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]

@JoshReynolds24 IMHO, this play changed the entire trajectory of the game! We were marching and if Red doesn’t have to go in and throw that pick, we score and changes everything about the end of the first half.

[Fred Short @FShort]

@jaysonst He CANNOT be back with them next year! Can he @jaysonst ???

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

#MLBatFieldOfDreams is back TODAY!

REPOST for a chance to win this Field of Dreams-inspired @VictusSports bat 🌽

Rules: https://t.co/de7g2ISGnD | NoPurNec, US/18+, Ends 8/19

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

First @McLarenF1 signed golf bag giveaway!!

Just RT for a chance to win it!!

I’ll pick one winner on Monday 17th September… 🍀

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

All-Star Week 2026 is in the books!

REPOST for a chance to win this Philly-inspired @VictusSports bat and tune in to MLB Network at 12pm ET to catch a replay of yesterday's Midsummer Classic.

Rules: https://t.co/de7g2IS8y5 | NoPurNec, US/18+, Ends 7/22

[Fred Short @FShort]

@JimmysSeafood A HUGE shout out to Alex, our server today. Could not make us feel more at home and was so sweet. Gave us a tour and we felt like Goodfellas cutting through the kitchen to the gift shop. We WILL be back and plan on some deliveries to South Jersey! 🇺🇸❤️🦀

[Fred Short @FShort]

First time visiting @JimmysSeafood on our way home from bringing our WCC SDiT, Zorro, back to HQ to begin his life saving a veteran’s life! This place doesn’t disappoint! Greatest GFY in history!!!

[Sophie Cunningham @sophaller]

I love this team!!!

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Just a reminder that USMNT striker Folarin Balogun received a red card after a VAR check on this challenge.

Earlier in the tournament, Lionel Messi didn’t get a yellow card or even a VAR check for a similar challenge.

[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

[Fred Short @FShort]

@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