DDub

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[THE PENN STATE MAFIA🫡 @PennStateMafia]

Thoughts on Michigan's helmets for this week's game? They guarantee the game will be, "explosive."

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Andy Pages's father is a carpenter in Cuba. His main job was fixing up boats.

He had friends who worked with wood, and they would give him lumber, and he would make his son baseball bats.

That is where the bats came from. A man in a shop, making them by hand, out of whatever his friends could spare.

Tonight that son drove in the two runs that put the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.

Here is the distance between those two sentences.

Pages grew up in Cuba playing soccer and basketball and baseball. He was one of the most recognized young players on the island and he never played a game in the Cuban National Series.

At 16 he told his family he was going to the Dominican Republic to try to get a contract with a Major League organization.

Here is what he says about telling his father.

"When I left Cuba, from the moment I told him I was leaving, he just started crying."

"It was the first time I ever saw him cry."

Then he went eight months without anybody signing him. Scouts told him he did not have the speed to play the outfield in the major leagues. After the Dodgers finally signed him, people questioned his weight.

He did not go back to Cuba for about seven years.

When he finally did, he brought something with him.

"When I went back to Cuba, I took him a few of my bats."

The man who carved his first bats out of scrap got handed the real ones.

Now here is the part that is still true today.

Nobody in his family except his wife has ever watched him play in person. Not one game.

Major League games are not broadcast in Cuba. So his parents and his 18 year old sister follow his career through box scores and clips on YouTube.

Phone calls frequently do not go through. When his parents do get through, it is usually around midnight where he lives, and he is asleep. Bad storms knock out the lines and he can go days without hearing anything from home.

In July he made the All-Star team and could not reach his parents to tell them. He said he was not sure they knew.

This is how he describes it.

"Anything can happen to me in a game, and it won't be harder than all of that."

The thing he says gives him the most joy is not the All-Star team. It is that people walk up to his parents in Cuba just to tell them how well their son is doing.

Tonight, in Atlanta, Andy Pages went 2 for 3 and drove in two runs in the seventh inning to break a tie against the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers won 4 to 1 and the series with it.

Somewhere in Cuba tonight, a carpenter is going to find out what his kid did from a box score.

[C-Reason🇺🇸 @CreasonJana]

OMG … one of my favorite lines in this debate is when Becerra said “isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?”

To which @SteveHiltonx replied, “Yeah, like voting Democrat.”

Becerra walked right into that one!🤣😂

[bone @boneGPT]

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"

You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.

One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.

A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?

"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.

My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.

"The social disruption will be enormous!"

Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.

Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?

A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.

Accelerate.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Joe Morgan really taken aback by this hit...against Randy Johnson no less. There will never be another Tony Gwynn.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Soon, LA will just be a ghost town with a 100K illegal street vendors cooking rat meat in front of abandoned brick and mortar restaurants. The Jay Luchs window signs fading in the sun, soon to be kindling for a zombie meth cook fire that burns down half the block as Nithya rides her bike down the new $200M bike lane.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Future Hall of Famer Mike Trout was opening baseball cards with his son when he pulled an incredibly rare card, his own rookie card. His reaction is priceless.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Gary Carter wears the impact of this home plate collision on his face. Willie McGee just looked like that all the time.

[Alerta Mundial @AlertaMundoNews]

🇺🇸 Se cumplen 25 años del 11-S.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

When Mamdani talks Tomorrow Remember this picture.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

If you don't name the ideology that led to this (without qualifiers), you are dishonouring every single individual who died on that day. Be courageous. Fight those who wish to enslave us.

[🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer]

Islam did this.

Not radical, jihadist, terrorist, fundamentalist, extremist Islamism. Just Islam.

Islam is Islam—and it is pure evil.

And for the New Yorkers who have forgotten that, may you get EVERYTHING that your shameful, idiotic actions deserve.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

I couldn’t agree more.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

On 9/11 the FDNY lost 343 of their own.

Not statistics. Sons, fathers, husbands from 75 firehouses across the five boroughs.
121 engine companies and 62 ladder companies answered the call. Every Rescue company in New York went in.
They knew the buildings were coming down and they went in anyway.
That’s who they were. That’s who we lost.

Never forget.

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

September 7, 2011: Coastal Carolina head football coach David Bennett: “Be a dog. We need more dogs.”

[VikeFans @VikeFans]

Take a moment, grab a tissue and listen to the final portion of John Madden's eulogy to Pat Summerall. The most heartfelt words, come from the toughest of men. Class act. Those two men meant so much to Viking football. One Minute long.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Harry Caray, Bill Murray, and Wrigley Field. What more do you want? Ok, cold beer. We got that too.

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

A montage of some funny, strange, memorable, classic moments from ABC's Monday Night Football

[Carl DeMaio @carldemaio]

BREAKING: CA Voter ID just got our Prop #

Here's our new campaign logo - share it and tell people to support at https://t.co/TFn2RnSajd

[DDub @dwilknson]

@BillMelugin_ Taking tax payers dollars to not only match but quintuple down on her campaign is a complete misappropriation of funds and is highly unethical and should be illegal and criminally punishable. Anyone remember that fire last year? This is insane.