T Glenn Taylor

[Matt Lisle @CoachLisle]

Great players bring the right approach every day no matter what. Wins are just a byproduct of the foundation you build.

As a coach my job is to shoot them straight. If you tolerate a day off in prep you teach them that excellence is optional. It never is.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman "And I need you more than I want you." C'mon, nobody writes like that anymore... That line slays me every time. Absolutely gorgeous songwriting.

[Maroon Metrics @MaroonMetrics]

Where MSU stands among SEC teams in the following offensive stats after 24 games and two weekends of SEC play.

1st in BA (.343)
3rd in OBP (.450)
3rd in SLG (.568)
2nd in OPS (1.018)
2nd in Runs (242)
1st in Hits (276)
1st in 2B (66)
7th in HR (37)
2nd in RBI (224)
2nd lowest K% (17.5%)
5th in SB (39)
3rd in WRC+ (138)
2nd in WRC (214)
1st in BABIP (.392)
#HailStateStats

[Mississippi State Baseball @HailStateBB]

SEC sweep ✅

[Happy Motorhead @HappyMotorhead]

Old School Funny Comedy...
● Who is this Comedian? #WhoIsThis

[Doug Kyle @SemperCaninus]

RP50: RON POLK IS ‘GOLDEN’ AT MISSISSIPPI STATE

Ron Polk has been in his “Golden Years” for some time now. The 82-year-old was just 27 when he became a Division 1 head baseball coach at Georgia Southern, 28 when he coached his first game.

Four years later, 1976, he was the first full-time head baseball coach at an SEC school, Mississippi State. Hired in Fall 1975, that debut came March 8, 1976, his first game pushed back by rain, with his Bulldogs trying to get in a quick doubleheader before the opposing Bulldogs, Louisiana Tech, had to leave town. March 8, 2026, makes 50 years, his career at MSU now catching up as Golden itself.

There was only one sad element that debut day. The late Charles Shira, athletic director at Mississippi State who twice considered Polk a top candidate for the job and didn't even trifle an interview the second time, never got to see him coach, passing away two months earlier on January 2.

The Bicentennial twin-bill was a split, losing the first one 2-1 on an unearned run in the 8th inning, and getting a 4-0 shutout in the 7-inning nightcap. According to box scores, the combined time of both games was a brisk 3:25.

The lack of offense on the chilly overcast day may have had something to do with the pace, and while records don’t reflect it, recollections of those there report that Polk’s first ejection in maroon and white also went down that day, supposedly with a new umpire behind home plate!

I was also fortunate to be there that day, a student reporter for the school paper Reflector who jumped at the chance, and for disclosure sake, I had never written sports before, just campus news. I had to learn how to score baseball from radio man Tom Dehner on a Sunday night at a University Drive laundromat, and everything else from the amazing Assistant Sports Information Director, Bo Carter.

When I reminded Bo of the anniversary recently, I had not remembered he wasn’t there but had still gleaned amazing details from his boss at the time, long-time SID Mr. Bob Hartley.

While good weather would have permitted Bo to be there for the originally-scheduled Sunday opener, instead of seeing a historic first on that Monday, he was instead witnessing a historic last, Mississippi State taking on Kentucky in the final men’s basketball game at UK’s Memorial Coliseum before moving to Rupp Arena that fall.

So, instead of giving the starting lineups from Polk’s prepared script or playing “Sweet Georgia Brown” while State took infield, he saw the hoops team lose an 86-80 lead in the final 40 seconds and eventually fall 94-93 in overtime. No details on how the Wildcats overcame the deficit so quickly a decade before the three-pointer and the shot clock, but use your imagination there.

Ask anyone who was there at Dudy Noble Field that day, or that overachieving season, if they could foresee what Polk would go on to become, winning more games at the time than any other coach in the SEC, having his name on the centerfield wall, his statue at the right field gate, and his own custom clothing line.

I sure didn’t, and I doubt anyone else did. The signs were there, along with potential. But, as they say, potential is ability that hasn’t met opportunity or execution yet.

In a way, Ron Polk and Mississippi State were each other’s Lay’s potato chip. Neither could stop at one. Ron retired in 1997, left and went to Georgia a couple seasons, returned, retired again in 2008, and after a difference of opinion on his successor resulted in thankfully not a permanent separation, returned one more time in 2020, this time for good. As inevitable goes, he is Mississippi State Baseball’s treasure, forever and ever, amen.

But don’t just take my word for it. Polk is also treasured by virtually everyone in the game of college baseball. If someone didn’t care for his blunt and focused personality when he was young, driven, and fiery, they are compelled now to at least respect him for his legacy and lifelong unselfishness and devotion to the game of college baseball.

Ask how many high school and college coaches and players he’s addressed by driving to their banquets. And the SOP he’d put together over the years, with its walkup song of Sweet Georgia Brown playing in the background, was incorporated into the “Baseball Playbook” that hasn’t sold quite as many copies as Polk fan John Grisham has, but it has to be close.

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[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love #70s #disco

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[Mississippi State Baseball @HailStateBB]

WE LOVE YOU MAC!

#HailState🐶 | @Elijahm_2

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

The Temptations - My Girl

https://t.co/gH8Tcdrghs

[Annette Lawless 🌻 @AnnetteLawless]

As mentioned on air the other day at @KWCH12, this is my FAVORITE Super Bowl commercial of all time.

I remember when it aired, and I froze.

God made a farmer.

The Lawless family is made of a bunch of farmers. I may not know much about it, but I'm proud to be a part of a community that provides. Cheers to farmers. And cheers to my dad as we'd ride to grandma's farm in Belle Plaine when I was little. We often listened to Paul Harvey. Good day!

#Superbowl #Superbowlcommercial #PaulHarvey #Commercial #farmlife #farmer

[Melissa Redpill @MelissaRedpill]

Wow!!
I 💕💕💕💕 the new verse to this song!!! Thanks Kid Rock!

“There’s a book that’s sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
There’s a man who died for all our sins hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus, and he’ll give you a second chance…”

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Amen, @KidRock

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Kid Rock adds a verse to viral hit “‘Till You Can’t.”

“You can give your life to Jesus and he’ll give you a second chance… ‘til you can’t.”

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

The song we needed before the Super Bowl 🦅🇺🇸

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Crowd roars as Kid Rock pays tribute to the Bible and Jesus at the All-American Halftime Show.

Beautiful lyrics. You would never, ever hear anything like this sung at the Super Bowl.

“There’s a book that’s sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off. There’s a man who died for all our sins hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus, and he’ll give you a second chance…”

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

The Gospel Was Preached To Millions Tonight. Can you believe this. ⏬

God woke Kid Rock up to write a final verse to “‘Till You Can’t”

Once you hear it, it’s like the song was never complete until now:

“There’s a book sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.

“There’s a man who died, for all our sins, hanging from a cross.

“You can give your life to Jesus, and he’ll give you a second chance…

Until you can’t.”

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

These worn-out piano keys, like pages from time’s old diary… Tonight, I’m coming back to melodies that once made someone’s heart tremble.
🎶✨Carly Simon - That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be - 1971

[Vinyl Records🎱✝️🇧🇷👪🗽 @j_c_domingues]

Spinners – Working My Way Back To You - 1979
https://t.co/tcWgJJwIUf

[OldSchool @xacct01]

#OTD in 1974: The #1 song was "Show and Tell" by Al Wilson

[Mississippi State Baseball @HailStateBB]

Christmas in January. Move-in day at Dudy Noble.