Our captains have fallen Red quit the team the first week in August, the second to last game I was with the team before my exit. Not the easiest man to get along with, Red was one of the …
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Eighteen
on Fri, 23 May 2025 16:39
Convict mentality – the good, the bad, and the ugly A cliché I know, but it fits. Some of the finest people I have ever known are convicts. I think of Chris Rich, who killed his wife with a …
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Full blast-the rivalry What started it all? How did it get to this place? I can only guess at what happened, but I think it goes back to 2004 when all the media attention began.[1] There were rumors that …
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Softball swing Prisoners play a lot of softball; few play baseball. The softball played is slow pitch where the ball is arced 6 to 9 feet in the air and the batter will use an exaggerated upper cut to hit …
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Chapter Nine
on Wed, 07 May 2025 17:08
Thinking About How Others Would Be Impacted If I Killed Myself My brother Gary’s suicide is still embedded in my mind, and I experience periods of regret to this day, which makes me very sad. I have to accept the …
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Fifteen
on Fri, 02 May 2025 23:49
The Con? Paul Newman, Robert Redford–The Sting, a con run by experts. “Con” comes from convict and cons run cons as a kind of sport. Prison is boring, among other things, and anything that concentrates the mind and provides some …
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Fourteen
on Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:24
It was a tsunami Thursday, June 16 will be a hard day to forget, or remember. A new team was coming in called Tsunami, managed by Daniel Larson. Looking over the ages of the players I knew it was going …
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Here is the chapter from Why I Decided Not to Kill Myself Forgiveness: The Great Miracle Recently I wrote a book about how I had made “shipwreck” of my faith and my life, and this based on something the Apostle …
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Thirteen
on Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:12
Johnny and Curtis “I played with the Astros in the seventies,” an old con told me, “And I can still throw the ball a hundred miles an hour.” “Number 8, that was my number when I was in the big …
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Please forgive me for sinning against you Okay, I wrapped up chapter six about talking with others about emotional, even spiritual pain in the past. Now this is a bit different. To start with, I have done this very thing—asking …
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