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So 2-5-1, last place in the west, with one run-rule loss. I don't think we need to make any reservations for Omaha this year.
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Ties are never good just not as bad as a loss. Going 1-2-1 also not good against MTSU IMO but I did like the comeback just wish it would held up.
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E Barnum and I made thr trip tp Murfreesboro for the weekend series. Barnum saw the Thursday game but I only saw the last three. Our emotions drifted between dismay, on one hand, and thinking we might be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, on the other.

Simple mistakes killed us in game 2. Game 3 the our guys played well. Game 4 was an emotional roller coaster, complete with both thrills and nausea. Our guys battled. A couple of circus catches that MT doesn’t normally make kept them in the game. There were I think three instances where we should’ve put the game away, but didn’t.

Braden Comeaux and Bradley Gneiting were both trying to shake off slumps and really pressed at the plate. If they’d played at one-half of their capability I think we’d have won three out of four.

When Garibay came in late to try and close the door, he did so coming in from right field. So the first three batters he faced, he wasn’t nearly warmed up enough. Not nearly. So the first three batters he faced (all three of them bottom-of-the-lineup, none of them hitting over .214), sat on the first pitch and stroked it hard to left field. After that, Guy settled down and threw good ball, certainly well enough to win. We were expecting Greenwood to come in instead of Garibay.

I realize MT is not a hard hitting team, but they are well-schooled in the West Coast style of play. Best bunting mechanics I’ve seen in quite a while

The first game Friday and game 4 on Saturday were ours for the taking. Little mistakes, a couple of head scratchers on pitching substitutions killed us. And Barnum says the game on Thursday was lost because of a pop fly into left center got blown leftward, and the c f called for the catch. But it clearly should have been the l f’s call. the ball dropped to the turf. Neither guy was close enough to get to it. With two outs, the routine pop fly easily cleared the loaded bases. That was the game.

Still, our guys played hard; they never quit. It hurt to see them drop the games the way they did.

Those of you who know Barnum are aware that he’s quite loquacious (back in the day, on road trips our group attended, he was always up at 6 am to go down to the breakfast room to join Wayne. Regularly they were the first two in the hotel down for breakfast)

We, meaning mostly Barnum while I stood around, had extensive conversations with a number of the guys over the weekend. This is the most hurtful part. Virtually to a man, these guys are the kind of young men you’d be thrilled have your your daughter bring home. Classy, classy, intelligent, emotionally invested, hard working kids.

Speaking of that,we sat in row 1 next to the Owl dugout, maybe five or six feet from the on deck circle. At one point, Barnum asked, “who do you think are the hardest working kids on this team.?” I said oh no doubt about it, Gneiting and Comeaux. When you see them in the team hotel, they’re always with their heads buried in a book, studying. They work hard. And they’ve gotten a little better every year, which has been a nemesis of ours, with kids who come in looking good freshman year and never really developing beyond that.

We looked up and there are a couple guys swinging a fungo bat in front of us before the game, and of course it was Guess who — Gneiting and Comeaux, who couldn’t have helped but hear our conversation.. Pretty much the most dependable hitters on our team, and they went virtually 0 for the entire weekend. Really pressing. Wish we’d kept our mouths shut.

We did get to speak to a number of the guys and also the assistant coaches, some extensively

We spoke to Garibay, Edwards, Comeaux,Long, Dukes, a couple others. Had long talks with Paul Janish and Cory Barton. Cory’s hardly older than the kids he coaches. Of course we didn’t ask about the change in calling the pitches. Cory is full of personality, devoted to the kids, and really seems to know his stuff. I’m hopeful hopeful hopeful that he will work out and improve our pitching staff in a way that can be done.

My feeling as we walked away from the team bus Saturday was, We’ve got to cut these kids some slack. There’s pretty decent talent out there, there are very high-quality young men playing for us and representing us, and it seems like we are close to turning the corner. As far as the record is concerned, I’m deferring until next year. I just want our guys to play as hard as they can and improve a little bit every weekend the rest of the season
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Thanks, Paul. Wish I could have joined you guys. Did you go to the steakhouse we frequented our last trip there?

Also, we were missing Cruz and Dunlap due to COVID protocol this weekend. Dunlap, in paricular, might have made a difference.

As I've said elsewhere, Bradley has been slumping for well over a week now, and striking out a ton. He needs to be moved out of the #2 spot in the order until he breaks out his slump.
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(04-04-2021 04:02 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Thanks, Paul. Wish I could have joined you guys. Did you go to the steakhouse we frequented our last trip there?

Also, we were missing Cruz and Dunlap due to COVID protocol this weekend. Dunlap, in paricular, might have made a difference.

As I've said elsewhere, Bradley has been slumping for well over a week now, and striking out a ton. He needs to be moved out of the #2 spot in the order until he breaks out his slump.

No we were going to, but they were booked up, and since we were staying in Huntsville with Barnum‘s sister and brother-in-law, it was a 2 hourdrive to and from the stadium. There was a nice sports bar across the street from the stadium though, which was worthwhile
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For those who keep ragging on several of our current uniform designs, they are great compared to these that Notre Dame sported yesterday...

https://twitter.com/funnybonetweet/statu...20/photo/1
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(04-04-2021 09:43 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  For those who keep ragging on several of our current uniform designs, they are great compared to these that Notre Dame sported yesterday...

https://twitter.com/funnybonetweet/statu...20/photo/1

If I were working in the uniform/branding department at Notre Dame, I don't think there is any manner in which I could screw up the use of their colors. Sure, that have that rogue Irish green that doesn't fit in their traditional color scheme, but for the most part it has been used in place of the blue instead of with it in the past. The uniforms in the link above have to be some kind of inside joke. They are that bad. It's like Under Armour gave ND those tops and pants without ever dreaming that they might be used together... with that garish gold batting helmet, no less.

That said, just because Notre Dame is in the pits in terms of uniforms doesn't mean we have to be teetering on the edge of falling in with them. Again, Rice had the best uniforms in all of baseball and decided to go away from that. Myopic decision in the extreme; classic never goes out of style.

Edit: People are saying that those are ND's BP jerseys. OK, but still...
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(04-05-2021 10:48 AM)Wiessman Wrote:  
(04-04-2021 09:43 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  For those who keep ragging on several of our current uniform designs, they are great compared to these that Notre Dame sported yesterday...

https://twitter.com/funnybonetweet/statu...20/photo/1

If I were working in the uniform/branding department at Notre Dame, I don't think there is any manner in which I could screw up the use of their colors. Sure, that have that rogue Irish green that doesn't fit in their traditional color scheme, but for the most part it has been used in place of the blue instead of with it in the past. The uniforms in the link above have to be some kind of inside joke. They are that bad. It's like Under Armour gave ND those tops and pants without ever dreaming that they might be used together... with that garish gold batting helmet, no less.

That said, just because Notre Dame is in the pits in terms of uniforms doesn't mean we have to be teetering on the edge of falling in with them. Again, Rice had the best uniforms in all of baseball and decided to go away from that. Myopic decision in the extreme; classic never goes out of style.

Edit: People are saying that those are ND's BP jerseys. OK, but still...

"Classic never goes out of style" indeed!!!! I just wish I knew who signed off on this years uniforms as I can't see how they ever thought they were better than the classics. But, I guess its 'eye of the beholder"!! What are the odds we can send these unis to another country at the end of the season much like what is done with the losing team's "World Series Champs" shirts that never get worn because...well...they lost the WS.
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Because we have a coach from Tennessee one might think we would preform modestly in that locale. Nope.

1-2-1 in his old stomping grounds. LOL this stinks.

And regarding the previous posts about the players - by all accounts good guys and we know they try their best. For that matter, so does Bragga. The issue is players are here to stay whereas the captain of the ship can be replaced at anytime. Too bad our AD and President are content with mediocrity and allowing our once shining jewel to continue to become ugly and tarnished.
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(04-05-2021 02:00 PM)Musicowl1965 Wrote:  
(04-05-2021 10:48 AM)Wiessman Wrote:  
(04-04-2021 09:43 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  For those who keep ragging on several of our current uniform designs, they are great compared to these that Notre Dame sported yesterday...

https://twitter.com/funnybonetweet/statu...20/photo/1

If I were working in the uniform/branding department at Notre Dame, I don't think there is any manner in which I could screw up the use of their colors. Sure, that have that rogue Irish green that doesn't fit in their traditional color scheme, but for the most part it has been used in place of the blue instead of with it in the past. The uniforms in the link above have to be some kind of inside joke. They are that bad. It's like Under Armour gave ND those tops and pants without ever dreaming that they might be used together... with that garish gold batting helmet, no less.

