Tina Womack Hux

NEW ACCOUNT-I was hacked 😤Former Athlete 🏀 Sports Fan ⚾️ Veteran Educator 📖 Writer ✍🏼

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products this month maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients.

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

What a great story…

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight the Atlanta Braves play an elimination game against the Philadelphia Phillies, and the man taking the ball first quit baseball to work at a 7-Eleven.

Ray Kerr went to Hug High School in Reno, a program that has won 27 games since 2008 and lost 245.

He had been to exactly one major league game in his life, a Giants and Athletics game in Oakland when he was 13.

He pitched two years at Mendocino College and went 3-7 with a 4.60 ERA.

So he quit. Went home to Reno. Took a job at the IMAX theater and a job at the 7-Eleven.

Here is how he describes it.

"I cleaned up a lot of popcorn. I said, I'm done cleaning up popcorn."

And the other one.

He "stocked the shelves in the cold fridge, listening to my music, kind of forgetting about baseball."

He thought that was the rest of his life.

Then a junior college coach named Eric Perry called him.

"Let's go back to school. Let's go to Lassen Community College. I still think you have baseball left in you."

Here is the part that matters most.

Somebody had to pay for that school, and Ray Kerr grew up in foster care. The woman who paid was his foster mother, Lisa McCarthy.

In his words.

"She's the one who gave me all these opportunities to go back to college, to pay for it if I actually wanted to."

He had to earn a 3.5 GPA to get in. He earned it. Then he went 7-4 with a 3.45 ERA over 91 innings.

That summer he pitched in Alaska against Division I hitters and put up a 1.11 ERA, and his fastball started doing something it had never done.

"I thought I could only throw maximum 92."

It kept climbing into the mid 90s.

The Seattle Mariners signed him as an undrafted free agent in August 2017. Four years later they traded him to the San Diego Padres, and in April 2022 he walked onto the mound at Petco Park and struck out Justin Turner, Max Muncy and Chris Taylor in order.

He called his foster mother first.

Then in June 2024, with the Atlanta Braves, he tore his elbow and needed Tommy John surgery.

Career over. Again.

They re-signed him on a minor league contract. He did not throw a major league pitch again until August 17 of this year.

Since that day he has a 1.47 ERA, and left handed hitters are batting .174 against him. Which is why he is getting the ball tonight with Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper due up in the first.

Now the honest part. He is an opener, not a traditional starter. He may face six hitters and hand it off. The Atlanta Braves are doing this because of matchups, not sentiment.

But a kid from a high school that loses 90 percent of its games, who stocked a cold fridge at a convenience store and figured that was it, is throwing the first pitch of a win or go home playoff game.

He is done cleaning up popcorn.

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

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These schools have stepped forward to answer the call to duty and establish new “Corps of Cadets” in partnership with the War Department.

So, today—at my direction—we formally establish a program to assist these universities and colleges. It’s called America’s Corps of Cadets.

This flagship effort is central to our goal of increasing the number of patriotic leaders of character commissioning into the Joint Force.”

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@childishlovatos @elonmusk @LukeDadev Thank you… ◡̈

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

So finally, the account that STOLE my original profile got suspended. Wonder if that means I’ll get control of it back…eventually…any time soon? 🤷🏻‍♀️�� Who should I ask…. @elonmusk

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@LukeDadev My account was hacked then stolen. I recently noticed the “thief” and my previous account were suspended. Is there a way for me to get my original account back at this point?

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@Bamaville502 @PigTrailNation Making promises and paying these players before they even step on a court or field is ludicrous imo. The education they are getting for free has been totally disregarded in many cases and the payouts are continuing to grow… where is the line drawn? And you’re right-the portal 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@shegone03 @notgaetti @BobFile @billdubs First thing my husband said was- he’d be watching the rest of the game from the dugout!

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@KevinBurrellMLB My husband has said this for years…the little details are the separators. Talent and skills bring them but when both names are “on the board” the details make the decisions.

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

What a story of persistence! Impressive!

