Ruben Garza

Father, husband, son, brother, friend, entrepreneur, baseball fan

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

A full list of NCAA schools that finished in the national top 16 this past calendar sports year in:

• Football
• Men’s Basketball
• Women’s Basketball
• Baseball
• Softball

Texas. That’s the list.

And if you expand it to include women’s volleyball, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s swimming & diving, women’s swimming & diving, men’s and women’s tennis, beach volleyball, women’s rowing, and women’s track & field, Texas finished in the top 16 nationally in 15 of its 17 varsity sports.

The most complete athletic department in America 🤘

[Jason Paul @Amazin_Cajun]

Only one school in America is still playing softball and baseball... @UTAustin 🤘🏾

#eveythingschool

[✭Five Tool Texas✭ @FiveToolTexas]

.@stsliders 16U White's Marcelo Zavala (@Marz_27_) ropes a 2-run triple into the left-center field gap. #FiveToolSpeed

Weslaco East (TX) 2028 #uncommitted

Profile: https://t.co/JUmvGv8P0Z

[Marcelo Zavala @Marz_27_]

Marcelo Zavala Class 2028 https://t.co/jHoFCvodPV via @YouTube @stsliders @RD42Baseball

[Ruben Garza @108Basic]

@RedWavePress Really old news. First it was natural selection kids born in the fall were naturally older and bigger in thier grade. Then it became a practice for some to start kids late, morphed to holding back

[RGVSports.com @rgvsports]

Sharyland High is headed to the Final Four for the first time in program history after taking down Cedar Park in the Region IV-5A DII finals! #RGVBaseball #txhsbsb

Read more: https://t.co/8j9vQyUEXe

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

- @multiplanet1

[Marcelo Zavala @Marz_27_]

Marcelo Zavala Class 2028 https://t.co/abvdlkGC60 via @YouTube @stsliders

[Marcelo Zavala @Marz_27_]

Marcelo Zavala Class 2028 Running 60 yard Dash (6.8) https://t.co/t97fMgeL2d via @YouTube

[Marcelo Zavala @Marz_27_]

Marcelo Zavala Class 2028 running 60 yard Dash (6.70) https://t.co/in6r0UfTVP via @YouTube @stsliders @RD42Baseball

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."

- Jesus

[College Baseball Reference @CBsBReference]

Percentage of In-State Players | TX | #CollegeBaseball

1. @TxStateBaseball ---------------92.5%
2. @BearkatsBSB -----------------91.2%
3. @UTSABSB --------------------85.0%
4. @BaylorBaseball --------------83.8%
4. @TarletonBase ----------------83.8%
6. @UTAMavsBSB ---------------81.3%
7. @SFA_Baseball ---------------78.0%
8. @ACU_Baseball --------------77.8%
9. @UTRGVBaseball -----------75.6%
10. @Lamar_Baseball ----------74.4%
11. @UIWBaseball -------------71.8%
12. @TXSOBASEBALL --------68.6%
13. @UHCougarBB -----------66.7%
14. @AggieBaseball ----------65.7%
15. @RiceBaseball ----------63.4%
16. @pvamubsball ----------60.0%
17. @HCUHuskiesBSB ----48.8%
17. @TexasBaseball -------48.8%
19. @IslandersBSB -------47.5%
20. @TTU_Baseball ------47.2%
21. @DBU_Baseball ------44.7%
22. @TCU_Baseball ----32.4%

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

They say a father is the one person who quietly roots for you to outgrow him—to go further, do better, and live bigger than he ever could. There’s something really powerful in that. ���💕

[11Point7 College Baseball @11point7]

From Friday night… Look at that ballpark and crowd showing up for an 18-21 overall team.

UTRGV should be the next mid major powerhouse.

[CSG Nicholls @CSG_Nicholls]

6400 for a “mid major” baseball program? Some P4 schools cannot even get 6400 or hold 6400.

[Ruben Garza @108Basic]

@HCUAthletics @HCUHuskiesBSB Eso! Eso! Eso!

[HCU Athletics @HCUAthletics]

Just David Lopez doing what David Lopez does...

5 Ks through two innings for the righty here at Husky Field

@HCUHuskiesBSB
#DawgsUp

[Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) @BauerOutage]

I gained 16 mph in 16 months in high school with a simple 3-day cycle repeated every 3 days. Here's the exact program that worked:

[Branden Leon @brandenl23]

RS FRESHMAN (UTILITY)
Middle of Conference stats
(.333)AVG
48abs
OBP (.475)
16hits
1HR
@DaltonRod44 @Harrison_GK @LanceKoch99 @RangerBaseball_

[Dr. Kat Lindley @DrKatLindley]

This was not written by me, but it touched me deeply…
Sunday is coming.

“He received 39 stripes because 40 was known to kill a man. They wanted him alive. They held handfuls of his beard, and hair and pulled it out by the roots. They wanted him alive. They kicked, punched, and spit on him for hours. Until there wasn't a single spot on his body not covered in blood. They wanted him alive.

They shoved a crown of thorns down on his head so harshly it stuck in his skin. They wanted him alive. After hours of being beaten, mocked, whipped, flogged, and tortured they made him walk with a cross. They made him carry it. A rough piece of wood with splinters digging into fresh wounds. They wanted him alive.

They wanted him to feel every ounce of pain they could bring. He had to feel it in order to heal us. Crucifixion was historically one of the cruelest most tortured deaths a human could face. Hours upon hours of torture. Torture most of us can not mentally think of because the cruelty isn't normal. It isn't something our minds can comprehend. We celebrate Easter with pastel colors, happy children hunting eggs, and chocolate. Truth is there was absolutely nothing happy about the day Jesus died. It was cruel, bloody, and nasty.

He could have stopped all of it. He could have called every angel in heaven to demolish every person standing and shouting "Crucify Him!" He didn't. He knew in order to have a Sunday you have to have a Friday. He knew in order to have joy you have to carry your cross. He felt everything that day. He felt how your heart broke wide open when you had to watch your baby die. He felt how heavy your life was when you were staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if the man you called husband was going to shoot you. He carried the weight of the burden you have felt since your spouse died, and life just doesn't seem right since.

On that cross he held the rapist and murderers, the sinner and the saint. He leveled every playing field and said ALL of you are worth it. He knew he had to carry the cross. He never promised the cross you carry in this life would not be heavy. His wasn't. His promise is that Sunday is coming.

No matter how heavy Friday is. Financially, emotionally, mentally, or physically. Friday is heavy. That cross is weighing you down and you are about to crumble under its weight. His promise was simply this. He won't make you carry it alone. What kind of king would step down from his throne for this?

Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God did. For you. He did every bit of it for you and me. Oh yes, it is heavy. So heavy sometimes you do not think you can take one more step. But look up, because Sunday is coming.”