Susie G 📚⚾️

N. Texas via N. Illinois. Reader. Writer. Big Reader of Women Writers. 🧠 = Chicago Cubs ⚾️ Bears 🏈. Correctly labeled “mouthy” by 2nd grade teacher.

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

At 11am this morning my mom passed away after a 14-year second battle with metastatic breast cancer. She joins her beloved husband Gary, my dad, who lost his fight with cancer in 2000.

I'm unable to describe yet the depths of my grief, even though I've had a long time to prepare for being without either parent. I'm long since an adult, but I feel very much like a kid right now. Lost and heartbroken. Being an only child raised by an only child adds in that third variable.

But I was always lucky to have the best parents I could have hoped for, and been so truly loved, even if I didn't have them here with me for as long as I hoped.

As I told her before she slipped away from the ability to hear, "You were the best mom to me. I love you so very much, and I will miss you every day for the rest of my life." It's true. I will.

Nancy (1950 - 2024)
Gary (1945-2000)

May they rest in peace watching #Cubs games together again❤️💙 ⚾️

[SleeperMariners @SleeperMariners]

PATRICK WISDOM GOT ALL OF THIS ONE

Mariners lead early! #TridentsUp

[John Mozena @johnmoz]

It is simply untrue that stadiums generate "a massive amount of economic activity." NFL teams host only as many customers in a year as an average-sized American supermarket does (~700,000). In reality, stadiums spend almost their entire lives dark, empty & silent.

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@KCPSShain And you keep saying they're "paying for their own stadium" as if that removes the burden on taxpayer funded infrastructure & displacement: A reality in the 3rd largest city in 🇺🇸

This isn't 37th largest K.C. where it takes 10 min to drive to 5 people per square mile land, bro

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@KCPSShain Edit: the Bears had 5 yrs to agree to pay even a fraction of their fair share of taxes

Politicians succeeded in not giving billionaires a pass on the backs of working class Illinoisans, unlike the time when Jerry Reinsdorf ran a grift 30 yrs ago they are STILL paying for

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

Not happy with the result, but this NBC crew is 💯better than ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. ESPN did everything they could to ignore the actual game w/ stupid bits, mic'd & distracted players, dugout cams & the dumbest commentary. NBC called a ballgame

Legit good show 👏⚾️

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@gallin_ben They are biased for whoever is winning and giving them the most to talk about. This is true of every national broadcast from the start of time. Had it been the night before, different story

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Abdul Carter on Jaxson Dart:

"If he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world."

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@wakeupbarstool @BarstoolChief It's not a competition to have the dumbest take, but if it were...nailed it

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

What I learned from a lot of baseball fans today is the @MLB concept of regions is far worse than even my cynical self knew

If the goal is growing the game, then things must change. Is ⚾️ fandom dying, or are they actively killing it?

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@deannabryant210 @Cubs @MLBTV Ahh! Read that wrong. So yes, even weirder that you are further away.

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

We live 300+ miles from Houston. The Rangers are our local team

So why in the hell is the @Cubs Astros game, in CHI, blacked out on @MLBTV? For a network we don't have access to? And yesterday was Apple only? What do I pay ESPN for?

BLACKOUTS ARE ⚾️ FAN BARRIERS

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@TheCoachSawyer You are even further away than me in Fort Worth from Houston. Makes even less sense. Granted, this home stand was a brutal watch, but let us choose to torture ourselves via the Cubs. It's what we pay out-of-market sub rates for!

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@CubbySteph @Cubs @MLBTV 💯 It really is greed at its heart. No question.

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@gratefuljohns @Cubs @MLBTV lol - true on both counts. But you should get the option to watch bad baseball too 😅

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@deannabryant210 @Cubs @MLBTV Really?! I just looked. San Antonio and Phoenix are 16 hours apart! Nearly the same distance as Chicago to Dallas. Insane

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@bearjew_aero @MLBTV What the what?! In my mind, any major city and surrounding area that does not have a pro MLB team should have zero blackouts. In New Orleans you aren't watching on TV instead of going to a live game, so there's no loss in stadium revenue. Open it up to all fans!

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@MSUCubbie @gamefandave @_stevesimpson @Cubs @MLBTV 🤣🤣🤣 what are they even doing?

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@blake_tillberg @Cubs @MLBTV Like this seems like an even more insane situation than here. It's like they actively don't want Iowan fans. And even dumber to literally have the built in fan base of the Iowa Cubs and say *nah, let's blackout guaranteed fans*

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@303Gonzo @Cubs @MLBTV As a Cubs fan in North Texas I get the advantage of day games a lot more than most. But we also watch the Rangers & aside from Sundays there is one day home game. From an attendance perspective I guess that's the reasoning, but from the TV side there's def a market

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@thomas_wyrick @Cubs @MLBTV It's wild to think how far apart those three cities are, but become a "region"

[Susie G 📚⚾️ @DFWSusie]

@_stevesimpson @NateTidwell86 @MSUCubbie @gamefandave Agree. If I lived back home I'd sub Marquee for $20. Worth the money. I often think of the ways the Cubs and Braves grew their fanbase by having games on WGN & TBS for the whole country. Think MLB would realize history showed more access is better