Sam Dobrotka

@bfollett21 and I have a podcast!

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

ROSTER MOVE: We optioned RHP Khristian Curtis to Triple-A Indianapolis following Saturday’s doubleheader to return the active roster to 26 players.

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@bfollett21 - Keller on the move soon?

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

Our projected starters for this weekend in Cleveland ⤵️

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

#RAISEIT 🏴‍☠️

[Ben Follett @bfollett21]

This is the most Pirates thing ever...

[Ben Follett @bfollett21]

Giving Skenes the Pirates one representive is all publicity and has nothing to do with on Field performance... The MLB All Star game is a joke.

[MLB @MLB]

His friends were able to get the attention of Pirates' outfielder Bryan Reynolds and they went wild after he got thrown a baseball for his birthday 😮🔥

#MLB #Baseball #Sports

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@bfollett21 If Fast and the Furious was a video game!

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@Pirates @KonnorGriffin22 Yeah but is he "master of his domain"?

[Jack @jackunheard]

NEW: Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert just pulled off one of the strangest plays in MLB history…

A 107.8 mph line drive slammed straight into his jersey and got completely lodged there.

It took him a few seconds to figure out where the ball even went.

The play was ruled a single because the ball was considered dead once it stuck in his uniform.

First time that’s ever happened in the majors. Wild.

[Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs]

Amazing correction here https://t.co/mOhbg56vIs

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

#RaiseIt #LetsGoBucs

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@Pirates It's tough to hit grand slams and lose. #pirates

[Paul Hembekides (Hembo) @PaulHembo]

In MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL history...

Konnor Griffin is the only player to sign a 9-figure contract as a teenager.

Cc…@spotrac

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@_NoahHiles

[Céspedes Family BBQ @CespedesBBQ]

A funny part of this game is that basically everybody on Italy is eligible for Team USA so Team USA is essentially losing to the freshman squad, respectfully.

[Tony Dungy @TonyDungy]

I can’t believe what things have come to in the NFL. John Harbaugh has coached the Baltimore Ravens for 18 years. He took them to the playoffs 12 times. He won a Super Bowl for them. The last 4 years they were 10-7, 13-4, 12-5, 8-9. They made the playoffs 3 straight years and missed this year because their kicker missed the game winning FG on the last play of the season. And he was fired???? I’m sorry but I don’t understand. Good luck Baltimore in finding a better coach.

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@MBFantasyLife 🏆🏆🏆

[Dave DiCello @DaveDiCello]

I have tried and failed for a decade to capture this view in #Pittsburgh, and this morning I was finally able to. In this scene, the Duquesne Incline passes above the train tracks right as a Norfolk Southern train was going underneath it. Can't believe my luck that it worked out.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Sam Dobrotka @GoDobrotka]

@BuccoTerritory Kind of an abrupt ending this morning, no? What happened to the rest of the episode?