(Divorce Thread)
In September, 2019 my (now) ex-wife moved from CT to FL. This last Wednesday, 863 days later, I am finally divorced. Over the last two years, I’ve come to realize how mentally and emotionally abusive my 7+ year marriage was and how I’ve changed as a result. 1/5
You deserve joy. You deserve love. You deserve happiness. You are a beautiful human being. I served for you. Take time to love yourself today because you are an amazing person and you deserve it.
#VeteransDay2021
You. Are. Loved. No matter how dark it gets, I promise, there is hope. Today is
#NationalSuicidePreventionDay
and this year, that means more to me than it ever has. Please, don’t be silent. You are not alone. Tomorrow needs you! I need you! You. Are. Beautiful. ❤️
The Fantasy Focus pod returns daily on August 1st and we are fired up that
@DanielDopp
is moving into an analyst chair on a full-time basis. No one deserves it more than Secret Squirrel 👏👏
I just got an email from Antonio Brown. He tells me the team “took away my guarantees.” He added there’s “no way I play after they took that and made my contract week to week.” So at this moment, once again, don’t expect AB to play on Monday Night Football.
For those who didn’t know, I spent 6 years in the Air Force from 2006-2012 as an intelligence analyst.
A few thoughts on what Veterans Day means to me. 🫶🏼 🇺🇸
… and how to hold onto it for as long as you possibly can. Every day is a new opportunity to learn how to love yourself, and to love others. Love is an unbelievable gift. Don’t waste it. ❤️ 5/5
I love what I do. Love this industry & the people I work with. Love everything about this job & I’ll fiercely defend the content we produce and call my own talent on their shit if they’re out of line. Be original. Be creative. That’s what makes you different from everyone else.
Can we just stop saying "richest contract in NFL history" every time a QB signs a new contract? If you're saying it 5 times in 5 years, it just stops meaning anything... am I alone on this?
"Clear heart, clear mind, clear eyes." If that's cringey then sign me up dude. I love everything about this. More love, support and positivity for your teammates, co-workers, parents, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, friends, strangers... We all need more of this right now. 💚
Today I turn 36 and there are only two things I want for my birthday:
1. A Week 11
@Lions
victory!
2. A game used helmet from said victory signed by the team, dedicated to me in a post-game locker room video by Matt Patricia where they say I was the inspiration for the win.
Quick rant: This is exactly what NOT to do as an analyst. Have an opinion about a player. Make a fun bit out of your take. But don’t blatantly copy someone else and try to pass it off as your own. It just comes across as lazy and uninspiring. /1
It’s been two months since I lost my best friend and I am really struggling with it tonight. I just wasn’t ready... but I know beauty can emerge from this pain. Let’s be real and normalize these feelings so there isn’t this “societal pressure” to pretend like everything’s fine.
There are so many things I’ve learned over the last 2+ years, but most of all I’ve held to this over everything else: Don’t waste your time on this earth. As far as I know, we only get one chance here. One shot to learn what happiness and joy truly is… 4/5
Here’s the thing... addiction doesn’t discriminate. It’s not about wealth or social status. It’s so hard to get on the straight and narrow once addiction/substance abuse has its claws in you. It destroys everything. Forget about football & lets all hope Josh is okay.
Updated:
#Browns
Gordon showed up late to the facility on Saturday morning and was 'not himself.' Red flag for possible substance use was the concern of some in the org, sources tell clevelanddotcom
Dear
@Stephania_ESPN
,
I release you from the board bet prison you’ve been living in. The tyranny is over.
@MatthewBerryTMR
has been defeated once an for all.
Sincerely,
Secret Squirrel
I didn’t value myself the way I should have. I let someone else slowly take away my self-worth, comment by comment, action by action, until nothing was left. I felt like a completely different Daniel. Broken. Worthless. But I also felt like I had to stay FOR that person. 2/5
I know, it's Wk 3. But you don't understand how big this is for Lions fans. Getting our rookie coach a W, having a 100yd rusher for the first time in years, dominating time of possession against the best QB in football. I'll take a
@Lions
win over a good fantasy week every time!!
WARNING SAD DOG THREAD: This is Captain Malcolm Reynolds Dopp. He was a 7 year old chihuahua named from my favorite tv show. Yesterday Mal died suddenly and unexpectedly in an incredibly traumatic fashion. I am so fucking heartbroken and angry and sad...
