlights]

Angel Reese is an insufferable child.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@damonsims_ You’re correct.

CC had no techs called today for yelling, looking, clapping, stumbling into, or giving “angry eyes” at the refs.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

Game changing and yet another horrible call that bails out a win, just like the fair catch. Congrats tho Gophs. Row that shite.

[Chad Leistikow🆑 @ChadLeistikow]

Here's the penalty Kirk Ferentz and Seth Wallace were questioning.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

PUT IN HECKLINKSI, KIRK!

We are making the Gophs look like the ‘85 Bears.

WTH are we doing.

[House of Lowlights @HouseLowlights]

Angel Reese is an insufferable child.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

The internet remains undefeated.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:

-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@fightonbigorG I hear the mobile dent repair crews are running a special this week.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@AnnieCostabile @rachelle_morris @_Brian_Hamilton Yea, uh Annie, this isn’t journalism, this is irresponsible.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@ByNateTaylor @MishLGee_xoxo Cut him and void all payments.
If you can’t get ready to play for 15, you don’t deserve the roster spot.

[Blake of the North @ChaskaBlake]

@SorenPetro Cut him, void all payments. Fraud.