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Does anyone else have a song they love but nobody else remembers? I feel like I have several... 😬 #music #2000smusic
1) JTX - Party Like a Rockstar
youtu.be/O9ChU7hckg0?si=pe9K…
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A rapist at @LSU ADMITTED what he’d done to his victim but they barely gave him a slap on t worst because they wanted him playing football anyway. If you’re enraged about @Cornell, make some noise about LSU too.
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, there is a young Black woman student Kendall Francis down at LSU who also came forward this month to talk about the way LSU mishandled her report of sexual assault from a football player. She reported the assault immediately, went to the hospital and had a kit done. The school found him liable (Title IX); he admitted it. He was suspended but not for as long as is standard. Appealed. He was allowed to return to football, despite the finding.
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In 1988, 1,395 players were drafted in Major League Baseball.
Mike Piazza was the 1,390th.
He was the last player the Dodgers took that year, and they only took him as a favor.
Start in 1984. Piazza was 15 years old in Norristown, Pennsylvania, hitting about 300 balls a day in a cage his father built in the backyard. He did it through the winter.
His dad Vince got Ted Williams to come to the house. Williams watched him swing.
"I guarantee you, this kid will hit the ball. I never saw anyone who looked better at his age."
Williams signed a copy of his own book for him. The inscription.
"To Mike, follow this book. As good as you look now, I'll be asking you for tickets."
Now here is what everybody else saw.
Piazza was a first baseman at Phoenixville High School. He hit .442 with 11 home runs as a senior and broke the school career home run record, and scouts still passed, because they did not think he could hit at the next level and they knew he could not run.
No major college wanted him either. Tommy Lasorda, who was his father's childhood friend from Norristown, personally called the coach at Miami to get him a roster spot.
He backed up at first base for one year and transferred to a junior college.
Scouts still did not want him. Five of them said no.
So in June of 1988, Lasorda leaned on his own organization to draft the kid anyway. Scouting director Ben Wade did not want to do it. The Dodgers already had better first base prospects.
Then Lasorda asked him one question.
"If he was a catcher who could hit balls into the seats like that, would you sign him?"
Wade said yes.
Lasorda's answer: "Well, then sign him. He's a catcher!"
Piazza had never been a catcher in his life.
He signed for $15,000.
Then he went and learned the position. After his first pro season he volunteered to go to the Dodgers academy in the Dominican Republic, and became the first American born player ever to train at Campo Las Palmas.
He came up on September 1, 1992 and went 3 for 3.
In 1993 he was the everyday catcher. He hit .318 with 35 home runs, the most a rookie catcher had ever hit, and won Rookie of the Year unanimously.
In 1997 he hit .362 with 40 home runs.
Final line: 1,912 games. A .308 career average. 427 home runs. 12 All-Star games. 10 Silver Sluggers.
396 of those home runs came while he was a catcher. That is the most by anybody in the history of baseball at the position he had never played until a man talked his boss into it.
He went into the Hall of Fame in 2016.
Ted Williams was right about the tickets.
For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap
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HENRY WINKLER REVEALS HOW HIS FATHER HID JEWELRY INSIDE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES TO SAVE THEIR LIVES FROM THE NAZIS😳
“My parents had a six-week work visa and were able to leave Germany for six weeks to come to New York for business. My father never told my mother that he was really thinking of leaving for good.”
“He took my mother’s jewelry and his mother’s jewelry, or pieces of it, melted down a box of chocolate and poured the liquid chocolate over each piece of jewelry. It looked like turtles, you know, the chocolate with nuts.”
“Put it back in the box, let it dry, put the box under his arm, and when the Nazis said, Are you taking anything of value? he said, Open my bags. I have nothing.”
“He pawned the jewelry, was able— now this is to be admired —was able to start the business, the lumber business, importing and exporting wood, bought back the jewelry, and I gave our son the pocket watch that was smuggled out of Germany in chocolate.”