That said, just because Notre Dame is in the pits in terms of uniforms doesn't mean we have to be teetering on the edge of falling in with them. Again, Rice had the best uniforms in all of baseball and decided to go away from that. Myopic decision in the extreme; classic never goes out of style.

Edit: People are saying that those are ND's BP jerseys. OK, but still...

"Classic never goes out of style" indeed!!!! I just wish I knew who signed off on this years uniforms as I can't see how they ever thought they were better than the classics. But, I guess its 'eye of the beholder"!! What are the odds we can send these unis to another country at the end of the season much like what is done with the losing team's "World Series Champs" shirts that never get worn because...well...they lost the WS.

Just an FYI-- we still wear the classic pin stripe with the OE "R", as well as another one of our old designs. Unfortunately, the new designed unis are not up to standard, though a couple of them are not as bad as some are making them out to be.
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(04-05-2021 04:01 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  
(04-05-2021 02:00 PM)Musicowl1965 Wrote:  
(04-05-2021 10:48 AM)Wiessman Wrote:  
(04-04-2021 09:43 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  For those who keep ragging on several of our current uniform designs, they are great compared to these that Notre Dame sported yesterday...

https://twitter.com/funnybonetweet/statu...20/photo/1

If I were working in the uniform/branding department at Notre Dame, I don't think there is any manner in which I could screw up the use of their colors. Sure, that have that rogue Irish green that doesn't fit in their traditional color scheme, but for the most part it has been used in place of the blue instead of with it in the past. The uniforms in the link above have to be some kind of inside joke. They are that bad. It's like Under Armour gave ND those tops and pants without ever dreaming that they might be used together... with that garish gold batting helmet, no less.

That said, just because Notre Dame is in the pits in terms of uniforms doesn't mean we have to be teetering on the edge of falling in with them. Again, Rice had the best uniforms in all of baseball and decided to go away from that. Myopic decision in the extreme; classic never goes out of style.

Edit: People are saying that those are ND's BP jerseys. OK, but still...

"Classic never goes out of style" indeed!!!! I just wish I knew who signed off on this years uniforms as I can't see how they ever thought they were better than the classics. But, I guess its 'eye of the beholder"!! What are the odds we can send these unis to another country at the end of the season much like what is done with the losing team's "World Series Champs" shirts that never get worn because...well...they lost the WS.

Just an FYI-- we still wear the classic pin stripe with the OE "R", as well as another one of our old designs. Unfortunately, the new designed unis are not up to standard, though a couple of them are not as bad as some are making them out to be.

That’s your opinion which is fine. I’ve seen all the uniform combinations and outside the classics they are all hideous!!! Of course that is MY opinion.
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(04-05-2021 04:01 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Just an FYI-- we still wear the classic pin stripe with the OE "R", as well as another one of our old designs. Unfortunately, the new designed unis are not up to standard, though a couple of them are not as bad as some are making them out to be.

This is true, but I think even the old designs are cut differently now. And in fact, the pinstripes with the OER (which I think is still at least button-down) is the one traditional design I don't like because it is too derivative of the Yankees and the Cubs (and the White Sox, and...).

Rice's uniforms are the ones that the players wore when they won the national title: button-down, no pinstripes, very large OE "Rice", block numbers. I refuse to recognize anything else as our true uniforms. Those are the ones, not because Rice happened to win a national title in them, but because they were hands down the best ever: simple yet distinctive (because the OE "Rice" was so large), and just one of the many great legacies of the OG. That is our brand in baseball, full stop.

Heck, I think even Duke is wearing baseball and basketball uniforms with a type of OE script again. Are we going to lose that calling card too after we worked so hard to make that font ours? (We sure didn't use it first, but we essentially claimed it by using it best.)
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