Grand1

✝️| Husband and proud father of 3| Softball dad | Illini, Steelers, Cards, Blues fanatic | Golfer and fisherman in a former life

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

So much fun watching you do your thing Em! https://t.co/a6DCllg78A

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

That was fun Soph! Cousin @paige_brayy is a beast and a great one to learn from!

[Sophia Grandone @Sophiagrandone8]

Thank you @stlheatzimmer for allowing me to play up with your team this weekend!! I had so much fun and got some hits, stolen bases, and some good reps in the field. I also was so happy to get to play with my cousin @paige_brayy!
@JasonGrandone @em_grandone @hittingdevelop

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

Proud of you girls for battling short handed this weekend. Hopefully we get healthy just in time for nationals! Keep up the work kid!

[Sophia Grandone @Sophiagrandone8]

Had another great weekend with my team with @TopGunEvents in Matoon.
Avg: .444
OBP: .545
1 Hr
1 double
2 RBI
2 runs
1 stolen base
@hittingdevelop @JasonGrandone @em_grandone

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

Go Em! You’ve got to avoid that friendly fire in warm ups!

[Emily Grandone @em_grandone]

Had a great time battling with my girls at scenic city. Missed the last bracket game due to a ball to the jaw, but will be back at it again soon. Next up is the TopGun Patriot in Peoria. Here are stats & clips from the weekend
@ChaosNTL08 @hittingdevelop
.429 AVG
5 RBI
3 Runs

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

Wish you could’ve finished that last game. One of these weekends the 🌧️ will stay away! Go Chaos!

[Sophia Grandone @Sophiagrandone8]

My team and I had a great weekend at the @TopGunEvents gateway showcase this weekend. I ended up throwing a runner out from right field and center as well! @hittingdevelop @JasonGrandone

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

@Sophiagrandone8 Keep pushing Soph!

[Sophia Grandone @Sophiagrandone8]

Had a great weekend in Indiana with my team! Unfortunately we got rained out today and had to go home early.

[PremierHittingD @hittingdevelop]

Great job @Sophiagrandone8 !! Proud of you kid!!

[Payton Bechaud 2029 @PaytonBechaud29]

I had so much fun in Indiana with my team this weekend!! Unfortunately we got rained out today but we battled really hard the rest of the weekend. Here are my stats and some highlights!!
AVG - .583
OBP - .583
RBI - 1
H - 7

[PremierHittingD @hittingdevelop]

Great weekend at the plate for PhD student @PaytonBechaud29 ! Great job kiddo!

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

@em_grandone @Team1_fastpitch @ChaosNTL08 @SoftballDown @hittingdevelop

[Emily Grandone @em_grandone]

Had a lot of fun battling with my team at the @Team1_fastpitch Elite Invite in KC this weekend! We played lots of close games with great competition! Here are my stats from the weekend ⬇️ @ChaosNTL08 @SoftballDown

.583 AVG
.643 OBP
.917 SLG
2 Walks
4 2Bs
5 R
3 SBs

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[St Louis Chaos 16U Laurrell @ChaosNTL08]

End of pool play at the @Team1_fastpitch Elite Club Invite.

Top AVG after pool:
@EmilyGriffith08 .600
@em_grandone .556
@darleighw2027 .455
@grace_key1208 .417

Wheels on the bases:
@KeelyOtto11 3SB
@grace_key1208 2SB
@em_grandone 2SB

Bracket Play 8:00 Field 17 3&2 West

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Emily Grandone @em_grandone]

Slow start at the plate on Friday, but came back strong on Saturday and ended the weekend batting .300 in the Alliance Fastpitch Central Championship. In the field I had 17 total chances and had a 1.000 FPCT. Here are some clips from the weekend! ⬇️ @ChaosNTL08

[St Louis Chaos 16U Laurrell @ChaosNTL08]

@em_grandone flashing some glove work this weekend in the Alliance Central Championships at 2B and put a body on the ground for her team!

#ChaosYouKnow

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

@em_grandone Arm looking healthy, getting that confidence and swag back play by play and AB by AB! Have fun doing what you love this summer kid.

[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

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[Grand1 @JasonGrandone]

@Sophiagrandone8 So proud of what you are willing to go through every day just to be out there! Keep fighting kid 💪🏻🥎