@GStartari
Joined August 2012
Replying to @Buck
@Buck 100 yrs ago today arguably one of the greatest sports announcers of all time was born. Happy heavenly birthday to Hall of Famer Jack Buck. What an American treasure. Had the pleasure to work with him at the 1991 NLCS in Pittsburgh. A true gentleman. Miss you Mr. Buck!
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Love this.
I mean, how sick is this? 😝 Mellon Arena absolutely ROCKING. Sid’s line starts the game Orpik throws a massive hit. Then the 4th line comes out and Gary Roberts bangs one home. The place erupts like a college atmosphere soccer stadium Old-school Mellon Arena hockey. Pure ELECTRICITY⚡🐧
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Happy Birthday to the greatest Pirate of all time, Roberto Clemente
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Working hard on his craft. Love it!
Latest Bullpen with Coach Eric Mock FB 82-84 Top 84.6 Two Seam 80-83 Slider 71-75 Trackman metrics and videos⬇️⬇️ @AllAmerican2K28 @DaltonDavis33
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Hard work pays off ⚾️👊🏼
1 year difference in mechanics Gained 8-13 mph @AllAmerican2K28
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Nephew update.
Luke has been impressive this summer. Still lots in the tank. 3/4 arm slot with life on pitches. Up to 84 with command of multiple pitches. 2028 Penn-Trafford 👇🏻💥
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My Nephew Luke — the good looking one on the right. Dominate today 👊🏼⚾️
F: @Go_Team_AA 16U Red 8, Athletix 0 PoG: @Dillon_Porado 3-3, R Pitcher: @LukeStartari 5 IP, 0R, H, 2 BB, 7K
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My nephew Luke. Another strong outing today ⚾️❤️
Here is a good look at @Go_Team_AA 16U Red's Luke Startari (@LukeStartari). The RHP dominated today, tossing 5 shutout innings, allowing only 1 hit and 2 walks while picking up 7 strikeouts. Penn Trafford (PA) 2028 #uncommitted @FiveToolPA Profile: fivetool.org/players/29b500d…
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One of the greatest guys I ever met at IUP. Thank you Bird for all you gave to the program — you made my time at IUP (1984-88) so memorable. We had such a great run and it would not have happened without you your love, support and coaching commitment. RIP. Bird is the word!
IUP Baseball mourns the passing of former head coach, Tom "Bird" Kennedy. Kennedy had 149 wins in nine seasons from 1996 to 2005. A true IUP Man.
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Kevin Stevens crazy goal beat Rangers 1991⁦@TheDanKingerski⁩ — here it is —you’re a little off regarding who was in the net for the Rangers. (John Vanbiesbrouck) And this isn’t the Mike Lange call. But it is the goal you are referencing share.google/msQZCqwasbD62rT…
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Truth.
A love letter to the Steel City and its football 🟡⚫️ The Football Town streams 7pm tonight on the @PatMcAfeeShow, and all weekend long on YouTube
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Remember when Trump “followers” would say - “yeah I know he’s a little crazy but we like his policies” How’s that working for you now? I mean I get it—The Kool-Aid is really sweet but really? This guy is unfit. 3 more yrs & it will get worse - leadership does not look like this
Trump at a press conference today: “I’m going to take a few questions. You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex.” Day 27 of the Iran war. Israel just struck Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran is demanding sovereignty over the Strait as a peace condition. The Philippines has 40 days of oil left. April 6th power plant strike deadline approaching. Thousands dead across the region. “You can talk sex.” This is the President of the United States.
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Hard worker!
Luke is continuing to succeed rapidly. He’ll be a guy to keep an eye on as he progresses.
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One of the best things I have ever read on this platform- Ever.
Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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What a moment—& a great call by the announcer. @JerryRecco @Alsboringtweets
We witnessed one of the most amazing moments you'll ever see at a high school event tonight at Schneider Arena. Colin Dorgan, who lost his mother, brother & grandfather in the Lynch Arena shooting last month, scores a 2OT game-winner to send his team to the @RIIL_sports D-II championship game. Incredible resilience from this young man & this BVS team. Fortunate to call this emotional moment with Marty Crowley tonight on the NFHS Network. @SRASaints @PCDAthletics @Fic27
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Definitely a person we should call a hero. On such a higher level than any athlete we have in the world. True definition of Heroic. Thank you for your bravery Chief Edwards. @NYPDPC @NYPDnews
Some heroes wear capes — Chief Aaron Edwards wears blue.
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This👇🏻💯 @colin_dunlap — figured you’d appreciate this considering you have a daughter/athlete instagram.com/reel/DVMu56Jks…
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One of the forgotten championships in The Steel City 👇🏻
Pittsburgh Pipers become the 1st ABA Champions #SoulPower
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Talking point for Trump Cult - wow! We are better than that - right?
GOP Rep. Salazar won't criticize Trump calling a woman reporter "piggy" -- "President Trump is a very different type of politician. But I always say I look at his policies and not his personality. Nobody is perfect."
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Leadership does NOT look like this. We have to be better as a nation & stop this divisive nonsense. It starts with a President for all Americans - not just the ones who voted for him or agree with everything you do or say. Common sense needed. That’s what will make America Great!
During a gaggle on Air Force One this Friday, a female White House correspondent for Bloomberg began asking President Trump a question about the Epstein files, when the president pointed at her and said, "Quiet. Quiet Piggy," before moving on to another reporter's question.
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