Mark Checki

Husband to Joanna.Proud Dad to Anastasia Rose. Team Godparent to Catey. Blending humor with Sports and being awesome for 49 years. Family over everything. ✈️✈️

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

Savage.

[Knicks Nation @KnicksNation]

This is incredible

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

A pall hung over the festivities of the All-Star Game this week. A lockout is coming -- and at the heart of it is a profound core-economics disagreement. Free at ESPN: The latest on labor, where it stands, where it's going and what you need to know: https://t.co/1qC8iyKb0X

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Chris Christie reveals the bad advice he gave President Trump that caused Trump to stop talking to him.

"I said, 'You need to call Biden, congratulate him, invite him to the White House, shake his hand.' And I said, 'If you do that, you'll have a good reputation with the American people and whatever else you want to do with your life, it'll be wide open to you.

'If you don't do that,' and this is where I was wrong, 'all that's over.'

And he said, 'Well, I'm not going to do that. What else you got?' And I said, 'I don't have anything else.'

And he goes, 'Then I have nothing to talk to you about.'

And we have not spoken since."

[Alex B. @KnicksCentral]

When the Red Sox finally broke their championship drought, they brought Bill Buckner back to throw out the first pitch and every fan gave him a standing ovation. The weight of 1986 error was gone, it was closure.

The Knicks should do the same with Charles Smith and have him be part of the ring ceremony.

After the 2026 title, the pain of those four missed layups in Game 5 of the 1993 ECF is finally gone. The dragon has been slain, so it’s time to move on and invite Smith back to the Garden.

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

I'm glad Jordan Walker said this.

Growing up, I can't tell you how many times I heard:

"Baseball is boring."
"Go play football."

I was even called an "Oreo" because I chose baseball.

There was definitely pressure to play the sports everyone else was playing.

Baseball changed my life!

That's why seeing players like Jordan Walker embrace being role models matters. The more kids who see someone who looks like them thriving in baseball, the more they'll realize it's a path that's open to them too.

I hope more kids feel free to choose the game they love...not just the one everyone expects them to play.

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

GTFOOH. I could name six to eight teams who are closer.

[ESPN New York @ESPNNewYork]

We're excited to officially announce that 1050AM @ESPNNewYork is now part of the Buffalo Bills Radio Network! 🏈

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[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Tom Seaver left much of his personal collection to the Hall of Fame when he passed away, ensuring his story would be told forever in Cooperstown.

A new display on the Museum’s first floor brings his historic career into focus: https://t.co/JsNCyy0Ivr

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

A true MVP Candidate. Looks like an MVP Family too.

[MLB @MLB]

Jordan Walker and his family on the field after his @TMobile #HRDerby win 🥹

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

@FanaticsBook Caminero 504

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

@FrankieVitz Had my games mixed up. That was 2011 where Stevie cooked Revis.

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

@FrankieVitz Dumb football by the Bills. I think Stevie Johnson cooked Revis that day too.

[Wayne’s World of Sports Betting & Trading Cards @1218Sports]

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Winner Announced Thursday

How many ball striking bird videos will be added in here again?

🔥Randy Johnson Donruss Rated Rookie Card #BigUnit

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[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

@CJSportsRadio @CHSRamblers @CarteretHFC @RamblerFB Proud to be able to say I played there. I’ll be going to the Pit on 9/25. I think.

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Spotted in Philly: The Best Pitcher in the American League 👨🏻 #AllStarGame

[Andrew DeCeglie @Andrew_FBB]

Zack Wheeler today:

6 IP 2 H 0 R 2 BB 10 K
19 whiffs

He should’ve been an all star…not a replacement.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

RIP Lindsay Graham

The internet will do what it always does: flatten a complicated human being into a villain, a meme, or a collection of his worst clips.

I understand why people disliked him. I disagreed with him plenty. But the man spent more than three decades in Congress and 33 years serving in the Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve.

He deserves a more honest accounting than “sycophant” or “warmonger.”

Graham was a serious public servant.

He came from a working class family in South Carolina, lost both parents while he was young, helped raise his younger sister, and became the first person in his family to attend college.

He served as a military lawyer, retired as a colonel, spent eight years in the House, and more than two decades in the Senate.

That does not make him correct. It does establish that his life was fundamentally organized around public service.

For much of his career, Graham was also the kind of senator people now claim they want. He was clearly conservative, but willing to work with Democrats.

He helped negotiate the Gang of 14 compromise on judicial nominations. He supported comprehensive immigration reform through the Gang of Eight. He repeatedly worked with Dick Durbin on the DREAM Act. He voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan because he believed a qualified president’s nominees generally deserved confirmation.

He took real political risk to solve problems. That matters.

He was also one of the Senate’s most engaged foreign policy voices. He understood alliances, knew foreign leaders, traveled to war zones, supported NATO, defended Ukraine, and believed America had obligations beyond its own borders.

His final public work involved meeting with President Zelenskyy in Kyiv and advancing bipartisan sanctions against Russia.

You can disagree with his worldview. I often did. But he treated foreign policy as a serious responsibility. Q

His shortcomings were also real.

Graham was too interventionist. His default answer to foreign policy failure was often more force, more troops, more sanctions, or more American involvement. He understood the costs of weakness better than he understood the costs of overreach.

His transformation from fierce Trump critic to loyal Trump ally badly damaged his credibility.

The charitable explanation is that he chose access and influence over irrelevance. The less charitable explanation is that he adapted to wherever Republican power moved.

Both are probably true.

Lindsey Graham was not a saint. He was inconsistent, overly hawkish, and sometimes far too willing to trade institutional credibility for political influence.

But he was not useless, stupid, or evil either.

He served his country for most of his adult life. He knew the Senate. He worked across the aisle. He attempted to solve immigration when both parties preferred weaponizing it.

He defended alliances when isolationism became fashionable. He remained engaged with the world until his final days.

My honest verdict is that Lindsey Graham was a flawed but net positive public servant.

A genuine institutionalist who became less institutional over time.

A knowledgeable foreign policy senator whose appetite for intervention often exceeded his strategic caution.

A conservative partisan who still understood that governing requires negotiation.

Criticize him honestly. He earned plenty of it.

But a country that cannot distinguish between a flawed public servant and a worthless one eventually stops producing public servants at all.

I write this to pay respect. Social media has created too many vile content creators who only see the bad. Want clicks. Let the man rest in peace and be honest about it. Hyperbole is just silly.

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

This gets me every single time. Love it.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Randy Johnson's daughter asks him if he ever wishes he was athletic. This is obviously a daughter goofing around with her dad, but if it adds any additional context, Willow Johnson is a professional volleyball player and an athlete in her own right. She's also 6'3".

Love the banter between the two. Great dad/daughter moment and best thing you’ll see today.

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

JJ is here to stay! ✍️

We have signed 2B JJ Wetherholt to an 8-year contract extension through the 2034 season!

[Mark Checki @CheckMark62]

@DA_Osorio Browns guy. Couldn’t remember the name. Jowan Briggs.