Good morning! Give your morning podcast rotation the upgrade it deserves and listen to the latest episode of Dear Ol’ Podcast with Joel Coleman and Logan Lowery—this week you can hear Jarvis Varnado talk about his record-breaking ways as the NCAA men’s basketball leader in blocked shots, his professional career, and much more! Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify today.

What else did we throw into the Brew today?

🏆 The Fresh Prince Of Bull-Air
⚾ Coaches In The Show
🐶 And much, much more!

🎥 HAIL STATE PLUS

Run it back. What makes The Dude such a special place in the spring? And how do the Left Field Lounge and Left Field Lofts bring people together like nothing else in Starkville?

In this HailState+ special, you'll meet four Diamond Dawgs fans that are proud members of these two clubs and they explain how they came to be owners and why home weekends in each of their spaces are filled with family, fellowship, and fun.

🎥 Family, Fellowship, and Fun: The Left Field Lounge and Left Field Lofts

With HailState+ you get to watch wherever you want to watch. Web, mobile, and (later this year) all major OTT streaming apps like AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, and Android. We got it all.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Fresh Prince. Make it eight years in a row, y’all! Mississippi State outfielder Dakota Jordan has been named a second team Freshman All-American by Perfect Game—he’s one of seven SEC freshmen to earn All-American honors by Perfect Game and it marks the eighth straight season a Mississippi State freshman has earned All-American accolades.

This comes just days after he earned the NECBL Player of the Week award for his outstanding play thus far this summer.

⭐ Play We’ll Never Forget

The freshman phenom embraced every bit of the drama from Super Bulldog Weekend this past season—driving in two runs to walk off a win over Ole Miss on April 15.

⚾ Year At A Glance: 

In his first season in Starkville, he finished the year hitting .307, the second-best mark on the team. He had 47 hits (with 20 going for extra bases), 10 home runs, nine doubles, and a triple. He drove in the third-most runs on the team with 40. He made 34 starts in left field, four in center field and three as a designated hitter.

During SEC play this season, he hit .333 and belted eight of his 10 homers and he was the 13th Dawg to earn a spot on the SEC All-Freshman Team.

🔼  Listen Up. When it comes to blocked shots, no one in NCAA men's basketball history has more than Mississippi State's Jarvis Varnado—and on the latest edition of Dear Ol' State with Joel Coleman and Logan Lowery, he joins to look back on his record-breaking Bulldog career and the last decade-plus of his life spent in the NBA and playing overseas.

The Dear Ol' State podcast is part of the HailState+ Podcast Network and can also be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

🤔 BULLDOG TRIVIA

Coach ‘em up. The Diamond Dawgs currently have 40 alumni active in pro ball, including 11 in the Big Leagues—including former All-Stars Adam Frazier and Brandon Woodruff, former first-round picks Hunter Renfroe, Brent Rooker, and Chris Stratton, 2022 Silver Slugger Nathaniel Lowe, and 2023 Team USA reliever Kendall Graveman.

But today is about the coaches.

Mississippi State has three alums coaching in MLB. How many can you name?

Think you know the answer? Scroll on down to the bottom to find out.

📬 STICK WITH US

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Buck Showalter, Travis Chapman, and Chris Young

That’s right, four-time Manager of the Year Buck Showalter is with the New York Mets, Travis Chapman is coaching first base for the New York Yankees, and Chris Young is the bullpen coach for the Chicago Cubs.

Have a great weekend, y'all.