Alberto Ramírez

Just trying to have fun

[Metallica @Metallica]

POV: you’re inside the Sphere, and Cthulhu just woke up. 🐙

[Juan Pablo González 🇻🇪 @Juanegron]

🚨 | La karateca número 1 de Venezuela y de América, y número 2 del mundo, denuncia que la Federación Venezolana de Karate le negó la participación en el Mundial tras oponerse al sobreprecio del paquete aprobado para asistir.

Una atleta que pone a Venezuela en lo más alto termina castigada por cuestionar lo que considera un acto de corrupción.

«VENEZUELA RENACE».

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

William Contreras signed his first professional contract for 10,000 dollars.

His mother was a janitor at a school.

Today he tied Game 2 of the National League Championship Series with a home run, and then drove in the run that put Milwaukee ahead.

Here is the whole thing.

He grew up in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the youngest of three boys. Willmer, Willson, William.

Their mother Olga cleaned a school. Their father ran a small business with his brother. Both of them worked long hours.

That is when the boys played.

They did not have baseballs. They made them out of paper and tape.

They were supposed to be studying. They sneaked out to play instead.

Here is what he calls those afternoons now.

"Beautiful moments."

He was a shortstop and a second baseman back then. In February of 2015 the Atlanta Braves signed him for 10,000 dollars and put him behind the plate instead.

Willson was already in the Chicago Cubs organization by then, still down in the minor leagues.

Here is what he says about the position they handed him.

"I love being the only person who has everybody in front of you."

Willson reached the big leagues first. William got there in 2020.

Their parents spent years trying to get out of Venezuela. They finally landed in Orlando in 2019.

Here is what William said about that.

"It's easier knowing they're safe now."

Then in December of 2022 Atlanta went and got a different catcher, and Contreras was the piece that went the other way. To the Milwaukee Brewers.

He did not want to go.

"Trade me back."

That is what he told his agent, and he is the one who tells that story on himself.

"Now if I think about that trade, I got lucky."

In Milwaukee he turned into a three time All-Star and won two Silver Sluggers.

He also broke the middle finger on his left hand, and it was months before the Brewers said anything about it. He played 150 games last season with that finger and never went on the injured list once.

His manager Pat Murphy got asked about resting him.

"I don't think he'll allow that, knowing him."

Then in March, William and Willson both played for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. Venezuela beat the United States 3 to 2 and won the first title the country has ever had. The two brothers walked onto the podium together.

That is the thing they used to talk about as kids, with the paper balls.

And today, against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the youngest one went 3 for 4 with a walk and drove in three of Milwaukee's seven runs.

Brewers 7, Dodgers 4. Milwaukee leads the series 2 games to 0.

The Brewers have never won a World Series.

A janitor's son from Puerto Cabello is two wins from taking them to one.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

THE WILLY CONTRERAS GAME 🔥

The Milwaukee catcher powers the Brewers past LA in Game 2 of the NLCS 😤

[PuebloJuve @Pueblo_Juve]

😬 Juegue....
#Juventus #Juve #CagliariJuventus

[Ligue 1 Español @Ligue1_ESP]

Cristian Cásseres 🇻🇪

Mentalidad Superior 🔝
Piedra Angular 💎

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Zinedine Zidane ➡️ Alessandro Del Piero.

[Samuel Vargas @SVargasOK]

🔝 Un día como hoy, pero de 1996, Rafael Dudamel le clavaba este golazo a Argentina por Eliminatorias:

[My Goal Arena | Calcio 🇮🇹 @mygoalarena]

🇮🇹 September 13, 1995.

Alessandro Del Piero’s first-ever Champions League appearance.

His first goal.

The birth of the “Del Piero Zone”. 🎨

[Alberto Ramírez @albertojrc]

@ESPNNBA 😒

[Toulouse FC @ToulouseFC]

Vous avez élu @Casseres23 #VioletDuMois 😈 de septembre !

Notre international vénézuélien 🇻🇪 recueille 64% des votes et devance Thomas Jørgensen et Guillaume Restes.

