David Baranski
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David Baranski
@DavidBaranski24
Avid Steelers and Youngstown State Penguin fan; loving husband to my dearest wife and father to my family
Katılım Ocak 2016
88 Takip Edilen28 Takipçiler
EXPENSIVE AND FRUSTRATING: FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is targeting the skyrocketing cost of watching sports as the NFL and other major leagues move games to pricy streaming services.
NFL fans who want to watch every game would be forced to shell out over $1,500 a year to pay for the growing list of streaming services now covering games across the league.
Carr says it's too expensive and inconvenient for consumers to watch their favorite teams:
"Americans are frustrated when they sit down and can’t find the game they want to watch. And that feeling grows only worse when they realize that they might need to sign up for another streaming service to watch the game."
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@FTFonFS1 @DannyParkins Give Howard the opportunity instead of recruiting from assisted living homes!!
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Report: Kirk Cousins among top options for Steelers if Aaron Rodgers is not back. @DannyParkins weighs in:
“I’d be furious by it… Kirk Cousins cannot win… We saw him in Atlanta.”
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@AdamSchefter Replacing Tomlin with McCarthy is a downgrade. We'll be looking for another coach in 5 years or less.
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Sources: Steelers plan to hire former Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy as their head coach.
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@TheStandard412 You're setting the results of poor draft picks and the signing of slow, old free- agents who are past their prime. We're just an average team!
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Most devastating losses in Pittsburgh Steelers history (IMO):
• Week 16 (2008) against the New Orleans Saints (worst DPI I have ever seen … IYKYK).
• Wildcard (2020) against the Cleveland Browns (worst collapse after starting 11-0).
• AFC Championship (2016) against the New England Patriots (Chris Hogan looked like prime Randy Moss).
• Wildcard (2017) against the Jacksonville Jaguars (this was the year I thought we were going to win the Super Bowl).
• Week 17 (2017) against the New England Patriots (Jesse James CAUGHT IT).
• Wildcard (2011) against the Denver Broncos (3:16 game … IYKYK).
Agree? Disagree? What did I miss? What would you add?
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@SimonVarndell The Steelers would of never drafted Hometown boy in Round 1 if he played for any other college. He was an emotional draft pick!
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@TuckerCarlson Sorry for your loss. May God bless you and your family during this difficult time.
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Obituary for my father.
Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet.
He was born February 10, 1941 at Massachusetts General Hospital to a 15-year-old Swedish-speaking girl and placed in the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, where he developed rickets from malnutrition. His legs were bent for the rest of his life. After years in foster homes, he was placed with the Carlson family in Norwood, Mass. His adoptive father, a tannery manager, died when he was 12 and he stopped attending school regularly. At 17, he was jailed for car theft, thrown out of high school for the second time, and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1962, in search of adventure, he drove to California. He spent a year as a merchant seaman on the SS Washington Bear, transporting cargo to ports in the Orient, and then became a reporter. Over the next decade, he was a copy boy at the LA Times, a wire service reporter for UPI and an investigative reporter and anchor for ABC News, covering the upheaval of the period. He knew virtually every compelling figure of the time, including Jim Jones, Patty Hearst, Eric Hoffer, Jerry Garcia, as well as Mafia leaders and members of the Manson Family. In 1965, he was badly injured reporting from the Watts riots in Los Angeles.
By 1975, he was married with two small boys, when his wife departed for Europe and didn’t return. He threw himself into raising his boys, whom he often brought with him on reporting trips. At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and unchanging nature of people. He was a free thinker and a compulsive book reader, including at red lights. He left a library of thousands of books, most dog-eared and filled with marginalia. His reading and life experiences convinced him that God is real. He had an outlaw spirit tempered by decency.
In 1979, he married the love of his life, Patricia Swanson. They were together for 44 years, all of them happy. She died sixteen months before he did and he mourned her every day.
In 1985, he moved to Washington to work for the Reagan Administration. He spent five years as the director of the Voice of America, and then moved to the Seychelles as the US ambassador. In 1992, he became the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and later ran a division of King World television.
The last 25 years of his life were spent in work whose details were never completely clear to his family, but that was clearly interesting. He worked in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues. He knew a number of colorful national leaders, including Rafic Hariri of Lebanon, Aslan Abashidze of Adjara, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and whomever runs Somaliland. He was a fundamentally nonjudgmental person who was impossible to shock, and he described them all with amused affection.
He spoke to his sons every day and had lunch with them once a week for thirty years at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, always prefaced by a dice game. Throughout his life he fervently loved dogs.
Richard W. Carlson is survived by his sons, Tucker and Buckley, his beloved daughter-in-law Susie, and five grandchildren. He was the toughest human being anyone in his family ever knew, and also the kindest and most loyal. RIP.
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Ladies and gentleman...Aaron Rodgers has left the building...without a contract. bit.ly/4kGFCBL
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@ThePoniExpress It wasn't the first time this happened to a starting QB!
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Justin Fields didn't feel the love from the Steelers after getting benched. He was pro. And played nice. But obviously that didn't sit right with him.
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@ThePoniExpress He's terrible! Reason why he's been on four teams!
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Report: SI’s Albert Breer says the Steelers have interest in signing Sam Darnold. He’s played for 4 teams. And has a 35-38 career record.
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@Blitz_Burgh Steelers had MANY 1st round picks that are no longer with the team!
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‘We’ve had enough:’ Billboard in Pittsburgh sends message to Steelers ownership | Click on the image to read the full story wtae.com/article/weve-h…
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