Chris Sanders

Huge WKU fan, former basketball & football coach and follower of Jesus. Former USAF Security Police

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@Sassafrass_84 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸!!!!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@AmericaPapaBear Got why he deserved, but gu in the orange needs to shut up! Talking and walking like he’s doing something. Man shut up, your friend is the one who laid it down, not you.

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

⁉️Did You Know?⁉️

The U.S. Constitution never mentions Democrats or Republicans.

In fact, many of America’s Founders were deeply suspicious of political parties altogether.

George Washington never joined a political party and warned that parties could divide Americans into rival factions more loyal to their side than to their country.

In his Farewell Address, Washington cautioned that political parties would eventually become powerful enough to put partisan interests ahead of the public good, inflame divisions, and allow ambitious politicians to gain influence by turning Americans against one another.

More than 230 years later, political parties influence nearly every aspect of government:

• Who can realistically run for office
• How legislation is written and voted on
• Committee assignments
• Campaign fundraising
• Even how many Americans view their neighbors

Many voters today identify first as Republicans or Democrats before identifying as Americans. Our Nation was designed to be America First. 🇺🇸

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@RedsDaily4 If Bleday is not selected on the NL team, it will be an injustice!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@GuntherEagleman @RestrictedDaily Bum Phillips

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@HawkEmDownChris Dave Concepcion!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@DidRedsWin

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@nut_history Brooks Robinson

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@WilliamShatner @RobManess William Shatner IS James T. Kirk. There could never be another!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@VinnysCorner1 Joe Morgan

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@mrojaycutler From a Kentuckian, you still haven’t tried the real KFC. Once the Sanders family sold it, the recipe changed and it’s no where near as good!

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[LanceMcAlister @LanceMcAlister]

I don’t know about you, but I needed this #Reds off day.

I’m tired of watching this team and saying “what was that?” I’m flat worn out by this organization.

With the exception of late inning heroics on Tuesday night, the Reds appeared a combination of dazed, tired, disinterested and lacking energy vs a woeful Kansas City team.

The slivers of moments offered like Tuesday night simply aren’t enough. Hell, the slivers of moments offered since 1995 aren’t enough.

This is a franchise that has not won more than 83 games in a season since winning 90 in 2013. Butler math makes that 13 years ago. This franchise not only hasn’t won a single home playoff game in the existence of GABP, it hasn’t won a playoff series since 1995.

This organization is broken. It’s been broken. And I have zero confidence in anyone being capable of fixing it, Not ownership. Not the President of Baseball Operations. And I didn’t figure to say this, but not the Hall-of-Fame manager to be.

This organization continues to spin the wheel of transactions. Cycling guys up and down, onto the roster, off the roster, into the lineup, out of the lineup. They DFA’d three pitchers inside of 24 hours this week.

Exactly what kind of organization building is Nick Krall doing when the answer is Yunior Marte? Stop it. Yesterday, Triple-A Louisville pitchers walked 14 batters and allowed 18 runs. Low-A Daytona is 19-34 and has been outscored by 90 runs. Please, stop it.

Meanwhile, Terry Francona continues trying to force square pegs into round holes, and appears unwilling to uproot the flag of loyalty he’s planted for too many players.

But this truly is a ‘team’ effort. While this roster no doubt lacks enough MLB talent. There is no question multiple players are simply not holding up their end of this.

As for injuries, the Reds can get in line. Every team in MLB is hurt. The week started with 255 MLB players on the IL, and 13 teams had more IL players than the Reds.

What’s most galling is that all of this appears to be acceptable to the organization. I continue to wait for someone, from the front office up, to come out and publicly declare what is happening as 'unacceptable'....and that the fans deserve better.

Last week, Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of a poor outing by rookie pitcher Brandon Sproat: "We're not going to tolerate too many duds like this, that's for sure. If he's not going to step up — we're trying to win. We're not rebuilding."

So refreshing.

Guardians GM Mike Chernoff recently told MLB Radio that he won’t use the MLB economic system as an excuse: “Whatever the system is, we have to find a way around it. We have to do things differently. We have to find a way to win. We’ve made the playoffs 7 of the last 10 years, with a World Series appearance, and an ALCS.

What a concept.

People often asked me, ‘How do the Rays and Brewers find ways to win?’ Survey says: Because they know what they are doing.

The model for the Reds is driven by hope. Hope to stay healthy. Hope to eliminate the peaks and valley’s. Hope to get to the .500 range. Hope to grab the sixth and final playoff spot each season.

I need a nap.

Wake me up when the Reds decide to get serious about winning.

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@HawkEmDownChris The GOAT Johnny Bench!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@realdefender45 Huh? Wow, that’s crazy! Wow, just wow!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@VinnysCorner1 Bob Griese

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@HawkEmDownChris Peter Edward Rose!

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@LauraLoomer tell me this doesn’t tug your heartstrings! 💯❤️🥰

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Golden retriever puppy heals rescued kitten in just three days..🐕🐾🐈😊

[Chris Sanders @redlanternWKU]

@realdefender45 Raining in NC, about to fly home to Ky. It’s raining there too!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”

We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.

The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.

Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.