This week, I will reach out to the Dayton players who have not yet announced their plans for next season to see if they plan to stay at Dayton or enter the portal. First to get back to me freshman guard Jaron McKie, who told me he is staying at Dayton.
@parlaypyle With Sullivan on leave, Spina announcing his retirement and the fact that AGs son has one more year at UD, my prediction is it’s status quo one more season.
Per #Reds
Reds former All-Star First Baseman and Franchise Icon Joey Votto has gifted the City of Cincinnati, the Reds and the fans a custom-built Verdin street clock as a thank you for their support during his 22 years with the Reds organization.
“I am excited about giving the Clock to the city, the team and its fans,” said Votto. “Being the oldest professional team, I wanted this Clock to add to the charm and mystique of the Cincinnati Reds experience.”
Crafted by Cincinnati’s The Verdin Company, the Clock stands 16 feet, 8 inches tall with four 36‑inch dials, and is located on Crosley Terrace, just outside the main ballpark entrance.
“We are incredibly grateful and honored to have this beautiful Clock adorn the front gates,” said Reds President and CEO Phil Castellini. “Joey made us proud every time he stepped onto the field. And this one-of-a-kind gift from him will continue to inspire and excite everyone who sees it.”
The Clock is finished in the official Reds Pantone red with white trim. The top finial is hand‑painted to resemble a baseball, and each Clock face includes “Cincinnati” across the top and “Reds” along the bottom. The faces feature Roman numerals and the iconic Reds wishbone “C” centered on each dial.
“There will continue to be massive moments happening at the ballpark in the future, and people making new memories,” Votto said. “I hope that I can still be part of it in some way, knowing the Clock adds character to this special place.”
Additionally, the clock head features speakers that can play hourly chimes and a wide range of music, including Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
“Joey wanted the Clock to enhance our shared love of baseball, so we are collaborating with Joey and Verdin for fun ways to integrate it into our games,” said Castellini.
At the base of the Clock, a bronze plaque honors Votto’s contribution. The plaque reads: “Thank you Cincinnati” with Joey Votto’s signature underneath it.
“Joey was involved in planning every detail. He wanted his thank you gift to be a showstopper and we are thrilled with how it turned out,” said The Verdin Company CEO Bob Verdin III.
This post went crazy viral because it’s common sense
“No, diversity is not our strength. Like, look around. Do you think that it's actually working? Does it look like it's actually working? Because every country that's gone in on multiculturalism is dealing with the same exact problems:
Whether that's segregated communities that do not mix, whether that's rising cultural tensions, whether that's parallel societies with totally different values, or people living in the same country but with zero sense of unity. And you also have governments that are constantly trying to manage conflict instead of building progress. That's what diversity leads to. That's what multiculturalism leads to.
Now, let's look at Japan. Japan did not sign up for that Western experiment that is failing terribly. Japan said no to open-ended immigration, no to mass cultural importing, no to the idea that a country should bend its identity to please everyone else on Earth. Japan built its society around unity, right? Shared culture, shared expectations, and actual social cohesion. If you wanna live there, you assimilate. You join their culture. You don't show up and demand they change to fit you. You don't get a separate set of rules or a separate identity group inside of the country.
And the results have spoken for themselves. Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. They have insanely high levels of social trust. They have safe streets. They have a stable society with almost no internal ethnic conflict. They have a world-class economy and innovation without importing millions of people from everywhere else across the world.
Look, I'm not against diversity in any capacity, but I am extremely 100% against the idea that diversity is our strength, that more diversity means more success. It doesn't
— Multiculturalism in the West has created a competition, not a community. It's everyone fighting for themselves, trying to protect their group, their language, their values, instead of being one nation. And the more diverse that it gets, the more divided everything becomes.
And you can see this with the political polarization, the riots, the protests, the constant outrage and the breakdown of citizenship and its trust in the government.
The issue isn't immigration. It's importing cultures that refuse to assimilate and then pretending that calling it diversity magically fixes the consequences. Diversity itself isn't the issue, but the issue is pretending that there's like this equal equation in correlation to where when you increase diversity, it always comes with an increase in success and strength, which simply isn't true. Some diversity can be good, but it is not the case that the more diversity you have, the more successful your country will be.”