Don Pordon

@OleTimeHardball Red Sox fan. And yes.

You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Jorge Posada. Does he get in?

@EchoesofWarYT Meigs did the right thing. Traitors don’t deserve mansions.

After Appomattox, Robert E. Lee tried to go home. He couldn't. While he was off losing the war, a Union quartermaster general named Montgomery Meigs, a Southerner by birth who had stayed loyal to the Union and personally despised Lee after losing his own son in combat, seized Arlington estate over $92.07 in unpaid property taxes. (Mrs. Lee had actually sent an agent to pay. The agent was refused at the door.) Meigs then did something brilliantly cruel. He ordered Union dead buried as close to the front porch as possible. The point wasn't burial space. The point was making the house unlivable for the Lees forever. It worked. That front yard is now Arlington National Cemetery. So Lee, the most famous man in the South, drifted. Lived in a rented house in Richmond. Hid out at a friend's cottage in the country. In June 1865 he wrote to President Andrew Johnson asking for his citizenship back. Ulysses S. Grant personally endorsed the application. On October 2, 1865, Lee signed the required Oath of Allegiance and sent it to Washington. A State Department clerk filed it in the wrong folder. Lee never knew. He spent his last five years as president of tiny, broke Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, where he created the country's first college journalism program, one of the first college business programs, and a one-sentence honor code ("every student be a gentleman") that still runs the place. In public he preached reconciliation. In private, asked to denounce the Klan, he refused. Testifying to Congress in 1866, he said it would be better for Virginia "if she could get rid of" its Black population. He died on October 12, 1870, of a stroke. Officially, still not a U.S. citizen. His son sued for Arlington and won. U.S. Supreme Court, 5 to 4, in 1882. The family took $150,000 in 1883 and let the graves stay. The lost oath sat in a drawer for 105 years. An archivist stumbled across it in the National Archives in 1970. Five years later, on August 5, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a joint resolution restoring Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship, retroactive to June 13, 1865. By then, the man had been dead for 105 years, buried beneath a chapel he built himself, in a Virginia mountain town nobody outside the state could find on a map.

@braves2430 Reggie or Wade, and is this a real question?

Who do you think should? 🪑

@NYJetsTFMedia A perennial bad team should not have that privilege anyway

The #Jets have no Primetime games this year What are your thoughts on this❓

@VinnysCorner1 Lorenzo White

Without saying Warren Moon, Earl Campbell or Bruce Matthews, name an Oiler…

@OleTimeHardball Ted Williams easily. Wasn’t a good fielder anyway, so DH would be perfect for him.

You have your choice of any player, in his prime, to fill this DH spot. Who gets the call?

@VinnysCorner1 Captain Kirk Muller

Without saying your age…. Who was the best player on your favorite NHL team when you started watching Hockey? I’ll start…. Pat LaFontaine

@OleTimeHardball Absolutely ridiculous he was made to wait as long as he did

Hall of Fame re-vote You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Fred McGriff. Does he get in?

@wmsmediaonx Billy Cole was him

Still one of the wildest starts to a movie I’ve ever seen..

@JimJimsonJr @VanLathan Very well said

@VanLathan Marcellus sent Vincent to Butch's apartment to kill him, he can't be mad that Butch defended himself. The game is the game. But more importantly, that man saved Marcellus from a lifetime of sex slavery. That's a big, big debt.

Yall think Marcellus abided his non LA truce with Butch once he got back to the apt and found Vincent dead?

@FriedgeHNIC Wow man. What a series this was.

Canadiens outshot 29-9, but Dobes is an absolutely impenetrable brick wall Canadiens/Sabres for the Atlantic, beginning Wednesday

@TheRewatchables no

Could Eddie Murphy have been a good fit in 'Ghostbusters'? 🤔

@BBGreatMoments Jeter with Yogi. Easily.

Yankees Mount Rushmore. Who are you replacing?

@TheRewatchables Kiss of Death please and thank you

We bullied the streamers into bringing Pump Up the Volume back to life, then Eddie and the Cruisers… and now, Irreconcilable Differences. Cross another one off the list! Next up: Kiss of Death? The Sure Thing? The Flamingo Kid?

@YahooSports No it didn’t

The GOAT conversation just got more interesting 😱

@Evans_Wroten John Adams was not a southern president

Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, discusses a few of the grievances in the south that led to the Civil War. Foote worked with Ken Burns on his documentary 'The Civil War'. Many facts that led to the conflict are never taught in school, but are well documented.

@MarinoMLB In just over 60 minutes, this tweet aged like ricotta in Florida sunlight. Well done.

Jets needed a WR2 and had Makai Lemon, who will be very good, staring at them. They took a TE who had no business going day 1 (in my opinion). The team is allergic to taking great playmaker WR’s (JSN was no different). This is the type of pick that gets GM’s fired.

@nostalgiafkninc And was then gunned down by his own men. A fitting end for a traitor.

Outnumbered? Yes. Outmatched? No. Fighting against three separate Federal armies, each larger than his own. One by one, he hit them fast, hit them hard, and vanished before they could react.

@DevilsInsiders @NJDevils New GM’s rarely want to keep an HC that they didn’t hire. There’s a good chance Keefe is a goner.

if you were Sunny Mehta, would you retain Sheldon Keefe? If not, who would be your @NJDevils HC for 2026-27?

@Willpa11 Reese @2, trade down @16

Jets fans… drop your final mocks… who do you have at picks 2/16?