Ted Shockley

Owner/publisher, Eastern Shore First

[Langston @LangstonLCB]

Happy Festivus, to those who observe! The dinner, the feats of strength and the airing of grievances make this a very special time of year.

[Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins]

Texas A&M, whose entire ethos surrounds someone stepping in to play for a depleted team, doesn’t have enough bodies to participate in a bowl.

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So much for college football tradition. Exactly 100 years ago, #TexasAM famously used the #12thMan to fill its roster when undermanned during a game. Now, 100 years later, undermanned because of #COVID19, the #Aggies just crapped on tradition by pulling out of #GatorBowl. #Fake

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@Harry_MiniumODU @ODUFootball @ODU @ODUAlumni It has been fun and fascinating to watch this group of student-athletes and coaches grow, week by week, as a team. It is good to see their very hard work paying off.

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@DavidWaldstein Ninth graf in today’s story: Altuve plays second, not short.

[Eastern Shore Community Services Board @EasternShoreCSB]

Come join our team! We are hiring for both full- and part-time positions. We have jobs available in multiple departments.
Apply here: https://t.co/7cfXQEGIHf

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@ODUFootball I support the ODU football program. But I want an explanation about their decisions during the last two minutes and overtime. That was frustrating.

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I’ll be looking for an explanation from @ODUFootball coaches about their decisions during the last two minutes of today’s game. But as an uninformed observer, I feel their decisions cost the players a win.

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@Harry_MiniumODU @ODUFootball @UBFootball @CFBHome @FBSchedules @CFBRanking Three blocked kicks in the first quarter. A tackle into a kicking net caused a near melee. So many penalty flags and players down. An exciting comeback squelched by players who got too excited. Someday, someone could write a damn good book about this game, players and aftermath.

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@Harry_MiniumODU @TedAlexanderodu @ODUFootball @ODU_MBB @ODUBaseball @ODUSports @ODUAlumni @CUSAbbs @cusaReport @BLS_swish20 I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. Thank you for it. I’ve long enjoyed Alexander’s work in Hampton Roads, and admired how his enthusiasm seems so genuine. I met him two years ago before a football game, just stuck out my hand and thanked him. Best to his wife in her cancer battle.

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The Phillies’ bullpen is worthless. Who was that guy? Girardi can’t be trusted to make ONE instinctive, intelligent bullpen move. #Phillies

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@ODUFootball No Eastern Shore on your map of Va. And I’m a season-ticket holder. And am sending both of my young ones there. And am from the Eastern Shore. C’mon.

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@Jeremy_Cox @jaycford The unstressed syllable in Norfolk doesn’t even have a verb — NAW-fk

By fave was how you pronounced Showell, Md., one time, back in the day.

You pronounced it “Showell.”

(It’s “shall.”)

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@TheAimercat Abhorrent

[Tom Schaad @TomWAVYTV]

4 people shot outside Washington Nationals baseball game https://t.co/qAlh3sm5Iz

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@KAPhillips66 You can bet the editors and owners and everyone else who sold their souls to immediate “foothold” online reporting wanted something posted, and fast. And this didn’t happen “anywhere in the world.” This happened in DC, where you can’t throw a dead cat and not hit a reporter.

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@Scott7news National networks, ESPN, etc., has reported nothing on this. But it’s all over Twitter. Damn.

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@tim_neville @ErinBurnett Your cousin Scott (in the class ahead of mine back at Northampton High) was a remarkably talented photographer I had the pleasure of working with long ago. There is an extraordinary storytelling talent that runs in your family, it seems, in words and images.

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@tim_neville @ErinBurnett I very much enjoyed your piece. Salisbury of the 1980s was my favorite place (I was living in lower Delaware then) and it was the big hub of a farm community, and unique. These days it’s a small city that looks like everywhere else. I love the rhythms of rural Delmarva. And …

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@matthewkorfhage Sorry to see your departure from the Pilot. Guess I’ll have to subscribe to your Gannett stop, even though I swore them off when they eliminated my job in 2016. But you are a great writer, and the best food critic the Pilot ever had. Love your stuff. Look forward to more.