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“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” - Jesus. ❤️ “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -T.Roosevelt

[Southern Miss Baseball @SouthernMissBSB]

𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 🦅

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#OwnTheRoom | #EverythingMatters | #SMTTT

[MLB's Arizona Fall League @MLBazFallLeague]

Nick Monistere AGAIN!

After hitting two homers in 54 MiLB games this season, Monistere has matched that amount in one game. His second homer of the game is a three-run shot and all three homers today have been hit by Astros prospects

[MLB's Arizona Fall League @MLBazFallLeague]

Dakota Jordan caps off a four-run inning for the Scorpions with a two-run single! The Giants No. 7 prospect reached base three times on Thursday night.

[Dima Mixon @dima_mixon]

BREAKING: Southern Miss baseball checks in as the No. 18 in @d1baseball Top 100 Programs rankings.

From No. 88 in 2015 to No. 18 in 2026, the rankings reflect the program's incredible rise over the past decade.

https://t.co/HliWWYlcWe

[SportsBall @_SportsBall_]

How home runs are measured in MLB ⚾️

[Zachary Hall @WxZachary]

One of the best I’ve ever seen

[Mindi @CookMindi]

Fun memory from Jake’s Junior year in high school popped up. This team was an absolute blast to cheer for! Only lost 2 games. Won the State Championship and a national championship banner! Good times, good times.

[Prep Baseball Mississippi @PrepBaseballMS]

Maybe the best 9 hole hitter in the country. Jake Cook of Madison Central has great hands and knows how to drive the baseball! The uncommitted 2022 also gets into the upper 80’s with his fastball on the mound. @jakecook26 @Jaguar_Baseball @PBR_Uncommitted #PBRIsThere

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

The Tampa Bay Rays are going to the American League Championship Series.

One of the pitchers who got them there is the only person who has ever graduated from the Air Force Academy and reached the major leagues.

He turned down professional baseball at 18 to go there.

Start with his father.

Garth Jax was the 296th player taken in the 1986 draft, in the 11th round. At Florida State in his junior year he hurt his kidney and his spleen badly enough that some doctors told him he was finished playing football.

The Dallas Cowboys cut him on September 1, 1986. They signed him back about a week later because somebody else got hurt.

He lasted ten years in the National Football League, mostly on special teams. In 1988 he led the Cowboys in special teams tackles with 24. He finished with the Arizona Cardinals in 1995.

So that is the house Griffin Jax grew up in.

In 2013 he went 7 and 1 with a 1.74 earned run average at Cherry Creek High School in Colorado and was named the state's Gatorade Player of the Year. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted him in the 12th round.

He did not sign. He went to the Air Force Academy instead.

He was not good there at first. A 5.86 earned run average as a freshman and 5.17 as a sophomore. Then as a junior in 2016 he went 9 and 2 with a 2.05 earned run average and 90 strikeouts, and was named co-pitcher of the year in his conference.

The Minnesota Twins took him in the third round, 93rd overall, and gave him $645,000.

Then the rules changed on him.

In April of 2017 the Department of Defense began requiring academy graduates to serve two years of active duty before they could move to reserve status and play professionally.

So Griffin Jax reported to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and worked as an acquisition manager while the rest of his draft class played baseball.

Here is the part that is hard to believe.

He was eventually allowed to pitch. But a person on active duty is not permitted to earn a second income.

So the Air Force paid his salary, and the Minnesota Twins paid for his travel and his equipment.

Two legal departments had to sit down and work out an arrangement so that a man could be a baseball player.

He reached the major leagues on June 8, 2021, in relief, against the New York Yankees.

He is a captain in the Air Force Reserve now. He won a silver medal with Team USA at the World Baseball Classic this year. In August his elbow put him on the injured list for the first time in his career and he came back on September 2.

And tonight, in New York, in the game that finished off the Yankees and sent the Rays to the American League Championship Series, Griffin Jax pitched two innings and struck out four.

Against the same team he debuted against.

Nobody who graduated from the Air Force Academy had ever reached the major leagues.

One has. It took him five years and two legal departments.

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

Dakota Jordan -- dubbed "Baby Bo" in high school -- just might be the best athlete in the Arizona Fall League.

More on Jordan's set of tools and the rest of the @SFGiants' crop of prospects in the desert: https://t.co/sbOwbHU5Va

[Zach Worden @Worden_Zach]

Jake Bloss takes the mound tonight for Mesa at the AFL with #BlueJays Jake Cook, Jake Casey and Aaron Parker in the Solar Sox lineup.

Will be Bloss’s first game action since July 11 at Triple-A.

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️

[FutureSox @FutureSox]

Braden Montgomery with a sliding catch in RF for the first out of the B3.

[Madison Central Baseball @Jaguar_Baseball]

Good luck to former Jaguar Braden Montgomery and the Chicago White Sox in the AL Wild Card Series!

@B_mont_

#JagsWIN

[Rick Stansbury @CoachStansMSU]

Great win for Mississippi State.

[Jack Brunini @JackBrunini]

Week 1-4 highlights!! 🔥🔥https://t.co/HoiGdyej47
@MCJags_Football
@CoachT_Rob
@wyattrogers13
@dfinley0
@CoachGBoykin
@ESPN3ALLDAY

[Ali & Josh Lupo @theficouple]

Reminder for all young parents:

You only get:
- 1 Summer with your baby
- 3 with your toddler
- 9 with your child
- 5 with your teenager

This time is precious. Don’t rush it.

[reid beach @beachreid50]

Beyond blessed and grateful for this opportunity! Thank you God, my family, and all my coaches for believing in me and helping me get her. #gorangers

[Average Southern Miss Fan @avgusmfan]

Been collecting some former Eags

[Baseball&DemocracyRock @democracyrock]

Attaboy Cookie! #SMTTT

[Southern Miss Student Media @sm2_usm]

"The Sun Belt Conference awarded Southern Miss Volleyball its first Setter of the Week honor of the season. "

Read more at https://t.co/SH4LaBzx2d

#smttt #southernmiss #studentprintz #collegenews