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‘25 Luke Cherry once again delivered when SD Eagles Baseball needed him the most The #UNcommitted southpaw has been used in high leverage situations all year 👊 5 batters faced. 5 retired to finish out the State Title run 👍 Unfazed. Unbothered. Shooter Hunt | Prep Baseball Florida

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OF Nick Dumesnil (California Baptist Baseball) is one of the higher upside college bats in this year's Draft. Showed flashes across a limited sample as a Freshman, but exploded last year to the tune of a .362/.440/.702 slash line with 40 XBH (19 HRs) and 45 RBIs across 61 games. Proceeded to have an excellent summer on the Cape in which he hit .311/.378/.489 with a league-leading 12 2B, 4 HR, 15 RBIs and a league-leading 26 SB in 36 games. Strong, athletic frame at 6'2" and 205-pounds. Big league body. Slightly wide base in the box with a somewhat high handset (lowered his hands as the summer went on, was ultra-high at school with his bat pointed almost straight down behind his back shoulder. Drew Burress-ish look). Ultra-small stride that is more of a toe tap than anything else. Hands already start pretty far back, though they drift slightly in his load. Engaged lower-half, especially his back side. Easy plus bat speed. Dumesnil showed the ability to drive the baseball to all fields both at school and on the Cape. Would give his power a 55 overall, but it's a 6 to the pull side. Top spun a 2-run HR (EV of 106) off the scoreboard in the ASG. Very curious to monitor how his hit tool progresses this spring. There's a present feel for the barrel and his bat-to-ball skills are plus (ovr. IZ contact rate of 90%, including 93% and 91% against FB and SL, respectively). Will certainly need to shore up his pitch recognition skills and swing decisions in order to maximize his offensive upside. Some chase up/out against FB, down/out against secondaries. Key will be doing a better job of picking up spin out of the hand. Plus runner—who most importantly knows HOW to run—whose speed translates on both sides of the baseball. Chaos-causer on the bases, Dumesnil's speed also gives him the opportunity to take an extra base on a ball in the gap or down the line. I thought his instincts in CF got better as the summer went on. Dumesnil's speed and elite athleticism allow him to cover plenty of ground and his arm is average, I'm sure he'll get the opportunity to prove he can stick there in pro ball. Chance he could move off and end up at a corner eventually. Key for Dumesnil is adding polish to his hit tool. There is 5-tool upside (key word) with him and he can impact the game in a number of ways. Potential first round pick this July. (📽️: California Baptist Baseball)

Peter Flaherty III

21,730 views • 1 year ago

Guess who just turned 5? :) Tom has been with me for the past five years. This means he has survived with me two devastating Israeli wars on Gaza in 2021, the current one (so far, of course), and many other—less devastating—escalations and assaults. Since October 2023, he has moved with me between three shelters. There have been many days and weeks when I felt I was in a dilemma since I couldn’t find anything to feed him, especially during the first months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. I shared with him my portion of the bread we managed to find and saved him some clean water when we used to count the sips of water we could have each day. The once unsociable cat, who hated strangers, was unable to understand why he was suddenly snatched from his calm home and taken to a shelter with around 70 strangers, including children, whose noise and energy left him anxious and paranoid all the time. The once-spoiled cat, who didn’t settle for less than chicken breast and fancy wet and dry cat food and used to turn his back to me whenever I tried to feed him less fancy food, had to eat bread wetted with water and white rice leftovers when he starved and realized this wasn’t another attempt from me to make him eat what I wanted. Despite all of this, I can’t help but feel ashamed to say that Tom was so privileged compared to the hundreds of Palestinians, especially children and elderly people, who either starved to death or died due to acute malnutrition and severe vitamin and iron deficiencies caused by Israel’s systematic starvation of the population in Gaza. I feel ashamed of myself when I give Tom half of my loaf of bread and then go to work to document another case where a mother helplessly watched her child starve to death, not because she didn’t have the money to buy him food, but because there was literally no food to buy as Israel imposed a deadly blockade on northern Gaza to force the population to the south. What I’m not ashamed to admit, however, is that I now eat the same food Tom once rejected for being “poor quality.” Before the war, I’ve never bought canned luncheon meat for him, knowing how harmful it could be for cats. But for the past year, that same canned food, part of international aid, which most of the time is low quality food and barely edible, has sustained us both. These days, Tom and I share the same can of luncheon meat. But after all, I’m proud of Tom now more than ever, the spoiled cat who has transformed from a loner into a social butterfly, now making friends with all the stray cats around the shelter :) I can’t wait for the day I’ll put him in his box for the last time and head north… HOME