¡Felicidades, El Torito! 👏🐂

[CATERINA VALENTINO @CATERINAV]

#7Oct Un venezolano diciendo la verdad a la izquierda y ultra izquierda española:

“A los políticos que yo vi hacer negocios con la dictadura de mi país fue a los políticos de izquierda”.

“NO vamos a votar por ustedes”.

[Luis Almagro @Almagro_OEA2015]

“El chancho que grita es al que le cae la pedrada”.
Algunas de las cosas que más molestan a la indecencia defensora de la situación venezolana presente:
a) Una fecha para las elecciones, esto es tratado como si se pidiera la instalación de María Corina Machado en la Presidencia de Venezuela, lo cual en principio parece querer decir que nadie se siente en condiciones de competir con ella, pero fundamentalmente es una excusa de demorar el proceso todo lo que se pueda detrás de la acusación de “avidez de poder”. Un segundo tema al respecto es que es necesaria una negociación sobre un nuevo CNE, lo cual implica que tenemos para rato antes de fijar la fecha, es decir una nueva estrategia dilatoria. La elección del 24.07.24 demostró que la oposición podía ganar aun con el CNE de Maduro, la forma en la que no se puede ganar es si no hay fecha para las elecciones. La lógica seria fijar fecha para elecciones y arreglar el CNE todo lo que se pueda en el marco del proceso.
b) Obviamente que si se hubiera respetado el triunfo electoral de Edmundo González y él estuviera en el poder no sería necesario pedir elecciones en Venezuela, pero teniendo en cuenta que el poder yace en el “rodrigato” resulta importante establecer un proceso electoral que le pueda devolver el poder al pueblo.
c) Hablando de poder es muy interesante la propuesta de desmantelar el chavismo con todo el chavismo a cargo de todo el poder.
d) El retorno de María Corina Machado, este punto prácticamente no requiere explicación respecto a quienes incomoda, aunque sean muchos, y sean propios o extraños.
e) Nos casi-alegramos de que cada vez haya más negocios con Venezuela, porque todavía debemos lamentar muy especialmente que el pueblo venezolano tien pocas razones para alegrarse al respecto.
f) Las denuncias de intento de violación de la Constitución venezolana para designar nuevos magistrados del TSJ, violando los juramentos constitucionales y democráticos tomados en el 2017, no se puede hablar de reconstruir el Estado de Derecho violando la Constitución conjuntamente con el “rodrigato”.
g) Es cierto que si Maduro siguiera en el poder todo sería peor, pero también es cierto que si el “rodrigato” no estuviera en el poder prácticamente todo sería mucho mejor.

[Alberto Ramírez @albertojrc]

@damn__fc Herencia

[ilBiancoNero @ilbianconerocom]

🥹🤍🖤 Momento da brividi a Trento, al Festival dello Sport.

Gli ex Juventus della squadra campione d’Europa nel ’96 mostrano al pubblico la maglia numero 9 di Gianluca Vialli. Parte l’applauso della platea.

Il ricordo dei compagni: “Sarà sempre con noi”.

[ESPN @espn]

One of the greatest traditions in college football, the "Hawkeye Wave" 💛

Iowa and Ohio State fans, players, and coaches turn to wave at patients in the UI Stead Family Children's Hospital after the first quarter 👋

[CONMEBOL Torneos @CONMEBOLtorneos]

¡Los 5⃣ goles de un partidazo entre @FutsalFVF y @LaRoja por la CONMEBOL #Sub20FS! 🇻🇪🇨🇱

[MLB @MLB]

Jackson Chourio - ALL THE ANGLES 😍

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Sophie Cunningham says the WNBA has to be ready for everything that comes with inviting in new veteran sports fans 💁‍♀️

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

Michael Jordan scored exactly 53 four separate times 🐐

20 of 34 in the first one. 21 of 28 in the last.

All four were at home in Chicago, and that last one came against Detroit for the 72 win team. The 1996 one was the cleaner game by a mile, which fits the idea that older Jordan got smarter instead of just slower.