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Son Ranto Rockett
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Owner of the Chicago Cubs. Podcast: SonRanto.com. Exclusive: Patreon.com/sonranto
Front man of Bleacher Bum Band. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5wBhE7HmZNCiXaKrWq8ju9?si=UQoiR68BRFO8omMfHZpYPw
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There are 63 current MLB players from Venezuela, and over 400 throughout MLB’s history. MLB success relies on migrant labor from Venezuela. When will MLB make a statement about this horrific US Military attack on Venezuela, & about the thousands of Venezuelan refugees kidnapped & deported in 2025?
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
December 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Here is a short summary of today’s Shōta's podcast. The theme is “Why was I able to win over Cubs fans?” @Cubs #BeHereForIt #FlyTheW #今永昇太SHOTAISM
December 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
JFC. X has become a right wing dystopian hellscape.
December 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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mjernst.bsky.social
Sums it up pretty well.
And I hope he is gone before Opening Day.
craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 27d
In today's newsletter I talk about Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw showing up to speak at the White Supremacist-Palooza in Arizona over the weekend.

Short version: he's dumb and naive and I feel sorry for him but he's made his bed too, so fuck that guy. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Matt Shaw has no idea what he's made himself a part of As I mentioned last week, Chicago Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw was a featured speaker at the objectively grotesque Turning Point USA "AmericaFest" conference in Arizona over the weekend. He gave a roughly 20-minute speech at the event. If you're so inclined, you can watch it here. For what it's worth, Shaw comes off like a bog standard young evangelical person. You could take his entire speech – focusing on "the amount of love Jesus has in his heart," what embracing Jesus did for him and his baseball career, and quotes directly from The Sermon on the Mount – and put it in the mouth of any youth pastor or testimonial speaker at any number of churches within a mile or two of your house. Shaw spent a particularly large amount of time on the "love your enemy" portion of that, imploring those who were listening to him to engage positively and constructively with those with whom they disagree. Which is not exactly something that Shaw's fellow AmericaFest speakers seem all that keen on. That list includes JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Megyn Kelly, Jesse Watters, Jack Posobeic, and many others who have dedicated their lives toward legally and politically persecuting anyone who disagrees with them, often in the most vile and hateful of terms. That also includes TPUSA's founder/martyr, Charlie Kirk, whom Shaw claims was the embodiment of the "love your enemy" ethos despite the fact that his organization was specifically created to ruin the lives and careers of those whose views Kirk disliked. I understand that being an evangelical fascist requires an extreme lack of self-awareness and a forced cognitive dissonance, but something like 95% of Shaw's fellow speakers over the weekend absolutely abhor their enemies, want to see them suffer, and have said so publicly countless times in both word and deed. I actually feel sorry for Shaw. I feel sorry for him because while I don't have any reason to doubt his religious sincerity, he pretty clearly doesn't understand just how divorced what he was saying is from the actual ethos of those to whom he was speaking. These people do not believe any part of the Sermon on the Mount. Indeed, their very example stands in direct opposition to it. They're pretty clearly using Shaw. He's a pleasant and handsome young man with a profile – major league professional athlete – which serves their purposes well. And he seems far, far too dim to truly understand any of it. Not that that absolves him. We are, as I often say, what we do, and what Shaw has done speaks pretty poorly of him. Sure, a solid majority of major league baseball players share Shaw's politics to some degree or another, but he's the only one I know of who has publicly aligned himself with a truly vile organization like Turning Point USA and the truly vile people with whom he shared a green room over the weekend. He's the only one who missed an actual game last season to attend the right-wing political rally that was thinly disguised as Charlie Kirk's funeral. The absolute best thing you can say about Shaw is that his judgment is poor. If, however, my assessment here is wrong and he truly believes the things that the Vances, Trumps, Carlsons, Bannons, Kellys, Watters, and Posobeics of the world believe, he can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut for all I care.
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Out spending money locally at small businesses in Chicago. Paying cash.
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
Out spending money locally at small businesses in Chicago. Paying cash.
December 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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#Cubs Caroling partiful.com/e/2J8LxWEKO2...
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If Matt Shaw is as good at baseball as Riley Gaines is at swimming and Rob Schneider is at comedy, the #Cubs are fd.
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Who is the most attractive #Cubs player?
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
Move over Tinkers, Evers, and Chance! The #Cubs Infield is Roger Stone, to Russell Brand, to Rob Schneider now!!
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Man the #Cubs 40 man roster looks terrible. Oh wait…I just got confused when I saw Matt Shaw….
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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I will be back in the sunny warmth of LA by then, but the rest of youse stuck in Chicago should go!!!!
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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#Cubs Caroling. 12-20. 4PM. Output-Wrigleysville. partiful.com/e/2J8LxWEKO2...
Cubs Caroling 2025 | Partiful
It's that Cubs Caroling time of year! Join the Ranters for an evening of Cubs-Mas Carol parody singing and bar hopping! We'll meet at Output, Wrigleyville, 3720 N. Clark, for a couple drinks and a ru...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Remember when the Orioles signed Chris Davis to a monster contract and it almost immediately became one of the worst in baseball?

I am mentioning this right now for no reason.
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
Now that I’m back on American soil. FUCK ICE!!
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
It’s not easy being Marjorie Taylor Greene
kermit the frog from sesame street is playing a banjo
Alt: kermit the frog from sesame street is playing a banjo
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December 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Is “Pursuit of Arms” like “Pursuit of Happiness” and virtually meaningless?
December 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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"we're having a crisis of masculinity!11!" - a man-baby dork
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
sonrantoshow.bsky.social
Cubs owner is a fuck brain orange ass licker.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 5
SORKIN: The Trump administration has talked about taking a piece of Nvidia chip sales. What do you make of that prospect?

SEN. PETE RICKETTS: That sounds like something Nvidia can work out with the govt. I don't want to get in the middle of that.
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda.

Days later, they did exactly that.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case
A significant legal battle appears to be brewing in the case of six people facing federal charges tied to protests outside an immigration facility in Broadview.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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This Giving Tuesday, independent local news matters more than ever. Without reporters sniffing around, asking hard questions or writing about a neighborhood's triumphs, our sense of community + trust in leaders fades fast.

Donate to support our team: blockclubchi.co/4pHhJvl
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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The #Cubs are going to have a tough time improving the bullpen if they keep letting other teams sign all the good pitchers.
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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This is going to be the saddest Take Me Out to the Ballgame since that Alex lady.
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM