Ryan Barrett

[Ryan Barrett @beezybarrett]

@GatorsFB @JonGordon11 So good! It’s like in baseball/softball commitment to sacrifice bunt, hit behind runners, not miss signs. Sacrifice your at bat for your team! Commit to your team!

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

If you’re wondering why men backed Trump in far greater numbers than McCain or Romney, this is why.
Nitro Circus launching backflips on the White House lawn. A bald eagle circling overhead during a UFC weigh-in on the grounds.
This is the America I grew up loving: patriotic, free, unapologetic, and proudly masculine. 🇺🇸

[Congressman Rudy Yakym @RepRudyYakym]

In case you thought this was just another flag.

Happy Flag Day 🇺🇸

[Dez Bryant @DezBryant]

I really don’t understand the hate Jaxon Dart got for introducing President Trump. Good or bad..if you support Trump or not..you're in a lose lose situation. Politics and religion are difficult for sports. Folks have the right to believe in whatever the fuck they want.

I don't know..I just live by a code..As long as it's not interfering with my shit..do whatever you want because you've got to take whatever you're on up with God. I'm too much of a sinner to be judgmental and political.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Lucky people work very hard, have high integrity, show up on time, have good manners, show high rate of learning, are self-aware, optimistic, kind and generous.

[Ryan Barrett @beezybarrett]

@indyindians Add some game times to this bad boy!

[CG Central Track @CGMSCTrack]

Avery Swift is the 1600 STATE CHAMPION!!! Unbelievable 4:53.86 and a NEW STATE RECORD!

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

The mainstream media failed you once again, here are two examples.

They tried to debunk, cover for fraudsters, and slander my name. The governor even called it “white supremacy” to expose the fraud.

Now it’s all true, and they get to move along like they never lied to you.

It’s time to support independent journalists and leave the mainstream (fake) media behind.

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[IHSAA @IHSAA1]

A Letter from the Commissioner

“It’s different here.”

That’s been a theme of our Association over the course of the 2025-26 school year. As Commissioner, I believe it resonates with the passion and support our communities show for local high school sports. As a Hoosier, I believe it’s a sentiment baked into our collective DNA—it’s a level of passion and support we’re born with.

The idea of “It’s different here” goes deeper than our love of high school sports, though. It applies to what separates education-based athletics from other levels of amateur sports.

When the IHSAA was created—and honestly, for most of the past 100+ years—education-based athletics existed in a world where the definition of amateurism was pretty cut and dry. There wasn’t much room to misinterpret what amateurism meant, and there were even fewer opportunities for it to be called into question. Today, that’s not the case. And it certainly isn’t the world education-based athletics live in anymore.

Earlier this month, a new bylaw was passed by the IHSAA Board of Directors that allows for Indiana student-athletes to participate in Personal Branding Activities (or, as we call it, “PBA”). At its basic level, PBA provides a structure that allows student-athletes the opportunity to benefit independently from their school—that is, without using school branding or representing school-sponsored endorsements—while preserving their amateur status.

PBA creates a clear distinction between what is permissible in high school and the model that is present in college athletics—a model that, at the highest level, has removed amateurism and deprioritized education from its framework. Instead, the PBA rule is engineered to allow the IHSAA to protect the values of high school sports while adapting responsibly to a rapidly changing landscape.

As much as we wish it weren’t the case, the high school landscape is constantly reshaped by developments in college sports. More accurately, it’s reshaped by the expectations of parents who believe their children will one day be navigating the structure of high Division 1 college sports. As such, it makes it nearly impossible to talk about the introduction of PBA without comparing it to what exists in college. After all, that system—and the expectations it has created—is the driving force behind why the PBA rule is even needed.

However, I want to be crystal clear: while this is a new bylaw, and as such a technical “change” to IHSAA rules, PBA is not a change to high school athletics in Indiana. It does not indicate a change in the mission of education-based athletics. In fact, my sincere hope is that in creating proactive, thoughtful guidelines around PBA, the IHSAA can keep education in front of Hoosier high school sports.

