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All MLB Criminal team is NASTY SP- Luis Ortiz 🎰 CP- Emmanuel Clase🎰 C Reese McGuire 🍆 1B Orlando Cepeda 🌿 2B Pete Rose 🎰 3B Anthony Volpe 🍑 SS Wander Franco 🍆👶 LF Yasiel Puig 🤥 CF Josh Hamilton🥊 RF Barry Bonds 🤥 DH Gary Sheffield🥊 Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara🎰

Not enough people talk about Reggie Smith: • .287/.366/.489 (.855 OPS) • More WAR than McCovey, Winfield, Stargell • More HR than Hornsby, Klein, Simmons (both) • Higher OPS+ than Griffey, Brett, Clemente • Switch-hitter, 7x AS, GG, 1981 WS Champ • Described by Tommy Lasorda as the best hitter that ever played for him (and he saw some good ones!) Somehow, just a one-and-done on his only HOF ballot (with a staggeringly low 0.7% of the vote in 1988). An injustice!

🙏🇺🇸🙏 In 1942, an 18-year-old rebel with a history of getting expelled from schools walked into a recruitment office and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. His name was Lamont Waltman Marvin Jr. You know him as Lee Marvin. He hadn't been easy to raise. Restless, undisciplined, bounced between schools his whole childhood. But when America went to war, something clicked into place. He knew exactly where he needed to be. He trained at Parris Island, South Carolina, completed Quartermaster School, and was promoted to Corporal — then demoted back to Private First Class for disciplinary infractions. Some things never changed. What did change him was the Pacific. Assigned to I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marvin participated in 21 amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands. He served as a scout sniper — the men sent ashore in rubber boats in the dead of night, before anyone else, to clear the way. Then came Saipan. On June 18, 1944, during the assault on Mount Tapochau, machine gun fire tore through him and severed his sciatic nerve. Moments later, a sniper's bullet hit him in the foot. In fifteen minutes, his company of 247 men was reduced to six survivors. Lee Marvin was one of them. He spent the next 13 months in naval hospitals, undergoing treatment that would have broken most men. He was medically discharged as a Private First Class — the rank still showing the demotion from years before. The Marine Corps was done with him, even if he wasn't done with them. Back in upstate New York, he took work as a plumber's assistant at a local community theater. One day, filling in for an ailing actor at a rehearsal, he discovered something unexpected: he loved the stage. What followed was one of Hollywood's most unlikely careers. The lean, scarred veteran with the gravelly voice and thousand-yard stare became one of the most compelling actors of his generation. The Big Heat. The Wild One. M Squad. The Dirty Dozen. And in 1966, the Academy Award for Best Actor - for Cat Ballou, of all things, a comedy Western. The toughest man in Hollywood won his Oscar playing both a drunken gunfighter and his villainous twin. But Lee Marvin never forgot what he considered his real role. He said he learned to act in the Marines — trying to look unafraid during combat when terror was all around him. When directors needed someone to show actors how infantry moved, how a rifle was held, how a man looked who had actually been shot at — they called Lee Marvin. He died on August 29, 1987, at the age of 63 - of a heart attack in Tucson, Arizona. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. His headstone doesn't say "Academy Award Winner." It reads: PFC — US Marine Corps — World War II. That was the title he chose. That was the one that mattered. Decorated with the Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War I| Victory Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon. One of six men who walked away from a hillside on Saipan 🙏🇺🇸🙏

BREAKING - Numerous women, including a 19-year-old teenager, have come forward to blow the whistle on California Rep. and governor candidate Eric Swalwell, claiming he has been sleeping with his interns and staffers and forcing them to sign NDAs to keep quiet.

“This is part of her routine” I would have already been on the green waiting before she pulled the trigger.

Not enough people talk about Sidd Finch • Perhaps baseball's greatest pitching talent • Fastball made Koufax look like Bottenfield • Disciple of an 11th-century Tibetan monk • Same height & weight as Jacob deGrom • Allegedly hit 168 mph on the JUGS gun • Could only pitch with a hiking boot on • One of the best scouting reports ever • Never played baseball in his entire life • Was given the locker between Darryl Strawberry and George Foster at Spring Training 1985 in an effort to expose him to Seasoned Baseball Men • Channeled his spiritual yearnings into tantric mastery of mind-body, allowing him to generate internal heat and throw baseballs with pinpoint control at speeds never achieved before or since • Renounced worldly goods, and thus could never be persuaded to sign a professional baseball contract by conventional means such as money and perks • Was an aspirant yogi-monk before being discovered by the Mets and mentored by Mel Stottlemyre, but his intensely private spiritual lifestyle persisted and he spent all of his non-baseball time communing with the sea and playing the French horn