rusty sandidge

Married to the beautiful @missHIalways (who loves football), dry dock engineer, owner of Landscape Photo, fan of the NY Yankees and I have an addiction to golf

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Happy 77th to "The Diesel"!
John Riggins

With Riggo, it wasn't always just running the rock for the #Redskins.

Here in 1979, he delivers one of my favorite lead blocks ever — destroying Lions safety James Hunter and clearing the path for a Benny Malone six.

#HTTR #RaiseHail

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Happy 77th Birthday to "The Diesel"!

#Redskins Legend John Riggins

Goal Line, I-Left, Tight Wing, 70 Chip on White

The signature play of Super Bowl XVII
#HTTR #RaiseHail

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Graig Nettles turned Game 3 of the 1978 World Series into a personal defensive clinic, robbing the Dodgers again and again at third base.

He may well have saved the entire Series with his glove that night, and swung it toward the Yankees.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Ron Guidry struck out 18 Angels in 1978 on his way to a 25 and 3 season, and Yankees fans started standing and clapping with two strikes, a tradition that was born that very night.

One of the best single seasons a pitcher has ever had.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Farewell to the Captain."
Called the "Bobby Murcer Game" because Murcer, one of Thurman Munson`s closest friends, drove in all five Yankee runs on the same day Murcer delivered the Main Eulogy at Munson`s funeral, an emotional speech that brought Murcer and many others in the crowd to tears.
"The Yankees will be without a Captain now, just as they were after Lou Gehrig's death, until our Thurman Munson arrived."
Bobby Murcer.
"It was an emotional day for Bobby Murcer because he was close to Thurman.
When we took the field, they left home plate empty.
We turned around and Thurman wasn’t there.
It was almost surreal."
Bucky Dent.
MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn refused to postpone the Yankees' evening game against the Baltimore Orioles, threatening to forfeit the game if the team did not return in time.
George Steinbrenner made the decision to fly the entire team back to New York, and they took the field with Munson's catching position left empty in his honor.
Manager Billy Martin did not want to play Murcer on that night.
Martin thought the day was just too much.
Murcer disagreed and recalls:
"Billy came to me and he said:
'I'm not going to play you tonight, you're just too tired.'
And I told Billy:
'I just don't feel like I should take the night off.
I feel like I should be playing.'"
Thurman Munson’s name on was allowed on the Baseball HOF ballot, three years early.
Munson got 15.5 percent of the vote.
Never again reached double figures and Munson fell quietly off the ballot in 1995.
Thurman Munson is in my HOF!!!

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

I will ALWAYS choose a longer drive with no traffic over a shorter drive with traffic

[Budweiser @budweiserusa]

Time for a beer.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Mark Grant impersonating umpires in the 80’s

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

Nixon's critique of the CIA.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Thurman Munson and I came to be to be very close friends during my first season with the Yankees in 1978.
I had just come over from the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1977, and was having a bit of a rough time adjusting to the added pressure of playing in the Yankee pinstripes.
Thurman helped me through those trying times.
When I was trying too hard he would always settle me down by providing humor on the
Field.
Thurman had an uncanny ability, unlike any teammates that I have played with, to share a laugh or humorous moment on the field during pressure moments.
Even in World Series play, he always had a way about him that kept the players calm and enabled us all to be the best we could be on the field.
Although Thurman always managed to keep the mood relaxed, he also epitomized the way in which the game should be played, giving maximum effort at all times and coming through in the clutch almost routinely.
Thurman was the greatest catcher I ever threw to.
While I was fortunate to play with many great players, he was my favourite teammate of my career."
Goose Goosage.
Thurman Munson is in my HOF!!!

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Ronald Reagan once roasted Frank Sinatra by pretending to endorse him for President of the United States:

Reagan opens by acknowledging that Sinatra had been a loyal political ally:

"This is Frank Sinatra's night and I'm here out of gratitude. Frank worked for me in all my campaigns. He was with me all the way to the governor's mansion. Without his help, who knows? I might have been president."

He then jokes about the rivalry he had lost to be there that night:

"When this program was being planned, the producer hadn't decided what political figures would participate. It was a choice between me and Governor Brown, and I lost again."

From there, Reagan pivots into the central bit, mock-arguing that Sinatra would make an excellent Commander-in-Chief.

On cabinet appointments:

"He has many friends, and I'm sure he'd appoint only the most qualified to his cabinet. Who better than Sammy Davis Jr. as Secretary of Health, Education, and Jewelry?"

