David Hagley

@PeytonTowry Just call him Rake Baldwin. Crazy.

Drake Baldwin and this Braves team are absolutely ridiculous

@gothburz Can we see some bullet holes at the hotel?

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

@commons96055467 I would like to see some (or even one) bullet hole(s) inside the hotel.

So, the shooter, with his gun drawn, was not gunned down by hundreds of Secret Service Agents, running after him with guns pointing at him, steps away from the president? Scripted movie scene?

Thank you, Bryce Elder!! Can’t keep hitting our guys with no retaliation.

@braves2430 Kenny Stabler.

Down 5, 2 minutes left in the 4th Which QB would You want? ‼️

@AZCowboy72 @SaintLaurant @RonFilipkowski 😂

@SaintLaurant @RonFilipkowski "Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas" AKA "Assistant to the Regional Manager"

What does Corey Lewandowski do now?

@CelliniNick Really… laughed out loud

She actually does look like my Grandma Testa, if she did peptides.

@DunderMifflinAS Who’s your worm guy?

Prove you watched The Office with one sentence.

@HerdCotton I look forward to them each week. Keep up the good work and, Go Herd!

That's what I see for now. I know my love of the numbers isn't for everybody, but it seems that a few of you enjoy them, too, and I'm glad to take a few minutes each week to share them. Thanks for listening.

@ruslivingood @HerdFB We should lose the green ones.

After Saturday, we will now have four unique helmets this season. I’ll take any corrections you have that contradict my declaration that this is the most in any @HerdFB season. I’m thinking even with special military decals for games, four is the most. 📸 - @HerdFB on most

Reminder The Junx Club, owned by Mr. Jerry Vanston, and located at 1110 4th Ave, will be open this Friday and Saturday with our Christmas collection on display. There is a tremendous selection of vintage, unopened, collectible, and the interesting. Or, just stop by to chat.

@RealMattlanta Loved this.

Favorite part of this video? Chuck’s explosion! Dimino’s passive aggressive! Matt for stirring the pot!

@MerrillLynched @atrupar 😂

@atrupar “The brilliant minds are the descendants of the people here now?”

Trump: "Those were vicious, vicious wolf packs. They were brutal. They were hitting us hard and then we came up with the answer, didn't we? We came up with the way to knock them out and we were knocking them out so fast they didn't know what to do. It was really the end once we discovered the secret through some brilliant minds."

@CinemaTweets1 Should have been a Drop, 2

The Drop is one of James Gandolfini’s final films & a movie that is painfully overlooked. Tom Hardy & Gandolfini put on an absolute acting masterclass. For those who find this film a little slow, I beg you to give this a rewatch- the slow burn is what makes The Drop special.

@KeithMorehouse @HerdFB @CoachTonyGibson @jalenslappy Happy to see this brought back by @CoachTonyGibson. Go Herd!

Marshall’s players make memorable run to Spring Hill Cemetery wsaz.com/video/2025/08/… @HerdFB @CoachTonyGibson @jalenslappy

@Braves Big news.

The #Braves today returned OF Stuart Fairchild from his rehabilitation assignment and reinstated him from the injured list, and designated OF José Azocar for assignment. Following yesterday’s game, Atlanta returned INF Nacho Alvarez Jr. from his rehabilitation assignment, reinstated him from the injured list and optioned him to Triple-A Gwinnett.

@HerdZone @HerdWBB @Herd_MBB 4.

🚨 NEW BASKETBALL COURT DESIGN INCOMING! 🚨 We want the fans to decide how it will look! Cast your vote: t.herdzone.com/LP=90

@CelliniNick Yes!

While we complain about our baseball team and grill out by the pool today, let’s all remember that some made the ultimate sacrifice, affording us the opportunity to do so in the greatest country in the world #MemorialDay

@Braves Embarrassing!

Final: Pirates 4, #Braves 3.

@chrisdimino 😂

It's a me problem..I know it's a me problem..but he has entered the rare air of things that bother me so much I can't see straight. The Masked Singer Mount Rushmore "Debates" Him