Dave Marek

I have gotten plenty of cards through the mail but not sure I’ve ever gotten sets of cards so unique and autographed by the great Ben Hill of @MiLB A great collection of cards depicting life in the Minors tha will go great in my collection! Thank you @bensbiz

Happy 94th Birthday to American composer and conductor John Williams. Born | February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, Long Island, New York City, USA. Video | John Williams & Vienna Philharmonic ― Theme from “Jurassic Park” | Imperial March from “Star Wars” | Main Title from “Star Wars: A New Hope”. Over his seven-decade career, American composer and conductor John Williams has composed many of the best known scores in film history. His compositional style blends romanticism, impressionism, and atonal music with complex orchestration. Best known for his collaborations with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, he has received numerous accolades, including 27 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With a total of 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person in the award's history, after Walt Disney. He is also the oldest Academy Award nominee in any category, receiving a nomination at 91 years old. Williams's early work as a film composer includes None but the Brave (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Images and The Cowboys (both 1972), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). He has collaborated with Spielberg since The Sugarland Express (1974), composing music for all but five of his feature films. He received five Academy Awards for Best Score/Best Score Adaptation for Fiddler on the Roof (1971); (score adaptation of the original music by Jerry Bock), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the Indiana Jones franchise (1981–2023), Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022). He also scored Superman (1978) and two of its sequels, the first two Home Alone films (1990–1992), and the first three Harry Potter films (2001–2004). Outside of his long-term collaborations with Spielberg and Lucas, Williams has composed the scores for films directed by William Wyler, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, John Badham, George Miller, Oliver Stone, Chris Columbus, Ron Howard, Barry Levinson, John Singleton, Alan Parker, Alfonso Cuarón, and Rob Marshall. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; NBC Sunday Night Football; “The Mission” theme (used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia); PBS's Great Performances and the television series Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and Amazing Stories. Williams received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2004, the National Medal of the Arts in 2009, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998, the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He has composed the scores for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office. In 2022, Williams was awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II, “for services to film music”. In 2005, the American Film Institute placed Williams' score to Star Wars first on its list AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores; his scores for Jaws and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial also made the list. John Williams married Samantha Winslow on June 9, 1980, six years after the death of his first wife, Barbara Ruick, in 1974. Winslow previously worked at the public television station KCET in Los Angeles as a casting director, where she met John Williams. Winslow has been described as a photographer and an interior designer. John Williams and his wife Samantha Winslow live in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. #JohnWilliams #BOTD @AmericanFilm @DGclassics @nbc @NBCNews @SNFonNBC @starwars @IndianaJones @TheAcademy @goldenglobes @BAFTA @RecordingAcad @TheEmmys

This month only, enter to win an autographed baseball from Yankees legend Willie Randolph, along with an autographed baseball from two former Negro League Players: James Cobbin and Dennis Biddle, and a New York Black Yankees Cap! 🗳 | bit.ly/4axNYr9

Each season in Somerset, we pay tribute to the New York Black Yankees, who played in the Negro Leagues from 1932 to 1948, with a special night. Our annual game as the New York Black Yankees this season will take place on Saturday, August 1st! ℹ️ | bit.ly/4qhPR0Y

@12thmanPR @acannon84 Congrats AC! Great tenure

Alan Cannon was one of this year’s CSC Lifetime Achievement Award winners 👍🐐 #GigEm

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him. By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him. Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life. The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see. A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened? Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured. George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined. If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation. You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet. But it’s there. And it matters more than you know. Merry Christmas, friends. 🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️

The Show Before the Show Night? The Show Before the Show Night! Here's how the Somerset Patriots became true friends of the pod: atmlb.com/45h5myc

@BeatinTheBookie Cool…Now turn the camera around and show what they are doing in front of 100,000 people all yelling the same thing to understand the power of what they are doing here and how that effects communication from the opposing team. #GigEm

I hope Miami fans and players are ready to be intimidated. 😤😤😤

#StarWars | #aggies Mashup 😳

@nut_history I feel a bit over rated. A big one back in the day in early 70s but now not so much. I like his other book better: Foul Ball about Wackonah park

A must read for all baseball fans

@jim_haley Saw Sean Burroughs play for LI Ducks when we played them. He was a very annoying player. Played with passion

@dmarek94 That Sean Burroughs should be worth a slightly used 2001 Mazda Miata by now.

My cards I bought from eTopps in 2001 when it first came out and is now coming to an end, so getting them home. #thehobby

@SherlockStocks_ Nah. Truth be told I kinda forgot about them. Cool to have bought in the first year which so happened to be a Pujoles and Ichiro rookie year! Bonus!

@dmarek94 bitter sweet?

@SaveETopps Took about 3 weeks after order to receive. Not bad

@dmarek94 how long did this take? seems like every order more than a handful takes forever.

@AggieFootball Since becoming a student in 90 and experiencing great football under the RC also I’m days. Greatness can be had but it’s been a long struggle for Aggie fans since the 90s. When will the futility end?

How did you become an Aggie fan? Tell us your story⤵️

@jim_haley @DynastyDadFF Why didn’t you tell me Lamb would have no points. Arghhh!!!

@dmarek94 @DynastyDadFF WR - Lamb, Deebo RB - Jacobs, Kamara Flex - Wan’Dale

🧵#DynastyDadApproved Week 3 Top 40 Running Back 🍿SMASH Starts 1. Bijan Robinson v CAR 2. Saquon Barkley v LAR 3. Christian McCaffrey v ARI 4. James Cook v MIA 5. Derrick Henry v DET 6. Jonathan Taylor @ TEN 7. Jahmyr Gibbs @ BAL 8. De’Von Achane @ BUF 9. Josh Jacobs @ CLE

@NFLFantasy Who are your starting 2 WR, 2 Rb and flex in PPR with this group: Lamb Samuel Pearsal Wan’del Robinson Hollywood Brown Kamara Etienne Josh Jacobs

SEND YOUR LAST MINUTE LINEUP QUESTIONS!!!!

@NFL_Convo Who are your starting 2 WR, 2 Rb and flex in PPR with this group: Lamb Samuel Pearsal Wan’del Robinson Hollywood Brown Kamara Etienne Josh Jacobs

Week 3 is officially here🏈 Drop any start / sit questions you have⬇️ I will get to all of them before gametime🤝 Let’s go win our matchups‼️

@blitzlink_ Who are your starting 2 WR, 2 Rb and flex in PPR with this group: Lamb Samuel Pearsal Wan’del Robinson Hollywood Brown Kamara Etienne Josh Jacobs

@dmarek94 Rickyyy

Answering everyone’s fantasy questions up until kickoff today ⬇️ Also live on YT answering questions starting at 10:30 AM EST ⬇️