My team and I went 4-0 in The Challenge tournament here at home last weekend.
Here are my stats, and highlights, from the weekend:
45 points / 11.25 per game
10 3’s
4 Steals
9 Rebs
5 Assists
It was a great weekend for us before heading into our high school summer leagues. Already miss my girls but will see them soon.
🚨ALL-STATE🚨
Senior Chloe Hernandez with an All-State finish in Girls Discus! Her personal record throw of 37.71 meters ranks her 2nd All-Time in GV history and is good for 6th at the MSHSAA Class 5 T&F State Championships!
Thank you, @PGHCircuit, for the honor of being mentioned as a Top Performer at the #PGHMidwestExtravaganza tournament this weekend! It was a fun weekend with my team against some good competition!
@ChanceLiebau Shake something up without giving up on the season. Let the hitting coach go. Thanks for your time and good luck. Not sure it will do anything but should bring some reality to the young players. Can’t continue to squander Witt’s prime years.
Bobby Witt Jr. high IQ fake tag to likely save a run. May not matter, has been done before, but still to fool Herrera on a throw that wasn't even close .. well played.
Meet the brainchild behind Mamdani’s success: Morris Katz.
Morris Katz has built his entire career around electing DSA-aligned candidates and reshaping the Democratic Party in the DSA’s image.
His client list reads like a who’s who of the far left: Zohran Mamdani, a card-carrying DSA member who just became mayor of New York City and openly calls himself a democratic socialist; Graham Platner in Maine, whom Katz personally recruited from his oyster farm with zero political experience and is now the frontrunner to unseat Susan Collins; Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, a progressive running for Senate with a long history of far-left advocacy; Claire Valdez in Queens who is a DSA member and Mamdani acolyte; and Brad Lander in Brooklyn, who is challenging one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress.
The through line across every single one of these candidates is the same: anti-establishment, anti-Israel, and deeply embedded in the DSA’s ideological universe.
What makes Katz particularly effective, and particularly alarming to anyone paying attention, is that he cracked the code the DSA never could on its own.
For decades the socialist left struggled to get traction outside of college campuses and urban enclaves because their message felt foreign and threatening to working-class voters.
Katz figured out how to strip the ideology down to its emotional core: anger at billionaires, anger at rigged systems, anger at politicians who sold out, and package it in the language of regular people. He finds candidates who look and sound like outsiders, puts a working-class frame around a radical agenda, and uses viral pop culture media to make it feel organic rather than orchestrated.
The result is genuinely alarming. Mamdani was polling in single digits and is now the mayor of the largest city in America.
Platner had a Nazi tattoo, a decade of offensive Reddit posts, and no political experience whatsoever, and he just cleared the Democratic primary field in Maine.
Katz’s genius is that he understands voters are so fed up with the political establishment that they will overlook almost anything if a candidate talks a good game.
He is essentially giving radical politics a working-class disguise, and it is working. At 26 years old, with multiple races still live in 2026, he is quietly becoming one of the most consequential political operatives in the country.
And the most dangerous.
This one thing explains way more in our culture politically, culturally, and ecclesiologically (“with regard to the church”) than anyone probably wants to admit:
Until a man (in particular) has kids, he isn’t as emotionally tied to the future of society at a visceral level.
When a man has kids, it does something to his energy and produces a desperation to use his strength to ensure a better societal and ecclesiological future for his children and grandchildren to inherit.
Here are a few highlights from last weeks 67 Showdown here at home! It was a successful weekend with a championship win over MO Phenom 16U EYBL!
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