After all, it’s the education taking place on the playing field that transforms our student-athletes. It’s the development of teamwork, the discovery of grit, and triumph of character over scores and records that ignites our Hoosier passion and draws our communities to the stands on Friday nights.

It's the education that makes it different here.

I promise you this: we’ll do everything we can to keep it that way.

To being different,

Paul Neidig
IHSAA Commissioner
#ThisIsYourIHSAA

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

Cinema.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

WEMBY FROM THE LOGO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Ryan Barrett @beezybarrett]

@tophernugent @MLBONFOX @Pirates They proved that running through a base is faster than it is to slide. Bases loaded two outs. He is trying to be safe so the run counts at home. Doesn’t care if he gets out after he beat the play at second. He got the run in.

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

50+ years in baseball. 17 as an MLB manager. over 2,500 games from the dugout.

I won Manager of the Year and also lost more games than I want to count.

I led teams through losing seasons and took a team to the World Series.

The biggest difference was leadership.

If I could go back to my first day as a leader, here are the 5 lessons I'd whisper in my own ear:

Lesson 1: Be a window when it's good, a mirror when it's bad.

The leaders I respected most shared every win and absorbed every hit.

What this looks like in practice:

• Wins: name the people who made it happen
• Losses: say "that's on me" before anyone asks
• Locker room: spotlight the effort before the outcome

Your team will fight harder for a leader who deflects credit and absorbs blame.

Lesson 2: Nobody hands you trust. You earn it before you coach it.

Early in my career, plenty of coaches tried to fix my swing.

I tuned out every one I didn't trust.

Get to know your people before you try to develop them.

Their hobbies, their family, what makes them tick.

Then the coaching lands.

Lesson 3: Shower well after every loss.

After a losing streak in Colorado, our team president asked me how I kept the clubhouse together.

This was my rule:

• Self-evaluate honestly, were we prepared, did we execute?
• Shower well, wash off the grit, grime, and angst before you walk out
• Be present for whoever you're going home to

Tomorrow is a new opportunity. Don't drag yesterday into it.

Lesson 4: Lead transformationally, not transactionally.

Transactional leaders ask: what can this person do for me?

Transformational leaders ask: how do I put this person in a position to win?

The first builds compliance.

The second builds careers.

When your people start chasing growth instead of your approval, you've crossed over.

Lesson 5: Stay humble before life humbles you.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are humble, and those who are about to be.

Discipline keeps you in the first group:

Skill gets you in the room. Humility keeps you there.

50 years taught me leadership isn't about you.

It's about the people you serve.

@Rockies

[Drake McClurg @drake_mcclurg]

4-5 with 3 bombs and a triple

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

Fathers, what will your children say about the home they grew up in when they get older? What will they say about your marriage? About their childhood under your fatherhood?

You get only get one shot at family life. There are no do-overs.

You get roughly 18 years to train your children. After that, the rule "unsolicited advice is rarely taken," kicks in. Make the most of the time you have with your kids because it flies by.

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

“This team, it’s a youth one. They have something special in St. Louis right now”

@DTrainMLB on the youngest team in baseball right now

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 RFK Jr. just showed America that Sen. Warnock (D-GA) is an absolute DOPE 🤣

WARNOCK: You made cuts to the rabies office!

RFK JR: “There’s 1-3 rabies cases PER YEAR in the US! I think ONE PERSON manning that office can handle that traffic!” 😂🔥

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 SEC. RFK JR JUST DROPPED A BOMBSHELL:

"[They] charged us $6,000 a month for that hospice patient. How did we detect them all? Because the patients NEVER DIED."

"Hospices in Los Angeles — we've shut down 500 of them. We have not gotten *ONE CALL* from a congressperson or one call from a patient."

"Why? Because those hospices did not exist."

Gavin Newsom allowed this

[Ryan Barrett @beezybarrett]

Bingo! Well done Coach! @OleMissBSB