Rod Koch

Lover of God, Family, Friends, the Reds, and most of the time the Buckeyes. And sushi is overrated.

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

@SenJonHusted 👍🏻

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@ohiogop 🙏🏻👍🏻

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@JonHusted Wow-very cool!..

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

I've had a lifetime of ups, downs, and sideways.

Baseball. Failure. Faith. Rock bottom. Redemption.

And the one lesson that ties all of it together?

You don't become better by avoiding hard.

You become better by embracing it...

I'm a broken, flawed man and I've made mistakes I'm not proud of.

I've let people down...not by choice, but I let them down.

But how I reacted to those moments? That's where the growth lived.

Here's what a lifetime of hard actually taught me.

Lesson #1: Life is going to be hard. That's not a warning, that's a promise.

People are going to be messy.

You're going to make mistakes.

The speed of life doesn't slow down for any of us.

What you control:
• Whether you embrace hard or run from it
• Whether you get better or just get bitter
• What your first thought is when your feet hit the floor in the morning

There's so much more value in pushing through hard times and coming out the other side.

Lesson #2: You can't outrun what you're supposed to grow through.

I numbed failure instead of walking through it.

I told myself it was working.

It wasn't.

Eventually, the hard you've been running from catches up.

And when it does you either let it break you or let it build you.

I've walked through all the challenges, all the ups, all the downs, all the sideways.

And I think every single one of them put me in a position I was handpicked for.

Hard doesn't disqualify you.

It prepares you for what's next.

Lesson #3: Be Steadfast. Be Persistent. Be Resilient.

Those aren't traits you're born with.

They're what's left after hard things do their work on you.

They didn't come from the easy stretches

They came from character that wasn't there before

Empathy I couldn't have had without the hard

Today is the only one we're promised.

Don't waste it running from hard.

Embrace it.

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

@TeamHusted @JonHusted 👍🏻

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

New photo from this morning for the Final Top 10 of VOTING which ends TONIGHT at 9pm EST.
Grateful for every bit of support – thank you.🙏🏻 https://t.co/8Sj9Qjx9IZ

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Thank you for being part of this. You can vote once a day if you’d like.
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@SenJonHusted Back at’cha Senator…🙏🏻

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@SenJonHusted Merry Christmas to you, and your family as well…

…. And keep fighting the good fight.

Blessings,

Rod Koch

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@SenJonHusted Love this.🙏🏻

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@JonHusted ‘Twas beautiful.🎶

[Jon Husted @JonHusted]

Seriously, the best mascot move ever.

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@SenJonHusted Nice.

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@JonHusted Happy Anniversary, you two!🎉🌸

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@SenJonHusted Great pic-happy anniversary!

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The Reds are the first team in MLB history to have:

no qualifying batter hit .270
no batter hit 25 homers
no pitcher win 15 games
no pitcher notch 200 strikeouts

...in a non-shortened season and yet still make the playoffs.

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

@KirkHerbstreit “…giving me,” lol…

Keep killin’ it, m’man…👌🏻#GoBucks

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@JonHusted I.O…

…Congrats.!..💪🏻🙏🏻👍🏻

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

@BBGreatMoments Feller.

[Rod Koch @RodKoch1]

@BBGreatMoments I mean, why would you lie?