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Case Keenum has been in the NFL since 2012. Until Monday night, his two kids had never seen him play a game.

Not one. Not ever.

Here is what he said before kickoff.

"It means everything. It's incredible because we always say 'Keenum's can do hard things.' So we'll do some hard things tonight. And hopefully I can show them tonight how it's done."

He is 38 years old. He was the third quarterback on the Chicago Bears depth chart.

Caleb Williams was ruled out. Backup Tyson Bagent went into concussion protocol. So the job fell to the guy nobody expected to take another snap in his life.

It had been 1,009 days since Case Keenum started a regular season NFL game. The last one was Christmas Eve of 2023 with the Houston Texans.

His son Kyler was born in November of 2019. His daughter Cadence was born in April of 2021.

Which means Case Keenum has been an NFL quarterback for every single day that either of his children has been alive, and neither one of them had ever seen him play a game. Cadence was two years old the last time he started one.

He arrived at Soldier Field carrying what looked like a paper sack, dressed like a man on his way to a parent teacher conference. The internet had a wonderful time with it. Somebody said his wife must have packed him a lunch.

That wife is Kimberly. The family calls her the logistical ninja, because she is the one who has packed and unpacked their whole life through the Houston Texans, the Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the Denver Broncos, Washington, the Cleveland Browns, the Buffalo Bills, Houston again, and now the Chicago Bears.

This is also the man who threw for 19,217 yards at Houston, which is still the most in the history of college football, and then went undrafted.

Then the game started.

24 of 34. 247 yards. Two touchdowns. No interceptions. Not sacked one time.

Eight yards to Luther Burden III in the first quarter. Forty one yards to Kalif Raymond in the third. Then in the fourth he kept it himself and walked it in from a yard out.

Three touchdowns from a third string quarterback.

Chicago Bears 27, Philadelphia Eagles 7.

When it ended he walked off hyping up the crowd in the north end zone, and the whole stadium stood up for him.

And then came the part nobody could have written.

Keenum went out to do his postgame interview on the SportsCenter set. His daughter came with him. Five years old, out on that stage next to her dad, waving at a stadium full of Chicago Bears fans who were still standing there cheering for him.

Fourteen years of practice squads and backup jobs and new cities and moving trucks.

He said it himself when he signed here. More than knowing how to get hit, he knows how to get back up.

The first NFL game his kids ever got to watch, their dad won it, and he scored three times doing it.

Keenums can do hard things.

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[Ari Alexander @AriA1exander]

Alex Bregman has homered twice with a broken face

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

Every single moment of this career exit is perfection 🥹👏🏼⚾️

[Tyler Milliken @tylermilliken_]

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on a baseball field.

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@LK33JD I think this is my favorite. Oh my goodness what a memorable night for this family! 🥰

[MLB @MLB]

Justin Verlander climbs the mound in Detroit for the final time 🫡

[Jeff Janssen @janssenleader]

Earlier in the season, Brewer manager Pat Murphy pulled rookie Cooper Pratt for not fully running out a hit.
Tonight, Murph pulled veteran William Contreras for not running out a ball to first.
The Brewers win because the Standard is the Standard for rookies and vets. @Brewers

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

@NorCalU1 Loving these Fall temps coming in! Enjoy!

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

In 1988, 1,395 players were drafted in Major League Baseball.

Mike Piazza was the 1,390th.

He was the last player the Dodgers took that year, and they only took him as a favor.

Start in 1984. Piazza was 15 years old in Norristown, Pennsylvania, hitting about 300 balls a day in a cage his father built in the backyard. He did it through the winter.

His dad Vince got Ted Williams to come to the house. Williams watched him swing.

"I guarantee you, this kid will hit the ball. I never saw anyone who looked better at his age."

Williams signed a copy of his own book for him. The inscription.

"To Mike, follow this book. As good as you look now, I'll be asking you for tickets."

Now here is what everybody else saw.

Piazza was a first baseman at Phoenixville High School. He hit .442 with 11 home runs as a senior and broke the school career home run record, and scouts still passed, because they did not think he could hit at the next level and they knew he could not run.

