Things you can do as an athlete:
- beat your wife
- abuse your kids
- run from the cops
- do insane amounts of drugs
- go to strip clubs
- bet on games
Things you can’t do as an athlete:
- Support the current President
Super Sky Point to Bob Horner. He was the NL Rookie of the Year and an All-Star but if you were around back then you know he was more than that. Much more. He was a fixture in the homes of millions of us through the miracle of cable television during those epic childhood summers that seemed like they’d never end.
I was a fan for over 40 years but had never met Bob until I interviewed him last December about Dale Murphy’s Hall of Fame case. As you’d expect, Bob was a fierce advocate for his fellow Fulton County basher. How could he not be? They were Murph and Horner. Horner and Murph. The Hall and Oates of the Launching Pad.
You know, these sky points all suck to write but this one hurts more than most. The four-homer game, the bad perm, Chief Noc-A-Homa waiting by his teepee for another Horner long ball. I have tweeted a lot about Bob Horner through the years and it’s because he represents to me, and I suspect many of you too, something far bigger than baseball: WTBS coming out of the magic box on top of my 400-pound Zenith, cool air coming through my bedroom window after another afternoon of Wiffle Ball, and Rick Mahler (probably) toeing the rubber at about 7:05 while hoping to keep the Braves in it with smoke and mirrors long enough for Horner and Murph to do some damage. And me sprawled out on green and yellow shag carpet in Kentucky paying 100 times more attention to Skip Caray, Ernie Johnson, and Pete Van Wieren than any of my teachers.
Farewell, you sweet slugging bastard. Tell St. Peter you brought your glove for the hot corner and to write you into the cleanup spot. #RIP
This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.
SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007
There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸
do you understand what "briefly" means here..
a woman dying of hantavirus boarded a commercial KLM flight in Johannesburg on April 25th.. the Andes strain.. the only hantavirus on earth that spreads person to person..
she died the next day..
her husband died on the cruise ship two weeks earlier.. the ship tried to dock in the Canary Islands.. rejected.. tried Cape Verde.. they can't handle it.. 147 passengers from 23 countries are still floating in the Atlantic right now because no country wants them on their soil..
three dead.. WHO tracing every passenger on that flight.. and the airline's official statement is she was on board "briefly"
the ocean isn't a quarantine ward.. and "briefly" isn't a health policy..
shit
Having Pat McAfee, Jason Kelce, Bert Kreischer and Kevin Hart at The Masters is the epitome of ESPN's cultural degradation of sports. Augusta National should be the ultimate place of dignity and reverence and these ignominious dullards debase it with their sophomorish hijinks.
I'm calling on the @FBI to seize all of the footage collected by the hundreds of cameras in & around LA in order to determine what truck delivered these cinder blocks that were used on ICE agts
Whoever paid for this goes to jail and must have their bank accts seized, AGREE 👍