Hollis Felkel

Connector. Facilitator. Communicator. Public Affairs. Messaging. Business Development. Libertarian on a lot of things.

[David Marts @DavidMarts13]

See the thing about baseball is it’s the one major college sport NIL hasn’t really affected yet and is still what college sports was originally all about.

This is so sick and feels like what all of college sports used to feel like

[Mitch Sherman @mitchsherman]

Next weekend, Cal Poly or West Virginia is going to play Little Rock or Troy in an opening-round game of the College World Series.

None of those four have ever played in the event. One of those four teams is going to win a game in Omaha.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

WVU walks it off & has the entire stadium singing Country Roads

Chills

[Hollis Felkel @ChipFelkel]

Chris Slick. One of kind. You can say a lot about him, some loved him and some, not so much, but I will say this: He lived life to the fullest. He was loyal to a fault. He was my friend and I will miss him. RIP

[College Baseball News @CollegeBSBNews]

On April 3rd, Milwaukee was 5-22 and one of the worst teams in the country.

Some of their losses:

Run-ruled 21-7 by LSU
Run-ruled 20-3 by Duke
Run-ruled 14-4 by Minnesota
Run-ruled 12-2 by SEMO
Run-ruled 17-1 by Purdue
Run-ruled 14-1 by NKU
Run-ruled 13-2 by Wright State
Run-ruled 16-2 by Notre Dame
Run-ruled 14-4 by UNLV

They finished the regular season 22-31, but won the Horizon League tournament and earned an autobid to the NCAA tournament.

Milwaukee beat #4 Auburn 13-8, beat UCF 13-6, and is now in a regional final, one win away from going to supers.

College Baseball.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Daron Vaught @DaronVaught]

Feel like I’m getting the complete Tallahassee Regional experience. Both teams helped the site staff pull a heavy tarp that only got heavier as the rain poured.

The fans at Howser cheered them on.

I love college baseball.

[Hollis Felkel @ChipFelkel]

@joeldavidsawyer “ I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.”

[SC House GOP Caucus @SCHouseGOP]

🚨🚨 SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS DESERVES HONEST DEBATE, not desperate smear campaigns funded by shady out-of-state dark money groups.

Over the last several weeks, @SCFreedomCaucus-aligned operatives and allies at Make Liberty Win @MLW_PAC have flooded Republican mailboxes with false and misleading attacks against conservative Republican House members.

These mailers accuse lifelong conservatives of supporting abortion, abusing children, and siding with Democrats. These are outrageous claims designed to divide Republicans.

Meanwhile, our House Republicans delivered historic income tax cuts, protected girls' sports and parental rights, defended the unborn, strengthened public safety, and passed conservative legislation that makes South Carolina stronger every day.

🤔 Freedom Caucus candidates Elizabeth Enns, Abraham Harris, Russell Brazell, Brandy Tarleton, Sherry Hodges, Barbara Arthur, John Allen, Craig Diem, Tripp McCoy, and other Freedom Caucus candidates/members now face a simple question:

❓ Will they condemn these dishonest attacks and the Virginia-based dark money group funding them OR stay silent because they benefit politically?

👀 South Carolina Republican voters are paying attention.

#scpol #MakeLibertyWin #SCGOP #SouthCarolina #TruthMatters
@DrElizabethEnns
@AbeHarrisSC
Russell Brazell
@BrandyforSC
Sherry Hodges
@BarbaraArthurSC
John Allen
Craig Diem
@TrippMcCoy

[Caitlin Byrd @MaryCaitlinByrd]

New Winthrop University Poll this AM offers some serious pulse checks on how South Carolinians are feeling about the economy:
- Paying for food is difficult or very difficult for 67%
- Only 1 in 5 respondents say they are better off than a year ago.
More: https://t.co/zlAr4rHPiH

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Hollis Felkel @ChipFelkel]

@ThriftyHeel Sorry my friend

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

May 1918. Blackstone Hotel

Taft checks in and the clerk mentions Roosevelt is eating dinner there. The two hadn't spoken in six years.

They ran against each other in 1912, splitting the Republican Party and handing the White House to Woodrow Wilson. The friendship was dead.

Taft walked into the dining room anyway.

Roosevelt's friends saw him coming and went silent. He turned around. Taft was smiling.

Roosevelt jumped up and bear-hugged the man he had once called a "Fathead" with "Brains of a guinea pig".

The dining room stood up and applauded. Strangers who had read about the feud for years watched it end in real time.

Eight months later, Roosevelt died.

At the funeral, Taft stood alone and wept.

He later told Roosevelt's sister: "Had he died in a hostile state of mind toward me, I would have mourned the fact all my life. I loved him always and cherish his memory."

Don't wait.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[Diane Montagna @dianemontagna]

JUST IN: Vatican releases Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI. https://t.co/6Zn5OMJvdn

On Transhumanism and Posthumanism, Pope Leo XIV writes:

“If the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable or less worthy. In the name of progress, ‘necessary sacrifices’ may begin to be justified, placing the burden on the most vulnerable in pursuit of a supposed optimization of the species. … For this reason, a clear distinction must be made. It is one thing to integrate technology within a human-centered, relational vision; it is quite another to be guided by an outlook that devalues human limits and promises a purely technical form of ‘salvation.’”

Read the encyclical here: https://t.co/6Zn5OMJvdn

[Hollis Felkel @ChipFelkel]

@nicksortor Nope

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[ESPN @espn]

Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, down by 3, down to your final strike … GRAND SLAM‼️

Every baseball kid’s dream in the backyard growing up. @SouthernMissBSB's Drey Barrett just lived it 👏

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.