It’s so easy to see it now, but I always thought I was doing the right thing by staying and trying to save them because if I left, they wouldn’t have anyone else to help them. It was my responsibility. I would be abandoning them. I believed this lie for far too long. 3/5
On this day in (probably) the early 1900’s,
@MatthewBerryTMR
entered this world and things have never been the same since. The fact of the matter is this dude has become one of my best friends. I’m so thankful to work with him day in and day out!! I love you bud!
Guys... I'm so scared to tweet right now. I'm so anxious and I don't want to jinx anything but I'm so stoked but also so scared and I just don't know how to handle all the feels that I feel.
#NEvsDET
I’m struggling to find the right words to say about this week’s
#LOVEHATE
... I’ve written and deleted this tweet at least 20 times. Just know if you’re lost, you’re not alone. I’ve been there, and without the Air Force, I wouldn’t be the man I am today.
Matthew proved his commitment to the
@Lions
over and over. Remember his shoulder & the Browns game? Remember the goal line dive vs Dallas? Dude ALWAYS left it on the field. Made me a fan for life, regardless of the uniform he wears.
Good luck
#9
- we’ll miss seeing that smile!
6 years ago, I was walking to the cafe and saw
@wingoz
with his head down in a stack of paper headed my way. We got closer, he looks up, points at me, yells "BEARD!", then just keeps walking. I'm sure it meant nothing to him, but I felt like a million bucks. I'll never forget it.
Or maybe Disney+ is just dope af and we’re legit excited about it cause we’re all nerds at heart that love disney cartoons, Star Wars, Marvel & Pixar. Maybe that’s also an option? But I’m not a “big time reporter” so what do I know. 🤷🏻♂️
ESPN big time reporters are promoting Disney+ on Twitter
1. ESPN does do journalism, but it also does business.
2. These reporters do journalism, but they also do business.
3. If the company that pays you millions, asks you to promote its top project, not much of a choice.
Please don’t forget the importance of your mental health right now. It’s okay to take a break from social media to refill your tank. You’re not taking a break from compassion or being an ally, you’re staying healthy for the long road of change that’s ahead of us, and that’s okay.
Hey
#06010NFL
fans, ever want to WATCH the
@fantasyfocus
podcast? What about asking us questions LIVE during the show? Well this year, you’ll be able to thanks to our partnership with
@twitter
! Watch the full show, live, every day during the season!
For my birthday today my wife got me very nice cologne, a pair of my favorite shoes and she let me play
@EAMaddenNFL
all day. But for the first time in the HISTORY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP, she did NOT get me a
@tacobell
gift card.
Worst.
Birthday.
Ever.
Oh, great, Aaron Jones is “healthy” tonight. So if I play him in Fantasy he’ll get 5 carries for 7 yards and then end up hurt again. But if I don’t play him, he’ll get 100 yards and 2 touchdowns.
@FieldYates
@DanielDopp
@MikeClayNFL
@fantasyfocus
Literally the only things to makes this Cardinals twitter mess any better is for them to sign ALFRED MORRIS!! As if they haven’t trolled
@MatthewBerryTMR
enough!!!
There are a lot of white devils in my mentions, literally justifying police brutality right now. They could never fathom their brother, sister, mother, father, friend or co-worker being publicly murdered by the ones who made an oath to protect them.
All week long I’ve been paying attention to two milestones: LeBron (obv) and my dude
@FieldYates
sitting on the goal line of 1 million Twitter followers just days before the Super Bowl.
Can we collectively do the Jalen Hurts G2G push and get him there?! Let’s make this happen!!
I’ll say this to
@Lions
fans, you can’t hold Ebron and Pettigrew’s failures against TJ Hockenson. That’s like not trusting your new GF because of stuff your old GF did. I get the fear, but you gotta let the kid succeed or fail based on his own play, not on the play of past TE’s.
My little brother just said "the best thing about having kids is getting to eat their Halloween candy" and I'm over here like... dude, you're 33 years old. You can literally just go to a store and buy some candy. You didn't need to have kids just for that.
Missing my little dude really hard tonight. There are a lot of auxiliary thoughts that come up when I think about him now (6 months later). Different people I’ve bonded with over grief and healing, different memories I have of him and how cool he was... and music. Always music.
