Every man dies. Not every man lives.
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Bill Huseman retweeted
Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.
Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!
🎥: CBS Broadcast
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During one of the worst losing streaks of my career, our team president walked into my office.
Keli McGregor. One of the best men I've ever known.
He could have come to vent. To question my decisions. To ask hard questions.
Instead, he said: "Cut to the chase, Clint. What's next?"
I looked him in the eye and gave him two words: "Shower well."
The Colorado Rockies were struggling badly that year.
Pregame preparation was solid. Scout meetings, early work, attention to detail. All of it was there.
But at game time, the tires were flat.
I told Keli: the game did everything it could to us today. We just couldn't meet its demands.
Now it was time to reset.
"Shower well" means exactly this:
• Watch the frustration circle down the drain
• Shampoo, rinse, repeat and get the grime of today completely off your mind
• Walk out clean, go home, and actually rest
Leave it at the ballpark. The game is over. There's nothing left to solve tonight.
Keli nodded. Asked if he could share it with the whole organization.
I said sure. And then it hit me. This isn't just for baseball.
Bad day at the office. Grumpy boss. Missed deadline. Traffic on the way home.
You can carry all of that through your front door.
Or you can shower well.
I've never seen a single problem get better because someone dragged it home with them.
The reset is a discipline. Same as preparation. Same as showing up.
Either we win. Or we learn.
The only real loss? When you don't take a single thing out of a hard day.
So tonight, whatever kind of day it was, shower well.
Tomorrow is a new at-bat.
What does your reset look like? I'd love to hear it.
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Coach Bobby Thompson @FDwrestling :
None personified "anybody, anytime, anywhere" better than Fort Dodge under your tutelage. Up or down, the Dodgers were ALWAYS down to a scrap to the end.
You represented the Fort Dodge wrestlers and community with Hall of Fame integrity.
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Late in Bing Crosby's life, his nephew Howard asked him a casual question while they were out playing golf together.
"What was the single most difficult thing you ever had to do in your career?"
Howard expected Hollywood stories. Maybe gossip about a demanding director. Perhaps the pressure of a high-stakes film production or a struggle with studio executives.
Bing didn't have to think about it at all.
December 1944. Northern France. The war in Europe was grinding toward its bloody conclusion.
Bing Crosby was on a USO tour, performing for American GIs and British soldiers far from home during the coldest, darkest days of winter.
That night, they set up an open-air stage in a field.
Fifteen thousand soldiers gathered to watch. Bing was joined by Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters.
They sang, they joked, they made the men laugh and holler—a brief moment of joy in the middle of a war zone.
Then came the closing number.
"White Christmas."
The song had already become an anthem for homesick soldiers since its release in 1942. It played constantly on Armed Forces Radio. Men who hadn't seen their families in years, who didn't know if they ever would again, heard those opening notes and thought of snow-covered streets and Christmas trees and the homes they'd left behind.
As Bing began to sing, he looked out at the audience. Fifteen thousand men were crying. He had to finish the song. He had to maintain his composure and his vocal control while 15,000 soldiers wept in front of him. He told his nephew it was the toughest thing he ever had to do in his entire career.
What made Bing Crosby's USO performances different from his Hollywood appearances were the small choices he made. He refused to wear his toupee. He hated the thing—called it a "scalp doily"-and wore it only when absolutely necessary for films.
But entertaining troops was different. "If I'm entertaining troops," he said, "I'm not going to wear anything phony like a toupee. Forget it."
He also insisted that officers and brass could not sit in the front rows. Those seats were reserved for enlisted men. The soldiers who would be on the front lines. The men who faced the greatest danger.
A few days after that performance in the field, those same soldiers were sent into combat. The Battle of the Bulge began on December 16, 1944. It was the largest and bloodiest battle fought by the United States in World War II.
The Germans launched a surprise offensive through the Ardennes Forest in a desperate attempt to split the Allied lines. Many of the men who had wept listening to "White Christmas" in that field in France never came home.
Bing Crosby tried to enlist when the war began. He was told he was too old. General George C. Marshall, the Army's chief of staff, told him directly:
"Look, Bing, we don't need you in the front lines. We need you raising money for the war effort." He wasn't just an entertainer to them. He was a piece of home. Bing never forgot it. 🙏♥️
Bill Huseman retweeted
2025 Travis J Habhab Amateur champion is Andrew Huseman, who finishes at 4-under par 104 in the 27-hole event at Lakeside. Eli Anderson (106) is second and Fort Dodge's Cody Jaeschke (108) places third. This is the fifth Habhab title for Huseman overall, but his first since 2019.
Man I can relate to that.
Last week, we had to move my mom out of assisted living and into specialized care… In the middle of this exhausting move, the following happened.
This is an actual conversation I had with my mother’s new nursing home…
NURSING HOME LADY: You can’t remove our furniture. It has to stay in your mom’s room.
***She didn’t even introduce herself, and behind her was another sour-faced lady.
ME: What?
