@JeffDLowe They definitely won’t. Not with the labor issues and change in ownership coming. Just gotta hope todays lineup gets better when the rooks get more time
“Let’s put it this way, if the Yankees, Dodgers and Mets are in the Playoffs, we’ll be playing Tuesday at 8:30 in the morning.” - #Guardians Hall of Fame play-by-play man Tom Hamilton just now on the radio. 🤣🤣🤣😆
The Cleveland Guardians are going to the postseason after drawing a walk-off hit-by-pitch in the ninth. Perfectly emblematic for a team that was left for dead and rode an incredible September to the final AL playoff spot. If they win tomorrow, they will be AL Central champions.
If God can take the torture and murder of His Son and turn it into the most beautiful thing in the world, then we always have hope.
Always.
#talkedtotheboss
I Would Have Liked Charlie to Have Those Years
By Patrick Madrid
Charlie Kirk should have had decades still ahead of him. He should have been given the time to keep sharpening his voice, to build up the next generation with truth, and to keep defending the values he believed in. Instead, his life was cut
short by an assassin’s bullet.
And so, I find myself saying and praying what I would have liked.
I would have liked to hear Charlie grow even stronger in convincing people of the
truth.
I would have liked his powerful intellectual and rhetorical gifts to have matured into something even stronger than what we had already seen.
He was only beginning to reach his stride as a commentator and cultural leader, and I would have liked to see how far he could have gone in the service of the truth.
I would have liked him to be steady at his wife and family’s side through every storm. He was a young man, with small children at home and so much more to live for.
I would have liked him to live to see those children grow tall, to walk with them into adulthood, and to bless them on their wedding days.
I would have liked him and his wife Erika to grow old together, to enjoy the sweetness of a long and happy marriage.
I would have liked him to live long enough to hold more children in his arms, if God had granted them, and then to see grandchildren playing at his feet. The beauty of a life fully lived, one that was stolen from him, and from them. And from us.
I would have liked Charlie Kirk to keep writing, keep speaking, keep encouraging and building the courage of the young men and women and so many others who listened to him and looked up to him.
I would have liked him to grow old with a seasoned strength, gray in his hair, and the wisdom that comes from long experience. A blessing from God.
I would have liked him to keep walking beside this hurting, polarized, uncertain and faltering country, reminding us that conviction matters more than applause and that the truth is always more powerful than lies.
I would have liked to watch him carry that conviction across the decades, becoming not only a voice of youthful fire but of seasoned wisdom for the ages.
And above all, I would have liked Charlie to have lived long enough to see his family grow in peace, to grow old with the woman he loved, to rejoice in his children’s lives, and to one day welcome his grandchildren.
That is what he was robbed of. That is what his wife and children were robbed of. And that is what all of us, who valued his presence in the public square, were robbed of yesterday.
Charlie Kirk had so much more to give. Only God knows how much more.
He should have been allowed to see those years through. Instead, his voice was silenced suddenly, and we are left with the ache of what might have been and the memory of who he was and why he did what he did to help others.
I would have liked him to live out the story God had written for him.
I would have liked us all to have been given those years with him among us, years that were stolen, when Charlie still had so much left to give.
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
Joanna Schveder, a teacher at @CHUHSchools posted that she hopes Charlie “never finds rest and always suffer in eternity. That’s karma.”
Any comment @CHUHSchools?