Maha Hussaini

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One player I've really grown to like over the last several months is OF Kane Kepley (Carolina Baseball). Started right away at Liberty where he hit .310/.457/.432 with 13 XBH, but had a breakout summer in the Coastal Plain League to the tune of a .339/.468/.546 slash line with 8 2B, 5 HR, 26 SB and 29 BB to 11 Ks. Carried that momentum over into last season and hit .330/.482/.521 with 12 2B, 9 HR, 25 SB and an impressive 53 BB to just 27 Ks. Kepley then proceeded to have a productive summer on the Cape in which he was named an All-Star. Compact build at 5'8" and 165-pounds with sneaky strength packed into his frame. Crouched stance in the box with a medium-high handset and slightly open front side. Kepley has a minimal load and utilizes a toe tap that leads into a normal stride. With two strikes, Kepley will widen his stance and sit deeper in his base, choke up a bit, and shorten his stride in order to maximize his chances of moving the baseball. Quick hands with present bat speed. Will drop his back side to help create leverage. Overall, it's a compact operation in which he takes an efficient path to contact. Kepley's bat-to-ball skills and hand-eye coordination are outstanding. Last spring at Liberty, he boasted a 90% overall contact rate and a 93% overall IZ contact rate. It was a similar story this summer, as he ran an 89% overall contact rate and a 94% overall IZ contact rate. Kepley's pitch recognition skills and approach are both highly advanced and he rarely expands the strike zone. On the Cape, his overall chase rate was a minuscule 13%. Kepley has high-level barrel skills, a trait that is on display day in and day out. His bat control and adjustability are also advanced. Kepley is capable of using the entire field, but his highest quality of contact does come to the pull side. Hit tool is comfortably a 55, but it's closer to a 60. Kepley without a doubt is a hit-over-power profile, but there is a little bit of thump to the pull side. Has shown the ability to turn on pitches on the inner-half and drive them to the PS. For a player with this kind of profile, he posted respectable Max EVs of 106.1 and 101 during the spring and summer, respectively. Below-average power, but he'll run into a ball on occasion and hit 10+ HRs this spring. Not only is Kepley a plus runner, he most importantly knows HOW to run and get the most out of his legs. Quick first step and really advanced baseball sense both translate to the base paths where he's a chaos causer and speeds up the game for opposing teams. Kepley's speed also allows him to take an extra base on a ball in the gap or down the line. Across 179 games between college and summer ball, Kepley is 89-for-97 on stolen base attempts. Kepley this spring will rove CF for North Carolina. His speed and instincts plays at the position and he has gap-to-gap range with solid closing speed. Gets good reads off the bat. Kepley's arm is fringy, but his overall defensive skillset will give him the opportunity to prove he can stick at the position professionally. Versatile enough to play all 3 OF spots. Kepley is an old-fashioned baseball rat who plays at one speed. Selfless, high-energy player who can affect the game in a myriad of ways. A little reminiscent of Tommy Hawke. Top-5 round type this July.

Peter Flaherty III

34,227 views • 1 year ago

A truck driver in Australia once won $250,000 on a scratch card while pretending to win a scratch card for a TV news crew. He didn’t know the ticket was real until he scratched the last panel. He turned to the camera, completely flat, and said, “I just won $250,000. I’m not joking.” Then, holding his chest, “I think I’ll have another heart attack.” The “another” was the part most viewers missed. A year earlier Bill Morgan had been in a serious accident, developed a heart condition from it, had an allergic reaction to the medication that was supposed to fix it, and his heart had stopped for 14 minutes and 38 seconds. Paramedics revived him. He slipped into a coma. His family was told to prepare to turn off life support after 12 days. The day they were going to make the decision, he woke up. Fully himself with no brain damage. Within twelve months he got engaged, found work again, bought a $5 scratch card on a whim, and won a Toyota Corolla worth around $30,000 Australian dollars. That was the win that brought Nine News out to film him. They asked him to re-enact the car-winning moment in the same shop. He picked a fresh ticket off the counter at random for the re-creation. Scratched it. Won the jackpot. The cameraman thought he was acting until he saw the numbers. The shop staff opened champagne. Bill called his fiancée from the counter and told her they could now buy a house. She later said, on camera herself, “I just hope he hasn’t used all his good luck up.” She’s been with him for 27 years. They still live in the house. He’s in his mid-sixties, retired due to ongoing heart issues and arthritis, and he still walks down to the same kind of corner shop every week and buys a $5 scratch ticket. He doesn’t expect to win again. “I’ve had a bonus of 22 years,” he says. “Even if I’m not real well I shuffle down the road and smell the roses, look at the sun, and think about how lucky I am.”

Lemma the Optimist

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Natural Sense I Am

282,865 views • 1 month ago

Loool😂 After leading a 6 year smear campaign against the Royal family, especially the Wales family; After hiring and losing 11 publicists and 3 big US PR houses in 5 years; After PR stunts after PR stunts, chasing the Kardashians, cooking shows and holiday special; Instagram blitz of PR online and even throwing their Children in the spotlight to save Mummy’s brand..😮‍💨 Meghan ranked #1 on Rankers 2025 list of Most Disliked Celebrity in Hollywood😂 It reads: “Meghan Markle has claimed the top position on Ranker's 2025 list of the Most Disliked Celebrities, according to live, crowd-sourced voting data. The duchess's rise to No. 1 follows several years of sustained public disapproval, particularly in the United States, after she and Prince Harry stepped back from royal duties."🤭 Harry was #5. Get this, she was first ahead of P Diddy, a known sexual offender. This is how you know your reputation is over😭 Even Buckingham Palace could not save H&M with their PR experts. No one can. Their true repulsive characters have been exposed to the world. There is no going back. As Socrates put it: “Consider your good name the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of”🔥 As a public figure especially, your good name and good reputation is your entire credibility. Once that has been tarnished and exposed as toxic, no amount of PR can rectify the course. H&M have been making that list of most disliked celebrity in Hollywood as top 5 since 2022🤷🏽‍♀️ Their credibility on the world stage is so shot that the DM was just reporting on how most of the 11 publicists who left their employment have “scrubbed all mentions of working for the couple on their CVs”🤯 Yikes. Staff who used to work for the Wales proudly display in their CVs that they were employees of the Prince and Princess of Wales because William and Catherine’s good name carry in the world👌🏽 However, Staff who used to work for H&M would rather scrub them off their CV in order to be taken seriously because NO ONE worth their salt, takes the clowns of Montecito seriously. I am not sure what lies Meghan’s medium in New York told her about the year 2025 but whatever she said, I know 2025 has been her “Annus Horibilis”😂

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85,877 views • 6 months ago