NHL: Our furniture has to stay in the room. It’s fire-rated. It meets the fire code. Removing it violates the fire code.
ME: So I have to throw all my mom’s furniture out?
NHL: No, her furniture can stay, but you must keep ours in the room because of fire regulations.
ME: That doesn’t make any sense. How does fire-rated furniture make the room any safer inside the room as opposed to not in the room at all?
NHL: What do you mean?
ME: Unless your furniture has sprinklers built into it, how does removing it make my mom’s room less safe?
NHL: Let’s talk to the administrator.
***Now I’m marched down to the administrator’s office. Now it’s three against one. The administrator does not introduce herself.
ADMINISTRATOR LADY: You can’t remove our furniture from your mother’s room. It’s fire-rated.
ME: I understand that, and if you tell me my mom’s furniture is flammable, I’ll remove it.
ADMIN LADY: You can leave your mom’s furniture in there. It’s fine. You just can’t remove ours.
ME: But there’s no room for my mom’s stuff if I keep your furniture.
ADMIN LADY: We have no place to store it. It has to stay in the room.
ME: So it’s not a fire code issue, it’s a storage issue.
ADMIN LADY: That room is not for longterm residents who bring their own furniture. It’s for short-term rehab patients. That’s why it’s set up like a hotel room with everything in it.
ME: Then why did you put my longterm-resident mother in a short-term room?
ADMIN LADY: We didn’t have anyplace else to put her. One of our wings has been shut down.
ME: You have an entire wing of rooms that’s empty, that’s not being used?
ADMIN LADY: Yes.
ME: Well, that sounds like a good place to store some furniture.
ADMIN LADY: We can’t. We intend to open it someday.
ME: Okay, then it sounds like a good place to store some furniture until someday.
ADMIN LADY: I’m trying to work with you here.
ME: I don’t think you are.
ADMIN LADY: We have no place to store extra furniture.
ME: You have plenty of room. There are three big gathering spaces just in my mom's wing, places where an added this or that would not even be noticed. Listen, I understand a fire code issue, but we now know this isn’t about that. What it is about is a lack of flexibility and imagination. And over what—three chairs and two tables? Okay, how does this sound? I’ll buy the furniture from you.
ADMIN LADY: Buy it?
ME: Then you don’t have to store it. I’ll pay you whatever it will cost to replace it.
ADMIN LADY: What would you do with it?
ME: Well, what I do with my furniture is my business, but just to enjoy the irony, I’d probably burn it.
NHL: We are trying to work with you.
ME: No, you’re not.
ADMIN LADY: We are.
ME: My mom is going to die here—in that room. She still recognizes her belongings, and I want her surrounded by those things. I don’t want her dying in your Motel 6.
ADMIN LADY: We understand.
ME: Someone who understood would find room for three chairs and two tables.
***At this point, they gave in. And in the week since, they have taken superb care of my mother. Despite an unfriendly start, the decision to move her was a good one.
Bill Huseman retweeted
I played in 90 majors. Thought that was decent. Adam Scott playing in 90th straight major. Unreal to be great and healthy for that long. Wow!!!!!
Bill Huseman retweeted
A man was stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he came upon a preacher Baptizing people in the river.
He proceeded to walk into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher.
The preacher turned around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon he asked the drunk,
"Are you ready to find Jesus?"
The drunk shouted, "Yes, I am."
So the preacher grabbed him and dunked him in the water.
He pulled him up and asks the drunk, "Brother have you found Jesus?"
The drunk replied, "No, I haven't found Jesus."
The preacher, shocked at the answer, dunked him Into the water again for a little longer.
He again pulled him out of the water and asks again, "Have you found Jesus my brother?"
The drunk again answered, "No, I haven't Found Jesus."
By this time the preacher is at his wits end and dunked the drunk in the water again
but this time held him down for about 30 seconds and when he began kicking his arms and legs he pulled him up.
The preacher again asked the drunk, "For the love of God have you found Jesus?"
The drunk wiped his eyes and caught his breath and said to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?"
#614clinton
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Be like this guy xitter.cf/JRudd_Scout/status/173…
Legendary. Kids matter to that guy. The NCAA needs abolished.
More quotes from Kirk Ferentz tonight on the Noah Shannon situation, after he was ruled ineligible for the season (his career) today by the NCAA.
“The humanistic part of it is probably the most disturbing. My takeaway on this whole thing is I’ve long thought the NCAA is just a very big, cumbersome organization that really has a hard time reacting to anything in real time. ... And that's really evident in our sport.”
“Our world has changed so much, and I don't think they're taking that into account. He didn't commit a crime, didn't bet on an Iowa football game. Punishment, yes. And he’s been very straightforward with his remarks (and) very cooperative with everybody that spoke with him. I don't know what else you can do. It just seems like it's really a very dramatic penalty for something that I'll predict two years from now, it's going to be looked at (as) not that big a deal. Well, let me rephrase that. Two years? Maybe five with this organization.”
