Not enough people talk about Brooks Robinson
• 78.3 WAR, 2848 Hits, 268 HR, 1357 RBI
• 16 (!!!) consecutive Gold Gloves at 3B
• 18x All-Star, 2x WS Champ with BAL
• Won the Clemente Award in 1972
• Topped 6.0 WAR 5x, 20 HR 6x
• Averaged just 55 K per 162 G
• One of the nicest people ever
• 2x WAR leader, 2x dWAR leader
• Single-handedly beat CIN in 1970
• .303 BA over 39 postseason games
• Played at least 161 games in a year 5x
• 1 of 3 players to play 163 multiple times
• 3B all-time leader in basically everything
• Never struck out 85x (only broke 70 once)
• 1964 AL MVP, 1966 AS MVP, 1970 WS MVP
• First player to win all 3 of those MVP awards!
• After the 1970 WS, Pete Rose said something like "this guy needs to find a higher league to play in"
• Holds the record for most times driving in the only run in a 1-0 victory, having done so 10x for Baltimore
• Played more innings at 3B (25,035.2) than any other player in MLB history played at any other position
• Had over 400 assists in multiple seasons (for reference, 10x Gold Glover and 6x Platinum Glover Nolan Arenado topped out at 385 assists in a year)
• Robinson is MLB's all-time leader in Total Zone Runs / Rfield with 293; he is the greatest fielder of all time across all players at all positions.
Browns QB Dillon Gabriel will square off today with Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa, but the two already are connected. In 2018, Gabriel broke Tagovailoa’s all-time Hawaii high school passing yards record. The two quarterbacks previously squared off only once before, Aug. 6, 2016, but the game was suspended in the first quarter after the stadium lights broke.
🚨Statement Release from Austin Firefighters Association. ARE YOU ANGRY YET? 🚨
It brings the Austin Firefighters no pleasure to report to the community that the Austin Fire Chief DENIED the deployment of Austin firefighters to Kerrville until very late into the event (so today!), with the exception of only 3 AFD rescue swimmers who helped staff helo teams (which still were NOT deployed until the afternoon of the 4th).
The Austin Firefighter Special Operations teams are specially trained for Hill Country swift water rescue and are some of the best, if not the best, swift water boat teams in the State of Texas.
It is absolutely outrageous that the Austin Fire Chief, Joel G. Baker, would not allow highly trained firefighters from Austin to respond to Kerrville. Because of this egregious dereliction of duty, LIVES WERE VERY LIKELY LOST BECAUSE OF CHIEF BAKER’S DECISION!
Deployment orders came down from the State of Texas on July 2. We would've been pre-deployed before the waters even began to rise!
It is unforgivable that a fire chief would NOT allow his firefighters to answer the call to save lives.
Why would Fire Chief Joel G. Baker do this, you may ask? It was a misguided attempt to save money. I say “misguided” because the fire department is fully reimbursed by the state to deploy. I explained the reimbursement process to Chief Baker last week, and he failed to understand this very simple concept.
We are disgusted with our fire chief. He needs to be held accountable and fired for his disgraceful dereliction of duty.
The Austin Firefighters are starting a vote of no confidence on Tuesday on the fire chief.
As disgusted as we are at our Austin Fire Department leadership, the Austin Firefighters Association made a decision to not air our dirty laundry while victims and bodies were still being recovered. But it's now July 7, and it's time that we hold accountable our disgraced fire chief, AND anybody else in his leadership circle who are responsible for this horrendous act.
The Austin Firefighters commit to being transparent to the community about this process to remove our fire chief and hold all of those accountable who were part of this atrocity.
The firefighters hope we have your support, because it's going to get ugly.
I can't possibly express to you how outraged and sickened the firefighters are that we were not allowed to do the job—the job that we have trained so hard and long to do—during the historic floods that just occurred in Kerrville. We could've made a difference, and we were forced to stand down and lives were lost.
The community deserves a fire chief who cares about the community as much as our firefighters, and that is simply not the case. Joel G. Baker must go!
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2026 four-star priority OL Collin Campbell talks official visit to Michigan State…
“I had high expectations coming in… I needed to go back again and really see how much I liked it. I liked even better than I remembered..”
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Collin Campbell 6‘7“ 270 Gilbert Williams Field HS, AZ is another superior talent from the state of Arizona. An OT who moves well in space, dominates on pulls and is very aggressive on down blocks. 4.7 GPA. First team all region. Wide wing span.@CollinCamp47601 4*+