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📺DEBUT: 'Disney's Adventures Of The Gummi Bears' premiered 41 years ago, September 14, 1985, on NBC Saturday morning
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To mark the opening of The Magic of Disney Animation, we took inspiration from the legendary multiplane camera technique pioneered by Disney nearly 90 years ago. Can you spot all your favorite Characters?✨ 🎥
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“It was awesome…did this town and this stadium and these people need that. Wow, did they need that!”
Mike Piazza’s dramatic home run – just 10 days after the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York – even had Chipper Jones and the Braves applauding.
It was just one part of baseball’s role in helping to heal New York and America 25 years ago in the wake of 9/11.
Watch “When America Took The Field” tonight at 10 pm ET on @MLBNetwork.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick was supposed to be at his desk on the 105th floor of One World Trade Center, running Cantor Fitzgerald.
Instead, he was taking his five-year-old son, Kyle, to his very first day of kindergarten.
That tender fatherly milestone saved his life, but it came at a staggering cost. At 8:46 AM, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower right beneath Cantor Fitzgerald’s headquarters. In an instant, 658 of his employees, 67% of the company's workforce, including his brother Gary, were trapped above the impact zone. Every single one of them died.
Lutnick rushed to the scene just as the towers collapsed. Surrounded by dust and devastation, he found himself facing a horrific double reality: he had survived, but he was now CEO of a ghost company. His friends, colleagues, and entire executive team were gone.
In the emotional days that followed, the media aggressively questioned whether Cantor Fitzgerald would simply file for bankruptcy. To make matters worse, Lutnick faced intense backlash when he froze payroll days after the attack. However, he quickly clarified the brutal reality: the firm was bleeding cash, and if it went under, there would be no money left to help the families of the fallen.
Driven by a profound sense of duty, Lutnick made a quiet promise: Cantor Fitzgerald would survive, and its success would belong to the families left behind.
Over the next five years, the surviving staff worked around the clock under extreme emotional pressure. Lutnick pledged 25% of the firm's profits directly to the families of the victims and guaranteed their healthcare for a decade. Through this initiative, Cantor Fitzgerald distributed $180 million to those affected.
But he didn't stop at financial restitution. Lutnick made a legendary promise to every single child who lost a parent in the attacks: when you grow up, you have a job waiting for you at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Years turned into decades. True to his word, as those children reached adulthood, the doors of the firm opened for them. To date, 57 children of the victims have walked through those doors, joining the very company where their parents once worked.
Every year on September 11, Cantor Fitzgerald holds its annual Charity Day, donating 100% of its global revenues to various charities worldwide, turning one of the darkest days in human history into an enduring beacon of hope, resilience, and loyalty.
Before rebuilding Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick experienced profound personal tragedy early in life: his mother died of lymphoma while he was in high school, and his father passed away during his freshman year at Haverford College. Facing sudden hardship, the college president and dean granted Lutnick a full scholarship to complete his degree, a act of institutional generosity that Lutnick credits as the foundation for his later philanthropic pledge to support the families of his fallen 9/11 team.
#archaeohistories
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Jon Stewart: The city began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11. There was poison in the air, and the ground, and in your air conditioners and covering your pets, and your clothes, and it stayed there for months. It's very clear that the city knew and rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage, they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual, but unfortunately after 9/11, business will never be usual again.
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i got my period at work and went to use the tampon dispenser in the bathroom and it wanted 75 cents. i didn't have change.
so i knocked on my boss's door and asked if the company could just provide basic hygiene products in the bathroom. pretty reasonable request i thought.
he looked at me and said that's a personal expense, not my problem.
i went back to my desk and stuffed toilet paper in my bag like it was 1987. great day.
the next morning my coworker grabbed me before i even sat down and said i needed to come see something right now...
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A quiet New York tribute to Gloria Steinem outside her Upper East Side townhouse 🌹 🌸💐 🕊️
Flowers, handwritten notes and heartfelt messages line the sidewalk outside American journalist and social activist Gloria Steinem’s Upper East Side townhouse.
