@SportsDownPat Don’t call yourself an idiot Pat, call yourself your own person! Everyone navigates the way they feel is best. I appreciate the spot so I remain in the spot and spot enables me to affect change. But don’t confuse the spot: it isnt the same. I work to live, not live to work. @SportsDownPat My spot has three little ones now. I subscribe to a simple philosophy: you want to do what’s best for the world, be a parent. And I’m that full, full time. My other spot has 5000 episodes and 21 years now. My philosophy there is, there’s honor and worth in daily creation.

@AroundtheHorn panelists do not read off prompter, ever. They have a return video that is six different boxes of images- themselves + the others panelists, myself and what we call program (the director’s cut/what the viewers see). Here’s what it looks like from a photo from Mina.

https://twitter.com/oncallserver/status/1527034925995528193

It’s a lot easier to talk to an image than a lifeless camera lens so that’s a plus- and of course we want everyone to see each other and their reactions- but sometimes there’s a slight delay in what a panelist is saying and what the image shows. That is the hardest thing.

Hi, I’m Tony Reali and I’m a TV host, sports yapper, dad and the neighborhood Uncle Tony. I have generalized anxiety disorder and I take medicine and I’ve benefitted greatly from talk therapy. Mental health is simply health. Mental health does not discriminate. The way we talk about it does.

Simone Biles is exceptional in many, many ways. Still, her mental health is her health, just like her hamstrings or hip flexor or whatever.

I am a parent of a 2 young children. Broadly-in a couple sentences-if you’re asking me how I hope to raise them, the most important job of life? I’d say:

Strive to treat each others like you’d like to be treated.

You are better than no one but that no one is better than you.

https://twitter.com/JoeDollinger/status/1377376158140964865

That people may seem the same but are different & people may seem different but are the same. That people’s experiences inherently will always be different, but that is a good thing.

That a goal in life should be to love ourselves and to love others, and those are not to be

Justin, I’m sorry to hear it has been a struggle for each of you and your partner. IVF and infertility -and the hope/loss cycle that comes with it- is complex and isolating. And adding to the complexity, it will often affect you and your partner in different ways.

https://twitter.com/js_mc2/status/1351672975347625984

Like so many things in life, it is something you don’t have control of. And that is the tough to grasp: it’s something you imagined, dreamed of, put aspirations on, built plans on - and legitimately a huge life thing you want to control-and then it’s totally out of reach.

I don't think of it like that, Mark. It’s important this sports story be shown in full light.

One conversation in an elevator & a business card is all that preceded this.

Do men even recognize how those normal business situations for a man are fraught for women?

https://twitter.com/MarkAda39256232/status/1351655250143432712

Every. Single. Woman. Knows what this is. Knew it before the second of the 62 straight texts.

This is what it's like for women... simply existing in the world.

So this was egregious; the many, many that “aren’t as bad” have terrible consequences, too.

Per my thoughts on @aroundthehorn:

“If I die, I die” is something I've heard so often in my life from my very loved ones. It certainly comes from a place of faith and Faith. I think faith is a good thing-maybe the best of things- but in this implementation I wonder if sometimes it’s half-used to free oneself of personal responsibility/accountability. As in, ‘it’s in God’s hands’; I don’t need to consider this cause, worry about that effect, change this part of my life, etc ‘it’s in God’s hands.’

Enzo is Two-zo! We celebrate Enzo & we remember Amadeo today.

Today is a day of loss for our family.

And now in our son and brother Amadeo’s name I ask you to consider how today and every day could be -and is- a day of loss for someone else.

The video of Gobert touching the microphones at the podium will be seen around the world for quite some time. Careless, foolish, a lot of other bad things. An example of how the severity of a world pandemic was not shared by all.

But I’d ask to consider restraint in villainizing anyone- or trying to find a Patient Zero in a world pandemic. Understanding (all be it late) and accountability, which I read here from Gobert, is important. The weight of villainy I something like this is not for one person to bear.

Sure, you can imagine a world where somebody

On Kobe Bryant. And grief.

It’s OK to be affected by the passing of someone you didn’t know personally; part of you can pass, too. To be affected by loss is compassion in its most pure form, “to suffer with”, quite literally.

And in that way we we carry all we have lost. It’s OK to be affected by the passing of someone you didn’t know personally. In someone’s passing part of you can pass too, part of your childhood, we all remember where we were when he had 81, you remember that trip you took to the game with your parents where he didn’t flinch..

My friend @clintonyates has been having himself a week, month and year-you can hear it in his voice! Non stop, churning out incredible work on Mystics and Nats but this is my favorite stuff from him- again, you can hear it in his voice! Here he is on his first love and his town:

https://twitter.com/clintonyates/status/1189250388316315648

I’ve told this story before but here it is again: long before @aroundthehorn I knew @clintonyates. He reached out to me when he was at @miamiuniversity and I was Stat Boy on @pti-he wanted to know everything about @pti because @pti were HIS guys. I always love hearing from native

It’s human to be injured when somebody says something cruel about you, in this case about how I responsed to the death of my child.

Here’s how I process that. (I apply this in many scenarios)

View yourself as the subject of your own sentence, not the object of someone else’s.

https://twitter.com/tonyreali/status/1133157740950503424

To do it any other way, gives away your power, gives away your self and this, in its core is an active, selfFULL(opposed to selfish) decision.

Think of it this way: you know when you know something. So you know when someone else doesn’t know about what you know. So whatever

Major League Baseball-it appears right now-avoided the gravest of tragedies last night.

We can all exhale & say ‘nets further down lines’ like players-Kris Bryant-have.

But we also have to ask ourselves how did last year’s death-YES, A DEATH FROM A FOUL BALL-go unaddressed?

https://twitter.com/chandler_rome/status/1133912512645124098

Last year a Dodger fan was struck and killed. Her name was Linda Goldbloom. She was 79, celebrating her birthday & wedding anniversary at the game. This was not reported initially, cameras never captured it.

espn.com/espn/otl/story…

Heartened by Father’s Day wishes.

In recognition that this day like all things in life could mean different things to different people -parent and child, positive and negative-I’d like to speak here about fathers who’ve experienced loss.

This month I became one. Anyone within a galaxy of me knows we were expecting twins. We lost Amadeo in the moments leading up to childbirth. We delivered Enzo weeks early in an emergency. Last week was our memorial mass for Amadeo. This week Enzo came home happy, healthy and strong.