Retired Educator and former WCOE 96.7 broadcaster, husband, father, and grandfather

Joined March 2013
At least Chourio does huge things against other teams besides the Cubs
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The Cubs hit no home runs today and lost. The wind is blowing in at Fenway. They may be better off playing on the road if the wind is blowing in at Wrigley Field.
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It seems every time the wind blows in, the Cubs clutch hitting disappears
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I am more worried about the Phillies catching the Cubs than catching the Brewers @WatchMarquee
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Have the Cubs won a game that has been televised on ABC/ESPN this season?
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The first game for South Bend was a completion of last night’s suspended game which is 9 innings. I’m not sure if the second game is 9 or 7 innings #roadtowrigley
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In the same proposal, the international players would be eligible at 18 #CubsLive
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BREAKING: Trump's corrupt DOJ moves to DISMISS seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes – with prejudice! In a jaw-dropping act of degeneracy, the Trump Justice Department has filed a motion to permanently dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and several other convicted January 6 defendants. By filing the motion 'with prejudice,' the Trump DOJ has permanently dropped the seditious conspiracy charges, meaning Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers can never be prosecuted again for their central role in the January 6 insurrection. Trump loves to scream about “law and order” and “backing the blue” but he has now ordered his own DOJ to let the key figure behind the violent coup attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, walk free on the most serious charges. Rhodes and his co-defendants were convicted by a jury of seditious conspiracy for plotting to use force to prevent the certification of the 2020 election. They were part of the mob that attacked the Capitol, injured police officers, and tried to overturn the will of the voters. And now Trump’s hand-picked simps are trying to simply erase it. This is the state of justice in the United States of America today, nothing but retribution and reward for fealty. Trump is using the power of the DOJ to protect his lowlife foot soldiers from the January 6 insurrection while punishing those who investigated it. The message to the country is loud and clear: if you commit violence on Trump’s behalf, you will be protected. If you try to hold him accountable or call him out, you will be targeted. This is an outrage. And it doesn’t look like one we can fix with respect to Rhodes and his gang of neanderthals. What we can do is rededicate ourselves to the restoration of constitutional governance through the ballot box, and until that day, work to hold Trump to account by any legal means. If you agree, like and share this post.
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BREAKING: Wall Street traders SHOCKED after Trump conducts nearly 4,000 stock trades in wild display of greed and corruption! Fresh financial disclosures reveal that Donald Trump went on a massive stock-buying spree during the first three months of 2026, racking up thousands of transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million. Among the companies he bought heavily into are a who’s who of giant companies including Meta, Boeing, Nvidia, Apple, Adobe, Proctor & Gamble, and Oracle, all of which are subject to heavy regulation and decisions by his own administration. Particularly damning is the fact that Trump purchased millions of dollars worth of Oracle stock right around the time his administration was helping the company secure a major deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States. Remember Donald “Drain the Swam” Trump, that oh-so-truthful Man of the People running for president? Well, it's no surprise he's been documented turning the presidency into a personal trading desk, buying and selling stocks in companies that have direct business before the federal government he controls. The White House, as usual, had no real answer when asked about the blatant conflicts of interest. But Donald K. Sherman, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, sure had one: “Rather than avoiding transactions involving industries with business before his administration,” Sherman said. “Trump has prioritized serving himself at the expense of public trust once again.” Corruption much? While Trump lectures everyone else about “America First,” he’s quietly making sure it's his own portfolio that comes first. Presidents are supposed to divest or put assets in blind trusts to avoid exactly this kind of self-dealing. Trump doesn't give a crap about trading rules or any other rules. He’s not just profiting off the presidency, he’s openly selling it piecemeal to the highest bidders. How on earth is Trump’s self-dealing and corruption not being stopped by some guardrail at some point? It is completely out of control. No one should be allowed to use the power of the presidency to line their own pockets. If you agree, please like and share.
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BREAKING: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear just DESTROYED Trump's entire economic performance in only 60 seconds — and he's 100% right. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear just did an interview where he delivered the most brutally efficient takedown of Trump's economic record you'll hear from any Democrat in office right now — and he did it simply by taking Trump at his word. "The president finally said something that was true," Beshear said. "He said he does not care about the financial situation of the American people. And you know what? The way he governs shows it."’ That's the whole ballgame right there. "The Trump economy is a failure," Beshear said flatly. And he then proved it point by point. Trump's tariffs? "Americans have paid 90% of them. It's been a tax by the president that has made everything cost more." Not China. Not foreign manufacturers. You — every time you buy groceries, clothes, or appliances. Then there's the war with Iran — a conflict Beshear notes that Trump "alone chose to go into" — which "has skyrocketed the price of not just gasoline, but diesel, making everything more expensive. Every good we ship across the country now costs more." That's not abstract economic theory. That's every truck on every highway carrying every product to every store in America. "Going to see your family if you got to take a plane trip costs a lot more," Beshear continued. And when Americans desperately need relief on housing costs, Trump won't lift a finger — because, as Beshear points out, Trump says "we're not working hard enough." And when parents worry about affording basic goods for their kids? Trump's answer, per Beshear, is that "our kids have too many toys." This is the man Republicans told us was a business genius. The dealmaker. The guy who promised to make everything cheaper on day one. Beshear's closing line says it all: "At least he said something true. He doesn't care about the American people." Democrats should be saying exactly this, in exactly these terms, every single day between now and November. Please like and share hare this everywhere to spread Gov. Beshear's insight.
