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Another big @JPPetersonshow LIVE 10-Noon

Are the @buccaneers Super Bowl Contenders? @PewterReport Scott Reynolds
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Are the First place @RaysBaseball World Series contenders?

Germany and Dutch ousted at World Cup!! Watch here on X/Youtube/Facebook

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

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As Junior predicted!! He’s POW!

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Junior Caminero wins AL Player of the Week.

Over his 7 games, he hit 7 HR with 15 RBI and slashed .423/.500/1.231 with a 1.731 OPS. 14 Hard-Hit balls, a 96.7 MPH Avg EV, and a 355 wRC+ sound like a pretty good week in the box.

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At a time when our founding fathers are being trashed by Democrat Socialists intent on creating a Constitutional Crisis by continuing to IGNORE the laws/rulings they do not agree with, let’s remember how incredibly courageous they were!

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250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal.

This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city.

Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle.

The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed.

That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

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@Mets_KH4theWin @RaysForeverHome They more serious the talk gets, the more detractors will surface. Orlando has way more issues than Tampa. The biggest hurdle, MLB clearly prefers Tampa Bay.

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Governor Ron DeSantis supports the @RaysForeverHome in Tampa but warning other cities are praying Tampa Bay screws this up!

Let’s close the deal!

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THE TREMENDOUS TRIO!

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"The combination of Yandy Díaz, Junior Caminero and Jonathan Aranda is as good as anybody in baseball..."

- Mark DeRosa on the @RaysBaseball star trio

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@TakesOfJake It was only one owner and he was the problem.

This is a whole new ballgame

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And there it is! The Rays Deal is almost done! Today the Governor signed the budget allocating $50 Million to Hillsborough College!

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.@GovRonDeSantis holding press conference at 9:00 a.m. at @HCCFL.

DeSantis expected to sign state budget, which would include $50M in PECO money for Hillsborough College as part of @RaysStadium deal.

Makes sense this is where DeSantis would sign budget.

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@jkmoncol 😂😂👍👍

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Today @GovRonDeSantis signed the State budget allocating the first $50 Million to @HCCFL $100 million to follow. HC President Dr. Ken Atwater explains what @RaysForeverHome means for our community.

Rays Stadium Deal Is Bigger Than Baseball | Dr. Ken Atwater Joins JP https://t.co/ziB09lRPN0 via @YouTube

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Fun show today! Erik Erlendsson with Lightning Draft Reaction,

Jeff Attinella on USMNT, Rowdies and World Cup Knockouts & Rays On Fire | JP Peterson Show | Fan Stream Sports https://t.co/7uiRtOa8NA

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@AuraAd_Pr No, he’s only one vote. Thankfully his ignorance want stop this incredible opportunity from happening

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@feckingm Cause that’s how the world works. In a Capitalist economy with a working government these partnerships are a must in any major development especially one of this size.

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@PenaltyTalk Dm me

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@mowtownmower Yes that’s correct. It’s the first stage of allocation and shovels in the ground! Hard to turn back now!

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@jkmoncol lol! I wish I had a dime for every time you’ve tweeted me that!

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@cla51678409 The swing votes are Carlson and Maniscalco and the word is they are getting the answers and changes they need to vote yes.

Because the deal is too good to pass up it’s just a matter of educating and negotiating to their needs. It’s happening

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250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.