Wow. No words.
So brave of Jarren Duran to open up about his mental health and suicide attempt in 2022.
Duran said he’d be standing in the outfield at Fenway and people were screaming at him to “Go back to AAA”. All the while thinking he wanted to take his own life.
Why choose hatred when you can choose to be kind. Protect your mental health and do your part to help others that just might be going through something you can’t see.
RT for a chance to win 2 tickets to Sunday's game, my signed cleats, & A Philly Special Christmas Party album 🎅🦅
Win, lose, or draw, I always got love for my fans! Appreciate y'all! 🙌
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@BIGDUB106 @JayWill35392971 @RapSheet@TomPelissero Green Bay, we played a healthy 6-1 commanders team that everyone said we’d lose to and won that one, the rams with a top 5-10 offensive weapons.
GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!
Thanks to @srosier20 and @cup_spit we have 4 tickets to giveaway for every game this weekend.
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BREAKING SJ FOOTBALL NEWS: Highland head coach Brian Leary has stepped down after nine seasons. He led the Tartans to 9-2 seasons in 2016 and 2018.
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2023 All Conference
1st Team
RB. Nemo Butler-Mayhew
QB. Connor Leary
DE. Eli Thompson
Ath. Matt Tuttle
OL. Billy Taylor
Honorable Mention
LB. Te’von Atkins
WR Jeff Neris
Congrats fellas!!
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Touchdown Highland: Tuttle 7 pass from Leary (Brodzik kick)…7-0 Tartans
Highland marched 55 yards in 15 plays, chewed up 7:30 off the clock
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E4 | TRI 6, DEL-SO 5
Tri-Cape takes its first lead of the ballgame with a blast off the bat of Robert Carfagno! He lifts one over the wall in left field to score Rodriguez and put his side ahead by one.
Congratulations to our own Highland Tartan Scholar Athlete award winner Cam Boice . Cam is a rare 3 Sport athlete 🏈🏀⚾️ who also carries a overall GPA of 4.2 in the classroom . Proud of you 👏 @TWIBaseballSJ@kminnicksports
Chris Rock goes to a place called “Stress Factory.”
It’s a comedy club in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
For Rock, it’s a proving ground.
He’ll show up unannounced.
In the audience may be 50 people.
He’ll carry a yellow legal pad of notes and go on stage for 45 minutes.
And he’ll test new material.
Rock will do this for *months* as he prepares for a new show.
• He’ll fumble through lines
• He’ll stop in the middle of jokes
• He’ll write notes while talking
Sometimes, he’ll forget what he’s saying and reference his legal pad.
If you didn’t know him, you’d think he’s an amateur.
This is how he becomes the guy you see on Netflix.
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Lesson: Nobody’s a finished product
Rock is one of the highest-paid comedians in the world.
He’s a legend in his industry.
He’s an otherworldly comedic talent.
You’d expect him to always be polished.
But that’s not the case.
Even legends are on the hunt to improve.
There’s no such thing as a “finished product.”
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Lesson: It takes humility to be great
Audiences at Stress Factory get Rock in his rawest form.
• They get new jokes he hasn’t tried yet
• They get to see him honing his craft
• They get to see him struggle
Rock doesn’t have to do this.
He could work out ideas in front of a few friends, then take more polished stuff to an audience.
But that likely wouldn’t make him as good.
If you want to be great, you need the humility to look bad in front of strangers.
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Lesson: The process never ends
How many jokes has Rock delivered in his life?
100,000? More?
At 57 years old, he’s had a *lifetime* of reps.
And yet, here he is randomly showing up at small clubs.
Over and over and over and over again.
It reminds me of a quote:
“Success is not a continuum.”
The past doesn’t guarantee the future.
We’re not entitled to future success.
It must be repeatedly earned.
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