Fred Short

Son, husband & Dad to 3 kids who keep it interesting. Man who loves baseball, obsesses about golf, and practices BBQing. Working with pharma, is my day job.

[Fred Short @FShort]

@change4spurs SELL!!!!

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,--

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln

[Fred Short @FShort]

@change4spurs Been here for a minute

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@TonyBrunoShow North Wildwood

[Fred Short @FShort]

@JoshReynolds24 And nobody died or no natural disaster associated with it!!! Whew

[Fred Short @FShort]

@Tottenham_Feed Both CBs and ironically our Captain and alternate Captain

[Fred Short @FShort]

@BillColarulo Same @BillColarulo… but I’m also convinced my wife was cutting onions for Sunday gravy LOL
All class by Team USA!

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Sobbing at the team bringing out Johnny Gaudreau’s kids for a team pic…

So incredibly amazing of this team to keep Johnny Hockey with them every single step of the way. Not a doubt in my mind he would have been on this squad. Amazing.

Sports are incredible 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey.

He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him.

By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him.

Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life.

The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see.

A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened?

Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured.

George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined.

If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation.

You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet.

But it’s there.

And it matters more than you know.

Merry Christmas, friends.

🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️

[Fred Short @FShort]

@2008Philz HOF!!!

[Fred Short @FShort]

@stfuesh Godzilla

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@blckriflecoffee The fact that “B” isn’t labeled “A” is insulting enough. There is only one correct answer!

[Fred Short @FShort]

@Devan_Kaney You’re not alone!!!

[Fred Short @FShort]

@Tottenham_Feed who?

[Fred Short @FShort]

@GlobeBobRyan Thank you, @GlobeBobRyan! The only voice I’ve seen or heard to even mention Rick Wise. His opposition was also stacked with HOFers!!!

[Fred Short @FShort]

@karlravechespn Rick Wise??? 1971 vs Big Red Machine

[Fred Short @FShort]

@JeffPassan @JeffPassan Rick Wise from 1971 would like to have a word… No disrespect to Shohei, as there was a quite comparable feat

[Fred Short @FShort]

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[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

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