Daniel Midkiff

Luther Burden's stats are eye-opening: 2.75 yards per route run, on par with top WRs. Since 2022, 15 receivers hit this mark, and 13 scored 14+ fantasy points the next season. He could be a fantasy gem. #FantasyFootball #WRRankings

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Barstool Sports

@barstoolsports

14 days ago

The greatest crack of the bat to ever crack

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Who to follow

thejudge991

@thejudge991

PC is mainly Judge, Mattingly, and Munson. With a little bit of Gardy and CC on the side.

Shane Tippin

@stip73

God first, Husband, Father, Grandfather Card Collector, Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies, Bama f-ball, Hoosier b-ball, Luis Robert Super Collector

J Kamis

@JerseyJosh13

Dad x3, Husband, Highway Construction Inspector NICET III, Horses 2xQ NHC, Baseball, Hockey, Bourbon, Tequila

Daniel Midkiff @DVMidkiff17

14 days ago

@AGaggleOfKids @NFL Where are these!?

Daniel Midkiff @DVMidkiff17

21 days ago

@jfortner88 @HawkEmDownChris Same. Went to a game in 93 or 94 and he hit a homerun...I was 7. Immediately my favorite player. Haha

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Shooter McGavin

@ShooterMcGavin

23 days ago

Ryan Fox putting the Claret Jug in the overhead space of a plane is awesome.

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FOX Sports

@FOXSports

28 days ago

Baseball so often is a mirror for culture in the US, providing examples of enduring American character. Tom Rinaldi has more on celebrating America 250 through the lens of America’s pastime.

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Aakash Gupta

@aakashgupta

29 days ago

Nike pays Erling Haaland roughly $20 million a year to be photographed with their products. A family-run western store in Dallas just got the same treatment for free. Better than free: Haaland paid them $750 for a taxidermy raccoon hugging a whiskey bottle. The backstory makes it better. Haaland walked into Wild Bill's Western Store during Norway's World Cup run and bought cowboy hats, exotic boots, a longhorn belt buckle, and a shirt reading "Y'all can kiss my Dallas." The owner says Haaland knew nothing about cowboy hats and had to be fitted for his first one. Then Norway's Cinderella run ended in the quarterfinals, and the tournament's breakout star, seven goals, carried the raccoon off the plane in Oslo himself. Caption: "It followed me home." Then he ran an Instagram poll asking fans to name it. The results for a boot shop that's been family-owned since the 1970s: the Whiskey Raccoon is sold out. The Dallas shirt is nearly gone. Their $500 Belligerent Squirrel, a taxidermy squirrel smoking a cigarette and holding Jack Daniel's, is down to low stock. Local shoppers are lining up at a store most of them had walked past for years. Sports brands run entire celebrity seeding departments trying to manufacture exactly this: a global superstar genuinely delighted by a product, on camera, unprompted. Every one of those campaigns reads as an ad, because it is one. Brands spend $20 million a year renting Haaland's image. Wild Bill's sold it to him for $750.

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Perfect Game USA

@PerfectGameUSA

29 days ago

‘Way Too Early’ 2027 MLB Mock Draft 🔮 https://t.co/6IPKDEs6TW

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Battery Power @BatteryPowerSBN

30 days ago

Braves 2026 MLB Draft Recap https://t.co/9sXmp021Dk

Daniel Midkiff @DVMidkiff17

about 1 month ago

@JBMcards Add me to tag list

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Barstool Sports

@barstoolsports

about 1 month ago

That’s history right there, you understand? 🇺🇸

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Insurrection Barbie

@DefiyantlyFree

about 1 month ago

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble. The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation. Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured. He succeeded. The British agreed to free the doctor. But there was a catch. Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines. On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began. For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities. Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all. He could not see. He could only listen. As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered. Then, just before dawn… The guns fell silent. For the first time all night, there was only stillness. It was the most frightening sound of all. Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see? There was nothing to do but wait. As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort. Then he saw it. Not a British flag. The American flag. Still there. Still flying. That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it. That was the Star-Spangled Banner. The very flag Key saw through the morning mist. The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian. Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn. He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry. Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies. The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

DefiyantlyFree's tweet photo. In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble.

The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore. If Fort McHenry fell, the harbor would be open, the city would likely follow, and another devastating blow would be dealt to the fragile nation.

Amid this uncertainty, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key sailed under a flag of truce to the British fleet. He had come to negotiate the release of a friend, a physician the British had captured.

He succeeded.

The British agreed to free the doctor.

But there was a catch.

Because Key and his companions had seen too much of the British fleet and learned too much about its plans, they were not allowed to return to shore. Instead, they were detained aboard a ship in the harbor and forced to watch the coming battle from behind enemy lines.

On the morning of September 13, the bombardment began.

For the next twenty-five hours, British warships unleashed somewhere between 1,500 and 1,800 bombs and rockets upon Fort McHenry. These were the “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets’ red glare” of the song—not poetic embellishments, but terrible realities.

Key stood on the deck through the endless day and the long, terrifying night. Every explosion lit the darkness for a fleeting instant before the smoke swallowed everything again. Somewhere beyond that wall of fire stood the fort. Somewhere beyond it flew an American flag if it still flew at all.

He could not see.

He could only listen.

As long as the guns continued firing, there was reason to hope. The British would not waste ammunition on a fort that had already surrendered.

Then, just before dawn…

The guns fell silent.

For the first time all night, there was only stillness.

It was the most frightening sound of all.

Had the fort finally fallen? Had the defenders surrendered? Had the flag been torn down in the darkness while no one could see?

There was nothing to do but wait.

As the first light of September 14 slowly pushed back the smoke, Francis Scott Key strained his eyes toward the distant fort.

Then he saw it. Not a British flag.

The American flag. Still there. Still flying.

That flag was no ordinary banner. Months earlier, the fort’s commander had commissioned a Baltimore flagmaker, Mary Pickersgill, to sew a flag so enormous “that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance.” It measured roughly thirty by forty-two feet, carried fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and was so large it had to be assembled on the floor of a brewery because no ordinary room could contain it.

That was the Star-Spangled Banner.

The very flag Key saw through the morning mist.

The very flag that still survives today in the Smithsonian.

Overcome by what he had witnessed, Key reached into his pocket, pulled out an envelope, and began writing. The words came from a heart that had spent an entire night fearing his country might disappear with the dawn.

He first titled the poem Defence of Fort M’Henry.

Within days it was printed and circulating throughout the country. Before long, people began singing it to a melody they already knew—an old British tune called “To Anacreon in Heaven,” originally written for a London social club. There is something beautifully ironic in that: America’s most beloved patriotic song borrowed the melody of the very nation it had just survived. It also explains why the anthem is so notoriously difficult to sing. It was never written for ordinary voices gathered in stadiums or school assemblies.

The song spread quickly and became one of America’s favorite patriotic hymns, but it would wait more than a century before receiving official recognition. Not until 1931 did Congress declare “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States.

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Daniel Midkiff @DVMidkiff17

about 1 month ago

@DanoBraves Atleast it’s still June…

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4 months ago

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