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BREAKING: MAGA Pastor Robert Jeffress claims Donald Trump understands the Bible better than the Pope before thanking him for launching the attack! Speaking with Fox News’ Aishah Hasnie, the far-right praised Trump for attacking Iran, saying the president was simply fulfilling his “God-given responsibility” to protect the nation, citing Romans 13 as justified by Trump’s “they’re two weeks away from a bomb they would immediately use” pretext. “The great irony is it looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of government than the Pope has,” the pastor of the ultra hardright mega-First Baptist Church in Dallas told Hasnie with a smirk. Lest we forget, Trump is the poorest excuse for a Christian since Judas. He brags about never asking God for forgiveness, has been found legally liable for a bushel-basketful of sins and transgressions of all sorts, and is currently waging a chaotic war that’s fomenting economic instability at home and abroad, and subjecting the great country he’s been elected to lead to international disgrace. This smug bastard’s sheer audacity is off the chart as he condescends to call the Pope a "good man" but . . . A supposed messenger of God with an arena-sized flock is telling Christians that a twice-impeached, 34-count felon with a lifelong history of immoral behavior has a better grasp of scripture than the leader of the Catholic Church is peak MAGA authoritarian incursion into the nation's spiritual life. MAGA Christians twist the Bible, ignore Jesus’s actual teachings on peace and the poor, and use it as a shield to defend endless war and cruelty, all while pretending they’re the ones with moral authority. This is what happens when Christianity gets hijacked by political sycophants. If Pastor Jeffress claiming Trump knows the Bible better than the Pope disgusts you, please like and share this post.
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#roadtowrigley When will Ethan Conrad be available to play
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BREAKING: News legends Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson along with 250 journalists sign blistering letter demanding the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “stop the polite nonsense” forcefully call out Trump to his face! In a powerful open letter, retired star journalists Rather (94) and Donaldson (92), along with more than 250 other members of the press, are urging the White House Correspondents’ Association to stop the usual polite nonsense and use this week’s dinner to directly confront Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the free press. The letter states that Trump’s “systematic, sustained, and unprecedented” assault on journalism – including retaliatory bans, lawsuits, defunding public broadcasting, arrests of reporters, and constant verbal attacks – makes it impossible for the dinner to continue as “business as usual.” They are calling on the WHCA to issue a strong, public defense of the First Amendment from the podium, deliver a direct condemnation of Trump’s behavior, and toast the Constitution in front of the man who has spent years trying to destroy press freedom. This is a remarkable moment: some of the most respected names in American journalism are saying enough is enough. Enough normalizing. Enough smiling and clapping while Trump attacks the free press every single day. The letter makes clear that freedom of the press is not a partisan issue but a cornerstone of democracy, and must be defended. If you support real journalists standing up to Trump’s war on the free press, please like and share this post.
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BREAKING: Trump attacks Pope Leo XIV — and gets a FIERY sermon in response that he won’t forget This ⬇️
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REPOST IF YOU’RE HAPPY THE CUBS EXTENDED NICO HOERNER!
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Seth Davis picks Miami over Purdue. What a shocker. Not!
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BREAKING: Trump attacks Texas Democrat James Talarico — and gets a FIERY sermon in response that he won’t forget Donald Trump thought he could score cheap political points by calling James Talarico an “insult to Jesus” because the Texas Democratic Senate candidate is “beyond woke” and believes that God does not discriminate on the basis of gender. Unfortunately for Dementia Don, he picked the wrong person. Standing in a Black church in Texas, Talarico didn’t just clap back — he delivered a moral reckoning. “The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus,” Talarico began. “You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their health care while cutting taxes for billionaires.” And that was only just the start. “You know what insults Jesus?” he continued. “Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers.” Then he went even further — taking aim at war, corruption, and hypocrisy. “You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war… Covering up the Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.” This wasn’t politics as usual. This was a full-on moral indictment. Talarico — who has been attacked by Trump for supporting transgender Americans and saying “trans children are God’s children” — flipped the script entirely. Instead of backing down, he grounded his message in the very teachings Trump tried to weaponize. “I am not a perfect Christian,” he said. “There’s only been one perfect Christian and he was crucified on a cross 2,000 years ago.” And then came the line that hit hardest: “Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves… Can we imagine war in heaven? Can we imagine bigotry in heaven? Can we imagine poverty in heaven? Then why do we tolerate these things on earth?” That’s how you respond. Not with insults. Not with fear. But with clarity — and conviction. Trump tried to smear him. Instead, Talarico delivered a sermon that’s now echoing far beyond that church. Please like and share James Talarico’s inspiring words!
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Final Score Slicers 64 Merrillville 53
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After three quarters Slicers 50 Merrillville 34
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