@WilliamShatner My Captain - it was a glorious day! I received notification that the item I won in your charity π auction will be arriving next Thursday. C'mon UPS!!!
@90syankskid Never great in Toronto! Change hotels. Stay out of the clubs. Winning percentage when they are the visitors vs the AL East:
Baltimore .560
Boston .547
Toronto .516
Tampa Bay .515
@BeschlossDC My friends and I - young teens - rode our bikes to the NE corridor line, stood trackside with our flags and held our hands over our hearts as the funeral train rode by. Unforgettable moment.
@90syankskid Jonna, you are not only one of the most passionate baseball fans I know. You are knowledgeable and truly dedicated to this wonderful sport. Yes, baseball is a game of failure, but covering it is about a true love of the game. You have that - and more. @YESNetwork@Yankees
@RogerMcGuinn I attended this show and the review is spot on. Master musician, of course, but a stellar storyteller, too. I could listen to your stories for hours. A true icon and treasure. Thank you for coming to play for us!
Not a "game story" - in 1985, I was walking up Fifth Ave to a meeting and saw a sign outside B. Dalton saying Mickey would be there at noon signing his book - "The Mick" I skipped lunch and left the meeting to join 500 others in a line snaking thru the store. When I got to the front, I could barely speak but thanked Mickey for giving me so many happy memories. He put down his pen, shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said "Thank YOU for being a fan of mine." The 31 year old man in me was 12 again. Best day ever!
@90syankskid Love how everyone knows to whom attention must be paid! (Except for brother, of course) π Happy Easter to a great fan and media mogul who apparently has always known where the camera is!!!
Here's the hard truth nobody wants to say out loud. ππΌ
A society works when the middle class and lower middle class have rising incomes and feel aspirational about their lives.
Right now they feel economically desperate.
And that desperation is real and it is valid.
But Trump has provided zero policy solutions. None.
He's an avatar for their anger. I understand that. I genuinely do.
But what they want right now is to wreck the entire system.
The system that produced the greatest economic miracle in the history of the world.
Not tweak it. Not reset it. Wreck it.
And you know who else wants that?
Vladimir Putin.
Our adversaries have one goal: make the British and American people believe their elections don't matter.
That their institutions aren't legitimate.
That the system is rigged against them and their vote is meaningless.
Make them cynical. Make them feel left out. Make them burn it down.
Trump feeds that narrative every single day.
Not because he's a Russian asset.
But because his entire political existence depends on people feeling like the system is broken beyond repair.
And our adversaries are sitting back and watching it work.
@SenatorAndyKim Thanks, Senator. Your continued advocacy and publicizing the journey of caregivers of Alzheimer's family members is a source of strength. (For a sec, I thought Sen. Grassley might have gotten a date!)
Just be careful! ππ (not to worry - it's our year!)
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer... and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone" ~ Bart Giamatti in "The Green Fields of the Mind"
@americaband "Sandman" - because some of us stayed here and some of us went "there" - and the video that has accompanied this song in live shows has only served to drive home the point. Still hits home.