John Perrotto

Advisor: @RMUSentryMedia. Baseball writer: @FanSidedMLB, @pghbaseballnow, @AP_Sports, @MLB, @BaseballDigest, @usatodaymlb. Occasionally misunderstood.

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For FanSided: MLB executives are downplaying the impending lockout.
https://t.co/lcNYVvnEjQ

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For Pittsburgh Baseball Now: The buzz about Brandon Lowe at the GM Meetings.
https://t.co/riYa93xpTv

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@SmittyOnMLB Wishing you all the best, Chris!

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@AustinRBechtold Washington State came all that way, only to lose at the buzzer. Ouch.

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@PGH_D1_Hoops Should be a good ballgame between traditional rivals.

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@jnorris427 Best of luck, Josh!

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For FanSided: Five free agents who could cause buyer's remorse by the end of their contracts.
https://t.co/9mDlUVV5mU

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@AlPawlowski @csu_basketball @BGSUMBB @ToddWalkerWIMA @EdDaughertyCLE Should be a good ballgame

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For FanSided: Five free agents who could cause buyer's remorse by the end of their contracts.
https://t.co/9mDlUVV5mU

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For FanSided: Looking at how the Rookie of the Year voting should turn out.
https://t.co/hXMJhNRIs9

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For FanSided: Looking at how the Rookie of the Year voting should turn out.
https://t.co/hXMJhNRIs9

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For FanSided: The Brewers' decision to keep William Contreras has rippled through a few other teams.
https://t.co/vPGsk1qUO2

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@Demilio22 Indeed!

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For FanSided: Some Silver Slugger finalists will be with new teams in 2027.
https://t.co/Y2Cj0DiKon

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For FanSided: The Red Sox have too many players and not enough roster spots
https://t.co/NxZWsAObGC

[John Perrotto @JPerrotto]

For FanSided: Some Silver Slugger finalists will be with new teams in 2027.
https://t.co/Y2Cj0DiKon

[John Perrotto @JPerrotto]

For FanSided: The Red Sox have too many players and not enough roster spots
https://t.co/NxZWsAObGC

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Best news of the day

[Jay Horwitz @Jay_HorwitzPR]

Weeks after undergoing brain surgery, Ethan Wilson was back at Citi Field last Wednesday doing his job. https://t.co/5uV5d0UbiK

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THIS

[Paul Shirley @paulthenshirley]

Today I overheard a teacher telling another teacher about the reading curriculum she's using for her ninth-grade English class and my heart rate skyrocketed and it was all I could do to not go over and start a fight.

And now you might be thinking I got mad because that curriculum was too basic or easy. It's the exact opposite.

"Oh you know," she said. "Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, the classics."

I've now written six books and had published thousands and thousands of words online and this is in spite of my education in reading and writing, which followed the model above and which nearly made me hate reading and writing.

When I was in ninth grade, I was reading Tom Clancy and John Grisham for fun and to be fair, that was rare. Most of my classmates weren't reading at all.

But then I'd get to school and they'd have us try to decipher books (and plays) like the above. And Beowulf. And the Canterbury Tales.

I *loved* reading and I didn't know what was going on with these books and plays and poems that, I would eventually learn, almost no one reads.

My classmates *hated* reading and by the end of school, they hated it even more.

And that was before phones and social media and the complete destruction of the human attention span.

The point of an education in reading (and writing) isn't to make it unpleasant and tedious. The point is to make it possible.

Let a kid read whatever the hell book they can get through. If they eventually find their way to Animal Farm, so be it.

And for the love of God, don't make anyone read plays. Plays are meant to be watched, not read. You'd think a f*cking English teacher would know that.