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@Hayden_Collins8 Well said and Godspeed, young man.

Yesterday I wrapped up my college baseball career as well as my playing career. I was reflecting on some things that I wish I knew coming into college or somethings that I would tell younger players interested in playing college baseball. So here they are in no particular order⬇️

@TonyClarkCP So the manufacturer itself did not manufacture its own component to its own specifications?

Update on Millennium Force: The ride’s manufacturer (Intamin) directly supplies the seat belts to Cedar Point, and it has been identified that they are shorter than the manufacturer’s specifications. We are working with them to replace the belts in the coming weeks.

@BBGreatMoments Mark Kotsay

Who’s the nicest MLB player you’ve ever had the chance to meet?

@VinnysCorner1 Big Papi

It’s Game 7 of the World Series, bases loaded, 2 outs, tie game, in the bottom of the 9th. You can choose any batter in baseball in their prime to get you a hit… WHO DO YOU CHOOSE?

@CollegeFBonX Vince Young’s 8-yd TD run with :19 to go in the 2006 BCS National Championship vs USC at The Rose Bowl.

What’s one college football play that had you in awe when you watched it live?

@KentMurphy Took me two minutes to realize that yes, this was in fact a televised broadcast of Major League Baseball. Geesh.

🚨JANITOR THROW ALERT 🚨

@devin_ass @BauerOutage @MacMcclintock6 You beat me to it. The guy just does not get it.

@BauerOutage @MacMcclintock6 Going against the union and your fellow players? There’s that clubhouse cancer

Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A. If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.

@BBGreatMoments Trot Nixon

Which player do you think of when you see these type of helmet?

@CultureExploreX *The* Ohio State University

Imagine designing a campus by watching where students naturally walk. That is what Ohio State University did. Instead of forcing people into rigid paths, the walkways followed the routes students had already carved into the grass. It is a small lesson in good design: the best places do not fight human behavior. They learn from it.

@CarrotFollower Mo Vaughn

All time baseball names Yuniesky Betancourt Ildemaro Vargas Yasiel Puig Coco Crisp Who am I missing

@ATRightMovies Friday Night Lights

@BBGreatMoments Josh Beckett

Who’s the first player you think of when you see this Marlins logo?

@JomboyMedia @TalkinBaseball_ Doesn’t come close to @TheRealJPap58 rolling into @fenwaypark

Mason Miller's new closer entrance in San Diego is pretty epic

@1Nicdar 4th & 5*

130 schools said no. He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway. Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami. He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed. So did FIU. So did FAU. So did everyone else. At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs. Not one FBS offer. His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path. Everyone told him to be “realistic.” “Know your place.” “Be grateful.” He didn’t listen. Because Mendoza understood something most people miss: The worst outcome isn’t failing. It’s never getting the chance to try. Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang. Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools. He took it. He arrived as the third-string quarterback. Spent a year on the scout team. Lost his first four starts. Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line. Still got up. Every time. Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him. So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes. He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history. People laughed. “Career suicide.” “Graveyard program.” “Nobody wins there.” One coach told him something different: “I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.” That was enough. Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football. His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years. Before every snap, he thought of her. “My mother is my why.” Indiana went 16–0. Beat six Top-10 teams. Won their first Big Ten title since 1945. Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns. Won the Heisman—first in school history. First Cuban-American to ever do it. Then came the title game. Miami. Near his hometown. Fourth-and-4. Season on the line. Quarterback draw. The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone. Game over. Indiana—national champions. The losingest program became the best team in America. All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end. Rankings don’t decide your ceiling. Gatekeepers don’t write your ending. Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point. Sometimes all you need is one shot… and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will. Don’t quit. Credit: Barclay Mullins

@notthefakeSVP *Cream & Crimson

Bloomington must be deserted, because Atlanta is a sea of Crimson & Cream.

@Jon_Blau LEO

Asked Tom Allen how he feels watching Indiana have the success its had over the last couple of seasons. He’s texted several of the players he recruited, “super happy” for them. He’s also glad IU has finally invested in football, which he feels did not happen while he was there.

@OdellBretthamJr @Johnubacon Michigan being Michigan

@Johnubacon Isn’t it a bigger issue that an alleged affair between a boss and his subordinate wasn’t properly vetted?

More information: UM conducted an internal investigation, interviewing both Moore and the employee (separately, I presume), this summer. Both said, "No how and no way" anything was happening between them, which didn't give UM much to go on. Her account flipped yesterday morning.

@ATRightMovies Hoosiers Enemy of the State Crimson Tide

@BBGreatMoments Trot Nixon

Which player do you think of when you see these type of helmet?

@ColtS117 @j0ker937 @lakemonstercl1 Came here to say the same thing.

@j0ker937 @lakemonstercl1 That’s basically VISR from ODST.

This is the L3Harris ENVG-B military night vision goggles. This is not AI, or CGI, or editing trickery; this is the American military on full display.