Juneteenth weekend in Chicago:
-40 people shot
-8 people dead
-1 mass shooting with 13 shot including children
Everyone involved was black, no police were involved.
No protests from BLM, no outrage from Democrat Politicians, and no wall to wall media coverage.
Total silence.
The MLB commissioner is lying to you when he claims MLB prohibits any and all alterations of uniforms to include political or religious messaging.
In 2020, MLB ignored its own rules and allowed players to add BLM messages to their shoes and uniforms. And if that weren’t absurd enough, MLB even stenciled BLM messaging onto pitchers’ mounds in 2020.
Time for full testimony from the commissioner, under oath, about MLB’s history of violating the law and forcing players to violate their deeply held religious beliefs.
MLB and its franchises hate Christians and deliberately discriminate against them, and they need to be held to account for it.
🇺🇸 The true story behind the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” from a WVU graduate
The song was released in 1971. WVU began the tradition of singing it at games in 1972.
The songwriters, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, got the idea for the song riding down Clopper Road in Montgomery County, Maryland. They are husband and wife.
The songwriters have confirmed the song is about West Virginia. It’s not about Western Virginia.
Bill originally wanted to write the song about his home state of Massachusetts, but couldn’t get the cadence and syllable count right.
Danoff and Nivert opened for John Denver in DC in 1970. Later that night they played the song for Denver who loved it. They all stayed up that night finalizing the lyrics.
John Denver had not yet even been to West Virginia when he recorded the song.
Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River were added because they sounded poetic. They are also physically present in Jefferson County, WV.
Video: John Denver playing Country Roads at dedication of Mountaineer Field in 1980.
It’s a beautiful song and I love hearing it, especially after Mountaineer wins!
Tom Chmielewski and North Carolina are playing to stay alive in the MCWS.
His grandfather, Ed McCarty, played in Omaha with Northeastern 60 years ago and is back at the College World Series to cheer on his grandson and the Tar Heels.
Major League Baseball is becoming unrecognizable at the direction of Rob Manfred.
The new proposed draft rules will be another step in the wrong direction.
It will once again reduce MiLB teams, players and staff.
It will also shrink scouting staffs tremendously.
Some of the best players of all time signed out of high school. They learned how to play professional baseball by playing professional baseball. They learned to hit with a wood bat by swinging a wood bat in professional baseball, not by swinging an aluminum bat in college. They learned to pitch by facing professional hitters and not college hitters.
The proposal says island kids can sign at 18 and American kids can sign at 20, forcing the American kid to attend college. This is the definition of discrimination. What happens to the American kids that don't want to attend college? What about American kids that can't get into a D1 school academically? What about American kids that can't afford a D1 school? A lot of you are thinking the kid can simply go to a junior college and you're right. Although, scouting staffs will be reduced drastically and the amount of draft picks from junior colleges are almost non existent nowadays.
The problem with college baseball compared to college basketball and football is evident if you simply open your eyes.
The racial and ethnic makeup of college basketball and football are exactly like the racial and ethnic makeup of the NBA and NFL. The racial and ethnic makeup of D1 baseball compared to MLB is disgusting.
The American player development system is losing to the Island system. Per capita the Island system is developing players extraordinarily more efficiently than the American system.
Ask yourself a simple question. Are players from Venezuela and Dominican Republic inundated with data, analytics, labs, new terminology, space station nerd alert player development gurus or are they inundated with basic fundamentals and the relentless pursuit of being a great competitor?
United States: Approximately 348–349 million people (live estimates around 348.6 million, with mid-2026 projections near 349 million).
Venezuela: Approximately 28.6 million people (mid-2026 projection around 28.6–28.63 million).
Dominican Republic: Approximately 11.6 million people (mid-2026 projection around 11.6 million).
American baseball development is now driven by ipads, data, analytics and sadly human beings that never actually played the game of baseball. Opinions of organizations like Driveline now trump opinions of people that played in the major leagues and even hall of famers. The new player development system treats former MLB players like trash and people that never played like geniuses that are reinventing the game.
The new draft proposal will continue the trend of America following further behind Island countries when it comes to developing baseball players.
Not only are the Texas Rangers the ONLY team in Major League Baseball that don’t have a Pride Night, they instead celebrate fatherhood by allowing the player’s kids to join them on the field for the National Anthem during Father’s Day.
Every other MLB team should take notes ✍️
The North Carolina baseball dads are all wearing buttons to support Erik Paulsen Jr. on Father’s Day after his dad, Erik Sr., passed away from cancer last July. 🥹💙
Fathers and sons struck out by Nolan Ryan:
Sandy Alomar Sr.
Sandy Alomar Jr.
Roberto Alomar
Bobby Bonds
Barry Bonds
Tito Francona
Terry Francona
Ken Griffey Sr.
Ken Griffey Jr.
Hal McRae
Brian McRae
Tony Perez
Eduardo Perez
Ducky Schofield
Dick Schofield
Maury Wills
Bump Wills