Diane in Tx

Retired Army, Constitutionalist, Texan by marriage, former Michigander and a HAM. And always a Tigers fan! No DMs please. If you DM me, I will unfollow you.

[Woodward Sports Network @woodwardsports]

October 14th is a VERY special day in the history of the Detroit Tigers.

October 14th, 2006 Magglio Ordóñez hits a three run home run against the Oakland A's sending the Detroit Tigers to the World Series for the first time since 1984.

October 14th, 1984 Sparky Anderson, Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammell, Chet Lemon, Lou Whitaker, Jack Morris, Lance Parish and the rest of the Detroit Tigers WON the World Series against the San Diego Padres.

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

Today is the 42d anniversary of the birth of my 1st daughter... Oh and the last time the @tigers won the World Series. #DNMW #DetroitRoots

[Victoria Ellis 🇺🇲🇺🇲❤️ @Ellis5ol]

Polls showing Democrats winning the midterms are meant to depress turnout. Don’t take the bait. Show up and vote.

[Ryan Fournier @RyanAFournier]

The IRGC just told Americans to vote against Donald Trump in the midterms.
Let that sink in.
Iran wants Democrats in power because they know Trump won't fold. If a foreign terrorist regime is telling you how to vote, you do the exact opposite.
Vote RED to defend America! 🇺🇸

[Nick Brandel @MotorCityBanter]

Kevin McGonigle is one of just TWO rookies in MLB history to record a season with:

🔸️ 95+ runs
🔸️ 26+ doubles
🔸️ 17+ home runs
🔸️ 70+ RBI
🔸️ 94+ walks

The other? Ted Williams in 1939.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Why was it a CRIME for Nixon
to wiretap Democrats at the
Watergate Hotel,
but OK for Obama to wiretap
Republicans at Trump Tower?

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

For as long as there is baseball, people will know Armando Galarraga as a player that pitched a perfect game and will know the name Jim Joyce for making one of the worst (nothing controversial about it) calls is all of sport.

No amount of doctoring the record book can change either.

[MsMarvelDuckie @MsDuckie0616]

Yes, please!!

[Judianna @Judianna]

Wow.

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

@hrkbenowen Holy moly! #RIPDolly, I loved Straight Talk.

[Iffy The Dopester @IffyTheDopester]

The best at turning two in MLB history!

[Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 @MAGA__Patriot]

"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours."

Dolly Parton 🦋

1946-2026

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Trump just ordered the American flag lowered for a week in Dolly Parton’s honor.

That is the right call.

Dolly was not a partisan mascot. She was an American original who made people proud of where they came from. When a president treats that kind of life as a national loss, he is doing the job.

Lower the flag. Play the songs. Remember the work.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Country music icon Dolly Parton, 80, has died.

Her nephew, Brian Seaver, made the announcement on Instagram.

"My name is Brin Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next."

"This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality..."

Rest in peace.

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

@HawkEmDownChris The fifth element.

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

@BigDawg31779 If you are having hot flashes, it definitely works.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

And now... the rest of the story.

Every year, families across America gather around the television.

They watch a bald kid try to kick a football. A beagle dance on a dog house. Charlie Brown get a rock instead of candy.

They laugh.

They don't know they're watching a man's autobiography.

When Charles Schulz was a boy, the other children called him Sparky. The name of a horse in a comic strip. A joke horse.

He failed every single subject in eighth grade.

Not one or two.

Every. Single. Subject.

But the grades weren't the worst part.

Paul Harvey told this story, and his voice cracked on this line:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

He wasn't hated. He was nothing.

The one thing he had was his drawings. He submitted cartoons to the school yearbook.

Rejected.

He wrote to Walt Disney. Poured everything into the drawings.

The reply was a form letter. Disney only hired the very finest artists. Sparky was not among the very finest.

Harvey paused there. Then: "I think deep down, Sparky expected to be rejected."

This is where the motivational speakers lie to you.

The rest of the story isn't about winning.

Sparky didn't try to prove them wrong. He wrote his autobiography in cartoons.

He drew himself. The loser. The kid who failed everything.

He named him after himself.

Charlie Brown.

You know what Charlie Brown never does?

Win.

His kite crashes. Lucy pulls the football. The Little Red-Haired Girl doesn't notice him.

And sixty years later, we still watch.

Not because Charlie Brown succeeds.

Because Charlie Brown keeps showing up.

Here's the part even Paul Harvey didn't tell.

Schulz taught Sunday school. He read the Bible so constantly his strips are filled with scripture.

When network executives tried to cut Linus reciting Luke 2 from the Christmas special, Schulz refused.

Either the Gospel stays, or there's no special.

It stayed.

A boy called a horse.

A student who failed everything.

An artist Disney rejected.

Planted the Gospel of Luke in front of sixty million homes.

The loser became the messenger.

God has a history of using the rejected ones.

Moses had a stutter. David was the forgotten son. Peter denied Him three times.

The kite never flew.

But the Gospel did.

Still falling?

Good company, brother.

Get up.

He's not done with you yet.

[Chris McCosky @cmccosky]

Cute one from the Peter Chase Files today: Tigers rookies' first MLB plate appearance this year:

Ben Malgeri, single
Kevin McGonigle, double
Brett Callahan triple
Eduardo Valencia, homer
--Rook cycle

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

@oelma__ Jericho

[Diane in Tx @Deedo1964]

@SagedUpRadio Red Skelton, Rich Little, Bob Hope