No major college wanted him either. Tommy Lasorda, who was his father's childhood friend from Norristown, personally called the coach at Miami to get him a roster spot.

He backed up at first base for one year and transferred to a junior college.

Scouts still did not want him. Five of them said no.

So in June of 1988, Lasorda leaned on his own organization to draft the kid anyway. Scouting director Ben Wade did not want to do it. The Dodgers already had better first base prospects.

Then Lasorda asked him one question.

"If he was a catcher who could hit balls into the seats like that, would you sign him?"

Wade said yes.

Lasorda's answer: "Well, then sign him. He's a catcher!"

Piazza had never been a catcher in his life.

He signed for $15,000.

Then he went and learned the position. After his first pro season he volunteered to go to the Dodgers academy in the Dominican Republic, and became the first American born player ever to train at Campo Las Palmas.

He came up on September 1, 1992 and went 3 for 3.

In 1993 he was the everyday catcher. He hit .318 with 35 home runs, the most a rookie catcher had ever hit, and won Rookie of the Year unanimously.

In 1997 he hit .362 with 40 home runs.

Final line: 1,912 games. A .308 career average. 427 home runs. 12 All-Star games. 10 Silver Sluggers.

396 of those home runs came while he was a catcher. That is the most by anybody in the history of baseball at the position he had never played until a man talked his boss into it.

He went into the Hall of Fame in 2016.

Ted Williams was right about the tickets.

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[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

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[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Paul Skenes gets pulled after reaching 200 strikeouts in his final start of the season and the Pirates fans show him some love

[Tina Womack Hux @TinaWHux]

So much need for this it seems. Financial literacy and understanding how money can make money is crucial for anyone but especially for these young adults coming into big sums early.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Fernando Mendoza signed a rookie contract in July worth $57.27 million. Fully guaranteed. He is 22 years old.

This week he announced what he is doing with his rookie season.

He is starting a series called Finance with Fernando to teach people his age how to handle money.

His words in the trailer.

"My true passion is fiscal responsibility."

He is not bluffing. He graduated from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, and he is finishing a master's in business administration in December.

Here is how he got to the point where a 22 year old can say that.

All four of his grandparents left Cuba for Miami in 1960.

He grew up in Miami and played at Christopher Columbus High School. In two seasons as the starting quarterback he threw for 1,396 yards and 16 touchdowns. Total. Nobody was building a recruiting class around that.

He committed to Yale.

Then another recruit's decision opened a door at California, and he went to Berkeley instead. He redshirted in 2022. He started eight games in 2023 and eleven in 2024.

Then he hit the portal and went to Indiana, a program that had gone 9-27 in the three years before Curt Cignetti showed up.

What happened next does not really happen.

Indiana went 16-0. Mendoza threw 41 touchdown passes, a school record. They won at Oregon. They beat No. 1 Ohio State for the Big Ten title.

Rose Bowl against Alabama, he went 14 of 16 for 192 yards and three touchdowns in a 38-3 win. Peach Bowl against Oregon, five touchdowns.

Then the national championship game, against Miami. The school in his own hometown.

Indiana won 27-21. He was the offensive MVP.

First Heisman Trophy in Indiana history. First national championship in Indiana history.

Then the Raiders took him first overall. He wears number 15 for Tom Flores, who gave him his blessing to use it.

And right now he is sitting behind Kirk Cousins.

So instead of waiting around, he is finishing the MBA and starting a personal finance series for people who have never had money and are about to.

One more thing worth knowing about him. His mother Elsa lives with multiple sclerosis. He and his brother worked with restaurants to put items on the menu that raise money for MS research.

Turn on any sports broadcast in America right now and count the sportsbook ads.

The number one pick in the draft started a show about not losing your money.

[MLB @MLB]

Identical twins Austin and Tyler Jones umpired their first MLB game together today in Baltimore.

They broke in together in the Minors in 2014 and haven't worked on the same field in over ten years!