Ed Puskas

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal... The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group. All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10." After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8. The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed. As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less. The average of the second test was 6. When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed. The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real Get it?

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima. Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse. No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed. So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history. When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive. The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy. At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong. They convicted him anyway. For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy. Case closed. For fifty years. Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project. He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay. A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001. The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader. Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

Number of times Pedro Martinez faced Tony Gwynn: 36 Number of times Pedro Martinez struck Tony Gwynn out: ZERO Number of times Greg Maddux faced Tony Gwynn: 107 Number of times Greg Maddux struck Tony Gwynn out: ZERO

Did you watch the Banana Splits?

Kids in 1975 were cruising around on Big Wheels, making the most of every day. Watching this commercial is a reminder of how simple and carefree childhood used to be Source: 1975 Big Wheel TV Commercial (Marx Toys)

Lux Smith Update from his Mother—14-year-old Lux Smith suffered a heat stroke at football practice in Ruston, La., on June 1. He was airlifted to Little Rock and has been in the ICU since. This is a prayer request. Please share: “Hesitant to share, but sharing in hopes that it’ll make every single person who sees this PRAY for our Lux! They’re planning to extubate tomorrow. This is our second go with this; we believe he’s ready! This will be a huge step forward for him ♥️ Pray he is successfully extubated and continues to progress in the right direction from here on! In Jesus Holy name”✨ Lux Smith's mother 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏻🙏🏻

In 1991, Andre Dawson was called out on strikes by Cowboy Joe West and ejected for arguing the call. He was then fined $500 by the National League and paid it via a check with the memo line filled out “Donation for the blind.” True story. I love Andre Dawson.

"Auggie Busch traded me to the last-place Phillies over a $5000 salary dispute. I was mentally committed to winning 25 games with the Cardinals and now I had to re-think my goals. I decided to stay with the 25-win goal, and won 27 of the Phillies 59 victories." Steve Carlton, 1972. Carlton was 27-10 with a 1.97 ERA, for a last-place Philadelphia team!! Cardinals' owner, Auggie Busch had temper tantrum because Steve Carlton wouldn't agree to the club's contract terms. Ordered by Busch to trade Carlton, and GM Bing Devine dealt Carlton to the Phillies for another pitcher, Rick Wise, 1972. "Steve Carlton had a way of elevating everyone’s game, even the year we were horrendous. He was never indecisive on the mound. Before the game, he’d go over the hitters and say: "This is how I’m going to pitch and this is where I want you to play him. He had a game plan of how to pitch to each hitter and he stuck to it. And he wanted you in a certain spot, and if they didn’t hit it there, it was his responsibility. That’s how he wanted it. Every fourth day we were the best team in baseball. Every other day we were the worst." Larry Bowa. Steve Carleton`s 12.5 WAR was the highest single-season mark since Walter Johnson in 1913.

This kid deserves way more hype for this catch. Home run ball coming in, chairs in the way, other guy blocking his view, and he just fully lays out and makes the diving grab.

@gregkihn You are missed, Greg. But we will always have the music. Thank you and RIP.

@S_U_Network Jack Perconte.

Whoever names the most obscure MLB second baseman wins.

@BBGreatMoments Albert Belle, Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel.

Name a retired player from your favorite team who should be in the Hall of Fame, but still isn’t.

"The ball hit the grandstand on the fly. I was mad and stunned. Ty Cobb was mad and shaken. In a way it was really my fault. I was standing in front of the plate, instead of on the side, where I could tag Ty as he slid in. But out of that mix-up I learned one thing: NEVER stand directly in front of the plate when Ty Cobb was roaring for home." Catcher Paul Krichell. The photo shows Ty Cobb and St. Louis Browns catcher Paul Krichell in 1912. Cobb appears to be flying foot-first into Krichell’s crotch while the catcher squints in pained anticipation. But there is a 1950's interview with Paul Krichell, then a scout for the Yankees and by his own testimony, Cobb was aiming his foot at the ball in Krichell’s glove, and succeeded in knocking it to the backstop. Ty Cobb, centerfielder with the Detroit Tigers, executes a "flying slide" into catcher Paul Krichell at home plate during a game against the St. Louis Browns, 1912. Paul Krichell scouted for the Yankees and recalled convincing GM Ed Barrow and farm director George Weiss to organize a camp for prep stars in the summer of 1937. From this camp the Yankees landed future Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto, one of 56 kids at the school and one of the smallest. Because he had received four letters touting Rizzuto—the Yankees received roughly 2,000 such letters a year—he gave Rizzuto an extra look despite his stature. Krichell invited Whitey Ford to a tryout after the high-school lefty wrote him a letter. Paul Krichell was the GREATEST of all ivory hunters in baseball history!!!!

@S_U_Network Charlie Lea.

Whoever names the most obscure MLB pitcher wins.

@Irish_Cowboy88 1. Johnny Manziel 2. Justin Gilbert 3. Mike Junkin 4. Corey Coleman 5. Dave Jacobs

🏈Cleveland Browns Goats Here’s my Top 5 Browns players of all-time. Who would you add and/or remove from my top-5?

@VinnysCorner1 Jerry Sherk, Browns.

Name a Defensive linemen, but try and name someone that nobody else will… Here I’ll start…. Tony Siragusa