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God, fishing, hunting, Texas, football, baseball, fishing, hunting, sushi, fishing and hunting, and fishing. Hookem!

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

Matthew 11:15: "He who has ears, let him hear"

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

Islam was prophesied in the Bible multiple times.

Watch this.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Charlie Sheen reveals the time he spent $7,000 on 2,200 seats to catch a Cecil Fielder home run

“That was April 1996. I did it for Cecil Fielder. In Anaheim at the Big A”

“I called because I wanted to sit in that section. They said, ‘Well, that section’s closed. It’s an underattended game.’ I said, ‘Okay, what about this? How many seats are in that section?’”

“They were like, ‘Uh, 2,200.’ And I said, ‘What if I wanted to buy all of them? What kind of break could you cut me? What kind of deal could you swing?’ I think it came out to something like $7,000”

“It was left field. I wanted to force the hand of the baseball gods and not just catch a foul ball, but catch a home run ball. I figured if I’ve got the entire left-field stands with a couple buddies of mine, I’ve stacked the deck”

“We were hammered. We barely made it to the game. There’s also a great shot in Sports Illustrated of me standing like this with a glove and the empty stands behind me”

“We didn’t catch anything that night. And the next night, not just in that section, but in our seats, four home runs were hit. You can’t force the hand of the baseball gods”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

FROM THE LAST FOUR IN TO ITS FIRST TRIP TO THE MCWS!

What a run to Omaha for @TroyTrojansBSB 👏

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

How can you not love baseball?!?

[ESPN @espn]

Take it all in, West Virginia 💛

For the first time ever, those country roads lead straight to Omaha‼️

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

Brilliant. Simple is powerful

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

When I was with the St. Louis Cardinals, we had a team meeting about hitting with two strikes.

Albert Pujols was leading it.

At the time, he was hitting something ridiculous with two strikes.

I want to say it was around .265.

Naturally, everyone wanted to know how.

So somebody asked:

"What's your two-strike approach?"

Albert's answer surprised me.

He said:

"I think fastball inside and hit it back through the middle."

That was it.

No complicated mechanics.

No secret formula.

Just:

Fastball inside.

Back through the middle.

I remember sitting there thinking:

"Why would you think fastball inside with two strikes?"

So somebody asked him.

And Albert said something I'll never forget.

He said:

"If I can hit a fastball inside back through the middle..."

"I can hit the fastball away."

"I can stay on the changeup."

"I can stay on the slider."

"I can stay on the curveball."

Then he paused.

And said:

"The ball gets deeper."

That's when it clicked for me.

He wasn't trying to pull the inside fastball.

He was using one thought to cover everything.

The more I thought about it...

The more it made sense.

So I started trying it.

And it changed the way I thought about hitting with two strikes.

Instead of worrying about every pitch...

I focused on one.

Fastball inside.

Back through the middle.

See it DEEP.

If you're struggling with two strikes, here's what I'd do tonight:

Round 1: Short Box

(Set the distance somewhere between front toss and batting practice.)

Have a coach throw only fastballs inside.

Your only thought:

"Fastball inside."

Drive the ball back through the middle.

10 swings.

Round 2: Mix Speeds

Now the coach mixes:

- Fastballs
- Changeups
- Breaking balls
- Sliders

But your thought never changes.

You're still looking:

"Fastball inside."

10 swings.

Round 3: Two-Strike BP

Every pitch starts 0-2.

Compete.

Battle.

Use the same approach.

"Fastball inside."

Back through the middle.

10 swings.

That's it.

30 focused swings.

One thought.

One approach.

One goal.

Drive the baseball back through the middle.

One thing I've learned:

Most hitters get worse with two strikes because they add thoughts.

Albert got better because he removed them.

With two strikes, simplicity is a weapon.

Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis

P.S. - If you enjoyed this and thought it was helpful, please share it.

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[Texas @NoahsArkc]

🔥 Fire

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

Teagan Kavan is the ONLY player in WCWS history to be named Most Outstanding Player twice 🤘🔥

@TexasSoftball

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

As a former college and professional athlete, this is painful to read. Players need to keep their parents in check.

[Longhorn Baseball News @HornsBsblNews]

Travis Chesnuts mom speaks on the future of Aggie Baseball… yikes.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

TEXAS REIGNS SUPREME 🤘

The Longhorns are back-to-back national champions 🏆

@TexasSoftball

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

Hooookem! Light the tower!

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

@TexasBrick 👀 🏆

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

Unreal

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

Jesus fucking christ the SPLC organized the Charlottesville rally and paid $300K to transport people there hahahahaha

[NCAA Softball @NCAASoftball]

Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️

📺 ESPN

#WCWS x @TexasSoftball

[Nash @NashTalksTexas]

KYLE PETERSON IS CALLING OUR GAMES 🤘🥳

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Holy fuckin’ shit I would like to report a murder!

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

😂💀 Insurance agent just casually dropped the most HOOD financial advice of all time:

“If you got a kid who likes to shoot people, bar folks, or stay in crazy situations… put ’em in a $100k life insurance policy for $25 a month. They get clapped THIS weekend? You getting a check, fam.”

This man said “be prepared… for the streets”

😭 Bro turned drive-bys into passive income.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

POV: You're walking through the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia during lunch 🤨

Judge Elenor Ross is getting railed out in her "chamber" by the deputy chief of the Atlanta police department, Kelley Collier.

When the initial accusations came to light at the end of last week, Judge Ross said they were "outrageous and made up."

They're both lawyered up now as the DOJ has launched an "investigation."

Don't be an entitled married degenerate and have loud sex with a prominent also married man in your chambers during lunch accordingly...

#CityLife #atlanta #police #corruption #judge #cops #19th #crime #georgia #Depravity #degeneracy #perversion #urban #democrats #entitlement

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

@OccupyLF She didn’t need to jump. She just misses it

[Texas @NoahsArkc]

Goose bumps

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

WVU walks it off & has the entire stadium singing Country Roads

Chills