Jonathan Ma

Husband, father, runner. Seeking to understand before trying to be understood. Business development, merchandising, and a lot more at

[Elevation Pictures @Elevation_Pics]

“I PLAY ROCKY is a masterpiece.” The incredible true story behind the making of Rocky opens in Toronto November 13, everywhere November 20.

[Rick Dhaliwal @DhaliwalSports]

Caleb Maholtra

Wow

#Canucks

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I believe the greatest gift you can give your kids is a calm home. It’s not the big house or the best toys that stick with them. It’s a place where they feel safe. Where mistakes are met with patience. Where voices stay low. Where hard conversations are always followed by repair. Kids absorb everything. Create peace and they'll carry it for life.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

He's waited decades for this. He's never stopped believing. This is a dream come true.

Enjoy this clip. He's everybody's dad tonight.

#brewcrew #mlb #milwaukeebrewers

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The single fastest way to improve your entire life is to sign up for a physical side quest. Race. Competition. Adventure. Whatever. Your day becomes more structured with the training. You sleep deeper because you're tired. You eat cleaner. You look better. You feel better. Everything falls into alignment. It's a psychological process disguised as a physical one.

[George Michalowski @MichalowskiCBB]

Highly recommend taking four minutes of your day and listening to this speech by Ernie Johnson

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Pat Murphy's full speech to the Brewers after they won the World Series will bring a tear to your eye ❤️🥺

(via @Brewers)

[Taylor Holiday @TaylorHoliday]

Pat Murphy changed the course of my life, more than any other person...

And I hated him for it for a long time.

Quick story about how getting kicked off the ASU baseball team in college changed the course of my life for the better.

These last few weeks have been weird for me.

Watching this person who I had such a challenging relationship with get celebrated endlessly in the media is a weird phenomenon.

Out of high school I signed a scholarship to play baseball at Arizona State. Much to mother's dismay i turned down more "educationally oriented" opportunities to play for the #1 team in the country.

It was baseball heaven. The walls covered with the retired numbers of all time legends, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson etc. etc.

My freshman year my roommate was Dustin Pedroia!

You couldn't ask for anything better as a 18 year-old dreaming of becoming a pro.

Murph was tough. No non-sense, kind of a dick, but the kind of coach you really want approval from. (I see this even in the Brewers players today)

My freshman year I didn't get to play, I was pissed, felt like I deserved a shot but there were more senior guys that he felt like deserved continued chances even when they struggled. He was always very loyal to "his guys".

There began to develop this sort of weird divide on the team between the older and younger players. The freshman were all very close and a few of us resented some of the chances repeatedly given to the older guys.

In addition, we were immature, partied too much, didn't take school serious enough and acted entitled. (I can see this now in reflection).

The culmination of all this internal conflict manifested after the "Rookie Show". A tradition at ASU where all the freshman had to make comedy skits and perform them in front of the whole team.

A group of us freshman made a video mocking the "Leadership Team", a group of juniors/seniors that met together with murph after practices.

Bad idea.

I remember playing the video and no one laughing. Terribly awkward.

The night ended and I didn't think too much of it, dumb skit but whatever.

The next day Murph called me up to his office and told me he was kicking me off the team.

He said it was the most offensive skit he'd seen in all his years and that someone needed to take the blame and he believed I was the ring leader.

I'll never forget leaving that office and walking home.

I was mortified.

My whole life was just flipped upside down.

I ended up transferring to UCI, where we made the school's first ever run to the college world series where we eliminated ASU and Murph in a walk off win in the 13th inning.

It was peak redemption arc for me personally.

That same week I was drafted by the yankees, got to play in Charleston, where I met my wife and the rest is sort of history.

A real butterfly effect moment on how my life could have been different.

For so long I had such a negative view of my experience with Murph. I thought I got screwed.

But when you watch someone succeed at so many levels, ultimately ascending to the highest level of the profession, while being adored by everyone around them you have to stop and reflect on whether or not YOU might have been the problem.

Regardless the wound is long healed and I have come to appreciate the experience.

So cheers Murph CONGRATS on an incredible run.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.

Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.

I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.

He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.

In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.

When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.

Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.

Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.

If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.

He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.

So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.

[Carter Lowe @carterl0we]

Jake Bauers gifted Pat Murphy the final out ball. Murphy thanked him and told him

“You’re gonna be a rich fucker. Just remember when you’re on that horse shit Yankee team and you’re all playing for yourselves….just remember this is way we used to do it”

#ThisIsMyCrew

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Charles Barkley and the guys give Ernie Johnson his flowers. This is a must watch.

(via @ohnohedidnt24)

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.

A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.

Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”

Excuse me, but…what?

Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.

When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!

Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.

Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

William Contreras and ABS: Pure Cinema. 🎬

All from Game 3.

[bill durham @BDurhamSports]

"'I have no life, I love baseball' - Alex Rodriguez"

- Me

[Ernie Johnson @TurnerSportsEJ]

It’s time.
🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽

[CHRIS TORELLO 𝕏 @TorelloSports]

Ken Rosenthal: “was it important to win one just to show you’re on this level?”

I’m so glad Taylor Walls laughed and told him it was disrespectful.

Rosenthal knows what he was asking.

We get it - the MLB media thinks the Brewers are amazing!

#RaysUp

[Clint Murphy @IAmClintMurphy]

Premier, Doerkson,

Something you may have heard through the campaign that's been very challenging for BC homebuilders is the deficiency in the deal struck by the NDP relative to Ontario.

Specifically, the NDP had suggested a bailout fund, while our neighbors back East were able to secure a reduction in DCCs and no GST on homes under $1.5 million.

With the real estate industry in shambles and no certainty in sight, simply matching the Ontario deal would go a long way to helping standing inventory move into the hands of homeowners and allow us to build more homes, for the future.

[Matthew Sekeres @mattsekeres]

New batting cages #AtTheNat under the new right-field terrace. Will eventually be rented out to community ball teams & for kids birthday parties. @vancanadians

[Sitka Media @sitkamedia]

Premier-elect Lorne Doerkson shares a message to British Columbians at his first post-election press conference:

“Too many British Columbians have stopped believing that government can get anything done — my job is to prove them wrong.”

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

Read her full speech: BC Greens leader Emily Lowan attacks incoming Conservative majority government.

"We are the only party who is equipped to stand against the Conservatives and their existence."

"I’m scared for what’s to come." #bcpoli #vanpoli

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