Jeff Weisner

Assistant baseball and soccer coach at Forbush High School.

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

THE GOAL HEARD AROUND THE WORLD 🥇🥇 #WINTEROLYMPICS

[HighSchoolOT @HighSchoolOT]

4A STATE PLACERS ➡️https://t.co/K9h1sKLoSV

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

The scoreboard doesn't lie.
Neither does effort.
Champions are built in the dark.

When nobody's watching.
When it's not fun.

What work are you avoiding that's keeping you from your goals?
Name it. Own it. Change it.

[Butch Chaffin 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚾️⚾️🧢 @ButchBaseball29]

Hustle, don't hurry. Hustle has purpose. Hurry is frantic.

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

During practice: Average players get BORED – Good players get BETTER – Great players go to BATTLE.

[Frank Martin @coachFMartin]

Watching a show on TV talking about new ideas that @NBA is putting in place to prevent tanking. I grew up watching sports were teams would literally try to do whatever it took to win.
Now players are getting paid to lose.
You got to be kidding me

[Forbush Athletics @ForbushABC]

Congratulations to Hunter Conrad on his commitment to Wake Technical Community College and Bo Moxley on his commitment to Catawba Valley Community College.

Both will continue their academic and baseball careers next fall!

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow.
The two o'clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work.
The empty bus will leave at five o'clock."
Dave Bristol
Professional Baseball Manager
Bring back those uniforms!!

[Brad Moss @CoachMossUAB]

2 years ago I decided to organize my Google Drive. Since then, I have built one of the largest hitting video databases available. Check out the thread!

In total, there is around 1500 videos! Please retweet this post so I can reach out on how to access it

[MLB @MLB]

Major League Baseball returns to Iowa with the Twins and Phillies playing in the third edition of MLB at Field of Dreams on August 13, 2026

Netflix will bring the game to fans live from Dyersville

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Let's be honest. ESPN hasn't been great since Stuart Scott.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Today is the last day of the year with four Major League Baseball games -- and all four are potential clinchers. The schedule:

Seattle (up 2-1) at Detroit, 3:08p ET

Milwaukee (2-0) at Chicago, 5:08p

Toronto (2-1) at New York, 7:08p

Philadelphia at Los Angeles (2-0), 9:08p

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

Freddie Freeman was prepared to make this game-saving scoop at first base!

#MLBTonight | @Dodgers | #Postseason

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Athletes: My best advice for this upcoming school year/season?
Take ownership of your actions.

Help develop a “no excuse” team culture.

[Dan Cevette @DanCevette]

Most kids don’t fail in baseball because of talent.

They fail because of:

1. No plan
2. No discipline
3. No consistency
4. No accountability
5. No resilience

Fix those 5, and the game changes. ⚾💪

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

Hurdle-ism 7: Develop a White-Belt Mentality

One thing I've shared in clubhouses, board rooms, and C-suites?

The white-belt mentality

My son Christian taught me during his time in karate class: the white belt is the BEST belt because you have a chance to learn EVERYTHING!

Being a beginner isn't a weakness. It's an opportunity.

Always approach life like a student, ears and eyes wide open.

I still have a chance to learn so much more in this life, and I'm thankful and grateful for those who are guiding me.

I need to use my ears and eyes to learn, not my mouth.

[MLB @MLB]

Honoring 715 on 7.15 ❤️💙