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Santa's Secret

Santa’s Secret

Christmases were big when I was a kid. I didn’t come from a rich family, in fact money was usually pretty tight, but if there was a reason mom and dad would go into debt for us that wasn’t medical, it was Christmas. We’d wake up on Christmas morning, run up to the living room and see our piles, yes piles, of gifts. My mother’s gift giving was so prolific that Santa gave so many presents they…

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#christmas #Expectations #family #KIds #Life #Presents

Pregnant Pause

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on June 6, 2017.

Please don’t make me choose between my bodily autonomy and baseball.

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#Abortion #Baseball #Bodily Autonomy #Catholic #Control #Kansas City Royals #Pregnancy Crisis Center #Religion #Reproductive Health Care #Roe v Wade #Supremacy #Vitae Foundation

Memorial Day

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on May 29, 2017.

Happy Military Exploitation and Fetishization Day!

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#Baseball #Colin Kaepernick #Exploitation #Fetishization #Memorial Day #Military #MLB Charities #National Anthem #Soldiers

Put Away the Pink

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on May 15, 2017.

Or why I hate pink ribbon activism.

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#Activism #All-American Girls Professional Baseball League #Baseball #Breast Cancer #Domestic Abuse #Hazing #Kansas City Royals #Lizzie Murphy #Major League Baseball #Mother&039;s Day #Pink Ribbon #Pinkwashing #Save the Ta-tas #Sexual Assault #Sexualization #Stand Up to Cancer #Susan G Komen

Adam Jones is Good

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on May 12, 2017.

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#Adam Jones #Baltimore Orioles #Baseball #Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Ruminations on Racial Stereotypes in Sports: Why Chief Wahoo Must Die

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on May 7, 2017.

People are not logos.

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#Baseball #Buck O&039;Neil #Chief Wahoo #Cleveland Buckeyes #Cleveland Indians #Corey Kluber #Danny Duffy #Kansas City Monarchs #Kansas City Royals #Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim #Mike Clevinger #Native American #Negro Leagues Baseball Museum #Racism #Salute to the Negro Leagues

Mr. Jones

This was originally published at Put Me In, Coach by Basic Pitch on May 5, 2017.

What happened to Adam Jones Monday night is completely unacceptable, inexcusable, and all too common.

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This Little Heart of Mine

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on May 5, 2017.

I’ve been thinking about this all day.

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#ASD #Healthcare #Motherhood #VSD

Sweet Child O' Mine

Sweet Child O’ Mine

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on September 29, 2016.

I had another post planned to work on next. It was going to be awesome. Everyone who read it was going to be fundamentally and forever changed just by reading it. Then life happened, it had to go on the backburner while I adulted. Hopefully, I’ll still get around to writing that one. Today I have different…

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#KIds #Motherhood #Sarcasm

Of Socks and Star-Spangled Banners

This piece was originally published on September 12, 2016, to Missing Filter. In order to better organize content, it has been updated and republished here.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the…

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#America #Colin Kaepernick #Domestic Abuse #Football #Military #National Anthem #NFL #Oppression #Philadelphia Eagles #Police Brutality #Protest #Racism #Riley Cooper #San Francisco 49er&039;s #Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Dangerous Privilege of the Colorblind

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on September 13, 2016.

I have a secret you guys, I’m white. Like seriously, I’m super white.

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#Colorblind #Privilege #Racism

Don't Call Me Daughter

Don’t Call Me Daughter

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on September 12, 2016

“What if that happened to your mother, sister, or daughter?” (more…)

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#Autonomy #Feminism #Human

Domestic Violence at the Ballpark

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on September 12, 2016.

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#Aroldis Chapman #Baseball #Chicago Cubs #Cincinnati Reds #Colorado Rockies #Domestic Violence #Hector Olivera #Joe Maddon #Jose Reyes #Los Angeles Dodgers #New York Mets #New York Yankees #World Series

What Am I Doing Here?

This was originally published at Missing Filter by Basic Pitch on July 21, 2016.

I can’t take it anymore.

The Republicans have nominated a screaming bigoted cheese puff, lawmakers won’t get out of my uterus, police keep killing black men, police keep dying, and Bernie Sanders won’t get the nomination at the DNC. Prince died, David Bowie died, my children are at a weird and newly mouthy stage in…

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#Baseball #Crash Davis #Feminism #Kansas City Royals

An Open Letter to GMDM

Just don’t.

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#Abuse #Baseball #Danny Duffy #Dayton Moore #Jarrod Dyson #Kansas City Chiefs #Kansas City Royals #Luke Heimlich #Sexual Abuse #Tyreek Hill

Don’t Call it a Comeback..

We’ve been here for years!

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#family #Life #Writing

We, the People, Amended

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (more…)

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