Ray McConnell

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?”

This is quite fascinating… a 2000+ year old tree in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem. It was there when Jesus walked through that garden.🙏

There are only two pitchers in Tigers franchise history with 2,000+ career strikeouts … Lolich (2,679) and Verlander (2,373) … 👍⚾️

there are wicked people and there’s this old man😂

If you're not with the White Sox when they're 0-1 then don't come crawling back when they're 16-65 at the halfway point.

"Boy, Whitey. I hope I never see my name up there." Yogi Berra to Whitey Ford during a scoreboard tribute on "Opening Day", to recently deceased Yankees.

G. K. Chesterton explains that reading gives a man more lives than he was born with: “A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”

A blind baby sees his mother for the first time after surgery. Look at his reaction

Dow Chemical just doubled their polyethylene price increase, from $0.15/lb to $0.30/lb, effective April 1st. That's roughly a 60% price hike on the most widely used plastic on Earth. LyondellBasell has gone even further, $0.35/lb in cumulative increases through May. Polyethylene is in your packaging, your water bottles, your grocery bags, your construction materials, your medical supplies. About 50% of global production capacity is now either offline or feedstock-constrained because of the Hormuz crisis. This is how a war in the Middle East shows up at your grocery store. Energy costs don't stay in the energy sector. They flow through everything you buy.

El Santo Cura de Ars (1786-1859) se fijó en un campesino que pasaba todos los días largo rato frente al Santísimo, así que le preguntó: «¿Qué le dices al Señor durante tanto tiempo?». Y el campesino contestó: «Nada, yo le miro y Él me mira».

Eva Lavaliere Fue una de las mujeres más hermosas y admiradas de Francia. Se llamaba Eva Lavariere. Adicta al alcohol y al tabaco, fue amante de varios hombres, entre ellos un marqués y de un barón. Su vida de pecado la hizo totalmente desdichada. Una noche en la que obtuvo uno de sus mayores triunfos en el teatro ante miles de espectadores, se sintió tan infeliz por no tener paz en el corazón, que se lanzó al río para suicidarse. Afortunadamente alguien le salvó la vida y, cuando se confesó con un sacerdote, Cristo Jesús le devolvió la paz a su alma. La felicidad que no encontró entre aplausos y pecados, la halló en un confesionario al sentirse perdonada por el Señor. Después de una vida vacía, se hizo católica en 1918 y se incorporó a la Orden Franciscana Seglar, tomando el nombre de Eva de Jesús. Murió en olor de santidad en 1929.

Zander Hollander was born on this date in 1923. I always tell people that I learned how to read as a child by reading Zander Hollander's "The Complete Handbook of Baseball" in the backseat of my mom's green Chevette while she was running errands. Hollander died in 2014.

Miller’s Crossing (1990) is a straight-up masterpiece that somehow never gets mentioned enough. The Coens turn a gangster story into a chess match of loyalty, betrayal, and quiet menace, with Gabriel Byrne playing one of their sharpest, most tragic leads.

The Story of a Soul by St Therese of Lisieux youtube.com/live/omqmI4ipe… via @YouTube

I need to go to Starkville, MS for a SEC conference series You just don’t replicate this kind of passion for baseball many other places

Pothole season is when our past greatness peaks through to taunt us.

This Psalm was written 1000 years Before Christ: drbo.org/chapter/21021.…

The GOAT is 78 today. Where does time go? To this juncture in history, no hockey player has so-thoroughly dominated the sport. All these years later and Bobby Orr is still the greatest. #NHLBruins #Boston #Leafs

Al Kaline makes a leaping catch at Tiger Stadium in 1960 ... 👍⚾️

Fun fact: Confederate General James Longstreet was a convert to the Traditional Catholic Faith. He converted after the conclusion of the War Between the States while he was in New Orleans. He remained a pious Catholic and when he died received a full Tridentine Requiem Mass.