Jeff Perro

Some parents drove 3-5 hours today and spent hundreds of dollars… just to watch their son walk 4 times. Do this instead: Pay a local kid $20 to throw to your son for an hour instead. He’ll probably get more development from that than another travel ball weekend.

My Marshall McDougall story: 2023, I’m at the Publix in Dade City, FL. A jacked 45-55 year old dude walks by me. He’s wearing a “______ High School Baseball” shirt, I forget the name of the school. I think to myself, “Is that Marshall McDougall?” I hadn’t thought of that name or seen a picture of him in 20 years. I googled _____ High School and, yes, Marshall McDougall was their coach.

Texted my friend who works in a high level position in a MLB front office to ask him if he had any insight into why Trevor Bauer isn’t getting any traction in the MLB again. This is his verbatim response, copied and pasted with permission: “No interest in him for yrs. PR nightmare, players don’t want him around, control freak and a diva, wants special treatment. League minimum talk on X is a desperation play for clicks, eyeballs. Every scouting dept monitors NPB, MEX. Velo+spin down, control diminishing. Workout programs took backseat to YouTube career, shows on field. Doesn’t have the stuff to make a 40man, wouldn’t make our LowA roster. Would be shocked if he ever gets even a minor league deal again. Def won’t with us, friends in other offices say same.” Nature is healing. 🥰🥰🥰

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

Gimnasios en 1996: - Pollo, arroz y huevos - Rutinas escritas en papel - Inspirarse en Arnold y Ronnie - Entrenar al fallo - Llevar una camisetas en desuso Gimnasios en 2026:

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Germans: Why are these grenades so accurate? Americans on a Tuesday.

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish Thank YOU. That was fun.

@MiLBClubbie @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish Yeah considering I got it at Goodwill I figured it was an older version. Thanks for the follow up!!

@NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish I bought a cap last weekend at a thrift shop bc it looked cool. It’s got the older league logo on the back, and maybe a K for Kingfish. But it’s got the MLB patch on the side. Any ideas?

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish Found an undated article about the Kingfish that shows that hat. krullcreative.com/work/kenosha-k…

@prescott_greg @NWLbaseball @KenoshaKingfish … they currently have is different. I suspect it’s an older version.

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold: Two kids. One rich. One poor. Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids. The rich kid has two choices. Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more. Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater. The poor kid has two choices too. Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been. Or outwork everyone in the room. Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch. Same choice for all of them. Ownership or victimhood. Fuel or excuse. The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it. The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it. Greatness doesn't come from where you start. It comes from which kid you choose to feed. Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Last Summer, I wrote to Milwaukee Brewers 1st round draft pick Andrew Fischer. When he wrote back, the letter was so awesome that we ended up featured on the MLB website. Last night, I finally got to meet him and say THANK YOU.

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If you think youre good enough to play college baseball you should be absolutely dominating high school baseball. Not like 1-3 with an rbi single every other game. Not like like 4er thru 6ip. DOMINATING. Like it should be easy for you. Some of you have never even made all conference talking about getting committed like bro you’re not even the best player in your town. Get real guy there’s gonna be a pissed off D1 transfer dying for your spot that already knows how to do college and you think you’re gonna win because you hit .325 once at a small high school. You better hope somebody does you a favor and tells you the truth before it’s too late. You’re lucky you’re even getting this information for free some of you are getting charged 3k a summer and don’t even get that truth.

My wife was stuck in traffic on I-75 yesterday after a hit-and-run driver caused an accident that killed a trucker driver. Turns out the driver was a Braves’ minor leaguer on his way to their complex in North Port.

Florida Highway Patrol State Troopers have located and impounded the 2022 Ford Mustang and placed Jonathan Matos Morales, age 18 of Cocoa, Florida, under arrest for Vehicular Homicide and Leaving a Crash Scene Involving Death. Matos Morales has been booked into the Manatee County Jail.

Sports is the most underrated talent development system in America. - Harvard/NBER tracked 400,000 Ivy grads over 25 years. Athletes earned 3.4% more and reached more senior positions, even after controlling for school, major, and industry. - Ohio State: Adults who played youth sports scored significantly higher on grit. Adults who quit scored lower. - Gallup: 42% of former college athletes are “highly engaged” at work vs. 38% of non-athletes. This is the thesis behind Texas Sports Academy. Sports develop winners in life, not just on the field