Political Quotes

“thank you very much. My first prop is a front-page story from the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Thursday, July 1, 2021. It says: Hail State! Bulldogs are national champions. Mississippi State celebrates after winning the College World Series 9-0 against Vanderbilt after the deciding Game 3 on Wednesday in Omaha. See full coverage: Sports, 1B. That is my other prop, and that headline says: Best in Show. Decisive win delivers first national title for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Senator Hyde-Smith and I could not be more delighted to rise this afternoon and recognize Mississippi State University and their baseball team on their first national championship in school history in any sport. The Bulldogs had been to the College World Series 11 times in the past, and that in itself is a remarkable achievement. They even got to the championship series once in 2013. But this year was the year it all finally came together under Head Coach Chris Lemonis. They say good pitching wins baseball games, and in this case, it certainly helped Mississippi State win the College World Series. The hype had been building around MSU by the time they arrived in Omaha in mid-June. After beating Texas and then Virginia and then again beating Texas on a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth, the Dawgs advanced to the championship round to face Vanderbilt.…”