Ben Bromley
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Ben Bromley
@ben_bromley
Marketing director for Baraboo Chamber. Play-by-play voice of Baraboo Thunderbirds. Playwright and thespian.
Baraboo, WI Katılım Ekim 2011
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The missed opportunities play for the Sounds.
Hunter Baumgardt@hunterbonair
Brewers Manager Pat Murphy talks about the missed opportunities on offense tonight👇 “It’s been our story so far in the first month of the season that we haven’t been consistent.”
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@MadCity_Brew @AaronNagler Most impactful play in franchise history since the Ice Bowl sneak
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He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died.
Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today.
His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing.
He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it.
He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages.
In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted.
As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan.
His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century.
After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless.
Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23.
The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president.
Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

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@whiteburns @matt_jurvelin Who can argue with the latest personnel moves?!?
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Tyler Black double. His good luck charm is in attendance @matt_jurvelin, that’s why
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@whiteburns @matt_jurvelin Show me more of his “elite strike zone recognition”
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Mason Reiger now seventh on the best available per Mel Kiper.
In case you were wondering, the last time Wisconsin was blanked from the NFL Draft was 1978.
#Badgers
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@ONABAMfan Holding out for your line of Summer of Passion visors
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@whiteburns We are in such dire straits we think adding Tyler Black will actually help
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That’s not saying much when you compare him to 7-8 of those guys.
Hunter Baumgardt@hunterbonair
Brewers Manager Pat Murphy says the move to bring up Tyler Black was a “no-brainer” and right now he’s one of their best 13 position players. Likely to see him at DH, 1B, and LF.
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@Brandon_Sneide Thank you. Let's not worry about left-right when it means playing AAA guys.
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Begging for Murph to just play Mitchell everyday. Just play your best guys, especially with all these injuries.
Eric Cross@EricCrossMLB
MLB OBP Leaders, Through 4/22 Qualified Hitters
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@ONABAMfan When the Wrigley rat takes a dump in the ball bag, this signifies a loss. When it bites the ankle of the visiting first base coach, this signifies a win. Pretty simple, people.
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What’s funny about the whole rat infestation situation is that Brewers fans have zero understanding of the rat’s purpose, history and significance.
Marcus Leshock@marcusleshock
There is a RAT on the field at Wrigley! 🐀🤣 @Cubs Watch for the Phillies reaction when they noticed it. 🤣🤣
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