Mitchel Pierce

USMC Vet./Proud Father of 5 Die Hard OkState/49ers fans!! 💪💪💪 Lover of Survivor and Amazing Race.

[Mitchel Pierce @MitchelPierce33]

@DarealKjones20 Them 80 ratings going to be 90s by year 2!!

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@ALglyix @bigdawggtjj Honestly game 1-3 was great Reffing 4 was completely awful and 5 was all over the place. The consistency isn't there. But 5 was still 10x better than 4. But thats what the extender does.

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@Lobs_All_Day Is this a Grant Cohen burner?

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@Israel49erMtz @GrenadiAdrian @Coach_Yac Well seeing as he played at Okstate and Washington St. Where he was successful he has popularity. He's a stud just not a big name on a big team hype.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[Mitchel Pierce @MitchelPierce33]

Do my eyes need check or is this tackling in spring at OSU?? 😍😍😍😍

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Y’all gotta see this

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@WrestlingSNL Is this why Penn ducked OSU all year?

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@raidersdavid24 @Coach_Yac @LombardiHimself He's not Grant C.

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@osuzack

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@LeVeonBell "Caddo Lake" slower pace, but great twist.
The original "SAW" another good twist.
"Weapons"
Some good series "Midnight Mass" "Fall of the House of Usher" "Haunting of Hill House"

[Mitchel Pierce @MitchelPierce33]

@BreeceH Ah its good. But I like "The Hobbit" series more.

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@McclainBaxley Sheesh anything lower than since?

[First Things First @FTFonFS1]

.@Chris_Broussard decided to be the voice of the people after seeing @getnickwright’s Mountain:

“Mahomes can’t be #1.”

[First Things First @FTFonFS1]

“I don’t know what to do about Justin Herbert. I do know he is now in the Tier of, ‘Yeah, don’t actually care what you do next season’ and he knows it."

@getnickwright brought back all QBs to reveal where things stand on Mahomes Mountain at the end of this season 🏔️👀

[Mitchel Pierce @MitchelPierce33]

@TheCinesthetic Finding Nemo

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I want to win as well but everyone expects us to be in the tourny just like that. We have shown progress and Lutz has shown us improvement. But to say he needs to be on the hot seat because hes not winning against the toughest conference in College basketball is ridiculous

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Im sorry a coach in year 2 after a late entry shows success, now on year 2 has over 14 wins but shows the team still needs growth, has started putting together a top10 recruiting class and everyone wants to write him off because we arent Iowa state, Arizona, or Tech yet. Pathetic

[Mitchel Pierce @MitchelPierce33]

@Coach_Yac He needs to get healthy and they need to play him already