On scandal management:

"Of course, in politics, there's always gossip and ugly rumors. I'm happy to expose one for the falsehood that it is. He has not granted a Pizza Hut franchise at Camp David. It'll be in the White House where it belongs."

On national defense:

"Frank Sinatra will make a president who is strong on defense, but again will have concern for humanity. Scientists at his urging have developed an intercontinental ballistics missile that is not a weapon of mass destruction. It only hits photographers."

On fiscal policy:

"I asked him what he thought of the energy bill. He didn't hesitate a second. He said, 'Pay it.'"

On working with Congress:

"He won't have any trouble with Congress. They'll pass all the legislation he sends over just to get his autograph."

And on foreign policy:

"He'll settle that canal business, too. Panama wants a canal, he'll give them Venice."

Reagan closes with the punchline that lands the whole bit. Sinatra wouldn't take the job anyway:

"As you probably gathered by now, I think Frank Sinatra would make a fine president. But I don't know whether we can get him to run. Is it worth it? If you have to give up being a king?"

The genius of the roast is its structure. Every "endorsement" doubles as an affectionate jab, and the final line elevates Sinatra above the presidency itself, delivering the ultimate compliment disguised as a joke.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Bob Seger is better than Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know how many of you are joining me on this island but I feel like it will be 50% geniuses and 50% guys who make women instinctively lock their car doors.

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

There will never be another John Sterling. His voice and legacy will live on forever 💙

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Let me grab some crayons. 🖍️

I’ll explain this to you like you’re five.

The money you paid into Social Security has already been SPENT. 💸

Puff the magic dragon, it is gone.

Your money is not kept in a lockbox just for you to earn interest and pay ya back when you become age-eligible to receive the benefits. 🚫 🗃️

It’s not a retirement fund.

The money you get in return comes out of the paychecks of currently working people vis payroll taxes. Beneficiaries will often (albeit not always) get more in return than they paid in. And because the ratio of workers to retirees has shrunk from 16:1 in 1960 to 2:1 today, there aren’t enough workers pitching in to keep the pool of funds filled. So, the government has to borrow money they don’t have to make up the difference.

The Treasury’s BEP then prints money to try compensating for the debt, which then causes inflation.

🖨️ 💵 = 📉 💵 value = 📈 💰 costs

You have bought into FDR’s scam hook, line, and sinker.

All the more reason it should have been privatized a long time ago.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

If climate change is really a crisis, then why do none of the scientists or politicians hollering about it act like it and forgo using fossil fuels altogether? And, why is the only solution to it higher taxes, carbon credits, and an overall more powerful, centralized government?

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Good evening from the Coconut Tree
@KamalaHarris

Ma’am, (can we call you Ma'am?) we’ll keep this factual and review your actual record, not your reboot.

As a U.S. Senator (2017-2021), you were an original cosponsor of the Green New Deal resolution (S.Res. 59).

It directed the US to “divest from fossil fuels,” phase out oil, gas, and coal production and remake the entire economy around subsidized green mandates.

Your 2020 campaign was shorter than a Garden Gnome but managed to work in these gems:

You told the CNN town hall:

“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”

On Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show:

“We will end fracking once and for all” while committing to the Green New Deal.

Your $10 trillion climate plan called for no new fossil fuel leases on federal lands, phasing out all oil & gas (even if renewables weren’t ready), a carbon fee, and doubling U.S. payments to the UN Green Climate Fund.

Before that, as California Attorney General (2011-2017), you built a reputation suing our industry.

The lawfare you pursued laid the foundation for the collapse of the California refining industry we are witnessing right now

You even sued the Obama-Biden administration to block new offshore permits off California’s coast.

Remember 2022?

As VP, national gas prices hit $5+/gallon (over $6 in parts of CA).

You told Americans those record prices were “a price to pay for democracy” for Ukraine.

But apparently the freedom of millions of Irainian citizens are not worth $3.97 a gallon now?

That seems - I don't know - selective?

Bottom line.

California still pays the nation’s highest gas prices — thanks to the taxes, mandates, and anti-production policies you championed for years.

Flying cross country (made possible by jet fuel) to North Carolina to make a video isn't going to change that.

And those are the facts - unburdened by what has been.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

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[rusty sandidge @drydockengineer]

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[VA Senate GOP @VASenateGOP]

🚨DEMOCRATS’ BAD BILLS

HB 863 is one of the most dangerous bills ever introduced in Virginia. It clears the path for the release of murderers and rapists back into our communities.

Virginia Democrats put violent criminals over victims & public safety every time.