Today during the
@wwp
(Wounded Warrior Project) flag football game at the
#ProBowlExperience
, I caught a 40 yard TD pass and 2 pt conversion from Russell Wilson. I think that means I’m on the Seahawks now???
The mental gymnastics to make George Floyd's death somehow related to the unemployment rate / economy is astounding.
This is disgustingly disingenuous and shameful. No thank you.
Congrats to
@FieldYates
who has a new ESPN extension. Fans will continue to see and hear him on our NFL coverage and, of course, on
@fantasyfocus
,
#FFNow
and more.
I think my favorite part of the
#Covid_19
situation is receiving countless emails from my mortgage company, student loans and credit cards reassuring me that I can still make all of my payments online. They are all just so considerate to remind me of that!
Don’t mind me, I’m just here on The Fantasy Show with
@matthewberrytmr
dropping over the shoulder dimes with my cue cards!
The trick is to hit your veteran host in the pocket square. Can’t drop it if you don’t let them get their hands on it. 🎯
Aiden Hutchinson getting up in front of the team, announcing his signing bonus, messing up Billie Jean, and then nailing it like a boss with the
@Lions
VIBING the whole time IS WHAT I NEEDED IN MY LIFE ❤️🕺🏻 I freaking love this team.
I’m 40 years old, watching Die Hard and I don’t really know what bearer bonds are. I understand they’re worth $640m, but how do they work? Are they the original NFTs?
Super stoked for my new ESPN Minus show this fall! If you’re a
@Lions
fan or if you have a sick
#beard
or you like crappy bands nobody’s ever heard of... this show is for you! New episodes every week!
#TheFantasyShow
Things I legit don’t understand about the NFL anymore.
1. What a catch is
2. What a penalty is
3. What is challengeable
4. How the refs are so bad in 2017
@Michael_Fabiano
It’s a heated bit about the same topic, same team, same players... more than two weeks after we did that exact bit. No one is saying you can’t have an opinion about players. Or that you can’t rant. But have some respect for other people’s content. You’re better than this.
Some thoughts heading into the weekend.
1. Surround yourself with good people
2. Don’t be a jerk over email (or twitter)
3. Own up to your mistakes
4. Tell people you love them. They need to hear it.
5. Listen to
@futureteensusa
6. Draft Kerryon Johnson
7. Love yourself
❤️🎵🏈
@MatthewBerryTMR
I AM FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW! Absolutely incredible win… I am not sleeping tonight and I’m pretty sure my stepson has agreed to legally change his name to Dan Campbell.
#ONEPRIDE
Oh my gosh
@Stephania_ESPN
, it is so unsafe to ride in the back of a pick up truck without a seatbelt! Please make better life decisions next time. V disappointed in you.
@Goods209
@MatthewBerryTMR
@FieldYates
@ESPNFantasy
Some options: Team with the highest scoring player. H2H record in regular season. Team with most points scored in regular season. Most points scored in the playoffs.
But also, turn on decimal scoring. It’s 2018!! 😂😂
The
#NFLDraft2020
is the first-ever online draft in NFL history. Because of concerns over technical difficulties, the NFL kept an IT expert on-call for coaches and GM’s... This is how he spent his Thursday.
#NFLDraft
I’ve been dating my best friend
@valleyhearted
for almost two and a half years and I truly cannot explain how much I love this woman. She is my rock & my safe space. I’m continually in awe of her strength & grace & compassion. She is so freaking smart and I am madly in love. ❤️
If you’ve ever said to yourself “I wonder if I should watch The Fantasy Show with
@MatthewBerryTMR
” then feast your eyes upon what you’ve been missing...
DeAndre Hopkins is the best WR in the NFL not named Antonio Brown. I'd take him over Julio, OBJ, AJ and Jordy... and it's not even close. Dude is the truth.
Whenever you are in this big world we live in, I am right there with you, holding your hand as you find your way. Let’s find strength, love and unity in the midst of pain, tragedy & uncertainty. Things happen and it sucks sometimes, but you are not alone. You. Are. Not. Alone. ❤️
It’s the grace and continued faithfulness even though I am a failure on a daily basis that gets me. I’m a bad Christian, but I am loved and accepted the way I am. Through my faults and failures. And for that, I’ll forever be grateful.