@AdamSchefter Have some journalistic integrity for once. Oh wait you’re a Michigan man, it’s impossible for you to have any integrity at all. The fact you can do what you did with Dwayne Haskins and then type this bullshit. What a cowardly POS you truly are. Should be ashamed of yourself. FAIL
Hey @ufc it’s cool we don’t have to pay for fights anymore but the streaming services with paramount are absolutely atrocious just about every damn time. Fn over it. #dobetter
There was only one night game a year, the whole sky would brighten up with fireworks, giving us just enough light for a game
We played our best then because, I guess, we all felt like the big leaguers under the lights of some great stadium ❤️
Jeff Bezos just said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax.
And honestly? He may have accidentally exposed the entire scam.
Bezos pointed to a nurse in Queens making roughly $75,000 a year and paying around $12,000 in taxes:
“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
Think about how insane this system has become.
A nurse working 12-hour shifts is taxed before she even sees her paycheck while billionaires borrow against appreciating assets, exploit loopholes, and sometimes pay lower effective tax rates than school teachers.
The average American is funding an empire they can barely afford to live in.
Wars.
Interest payments.
Corporate subsidies.
Defense contracts.
Lobbyist wish lists.
Meanwhile the person changing bedpans in Queens gets her paycheck carved up like she’s financing Rome before collapse.
The most dangerous thing Bezos said wasn’t about taxes.
It was admitting out loud that the people carrying the country on their backs are getting crushed while the system tells them it’s “normal.”
The best cultures don’t happen by accident.
They’re built with intention.
Dan Lanning said they spent 4 months defining the DNA of their program before ever putting it on a wall.
4 traits:
Connection - because players fight harder for people they truly know.
Growth - win or lose, it's “growth week.” The standard is always improving.
Toughness - handling hard without flinching.
Sacrifice - being okay with the team winning even when you don’t get the spotlight.
That’s leadership.
Not just demanding standards…
but building an environment where people want to live them out.
@_willcompton Can you imagine how many kids this dude knocked out during his high school ball playing days. Fucking Christ. Way to lay the hammer dahn.
4 words changed a baseball career (and a life)
My junior year, I left a small NAIA school where I was a 2‑year starting shortstop…
To walk on at The Citadel as an ineligible redshirt
I couldn’t play in games
I had no scholarship
And I was surrounded by dudes who were clearly better than me
Friends told me I was insane
“Why give up a starting job?”
“Why go D1 just to sit?”
“Why choose a military school when you could be partying somewhere else?”
Fair questions
Then fall practice started, and reality hit harder
My best friend from high school, Tim Jones, was now the starting shortstop
He would become an All‑American, 2nd‑round pick of the Cardinals, backing up some old guy named Ozzie Smith
Every infield spot was 2–3 deep with studs
One humid afternoon, we were turning double plays
I kept airmailing balls into the first‑base dugout
Coach Chal Port, a legendary old‑school Citadel coach, blew the whistle and screamed:
“SULLIVAN, GET OFF THE FIELD!
YOU’RE F***ING UP A GOOD DRILL!!”
I shuffled into left field foul territory.
“SULLIVAN!! I SAID GET OFF THE F***ING FIELD…
ALL THE WAY!!”
So I stood there
Beyond the foul line
Like a statute
For the rest of practice
Next day, I checked the practice schedule on the bulletin board
My name wasn’t on it
Okay, message received
I went back to the same spot in foul territory
Entire practice
Didn’t move my feet an inch
Day 3
Same thing: no name on the schedule
Same spot
Same invisible ghost‑uniform
By then, I was sure I’d made a colossal mistake transferring into The Citadel
Then came the moment
That day’s batting practice was live against freshman pitchers
They were nervous
After a few wild arms in a row, Coach Port lost it:
“IS THERE ANYONE ON THIS TEAM WHO CAN THROW A STRIKE SO WE CAN TAKE SOME *@#$% BATTING PRACTICE?!”
Silence
Heart pounding, I saw a sliver of opportunity
I wasn’t a pitcher
I was a mediocre infielder with a weak arm
I had never thrown live BP in my life
But something inside me said:
Step over the line
“I can do it,” I said
And I sprinted to the mound
First pitch:
Deep breath, rock back, step, let it rip
Strike
Right down the heart
Then another
And another
For an hour, I pumped strike after strike to every hitter on the team
No thinking, just lock in and throw
Coach Port never said a word
Next day’s practice schedule went up
Under “BP Pitchers” there was one name:
SULLIVAN
I had a role
For the rest of the fall and the entire spring, I threw BP every day
350+ pitches a day, as hard as I could
If hitters asked me to take some off, I threw harder
It wasn’t smart
My arm hurt all the time
But my biggest weakness, my arm, slowly became a strength
Next fall, I was finally eligible
Still no clear path to the lineup
Then one day, with a runner on third, I chased a flare into shallow right from second base
Caught it on the run
Runner tagged
I planted, turned, and ripped a frozen rope home
Out by three steps
Everyone on the field (including me) was stunned
After practice, Coach Port walked over:
“Sullivan, do you think you can play catcher?”
I had never caught a single inning in my life
My brain wanted to say, “Are you crazy?”
My mouth said the 4 words that changed everything:
“I can do it.”
Opening day vs Clemson, I was the starting catcher
I held that job for the next two years
Hit .352
Later became a CoSIDA Academic All‑American
Those 4 words didn’t just change my baseball career
They changed everything
They led to:
– An Air Force ROTC scholarship
– 10 years of military service
– A Physical Therapy Degree
– A 26‑year private practice
– Three incredible sons who all played college baseball
– And ultimately, The Florida Baseball ARMory and SAVAGE Training
All from one moment in left‑field foul territory…
When a redshirt walk‑on with no scholarship stepped over the line and said:
“I can do it.”
If you’re ready for your "I can do it" moment
Make the uncommon move and bet on yourself
If you’re the kind of player who reads this and quietly thinks, “I can do it”…
We built a program for exactly that
It’s called SAVAGE Summer
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Looking back on some McCovey Cove madness before MLB Opening Night
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