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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It isn’t everyday that you hear The Wallflowers played in a bar these days, but let me tell you, I saw these guys at the Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee a million years ago and they blew the roof off of that place.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever I did to land a bunch of blocks today, must have been right. I guess?

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok. I had to mute notifications on that last post. No idea how that blew up.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I missed the White Sox/Guardians game because I was watching my 9 y/o strike out three batters in his first game pitching, and let me tell you, it was the best baseball game I’ve ever been to.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s 2026, and there are still millionaire artists out there justifying why they just couldn’t bring themselves to vote Dem in 2024. Still equivocating between “corporate Dems” and the man trying to destroy our democracy. The smug is frankly offensive.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is always frustrating to read an otherwise well-written work published by a major academic press, studded with typos and grammatical errors. It does the press little credit.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We all knew that guy who wouldn’t shut up about the temps needed to melt steel beams. He tired himself out around 2004. Do NOT check out his current FB status.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Serious” journo: “But how will this play in Peoria?” Person who interacts with normal people: “These folks are from Peoria.”

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And here is when the wheels come off. This is “I’m about to fire your ass” Abe Lincoln.

My dear Sir: You remember my speaking to you of what I called your over-cautiousness.
Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you not claim to be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim? As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a distance nearly twice as great from railroad transportation as you would have to do without the railroad last named. He now wagons from Culpeper Court House, which is just about twice as far as you would have to do from Harper's Ferry. He is certainly not more than half as well provided with wagons as you are. I certainly should be pleased for you to have the advantage of the railroad from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, but it wastes all the remainder of autumn to give it to you, and in fact ignores the question of time, which cannot and must not be ignored. Again, one of the standard maxims of war, as you know, is to "operate upon the enemy's communications as much as possible without exposing your own." You seem to act as if this applies against you, but cannot apply in your favor.
Change positions with the enemy, and think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty-four hours? You dread his going into Pennsylvania; but if he does so in full force, he gives up his communications to you absolutely, and you have nothing to do but to follow and ruin him. If he does so with less than full force, fall upon and beat what is left behind all the easier. Exclusive of the water-line, you are now nearer Richmond than the enemy is by the route that you can and he must take. Why can you not reach there before him, unless you admit that he is more than your equal on a march? His route is the are of a circle, while yours is the chord. The roads are as g…

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The object was the headline. RW media would play it up regardless of the veracity of the claims. He’s at least smart enough to realize what the base wants and the truth ain’t it.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let us not forget Kelly R-IV high school in Benton, MO. The truest Hawks in the state.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the White Sox go all the way it’s going to suck to be the fan base who knows that God was not on their side.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m still not over the fawning treatment he got from the game day broadcast this year. #STLCards

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You start the day thinking you’ll be getting high-fives on Fox and end it with the whole world laughing at the sloppy staff work supporting you. Just another day.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are many ways to say, “I lack the talent and discipline to produce art that people will enjoy years after I’m gone, and this is my small way of getting back at those who have those talents.”

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OTD in 1862 one of the most bizarre episodes in American military history played out in the lobby of the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. During a heated argument between generals Jefferson C. Davis and William Nelson, Davis obtained a pistol and mortally wounded Nelson.

Murder of “Bull” Nelson by Jefferson C. Davis.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My oldest has been worried all week that he wouldn’t make the basketball team. I told him he’d make it. And he did. So proud of the guy. He worked his ass off.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Robert Ferrell was a wonderful author and historian whose work often illuminated little explored topics of America’s role in WW1. Anything written or edited by his hand is worth your time.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congrats to the White Sox. Make some magic happen.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, my five year old has a leg up on Nvidia’s CEO? These people are the best argument for strict regulation of their field.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Bregman stuff is just awful. I have a friend who lost the sight in an eye because he took a pitch to the face in high school. Frankly, it’s the scariest thing about my kids playing ball.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know a rich “liberal” lawyer who sent two of her kids to SEC schools and she is the type of person who bad mouths southerners are backwards as bigoted. It’s definitely a type.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jackson was actually a fairly unimaginative tactician who had the distressing habit of sending units into battle piecemeal. His poor performance during the Seven Days was enough to make Lee question his value, and he never enjoyed with the trust with his boss that Longstreet did.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is a refined language, rarely heard outside of parking lots at 3am.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s a delightful 65 degrees outside. Folks are handling the change in weather in two ways: one group is dressing for a blizzard and the other is pretending summer isn’t over. Neither has heard of Fall, apparently.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dwight Eisenhower never led troops in combat. George C. Marshall never led troops in combat. Guess those “losers” wouldn’t make Dort’s cut?

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

8th District steps in to throw a bone to MO Republicans, in defiance of SCOTUS. People are already voting in Missouri.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You’ve heard of Black Rifle Coffee. Now there is the Artillery Tea Company, because “patriotic packaging doesn’t make a patriotic company,” although I’m not certain how they prove that. Thanks, IG.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The reactions of the delegates at the UN was less one of horror than of boredom.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two weeks before the fall of Vicksburg, U. S. Grant relieved the commander of his XIII Corps after a fit of pique from John A. McClernand that ranks among the more amusing anecdotes of the war. Once one of Grant’s able lieutenants, he had become something of a nemesis of Grant’s by 1863.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We might be able to park in Nashville again. The rents would go back down too.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Observed discourse bashing Mississippi. Folks, nearly forty percent of Mississippians are Black. That’s well north of one million souls. As a group, they vote Democratic. Many of them love their home state, despite who runs it. They want a better future for Mississippi.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Forget online interactions. A small sample size can distort reality. The real deciding factor is in-person interactions.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s nothing more human than listening to folks complain about single-issue voters when I know perfectly well they would be content to tank an election because a candidate disagrees with them .005% of the time.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pleased to announce that I just found my two oldest boys outside playing catch, like Americans. I’ve done my duty. Time for a beer.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One reason that commanders like McClellan placed such a limited value on their mounted arm was because consensus held that it took two years to make a serviceable cavalryman. They were relegated to serving as messengers and guarding wagon trains and dispersed throughout the army in penny packets.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I may have said this before, but a dramatization of Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox would land hard. The southern roles must all be played by English actors. For one, they do a more convincing accent than Yankees. Also, the southern elite sounded much like the English elite when they spoke.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will stand for the Whataburger Republic and pledge the lives of my children to it.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just remembered a “funny” Chickamauga story. A wounded officer of the 8th Kansas Infantry found himself between the lines on the night of the 19th/20th. He was brought in by men of the 24th Alabama Infantry. The CO of the 24th took pity on him and saw to his needs, though the prognosis wasn’t good.

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, folks, as you enjoy your barbecue and football, we have people on here defending Mao (again). A little mass murder is okay so long as it’s in pursuit of your economic goals, eh?

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Make Opening Day a National Holiday @chriscardsfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#OTD in 1863 the Battle of Chickamauga begins in earnest when a brigade from Gen. George H. Thomas’ XIV Corps of the Army of the Cumberland engages Confederate cavalry and infantry at Jay’s Mill, along Chickamauga Creek, in northwest Georgia.

19th century map of the Chickamauga battlefield.

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