Mike O'Brien

This will be my last season as the Head Coach for @EPLegion for many personal reasons. I poured my soul into the program. I hope I left it better than when I started. Not enough room to thank everyone who has contributed to our success! Thank you! I’m amped for my last season!

@JLucroy20 I hope I get to pick your brain some day over a beer. Thanks for engaging on this platform. Just fun to get this kind of a perspective from a guy who had an awesome career.

There was never 1 game where I felt 100%. Early on I accepted it as a part of my position (catcher) and that I had to live with it and grind through it everyday.

@podoffame Harold was an excellent player. He was never a dominant player and couldn’t play D. Love the guy, but still not HOFer

Harold Baines recorded a 121 OPS+ during a 22-year MLB career. That is a higher OPS+ than HOFers such as Gil Hodges, Andre Dawson, Carlos Beltran, Roberto Alomar, Adrian Beltre, Barry Larkin, Gary Carter, Derek Jeter, Robin Yount, Ryne Sandberg, Cal Ripken Jr., and Craig Biggio. The Baines hate goes WAY too far at times

⚾️ TODAY’S THE DAY! ⚾️ The EP Baseball Get Together is happening tonight! 🕠 5:30–7:30 PM 📍 Hackamore Brewing Company Come out for games, raffles, silent auction items, a food truck & more — all supporting EPBA and our players. Grab your family and join us tonight!

When I say “pinch hitter” who’s the first player that pops in your head?

@JLucroy20 @JLucroy20 where do you rank Joe Mauer, Jorge Posada, and Brian McCann against Pudge, Yadi, and Posey?

Yogi great old time catcher, but game was different back then. Stances, receiving, all different. Modern day would have to be Buster, Yadi, or Pudge. I was honored to compete against all 3.

@Kramer9Tommy You know what @Kramer9Tommy, I’m in. Want me to bring some beers?

Come hangout with me ay my house and My buddy Jim McMahon whos is in town. This Saturday from 12-1pm. 4381 118th Ave NE Blaine MN

@notgaetti 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there’s no one alive in the late 80s-90s outside of NY rubes that thinks these two players are even close. 300 more games for Bernie and Kirby was a mess in his last couple seasons due to injury.

In other news

@UnleashedG23066 Alex Van Halen isn’t riding anyone’s wave

Van Halen on Letterman, 1995. Eddie sits at the piano like, “Yeah, I shred and I do this too.” The rest of the band just rides his wave.

🤔🤔🤔

@APgelston I hope this is a joke.

Here is my 2026 BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot.

@nut_history @DMEASrecruiting “Dougie Baseball” was an outstanding defensive first baseman

Name an underrated infielder. I’ll start

I’m know some players are being trained to hit off the back leg as that’s what they think they see when Aaron Judge and other MLBers hit. This is an excellent series that’s scientific proof that hitting off the back leg is not what is happening and is not how to train.

@NFL_DovKleiman Alfred Anderson

Age yourself by naming an NFL running back you grew up watching. I'll start, Brian Westbrook.

When I say player that played their entire career with one team, who’s the first player you think about?

@shegone03 @RVGDag @TheKineticArm @SalMarinello @AMBS_Kernan @Chapel14Billy @ChrisNowak83 @Fiveframeswing @forcefulhitting @OldBoiStudios @gringo_plakata I also don’t see him falling completely off balance after the swing like in TeacherBoy’s demo videos all over the interweb. #shorttoitandlongthroughit2025

Aaron Judge is a BAD MAN! He may be the only man on the planet who could hit this pitch like he did. I don’t see the Barrel Dump Wrist Snappy thing that his swing coach teaches however. He clearly brings his hands in and delivers the Barrel To The Ball on this swing. #shegone @notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @SliderDominate @SliderDominate @ROXSystem @BLocsports @CRAIG_LAPINER @hittingguru7 @TheRealJHair @WillClark22 @DMEASrecruiting @GDBJr5 @mikepiazza31 @ClintHurdle13 @ToddPratt07

We are having such a great time at hitting, fielding, and pitching camps this fall ball season with our K-2nd and 3rd-5th! Some of our camps are even under the lights at Round Lake Stadium! This is the heart and soul and foundation of EP baseball!

@MLBNetwork @BarryBonds would never miss middle middle

Adam Ottavino takes us through a powerhouse matchup with Paul Skenes and Shohei Ohtani 🔥

@nadels84 @notgaetti @baseball_ref @CodifyBaseball @PitchingNinja @MLBNetwork @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @orwellian @JessicaDBrand @shegone03 @NolanRyanBeef

@notgaetti @baseball_ref @CodifyBaseball @PitchingNinja @MLBNetwork @theaceofspaeder @TheWARmonger_ @orwellian @JessicaDBrand @shegone03 @NolanRyanBeef Still not HOF’er

Not enough people talk about Nolan Ryan • 324 Wins, 81.3 WAR, 3.16 ERA, 5714 K • Holds more than 50 pitching records • 8x ASG, 1969 WS Champ with NYM • Pitched 27 years (most since 1900) • First-ballot Hall of Famer in 1999 • Number retired by three teams • Likely threw around 108 mph • Fewest H/9 allowed all-time • Lowest BA against all-time • Never won a Cy Young! • 7 no-hitters (most ever) • 12 one-hitters (most ever) • 18 two-hitters (most ever) • 32 three-hitters (most ever) • 5714 K in a career (most ever) • 383 K in a season (most ever) • 300+ strikeouts 6x (most ever) • 200+ strikeouts 15x (most ever) • Pitched in parts of four decades • Beat up a man half his age in 1993 • Had a famously intense work ethic • Remained dominant well into his 40s • Holds either all-time or RHP career records for most games with at least 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 strikeouts • Holds either all-time or RHP single-season records for most games with at least 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 strikeouts • 1 of 4 pitchers to throw at least 3 no-hitters • Holds the record for most complete games with more strikeouts than hits allowed, topping a list of the game's most indisputably dominant pitchers of all time

@OleTimeHardball George Bell

First player to come to mind when seeing this logo