Jeff Edwards

Vessel of Love

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@ChoppinBravos @grantmcauley FCL is already over

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@MKaminskiMusic WBC tiebreakers are weird, but basically if Italy wins, USA advances and if Mexico scored 5 or more USA advances. Since Italy is up 6-0, Mexico would have to get 7 to win.

There IS a way USA doesn’t advance in a long extra inning game

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The Hall of Fame Era Committee meets this Sunday, December 7th. Dale Murphy needs 12 of 16 votes. You never know who will see this and their vote may be the one that puts Murph over the top. Please retweet if you love Murph and believe he deserves to be honored in Cooperstown.

[jake murphy @Jak3Murphy]

Shoutout to @KillerMike!!!

https://t.co/iuoTSz0KRi

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@meinnyc130 @SLnF50 @tcm @BenMank77 @macantone @THR They started Terms of Endearment and the sound was messed up

[Sigurdur Nordal @essenviews]

This is an ad that Fox News refused to air.
Please retweet.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

When all you care about is the money sometimes you wind up in bed with people who out-greed you

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Kris Kristofferson died yesterday at 88.

A surprising number of folks don't know that as a young man, he was an Army officer, a helicopter pilot, and a graduate of Ranger School.

He understood patriotism and service, which is why it pissed him off when fake patriots co-opted the flag to push their rightwing bullshit.

The actor Ethan Hawke once wrote a profile on him, which included witnessing this incident firsthand:

STANDING BACKSTAGE AT THE BEACON Theatre in New York, leaning against a crumbling brick wall in the dark, I could barely see Kris Kristofferson standing to my left. Willie Nelson was in the shadows to my right. Ray Charles was standing beside Willie, idly shifting his weight back and forth. A bit farther along the wall were Elvis Costello, Wyclef Jean, Norah Jones, Shelby Lynne, Paul Simon and respective managers, friends and family. Everybody was nervous and tight. We were there for Willie Nelson’s 70th birthday concert in 2003.

Up from the basement came one of country music’s brightest stars (who shall remain nameless). At that moment in time, the Star had a monster radio hit about bombing America’s enemies back into the Stone Age.

“Happy birthday,” the Star said to Willie, breezing by us. As he passed Kristofferson in one long, confident stride, out of the corner of his mouth came “None of that lefty shit out there tonight, Kris.”

“What the luck did you just say to me?” Kris growled, stepping forward.

“Oh, no,” groaned Willie under his breath. “Don’t get Kris all riled up.”

“You heard me,” the Star said, walking away in the darkness.

“Don’t turn your back to me boy,” Kristofferson shouted, not giving a shit that basically the entire music industry seemed to be flanking him.

The Star turned around: “I don’t want any problems, Kris – I just want you to tone it down.”

“You ever worn your country’s uniform?” Kris asked rhetorically.

“What?”

“Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer.” He paused just long enough to get a full chest of air. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!” I could feel his body pulsing with anger next to me. “You don’t know what the hell you are talking about!”

“Whatever,” the young Star muttered.

Ray Charles stood motionless. Willie Nelson looked at me and shrugged mischievously like a kid in the back of the classroom.

Kristofferson took a deep inhale and leaned against the wall, still vibrating with adrenaline. He looked over at Willie as if to say, “Don’t say a word.” Then his eyes found me.

“You know what Waylon Jennings said about guys like him?” he whispered.

I shook my head.

“They’re doin’ to country music what pantyhose did to finger-fuckin’.”

/end text/

Full essay here: https://t.co/PUdrXat98z

[Jason Gallagher @jga41agher]

"I have concepts of a plan."

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@jjcoop36 If Merrifield hadn’t gotten hurt last night, it would be four

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

As Governor of Minnesota I cannot believe Warren Zevon was not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. https://t.co/6LqQawh6om

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@Drewcampbell21 @GoStripers 94ish

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

reading twitter in my Following tab / reading twitter in my For You tab

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@BravesAmerica He slides so early, he basically is stopped before getting to the bag

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The elderly liberal president resigning in favor of the first black woman vice president is an Aaron Sorkin movie.

The elderly reactionary president attempting a coup d'etat and being immunized from prosecution by his allies on the Supreme Court is a Costa-Gavras movie.

[Steve Hoffman @SteveHoffmanTV]

ANTIFA.

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@joe4braves @CHarris731 @grantmcauley AA was in Greenville at that time

[Jeff Edwards @trscblues]

@JerryMassey Aren’t they actually 1-1?

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

Trump’s Republican Party openly wants to end democracy. We must stop them.

[Luke Epplin @LukeEpplin]

Here's my Bobby Knight story, this will be a longish thread. Two years ago, I did an event with the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City. The moderator told me afterward that Bobby Knight once had come to the museum and mentioned that he was a huge Cleveland Indians fan.