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Jimmy Cliff is gone going on a year. I hear him echoing, the way Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band echo The Big Man, his soulful sound like a far star. On April 15, 2024 in Albany, the Boss paid tribute to Jimmy with a song that says it all and always knocks me out, Trapped
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October 25, 2019 — Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars hits theaters.
Filmed in his own barn with a full orchestra, it’s a beautiful journey through the American West.
And what better way to close it than with Glen Campbell’s classic Rhinestone Cowboy?
Bruce the cowboy. 🤠🎸
Thank you Bill Buckner. @MookieWilsonNY1 would have beaten him to the bag.
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Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
Such sage advice.
Over 2,500 games from the dugout. 50+ years in baseball. 17 as an MLB manager.
I won Manager of the Year and also lost more games than I want to count.
I led teams through losing seasons and took a team to the World Series.
If I could go back to my first day as a leader, here are the 5 lessons I'd whisper in my own ear:
Lesson 1: Be a window when it's good, a mirror when it's bad.
The leaders I respected most shared every win and absorbed every hit.
What this looks like in practice:
• Wins: name the people who made it happen
• Losses: say "that's on me" before anyone asks
• Locker room: spotlight the effort before the outcome
Your team will fight harder for a leader who deflects credit and absorbs blame.
Lesson 2: Nobody hands you trust. You earn it before you coach it.
Early in my career, plenty of coaches tried to fix my swing.
I tuned out every one I didn't trust.
Get to know your people before you try to develop them.
Their hobbies, their family, what makes them tick.
Then the coaching lands.
Lesson 3: Shower well after every loss.
After a losing streak in Colorado, our team president asked me how I kept the clubhouse together.
This was my rule:
• Self-evaluate honestly, were we prepared, did we execute?
• Shower well, wash off the grit, grime, and angst before you walk out
• Be present for whoever you're going home to
Tomorrow is a new opportunity. Don't drag yesterday into it.
Lesson 4: Lead transformationally, not transactionally.
Transactional leaders ask: what can this person do for me?
Transformational leaders ask: how do I put this person in a position to win?
The first builds compliance.
The second builds careers.
When your people start chasing growth instead of your approval, you've crossed over.
Lesson 5: Stay humble before life humbles you.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are humble, and those who are about to be.
Discipline keeps you in the first group:
Skill gets you in the room. Humility keeps you there.
50 years taught me leadership isn't about you.
It's about the people you serve.
@rockies
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Ice is in Scottsdale. Please spread the word. McDonald and Pima. Don’t stop at any business. I’m asking for a retweet. Please.
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I have been saying this for over a decade now that Trump has been installed to destroy the US from within and if you still don’t see that you need to pull your head out of your ass.
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Donald, your lawyers told a federal court that the golf course redesign was still conceptual. Then you announced the design, a construction schedule, and declared that nobody’s approval was necessary.
Meanwhile, your administration cut down hundreds of trees over a holiday weekend despite the court’s instructions about providing advance notice.
The judge questioned your government’s conduct, so your Justice Department tried to have her removed. She rejected that motion.
And now you’re calling her a “crazed lunatic” because she insists the government follow the law?
That’s adorable.
Here’s something you apparently missed in your extensive experience with golf courses: Public land isn’t your personal country club, and the Constitution doesn’t contain a presidential mulligan.
Federal agencies have legal obligations. Courts have the authority to review whether those obligations are being met. And judges don’t lose that authority because the President throws a tantrum.
You can call the renovation “World Class” until you’re blue in the face. It doesn’t make your legal obligations disappear.
Donald, the rule of law doesn’t stop at the eighteenth hole.
And being President doesn’t entitle you to move the goalposts, ignore the referee, and declare yourself the winner.
That’s not how golf works. It’s certainly not how a constitutional republic works.
