MattyH

Psych-RN. Ex-lion tamer. Son and heir of nothing in particular.

[The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript]

Meet Miguel Rojas.

He studied all 100 citizenship questions. He wanted no special treatment because he’s a professional baseball player. And when he passed, he said he was prouder of that perfect score than his World Series home run.

What stood out to me most was his gratitude. He talked about America opening its doors to him 21 years ago and said he’s never taken that opportunity for granted.

Preparation. Respect for the process. Gratitude for the country that gave you an opportunity. Wanting to contribute and be judged by your character, not your status.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Will Clark holding a baby name Brandon Crawford, yes, that Brandon Crawford.

[bone @boneGPT]

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"

You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.

One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.

A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?

"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.

My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.

"The social disruption will be enormous!"

Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.

Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?

A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.

Accelerate.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

Babe Ruth, who had not been told he had cancer out of his family’s fear he might do himself harm, was put on teropterin, a folic acid derivative and may have been the first human subject.
Babe Ruth began receiving daily injections of teropterin, and a closely related drug, methotrexate, which is now widely used in treating cancer and other diseases.
Ruth said he knew teropterin had rarely been used on humans:
"But asked no questions,'' and probably signed no formal consent, as is required today, before receiving injections for six weeks.
Remarkably, Ruth had a dramatic clinical response with regression of adenopathy and symptomatic improvement, and his case was presented anonymously at a research conference in St Louis in September 1947.
"The Wall Street Journal" and "Time"
magazine reported the following week that scientists were on the verge of a:
"Cure for cancer."
Babe Ruth showed dramatic improvement during the summer of 1947, so much so that his case was written up by his doctors, without using his name.
Babe Ruth was able to travel around the country, doing promotional work for the Ford Motor Company on American Legion baseball.

[Matthew Joyce @MattJoyce247]

2015 was supposed to be the year that changed my life.

Instead, it almost ended my career.

I was 30 years old and entering my free-agent season. The year where you perform, sign the big multi-year contract, and set your family up for life.

I worked my butt off that offseason. Two-a-day workouts, extra hitting, 10 pounds of added muscle. I felt like I had done everything possible to prepare.

Spring Training reinforced that belief. I hit .320 with 4 home runs.

Then the season started, and I just couldn't get it going.

For months, I couldn't break away from the .200 mark. The harder I tried to fix it, the worse it got.

Looking back, I was trying to do way too much.

I wasn't just trying to have a good at-bat anymore. I was trying to hit home runs. Trying to put up numbers. Trying to earn the contract. Every at-bat started carrying the weight of my future.

Then one day in July, a fly ball went up into shallow left field between David Freese, Erick Aybar, and me.

All three of us took off for it. Freese peeled off first, leaving Aybar and me running full speed directly toward each other.

At the last second, I tried to slide and get my hands up to protect my face. I didn't get them there in time.

Aybar's knee caught me square in the chin and knocked me completely unconscious.

When I came to, our trainers and teammates were standing over me. Trout and Pujols helped me off the field.

I walked back into the clubhouse and couldn't remember where my own locker was. That's when I knew it was serious.

I finished the year hitting .174 with 5 home runs in 93 games.

The season I thought was going to secure my future ended with me wondering whether I would ever play in the big leagues again.

And if I'm being completely truthful, part of me was relieved. I didn't have to walk to the plate in front of 40,000 people and struggle anymore. That's how badly the season had beaten me down.

When I looked back on that year, I realized how much time I spent obsessing over things I couldn't control:

My batting average.
My home runs.
The contract.
The money.
My future.

I had become so focused on what baseball could give me that I got away from simply playing baseball.

Prepare.
Compete.
Have a good at-bat.
Find a way to help your team win.
Come back tomorrow and do it again.

It's funny how the hardest seasons teach you the lessons you need the most.

I went into 2015 believing the year was going to change my life because of the contract I might sign.

It changed my life for a completely different reason.

It taught me that the more obsessed you become with the outcome, the easier it is to lose sight of the process that gave you joy in the first place.

