11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️

“It’s good to be in something on the ground floor. I came in too late for that I know. But lately it just seems like I came in at the end. The best is over.”

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@whitesox time to have the conversation about Colson Montgomery @ChiSoxFanMike

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@AnnoyedSoxFan Why is this even a debate? He’s our best player. Why’s he not playing today?!

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@Ryan192482 Schiffren doesn’t know when to shut up. He talks over the crack of the bat and it’s really annoying. God I miss @HawkHarrelson

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@TrustTrost

[Always Irish ☘️ @AlwaysIrishINC]

Putting the new cartoon kids show "non dukes up " soft leprechaun on the shoulders is more of an insult to tradition than any sponsor patch. Horrific

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@CHSN_WhiteSox Terrible ABs by quero and grichuk. Why the HELLL did we pinch hit for Sam? Our BEST PLAYER

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@OptimistSox Happened on Friday too

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@adamcarolla The top 10 HS freshmen from Illinois would mop the floor with them.

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@AHQ_DuPage @Conant_Baseball

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@DiamondsBB616 2028 1B/OF Connor McCormack
@fastballusa
Goes the other way for a single to put runners at the corners!
#pb36 #ncclassic

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@DiamondsBB616 2028 1B/OF Connor McCormack
@fastballusa
Goes the other way for a single to put runners at the corners!
#pb36 #ncclassic

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@fuzzyfromyt WTF song was that?

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Connor McCormack LHP/ RF (2028 @Conant_Baseball ) 3 for 3. Power to all fields.
@AHQ_DuPage

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@TalkinBaseball_ @grok is this true

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@PrimetimeIL E-7

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@PrimetimeIL Error

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Connor McCormack LHP/1B (@Conant_Baseball 2028) through 16 games/ 42 plate appearances:

AVG: .486- 1st
OBP: .571- 1st
OPS: 1.143- 1st
RBI: 10 - 2nd
SLG: .571 -1st
Hits: 17-1st

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[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

Saw a lot of great bball this weekend.Only saw a couple good pg's out of like 40 but the glaring thing is many kids don't pass the ball or don't pass it on time.Easy shots are hard to come by cuz of the lack of passing. Coaches don't coach it or have consequences for not doing it

[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

I am watching a lot of basketball and man players just don’t pass the ball. One game I charted, 74% of the shots a team took weren’t makable shots. Shots you know they don’t work on. Coaches say nothing. Or a kid is hot and don’t see the ball again.

[11Shevlin🇺🇸☘️ @shevlin11]

@NestoHoops Rarely being used- which is wild to me. To combat this, I’ve seen some teams’ bench “self impose it” - count it down out loud for their teammates on the floor every possession.

[Porter Stansberry @porterstansb]

What happened to the schools? This is what the principal won't tell you. They can't punish the black kids. And they can't fail them, either.

The decisive moment came in January 2014. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder jointly issued what is now known as the Obama Dear Colleague letter on school discipline. The letter informed every public school district in the United States that racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates would henceforth be treated as presumptive evidence of discriminatory discipline, whether or not the district intended any such thing, whether or not individual suspensions were racially motivated, whether or not the underlying behavior that triggered the suspensions was racially distributed.

The result was predictable: A 2018 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that in the years after the 2014 letter, school districts across the country reported sharp increases in classroom disorder, teacher assaults, and student injuries from fights.

The same doctrine, applied to academic standards, produced the same catastrophic results. In San Francisco in 2014 — the year the Dear Colleague letter came out — the school board voted to remove algebra from all middle schools in the district. The rationale, offered openly by the board’s members, was that black and Hispanic students were not passing algebra in eighth grade at the same rates as white and Asian students, and therefore that eighth-grade algebra was itself a form of structural racism. The board did not attempt to raise the performance of black and Hispanic students. The board eliminated the standard. If the standard produced a disparate impact, the standard had to go.

Over the next decade, San Francisco watched the obvious consequences unfold. Math proficiency declined across the district — including among black students, whose proficiency fell from 11% to 4%. Enrollment in advanced high-school mathematics classes collapsed. Affluent white and Asian families, who could afford to, placed their children in private tutoring or private schools, meaning the racial gap in math achievement widened.

In March 2026 — 12 years later — the San Francisco school board finally voted to reinstate eighth-grade algebra. The New York Times covered the reversal as a kind of quiet embarrassment. A Stanford economist told the paper that San Francisco had tried to achieve equity not by raising the floor, but by lowering the ceiling. The paper did not ask him why anyone had thought that would work.

It worked, my friend, exactly the way it was designed to work. If the measure of justice is the elimination of disparate outcomes, then the elimination of the standard that produces the disparity is the shortest path to justice.

That every student ends up less educated is not a bug in the system. It is a feature.

The doctrine is not about raising the floor. The doctrine has never been about raising the floor.

The doctrine is about tearing down anything that produces a disparity — because the disparity itself, not the underlying cause of it, is what the doctrine defines as the injustice.

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