Dan Good

@yanxchick 1993 Upper Deck jumbo pack, pulled a Nolan Ryan Then & Now and was hooked

Q1 What is the first product you ever opened? #CardChat

If you're out there writing poems—in a shadowy room, on the night shift, on your lunch break, beside your napping child, anywhere—you're keeping the human soul alive. You're doing the work we all need. And I absolutely love you.

I called my dad to tell him I was about to get fired. I told him the GM was on his way to my house and that I'd call him after. Forty minutes later I had to call him back and it wasn't the call either of us expected... Here's the story: The GM had been trying to reach me for days. I thought it was about our offense because I was in charge of the offense and we weren't hitting so I figured I was next in line to go. He called and said he needed to meet that morning. I told him I had a dentist appointment. He said he'd come to my house after. That's when I knew: • Nobody drives to your house for a good conversation • A GM coming to your home means one thing So I started mentally preparing for the news I called my dad down in Merritt Island...I said, "Dad, the GM's coming over to fire me. I'll call you after." He shows up. Talks about the offense. Our lack of consistent play. I'm sitting there thinking...here it comes. Then he says: "I let Buddy Bell go this morning. I'm here to ask you to be the interim manager." Didn't see it coming. I had no clue. I called my dad back forty minutes later. "Dad, not only am I not getting fired but I'm managing a ball game tonight. You and mom need to get on a flight out of Orlando and get here." Here's what it taught me: You can't always see what's coming. But you can control how ready you are when it does. The opportunity didn't come because I was waiting for it. It came because I was ready for it. Be ready. Your call is coming.

A quiet superstar.

@yanxchick "I got a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell!" 1953 Bowman NBC TV and radio stars Ronnie Walken

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@yanxchick No!

@Dgood73 I'M GONNA START WITH YOU!

I'm going to stop being nice

The guy who just flew to Hungary to get involved in their politics tells the Pope, who is from Chicago, Illinois to stay out of US politics.

Oh shit. They shipped door dash woman to a Nevada hearing last year. She’s the maga paid prop. Everything they do is a con.

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries. So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it. Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening. Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room. But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days. What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are. Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it. That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds. And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes. What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees. I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.

First look at the #Padres new City Connect Jerseys. Incredible touch by the team with the dia de los muertos theme. On the ofrenda are photos of Randy Jones, Peter Seidler, Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti and Jerry Coleman. #ForTheFaithful  #CityConnect

Could you imagine living in 1969? Sending astronauts to the moon. Fighting a useless war and the president is a crook.

On this day in 1974, Hank became the King 👑

Trump supporters: "You see, panicans? I knew all along he wouldn't actually follow through on the genocide threats." Me: "...And, this reassures you, does it?"

Drop whatever you're doing and read this @newlinesmag article by the political scientist Hussein Banai, which is the single most incisive — and chilling — piece of analysis I believe has been published, anywhere, on this subject of ultimate urgency. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-l…

💯 this this this

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

lol yall gave access to nuclear codes to an insurrectionist reality tv star because he aligned with your racist values and look at where we are now

Enough! If there was ever a red line in world history, we are here. It really doesn't matter if you are liberal or conservative, or who you voted for in the last election-- there is no way you can be a good American, good Christian, or good person if you support a leader that makes statements like this. If you try to dismiss this, try to explain it away as "good negotiating tactic", or try to justify it in any way, you are just a bad person. It's that simple. If you don't understand this, you just prove the point. The American people are not the Mafia or the mob. We don't threaten to kill whole families or civilizations if we don't get our way, especially if "getting our way" means stealing from and killing other people that have not attacked us. If our elected representatives can't understand this, don't have the moral courage to stand up and represent us the way they should, and reign in this megalomaniac, We The People will have no choice other than revolution. That's the point our revered founding fathers got to and that is where we are now. "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."