[New York Post @nypost]

SF high school where 94% flunk math has California's highest Berkeley acceptance rate https://t.co/j22ogn2rIK

[Zach Sweet @by_ZachSweet]

Snagged this photo of the scoreboard when Joshua Báez came to the plate in the eighth inning. Don’t think I’ll ever see this again.

[MattyH @MattHinkleSF]

@AmberRichmondSF I’m happy you’ve made it this far. It takes a lot of bravery and self-respect to choose a path back. No one ever said it would be easy but you’re richer having made the journey. Peace ✌️

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

I've been divorced twice, fired 3 times, released 3 times, traded once and gotten 2 DUIs.

Not exactly a highlight reel.

But here's what I've learned: You've prepared for your future through your past if you paid attention to it.

Since 1998, I've been sober.

Since 1999, happily married.

The lows make you appreciate the highs. I appreciate happy because I've been sad.

Every setback can lead to a comeback if you're willing to learn from it.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Someday historians are going to look back and be astonished at the amount of absurd bullshit Americans took pride in believing during this era

[Saif @diol2n]

كان المصور سكوت يقوم بتصوير شاطى سيبرايت في كاليفورنيا عندما لاحظ رأس شخص يظهر ويختفي وسط الامواج العنيفة فسارع الى ابلاغ احد المنقذين

اتضح انه صبي بعمر 10 سنوات كان يركب الامواج على اللوح، قام المنقذ بالامساك به على الرغم من قوة وشدة الامواج الا انه تشبث به بقوه حاول البعض مساعدته لكن الامواج اسقطتهم فتراجعوا من الخوف لكن المنقذ استمر حتى انقذ الصبي

الاكثر اثارة في الموضوع ان المنقذ كان في موسمه الاول فقط من العمل

[T Wolf 🌁 @Twolfrecovery]

Not a single tiny home got built and the money is gone. Why aren't their investigations happening like all the time around California's homeless spending? @VP

[MattyH @MattHinkleSF]

@its_The_Dr Reggie pimped HRs like no other.

[MattyH @MattHinkleSF]

@CAgovernor Go ask your wife for the $$

[Seneca Scott @SenecaSpeaks21]

This isn't just Oakland's present. It's America's future—unless we fight like hell to save her.

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when the wicked rule, the people groan." - Proverbs 29:2

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

So to recap what happened with the USMNT:

• Balogun received a bogus red card
• VAR protocol isn't followed (no slow-mo)
• Trump calls Infantino to ask about the process
• US Soccer lawyers preapre & submit an appeal

FIFA's independent 18-person disciplinary committee then met, approved the appeal, and told Balogun he could play in Monday's match against Belgium.

That's what everyone is complaining about?

All rules were followed, and that same process is open to every other country. The only difference is everyone knows the red card was a mistake to begin with.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: Spencer Pratt just dropped this video calling out “Commie Mayor” Zohran Mamdani:

“We all had to sit and watch that Commie sit on the wrong side of our Founding Father’s desk”

ABSOLUTE MIC DROP 🔥

[MattyH @MattHinkleSF]

@CAgovernor @ChopraUSA “Last one in, first one out.” - Steve Hilton

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Big update to the fraud we discussed in this video. The largest homeless NGO in LA, Weingart Center is under FEDERAL investigation and the court just REJECTED all of Weingart's attempts to dismiss the fraud and waste claims regarding their shady property deal in Cheviot Hills.

What happened? Karen Bass and Nithya Raman laundered YOUR tax dollars through the Weingart NGO to pay 2x cost on a homeless housing project from a scammer middleman; a $16M flip, for a dubious homeless project, all while evicting the seniors who lived there.

Big hat tip to Samantha Nussbaum for doing the leg work on this case and bringing some accountability to the rampant fraud in LA's Homeless Industrial Complex. Are you starting to see how the scams work?

[Rose Smith @itsrosesm]

YOU DON'T "SAVE" SOCIAL SECURITY BY RAISING THE
MINIMUM AGE TO 71.
YOU SAVE IT BY REMOVING EVERYONE STEALING FROM IT.