“It's history now. And we'll move forward, and Noah will move forward. He’s a great young guy. He is still part of our team. I have such a great respect for him. He's a really good football player, but more importantly, he's a great kid and he's done everything he could to get back and ready. My first thoughts are with him and his family, it’s just very disappointing. But life goes on. It won't be the first bucket of crap he's got to deal with.”
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K.
I’ve kept an eye on this Israel situation for the past few days.
Here’s what I’ve learned, & here are my blunt & honest thoughts:
1. Israel chose to ignore intelligence from Egyptian officials about a major attack coming from Hamas.
2. Multiple former IDF soldiers & Israeli intelligence personnel have come forward online and said there’s a zero percent chance Israel was unaware of this attack beforehand or couldn’t have prevented it.
3. We just watched unsophisticated terrorists on hang gliders soar into one of the most heavily-defended & surveilled countries on the planet.
4. Within 48 hours of the attack, we’re now suddenly seeing enormous support for an American war with Iran and the genocide of the Palestinian people.
I’m witnessing American pastors and formerly level-headed influencers in our world completely lose their minds and call for genocide.
It’s unsurprising, but insane to watch.
If the events of the past three years have taught me anything, it’s that when people get whipped into an emotional frenzy, critical thinking completely goes out the window.
People become highly suggestible and will rush to extremely dangerous conclusions without thinking about the consequences.
I think this is what we’re all witnessing with this situation in Israel.
I’m reminded of Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
In both scenarios, the American government received intelligence in advance of the attacks, but chose not to prevent the attacks.
Why?
The American government was willing to sacrifice the lives of American citizens in order to advance its geopolitical goals.
Pearl Harbor gave the justification to enter WWII.
9/11 gave justification to invade the Middle East & drastically expand the American military industrial complex & our surveillance apparatus.
They were brutal & extremely traumatic events for the American public to witness. The emotional trauma caused people to get whipped into an emotional frenzy.
America wanted ONE THING in response to these attacks:
The blood of our enemies.
I see the same psyop playing out now.
People are whipped into a frenzied bloodlust.
In their frenzied bloodlust, people are overlooking some SERIOUSLY important facts here, notably:
1. The fact that none of this adds up,
2. innocent civilians are being threatened with genocide, and
3. Escalated violence in the Middle East and a war with Iran both risk ***the rest of the planet getting dragged into WWIII.***
What happened in Israel this weekend was obviously gut-wrenching and awful to witness, but I do not trust Israel’s so-called “intelligence failure”, nor do I trust the snakes in Washington calling for war with Iran, & I sure as hell no longer trust any of the emotionally-frenzied influencers calling for explicit genocide of innocent civilians.
This was a defining moment in history, similar to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, COVID, the beginning of the Ukraine war, etc, and a lot of people just got played.
Hard.
People responded by going full mask-off, exposing themselves as reckless & incapable of exercising sound judgment in moments of chaos and heightened emotion.
And we’re now at the brink of WWIII because of it.
This is all worth noting.
There’s a high likelihood there will be more chaos throughout the rest of this decade.
There will be more psychological operations.
There will be more moments in time in which cooler heads ought to prevail, but people will get whipped into an emotional frenzy instead.
Keep your wits about you, & be cautious in whom you allow yourself to be influenced by.
Recognize that governments & intelligence agencies spend enormous resources waging psychological operations on social media nonstop when stuff like this goes down.
Remember that when chaos is at its peak, history shows there is ALMOST ALWAYS a hidden agenda being played out, & that hidden agenda is ALWAYS designed to prey on our base emotions to facilitate a desired end-result.
Pray for world peace tonight.
Thanks. 🤙
Similar situation . Guy was putting and his ball was hit half way to the hole and his ball was never found. The ball from tee was on the green. Never did get a ruling on that one.
This week on the LPGA Tour, one of the craziest things I've heard, happened.
It involves something that defies statistics, confused rules officials, a confrontation that led to tears, a putt that had to be done over, a birdie and an eagle.
mondayq.com/posts/collision-…
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For 6 years, a dog named Capitan slept in the grave of his owner every night.
His owner, Miguel Guzman died in 2006 and Capitan disappeared shortly after the family attended the funeral services.
They searched everywhere and put out flyers to try and find him. But no one had seen him.
A week later, some people who were at the cemetery late one evening spotted Capitan laying on the grave and they contacted the grounds keeper at the cemetery.
The cemetery notified the family who promptly came to pick him up and take him home.
But each night he would cry and scratch frantically at the door to go out and he wouldn't return home until morning.
It was later discovered that Capitan would walk the 3 miles back to the cemetery each night to guard his master's grave.
It happened for 7 years.
The cemetery did not close the gates until he arrived each night promptly at 6 pm.
He slept there all night guarding the grave until the ground keeper opened the gate in the morning.
This is a true picture of Capitan here.
If there is ever true love in this universe ❤️ this is it!!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The picture shown is not the dog in the story. Here's the story of Capitan from 2012:
lavoz.com.ar/ciudadanos/cap…