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 | re: Sam Frost - Diamondawg on 6/19/13 at 12:01 pm [quote] Sam Frost Grand Slam in '13. [/quote]It's a little early to be into the hooch,...
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/19/13 at 8:23 am [quote]Bring in the fence in Omaha 20 feet , problem solved.
[/quote]It's a minor league stadium that is used for the college world series. I suppose they could use those temporary orange barriers that city parks put up on longer fields when they are hosting a buddy ball tournament to bring the fen...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 10:23 pm [quote]If they hold everyone they play to 1 run, Yes - absolutely.
[/quote]I love to bump and boom these threads. UCLA will be playing on Monday....
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 | re: MSU fans in Omaha - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 9:17 pm [quote].I just don't give a rat's arse about college baseball [/quote]So why are you in a thread that you know nothing about? We have adults talking here.
Oh - and you probably ought to engage. Baseball is a pretty big deal in Oxford. Are a music major or something?...
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 | re: MSU fans in Omaha - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 8:32 pm [quote]I didn't go I don't travel for college baseball. To be honest if Ole Miss was in Omaha i would not be there right now....I would be watching it on my tv. I'm sure about 90% of bulldog nation is watching it on tv as well
[/quote]Poor. Probably got a Go Phone. Dumb arse - 99% of everyone's base...
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 | re: MSU fans in Omaha - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 8:26 pm [quote]Yes I have a gps on my iphone like every other white college kid
[/quote]How was the weather at the Raleigh Regional? ...
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 | re: MSU fans in Omaha - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 8:09 pm [quote]You saw more UCLA fans because they could afford the trip
[/quote]Yeah - it's tough when you play this deep. I am leaving Sunday if we make finals. You know - a week in Hoover, then Regionals, Super (I didn't go) and then 14 hour drive to Omaha. Your GPS probably can't even find Omaha. You...
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 7:43 pm [quote]I have to as a dodger fan
[/quote]He is such a lecturing, condescending, "see how much baseball I know" prick! Now his partner (I forget his name but he has been around forever) in the booth has either had a stroke or has been drunk all week but still ........
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 7:33 pm I really, really don't like Orel Hershiser ...
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 | re: Well Boys - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 7:31 pm If we make it - we are leaving Sunday...
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 | re: Who is the SECr rooting for today - LSU or UNC? - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 1:29 pm UNC - only because I need a room near the stadium and some reserved seats. Not many of either available with LSU still in it....
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 | re: Is MSU the sentimental favorite in Omaha on the SEC Rant? - Diamondawg on 6/18/13 at 11:32 am [quote]Then in the final game Texas beat Bama 4-3 , if Bama had won there would have been another game.
[/quote]Back then, it was a double elimination all the way through. ESPN put a lot into the CWS series. But CBS comes along and wants to carry the final game. But, they had to have a guarantee of...
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 9:20 pm [quote] Another hit that should have been a homer. Frick TDAmeritrade!!!!!!!![/quote]Yep - but I am not whining about our not getting a grand slam. Just not going to do it. You have to adjust your game to the environment/stadium. Gap double would have scored 3. Didn't happen. ...
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 4:56 pm So it is possible to scores runs at Ameritrade. ...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 2:37 pm [quote]I think that people should be able to put aside their team allegiances and discuss whether it's what is best for the game in an objective manner. Doesn't seem hard.
[/quote]Has nothing to do with allegiances. It is what it is and for Omaha to build a new stadium, the NCAA had to make a commi...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 2:11 pm [quote]TD Ameritrade is facing the opposite way than Rosenblatt did. Rosenblatt typically had outblowing winds. The deadened bats and primarily inblowing winds make comparing the two apples to oranges.
[/quote]I know all of that but he only mentioned the dimensions. Here is a thought - both teams h...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 1:54 pm [quote]That doesn't mean that it makes any sense for the national championship to be played on a field that is very different from almost every college baseball stadium's. [/quote]Been that way for 65 years. ...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 12:56 pm [quote]heartbreakTiger[/quote]Quit whining and go buy your team some wooden bats if you don't like the "dead" ones ...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 12:37 pm [quote] so do they hit enough to make up for it?[/quote]If they stay in the winner's bracket and not play again until Friday while the other teams are burning arms, you never know how how their team BA improves against the weaker pitchers. If they drop to the loser's bracket then they are toast....
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 12:03 pm [quote]Do they hit enough to win it?
[/quote]If they hold everyone they play to 1 run, Yes - absolutely. ...
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 11:45 am Look at their ERAs. They don't have to hit much. They are in Omaha. They hit enough to get there....
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 | re: Thoughts on the College World Series after 1st round. - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 11:25 am [quote]They can't hit, and they're not winning 4 more games on errors.
[/quote]Has anyone hit Nola? ...
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Mississippi St. Sports Board
 | re: Sam Frost - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 11:10 am [quote]Frosty's error cost us in the 1st- but he more than made amends for it
[/quote]Strike out with ball way the hell out of the zone is no way to get back in anyone's good graces and then the pop up bunt. It was left on left. Do a double switch, Armstrong PH for Frost and bunt him (move him to D...
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 | re: Can we talk about how Bush League that fake pick play was? - Diamondawg on 6/17/13 at 9:00 am [quote]How many tick plays in baseball work......none.
[/quote]Technically, following a 92 mph fastball with an 80 mph change up is a "tick" play. You tricked the batter into thinking he was seeing another 92. Is that bush league?...
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 | re: Who calls pitches for MSU? - Diamondawg on 6/16/13 at 6:20 pm [quote]Holder was hanging his curve. New bats and his fastball saved him in that outing.
[/quote]You left out wind. Holder's fastball works when he is locating his wicked curve. He didn't get his curve yesterday and almost pooped in his nest trying to find it. If his curve is working, he is prett...
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 | re: Who do we want to play? - Diamondawg on 6/16/13 at 4:21 pm [quote]Well, they are playing the #1 overall seed[/quote]They are lucky they even got out of their Regional. They may be the #1 seed but they really haven't played very well the last few weeks
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/15/13 at 6:51 pm [quote]and the another player stroked one to center and only got a ground rule double..[/quote]#8 had a good game. He hit a low pitch with a golf swing and for some reason we didn't understand with the Henderson ordeal that playing in against this bunch is somewhat less that brilliant. That ball he ...
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 | re: If that was hit against Ole Miss it goes out. - Diamondawg on 6/15/13 at 6:41 pm [quote]And Alabama would have been given a touchdown.
[/quote]And probation
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 | re: CWS G9: #3 Oregon St vs Indiana 7:00 - TV: ESPN I Winner to face MSU - Diamondawg on 6/15/13 at 6:38 pm [quote]really surprised the final out wasn't a home run..seemed like he pretty much got ALL of it..that stadium is incredibly hard to hit a homerun out of apparently.. p.s. frick the bats[/quote]Anything but a cross wind Right to Left would have carried the ball. Even no wind and the ball would have...
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 | re: USC 4 vs. #1 UNC 5 I LSU & MSU advance to Omaha - Diamondawg on 6/11/13 at 9:07 pm [quote] They had an extra day of rest for their ace on Sat[/quote]Y'all chased his arse after 2 1/3. So much for the extra rest ...
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