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Judge Smails
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"You'll Get Nothing ,and Like it!". "I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them."
A Fly Over State Katılım Eylül 2010
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I wish this article had existed when I was struggling with depression, SSRI-induced mania/suicidality, and medication withdrawal symptoms.
“How does the system keep people trapped in this model?”
“How do you get off these drugs safely?”
“What works instead?”
J͎Λ͎Y͎@TakeThiamine
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In all my years of broadcasting, I'd never gotten emotional on air until tonight. It was impossible to hold back the tears.
Jack Piccione of Tappan Zee lost his father suddenly last Sept. 1. Matthew Piccione died of a heart attack minutes after playing pickleball with friends. He was 51.
Over the last three years, I got to know Matthew Piccione fairly well. One day back in 2023, he asked coach George Gaine for my number so he could call me just to say thank you for calling out Jack's contributions during Tappan Zee's championship run.
Jack was a role player who averaged maybe 5 points a game as a freshman. But he started and never came off the court.
"I know he doesn't score a lot of points," Matthew Piccione said. "But you are one of the only people who appreciates what he does for the team."
Matthew Piccione kept a very low profile at games and reinforced in his son to be the emodiment of all the things that make Tappan Zee basketball different than any other program in the state.
Play unselfish. Defend. Be coachable. Defend. Draw charges. Pass. Sacrifice for your teammates. And, of course, defend some more.
Nobody in the history of Tappan Zee basketball since I have been covering has ever played that role better than Jack Piccione. He's the best best defensive player in the program and is on an elite level of players I've been around in Section 1.
When Matthew died in September, I worried about Jack. I wondered what his senior season might be like. The person most responsible for instilling and reinforcing the values that made Jack great was now tragically gone.
Tonight, Jack Piccione scored 5 points in the Section 1 Championship game. FIVE. Yet not only did his team because of his performance, I had the honor of handing him the MVP Trophy to prove it.
In the final 90 seconds of the game, I shared the story of Matthew Piccione and his passing. You will hear the emotion in my voice. It's genuine, not because of any relationship I had with him. You just can't be a sports parent and not relate to loving your child and always wanting what's best for them.
Because here's what I am going to tell you. And I really want all parents to read this and remember it:
Your kids' youth - not just athletics, but all of it - is short and it's precious. You don't get this time back when it's over. It goes way too quick. And some don't even get to see it to the end.
You have a choice: You can spend this period of their lives stressing about how many points they score, what awards or accolades they receive, begging people to vote in the online poll for Player of the Week, emailing the coach and complaining about playing time or lamenting the number of shots they get in a game. Go ahead. You can make all of that important for yourself and your child. Trust me, you won't be alone in doing so.
Or you can do what Matthew Piccione did. Sit in the stands and enjoy watching your children compete. Teach them that it's team above all else, stress what it means to sacrifice and ensure them that, when you do those things and have success, the feeling of hanging a banner will far exceed any of the personal accolades think are important.
And, sadly, God might choose that you won't be around to see it all anyway.
Matthew didn't get to give his son a hug after he won tonight. And Jack didn't get to see the pride in his father's face. Think about that. If you are a parent, try to put your child in Jack's shoes. If God forbid your child was confronted with the same tragedy, you'd want them looking back on this sacred period of their lives the way Jack will forever recall them with his dad.
Tonight was complete validation for Jack Piccione and all of the things his father always told him.
Jack scored 5 points and won the MVP on his way to becoming the most decorated basketball player in Tappan Zee history.
Nobody has ever won more in a TZ uniform than the most unselfish player they've ever had. He wouldn't trade his career with anyone, either.
Take a moment to listen to myself and Pleasantville coach Nick Bonura from tonight's @SportsEngine broadcast of @TZeeAthletics @TZhoops
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My conversation with @NicolaiTang1
Tangen runs the world's largest sovereign wealth fund and sees AI as a once-in-a-lifetime inflection point. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That's roughly 1.7% of all listed companies on Earth.
This episode is full of surprising insights.
Enjoy!
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Somewhere Marty is smiling!! @Chiefs
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Rep Chiefs in style with this straw hat. Perfect for summer vibes!
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@RetroCoast @RedsSuffering Weren’t they all session musicians prior to forming the band ?
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Toto topped the charts, because their quality of music was off the charts.
They were true professionals. #1980s

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No man’s pee writing is that good lmao
Ounka@OunkaOnX
⚡JUST IN - Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy reportedly urinated "F* ICE" into the snow ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, posting it to social media
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138 lbs down today.
My daughter woke me up today and said “Mom, let’s go to the nature trail.”
I said yes like it was nothing.
You don’t understand what that means.
10 months ago I couldn’t walk to the end of the block without walking sticks. I’d circle parking lots hunting for the closest spot because walking was that painful. Walking ANYWHERE felt like a nightmare.
Today I just… went. No hesitation. No dread. No panic. Just “hell yes, let’s do it.”
I walked outside, got sunlight on my face, moved my body, and felt ALIVE. Didn’t think twice about it.
Sunlight. Fresh air. Movement. It regulates your nervous system. It brings you back to reality. Go touch some grass…literally.
And listen, if you’re just starting and you think you need to go destroy yourself at the gym to burn off calories? You don’t. It was never about burning calories. It was never about crushing workouts.
It’s about MOVEMENT.
Walk to the end of the block. Walk around the block. Walk up and down your hallway if that’s all you’ve got. Just move.
Move your body. Calm your mind. Build those baby habits and stack them.
Meat. Movement. Mindset.
Those are my 3 pillars. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. That’s what changed everything.
Stop overcomplicating it. Don’t worry about how far you go.
Just go.👑
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Not enough people talk about Mark Gubicza
• 37.4 WAR, 132 W, 3.96 ERA, 109 ERA+
• 2x ASG, 1985 WS Champ with KC
• Led MLB with 7.8 WAR in 1988
• Grew up w/ Ruben Amaro Jr.
• Made at least 33 starts 4x
• Won 20 games in 1988
• Reached 4.4 WAR 4x
• Topped 240 IP 3x
• 3x AL HR/9 leader
• Current broadcaster
• Royals HOF class of '06
• Reggie Jackson: 2-15, 5 K
• Rod Carew: 1-10 (.408 OPS)
• Jose Canseco: 20 K in 56 AB!!
• Dick Schofield: 0-28 (.067 OPS)
• 7th in '84 ROY and 3rd in '88 CYA
• 1-0, 0.960 WHIP in '85 ALCS (age 22)
• Top B-R Similarity Score: Dick Ruthven
• Wore one number (#23) his entire career
• Griffey Jr, McGriff, Giambi: my goodness 😲
• Between 1987 and 1989, only 14 pitchers in MLB recorded even one season with at least 35 GS and 5.0 WAR; only Mark Gubicza and @rogerclemens did so in all three seasons across that span

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