Posted on 07/07/2021 8:35:52 AM PDT by Morgana
He set me straight a few weeks ago. He's playing Select baseball this summer, and he chose #24. I was thrilled, thinking that all my stories about Willie Mays had an impact on him.
He said, "sorry Opa, I'm wearing 24, because that's Corey Kispert's number." LOL, Corey has made quite an impact on my grandson over the past 4 years. He first met Corey in Spokane 4 years ago, while my son was at a Zag basketball camp. On the second night after camp, Corey invited him over to give him 30 minutes of instruction, punctuated by hoisting him on his shoulders so he could dunk the ball.
Two years later, he saw Corey again after the GU-Texas A&M game in College Station. Without hesitation, he called out to him, telling me, "sure I remember Dillon...he's a great kid!"
When they got together after the GU-Virginia game, the day after Christmas, it was like two old friends reconnecting.
Whatever team Corey lands with, they are getting a quality ballplayer, and an even better representative for their team.
Your grandson must be a lovable kid. :-)
And Corey sounds like a great guy.
To borrow from Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons
Why Brianna, it profits one nothing to give your soul for the whole world... but for the Olympics?
I hope they get bounced in the first round.
I see what you did there...
Values ??
I was in a Department head meeting in South Carolina when I first heard that Corn Hole was a game that was being proposed for our summer outing. I literally fell out of my chair much to the amusement of everyone there.
We were also preparing for the Fall ‘biggest rack’ contest. presented by a very busty personnel department manager. I whole heartily agreed and would like participate in the judging until it was explained that deer antlers was the object to be judged.
Tommy is one of a kind.
It's not a denunciation of white supremacy; in fact, Tommy says that the white athletes are not making excuses, but submitting to the rules and wanting to play their best, as are many other black athletes.
Tommy was calling out this particular athlete who got kicked off the team for rules infractions—for what he considers to be stereotypical narcissistic behavior by a certain class of black women who refuse to take accountability for their actions, blame everyone else for bad choices, and hypocritically use religion as a shield. He expresses these views interspersed with a lot of very bad language, and totally hilarious rap lyrics that mock the selfishness of women who abort due to casual sex, poor planning, lack of foresight, contempt for the father, etc.
He is surprised that these words are coming out of his mouth, he says, because he was indifferent to the issue of abortion in the past; but this athlete really got his goat, by using her abortion and the death of her brother as EXCUSES for not getting the mandated random drug tests required to compete, which is why she was kicked off the team. He thinks she is a monster for using the apparently gang-related death of her brother as an excuse when she made the choice to kill her own baby in order to compete in the Olympics.
He is enraged that women can claim that their feelings should excuse them from any and all responsibilities, but men have to perform according to rules. She accepted the rules of being an Olympic contender, but now is saying the rules are unfair, racist, etc. He is appalled by this, apparently because he believes many black women use similar bait-and-switch and emotional blackmail in their interpersonal relations with male sexual partners — they agree to terms in a relationship and then try to change the rules and complain about how they are treated, blaming the man. He also applies this complaint about "any woman you let live in your house", giving the example of mothers or sisters who are living with a man and not paying the bills, but who criticize the house rules set by the man who is paying the bills.
I repeat, interspersed with awful language, but there's usually moral wisdom as well as humor in Tommy's rants.
I'll go farther back to the time when Candace Bergen (you know, Murphy Brown) launched a very short-lived career as a magazine writer at the start of Second Wave Feminism, around 1969. She wrote an article for either Esquire or Playboy about women's roller hockey in which she claimed that many fanatic competitors have their right breasts removed to as to improve their swing at hitting the puck. None of this info made it into her Wikipedia page.
Wow. I never heard that story before. I hope it isn’t true.
Tommy Sotomayor is great.
Thanks!
The man who should light the flame is Shun Fujimoto, the gymnast who performed with a broken leg in the 1976 Team Gymnastics event, and helped Japan with the Gold Medal. It hurts just to watch him mount that landing.
That is what used to make the Olympics so great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2w4rBJ1as
Sick and evil.
She has missed multiple drug tests before, always a different excuse. Honestly, I think she’s a doper, God knows if she actually had an abortion, it could be BS.
Mordor of the North loses again.
No more hockey
Basketball is unwatchable
Colorado All-star game is a violation of Civil Rights
What to do
UFC 264? I’ll send you a pirate link.
I worked last night. So I didn’t have to watch the All-stars.
The game was a violation of Human Rights
Nice that the A.L. won again
I’ll calculate later to see if they almost ran out of pitchers
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.