Greg Howe

Lawncare Manager at Greenwood Tree and Lawn • UMass '11 • Quinnipiac '09

[Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN]

The game of the year, without a doubt, and one of the greatest regular-season games ever.

The Chicago White Sox held a lead within every inning from the third inning through the 12th on Thursday night -- 10 straight innings of leads. And lost in the 13th.

What a win for the Red Sox.

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

Red Sox were down 2-0.
Red Sox were down 4-0.
Red Sox were down 4-2.
Red Sox were down 5-2.
Red Sox were down 5-3.
Red Sox were down 7-5.
Red Sox were down 7-6.
Red Sox were down 9-7.
Red Sox were down 9-8.
Red Sox were down 10-9.
Red Sox were down 11-10.

Red Sox won the game.

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

All this to try and beat one man

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. The veteran actor was found dead in his Bronx residence today, Aug. 1, by a neighbor after he had not been heard from for the past three days. The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated.

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[Bayer 04 Leverkusen @bayer04_en]

SHOWTIME MALIK 🤩🌟

#FIFAWorldCup

[Céad Míle Fáilte @ColeyMick]

Jaylen Brown thank you for everything you gave to the Celtics and more importantly the city of Boston. Never in my life have I seen an athlete embrace the city the way you did and that will never be forgotten.

[Chaps @UncleChaps]

Give me 20 degrees outside over 90+ any day of the week

[Greg Howe @gmhowe87]

@TheEvertonEnd Told my buddy that the price just doubled and he’llend up at spurs or united

[Greg Howe @gmhowe87]

@coachesser Absolute stunner.

[Greg Howe @gmhowe87]

@FreddyLA7 Cc @BarstoolBigCat

[Greg Howe @gmhowe87]

@TheFourthPeriod Don’t understand the obsession with peeke. Easily replaceable depth defenseman. Let him go

[Underdog @Underdog]

Chris Richards passes completed this World Cup:

91/95 (96%) vs. Australia
84/84 (100%) vs. Paraguay

Only 4 misplaced passes across 180 minutes of play 🤯

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

Portuguese players trying to get Ronaldo a hat-trick tomorrow

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

You see an escalator at the Boston Garden, Norwegians see the opportunity to get in some rowing reps

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Waking up this morning…pure bliss.

Hey @USMNT let’s keep this thing rolling because THAT IS FUN!!!!!!

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.

You were never taught his name.

June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.

They were wrong.

That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.

There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.

Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.

He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.

Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.

Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.

Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.

Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.

Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.

No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

WELCOME TO THE PATRIOTS A.J. BROWN‼️

[The Bobble @ElBobble]

For every lung-bursting run, every tackle, every word of leadership, and the unmatched loyalty you have shown this club for over a decade and a half, you gave us your prime, you protected us in our darkest hours, and you showed us what true leadership looks like. You will forever be sixty grand well spent. Thank you, Captain 🔵

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.