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  2. Username checks out...on gameday, no less!
  3. Something that is RIGHT about baseball... Springer's advocacy for kids who stutter illuminated on biggest stage TORONTO -- George Springer is many things, a list that just grew again with his Game 7 heroics in the ALCS. He’s a World Series champion, a World Series MVP, a four-time All-Star and now the author of one of the greatest moments in Blue Jays history, his three-run home run in the seventh inning Monday to beat the Mariners and send the Blue Jays to their first World Series since 1993. Oct 20, 2025 · Field View: George Springer's go-ahead home run Springer is also an advocate for kids who stutter. Springer stutters, himself, and has since he was a child, but as he’s grown into a big league star, he’s used his platform to encourage kids who stutter and empower them to say what they want to say. October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day, another opportunity to shine a light on the work Springer has done in his work with organizations like SAY (Stuttering Association for the Young). “If you ask any of my teammates and coaches, it’s no secret. ... I like to talk,” Springer said at an event last season benefitting SAY. “I will talk your ear off all day, even if you don’t want me to. It didn’t used to be that way. For all of the kids or the parents who have a child who stutters, or has come across somebody who does, I hope that I can be proof that things do get easier. You can do what you want to do. You can say what you want to say. You can be who you want to be.” The CN Tower, which climbs 1,815.5 feet into the air next to Rogers Centre and is visible across Toronto, will be lit green Wednesday night to recognize International Stuttering Awareness Day. An estimated 1% of the world’s population stutters, which would account for over three million Americans and 400,000 Canadians. According to the National Stuttering Association, up to 5% of kids go through a period of stuttering, too, which often begins in the range of 2 to 5 years old. While many kids who stutter in their childhood ultimately stop stuttering, many others, Springer included, deal with it into adulthood. Hosting his annual benefits, Springer has always turned the conversation back to the kids he works with, saying how much they’ve helped him in return. Besides, Springer is just a 36-year-old kid himself. Mar 1, 2023 · Mateo and George He’s the biggest personality on the Blue Jays. Sure, things tighten up in the postseason and grow more serious as October rolls on, but Springer is always the life of the party, filling every room he enters with sound and energy. “You can’t let something that you can’t control stop you from being who you want to be,” Springer said. “There are a lot of really good people in this world who will help and a lot of really good people who don’t care [about your stutter]. One of the most important things I hope everybody understands is that you just need to embrace it. Embrace who you are. Embrace how you talk." Springer has been an important public figure for people who live with a stutter, especially kids. They can look up to an MLB star who has not just spoken openly about his stutter over the years, but embraced it as part of who he is. Now, he’s on the biggest stage in baseball, chasing the Blue Jays’ first World Series championship in 32 years.
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  5. You are infatuated with finding 'no.' Lolz. Fuck dem kids. Literally.
  6. I love Tech football and other sports. I used to think the tortilla tossing was a cool tradition, but it has gotten entirely out of hand. Fans were given ample opportunity to police themselves AND maintain the tradition. They failed. Miserably. So fuck it. If people throw shit, usher them to the exits. Bottom line.
  7. the betting apps( and their ads) just subsidize my enjoyment of sports. I'm carrying an enormous burden of guilt here...
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  9. Prosecute the violence, not simple possession. Stop letting convicted pedos walk the streets and shrugging our shoulders that the children can deal with a little rape. It's hardly an extreme position. It's hardly untenable. It's not an either- or proposition.
  10. You ride with an outlaw You die with an outlaw.
  11. According to recent data from sources like the Prison Policy Initiative and the U.S. Bureau of PrisonAccording to recent data from sources like the Prison Policy Initiative and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, about 13% to 20% of people in state and local prisons are incarcerated for a drug offense, while the percentage is significantly higher in federal prisons, at 43% There. Room provided for the serious threats against humanity. Don't change my words around, and don't say we can't incarcerate the pedos; because we can... and should. We just don't want to.
  12. Sentencing, however, is no quagmire at all. If proven in the court of law, lifetime sentence, no parole. easy peasy. No more victims. Press reset, and go.
  13. I wasn't targeting your initial post, but rather simply replying to it in conversational manner. Didn't mean to make it song like an either/ or scenario. Was just responding within the flow of what you said.
  14. On Manfred. Of course it is.
  15. I yell it a lot, and I openly admit it is most likely a product of my childhood, and my abuse/ neglect was NOT of the sexual variety. Are pedos the greatest threat we face- depends if you are the victim or not, I guess. The closest thing for me in a sports realm is when it was rumored that Tech was considering hiring Briles. I stated that I opposed it and that I would not support the program at all if he was hired.
  16. Would love to see serious analysis of rehabilitation of sexual abusers of children. We can call it dimestore psychology or write it off as a anecdotal experience; but where are the testimonials from "former" child predators? They belong in prison. IDGAF about their mental state afterwards. They made their statement to society that they can't handle freedom. No time limit. No parole. No hand wringing. Nothing but time.
  17. Child abusers are a threat. Every day. Marijuana possessors? Nope. I agree on the prison rethink, but not for real threats to society. They are what prisons are for.
  18. When senior military folks have issues with Donald Trump, I know who gets/ deserves the benefit of the doubt. It ain't Cheeto civilian boy.
  19. As a child who was removed from their bio parents' home because of abuse, IDGAF what their past was. They own the present as adults. As a parent, I don't want them anywhere near kids, once it is discovered that they abuse. That ain't to go all Salem witch trials, but he is in possession of shit he shouldn't be. Lock him up for life.
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  21. Happy for George and the Jays. What a freaking series by both teams!
  22. George. I still love him.
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