Michael Smith 🤙

Embracing the Suck! Former Equities trader, HUGE sports fan, Ironman, @RiderUniversity Swimming Alum

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

I almost blew the roof of the house that night. Right @eggnoodle25

[e - The Bratt Pack @TheBrattPack63]

26 years ago today

The goal

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Andrei Vasilevskiy thought the police were searching his car… they were actually delivering his second Vezina Trophy 🏆

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@markhmasters @BarDown This is pro road cyclist level power. Not world class level but he’s a hockey player with terrible form. This is incredible

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@td_nash Yankee fan here. Ruth has the stats that tell you he impacted the game more than anyone. His stats are so far beyond anyone for decades.
Mays is the best all around player.
Otani might get there if he does it long enough.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@TheBrattPack63 I would have given to Wedgewood but I can’t kill the voters.

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@AlexC_NJD He’s so underrated. People that just look at points just don’t understand the impact he has on the game.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@amandacstein This is a joke.

[Meb Faber @MebFaber]

The single worst trade I can think of:

Sacrificing your mental independence and emotional health to align with a political party.

Literally zero upside (except maybe grift? or loneliness and a tribal pull to group conformity?) and yet the downside is massively asymmetrical.

Watching friends over the years crash out and lose their minds...Take a political and digital detox!

Q: How's the economy?
A: It depends! Who's the president?

Literally insane answer.

https://t.co/R5Hmth7yAN

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A three-year-old boy lost in a cornfield at night in Alto, Wisconsin, was safely rescued using thermal imaging technology.

Deputies and fire department personnel located the child within 15 minutes using a thermal drone.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@HawkEmDownChris Mike Pagliarulo

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@matt_NJD Fuck’in A we should be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 2001 back to back team. Fuck Ray Bourque

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

Lou Gehrig is the greatest #2 (or 1b) in sports history. He only played until he was 35 (technically). He’s top 10 all time MLB and wasn’t even the best on his team.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

85 years ago today, Lou Gehrig passed away at age 37 after battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Such a terrible disease

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

One of the wildest stats in sports:

This is the 46TH CONSECUTIVE SEASON in which a former teammate of Jaromir Jagr has appeared in the Stanley Cup Final.

This year, it's Golden Knights defenseman Rasmus Andersson, who played with Jágr in Calgary in 2017-18.

[Eric Hubbs @BarstoolHubbs]

He got my attention with the crow.

I stopped everything I was doing with the Canada goose.

My jaw hit the floor with the red tail hawk.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@bomani_jones This man is a gift to us all in so many ways. I love his energy.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@PatMcAfeeShow @MrsMcAfeeShow He already knows ball.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

@joshlangerr Rico!!! Boy do I wish Quick wasn’t insane in the finals.

[Michael Smith 🤙 @tanney9]

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