christopher krisanic

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

3 a.m. alarms for the agronomy crew this week ⏰

Every detail matters when it comes to making Bellerive look its best and a proper test @BMWchamps.

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

Work to bring back the Expos is temporarily on hold while we start up several life insurance companies

[Oracle Red Bull Racing @redbullracing]

Inbox (1) 🦁

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

Let's see what the Cub's TV booth has to say about Mr. Baez and each of his home runs.

#STLCards

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

3 HRs IN 3 AT BATS

JOSHUA BÁEZ WITH THE GREATEST DEBUT IN MLB HISTORY

[christopher krisanic @cekrisanic]

@MLB Yes. History tells you so.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Since this, Joshua Báez has homered two more times. Three major league plate appearances, three home runs -- the first player in big league history to go deep three times in his first game. One to left, one to center, one to right. Best debut for a hitter in big league history.

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

MAJOR LEAGUE HISTORY!!

THREE homers for Joshua Báez in his MLB debut!

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

Báez Bombs are here, St. Louis! 💣

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

[christopher krisanic @cekrisanic]

@KoleMusgrove23 Obviously

[christopher krisanic @cekrisanic]

@KoleMusgrove23 Let them doubt. The Hawks aren’t for them anyway. Go Hawks

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

The first overtime walk-off two-point conversion in NFL history. 🙌

[Brenden Schaeffer🎳 @bschaeffer12]

Elite new in-game promotion just dropped.

True perfection, no notes.

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

#OTD 2003 - 👇🧨

"Swiiiiiiiing and hello 4th of July! Take a ride on that knockdown pitch big boy! Kerry Wood knocked him down, and NOW Albert looks at him as he goes around first, heeee gives him a glare, say take a little whiff of that big boy! And now Kerry Wood takes a look at Albert as he touches them all. Give it to him big boy! Give it to him! THAT'S how you play baseball. THAT'S when you're a professional like Albert is. You don't glare out there! You don't throw your bat! You don't charge the mound! You just take the next pitch and you hit into the a, seats!” - Mike Shannon

#STLCards

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

Who got the heart to tell Belgium the magic that happens in this stadium on prime time?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1863, the entire Union army hung on a single regiment holding the end of the line, and they were led by a schoolteacher who was about to do something nobody had told him to do.

Here's why that one hill mattered so much. The Union line at Gettysburg curled along the high ground like a giant fishhook, and Little Round Top was the very tip of it, the far left end of everything. If the Confederates got around that end, they could roll up the whole army from the side, folding it up like a rug. And for most of the afternoon, incredibly, nobody was even guarding it. It was pure luck that an engineer riding by noticed the hill was naked and screamed for troops before the enemy arrived.

The men who got rushed up to the very end of that line were the 20th Maine, and their commander was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a man who a couple of years earlier had been teaching rhetoric at a small college. Now he was told the plainest order in the army. This is the end of the line. You cannot retreat. Hold this ground or the army dies.

So they held. Wave after wave of Alabama troops came climbing up through the rocks and trees, and the Maine men fought them off and fought them off until their cartridge boxes were empty and half of them were down. One more charge and it was over. Chamberlain had nothing left to shoot with.

So he did the crazy thing. He ordered his exhausted men to fix bayonets and charge downhill, swinging the line like a gate slamming shut. The move was so sudden and so insane that the attacking Confederates, who thought they were about to win, broke and ran or threw up their hands. A professor with an empty gun and a wild idea saved the flank, and maybe the battle.

[Autosport @autosport]

This is what Silverstone looked like when it hosted the first ever Formula One Grand Prix in 1950 🎥

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

21 years ago today, on June 28, 2005, four Navy SEALs were inserted under cover of darkness into the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, a place so high and so cold the clouds drift below your feet. Their mission was to find a Taliban commander hiding in the village of Sawtalo Sar. Their names were Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, Matthew Axelson, and Marcus Luttrell.

By morning, fate walked right up the mountain to meet them. A goat herder and a boy wandered straight into their hidden position. The team had a choice no man should ever have to make: kill unarmed civilians, or let them go and risk everything. They let them go. Within an hour, the mountain came alive with rifle fire.

What happened next is almost too brutal to put into words. Dozens of fighters swarmed the high ground above them. The four men fought their way down a near vertical slope, throwing themselves off ledges and cliffs to escape the fire, breaking bones, tearing flesh, leaving blood on the rocks, and still turning to shoot. One by one they were hit. Still they fought. They would not stop. They would not surrender.

Their radios could not reach the base down in the valley. They were screaming for help into dead air. And so Lieutenant Michael Murphy did something that should never be forgotten. He stood up. He walked out of the rocks and into open ground, into the full teeth of the enemy, with bullets cracking past him on every side, just to get a clear signal. He was shot in the back while making that call. He dropped the radio, picked it back up, finished the call, and said thank you. Then he kept fighting until he could fight no more. That single act of courage is the only reason the world ever learned their names.

Help came screaming up the valley. An MH-47 Chinook, call sign Red Wings 11, packed with eight more SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers of the legendary 160th SOAR, refused to wait for gunship cover. Their brothers were dying and they would not sit still for it. As the bird flared over the ridge, a single rocket propelled grenade flew through the open rear ramp. The explosion tore the aircraft apart in the sky. All sixteen men aboard were killed the instant it hit the mountain.

Three on the ground. Sixteen in the air. Nineteen American sons gone in a single afternoon. It remains the worst loss of life in Naval Special Warfare history since World War II.

Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Danny Dietz and Matthew Axelson received the Navy Cross. Marcus Luttrell, blown off a cliff and shredded by shrapnel, was the only one to come home. He survived because a Pashtun villager named Mohammad Gulab found him broken in a ravine and, under an ancient code of honor older than the country these men died for, stood between him and the Taliban and refused to give him up.

Twenty one years later, do not let these be just names on a screen. They had mothers. They had wives. They had children who grew up with a flag folded into a triangle instead of a father. They chose each other over their own lives on a mountain most people will never even hear of.

So today, say their names out loud. All nineteen of them 🇺🇸

In remembrance:
Lt. Michael P. Murphy
Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Danny P. Dietz
Sonar Technician 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson
Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen
Senior Chief Daniel R. Healy
Petty Officer 2nd Class James E. Suh
Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton
Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas
Petty Officer 2nd Class Shane E. Patton
Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor
Maj. Stephen C. Reich
Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature
Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach
Master Sgt. James W. Ponder III
Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles
Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell
Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare
Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby

Operation Red Wings. June 28, 2005. Never forgotten.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The World Cup is at our shores, and all these people are doing us a great service. They are reminding Americans that this place is kind of awesome.