CoastalJuan
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-14-2019 07:39 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:28 PM)HuskyU Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:27 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 10:37 AM)oasispirate Wrote: (01-09-2019 05:05 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: its bush league...it feels like Im watching Tue night slow pitch softball.
hard pass
use wood bats or Im not watching
When you think about it, every sport that uses equipment has modernized it, the one exception is MLB and the wooden bat. Hockey, Tennis, Golf, LAX, etc have all updated it.
Even MLB has upgraded gloves, helmets, catchers gear, shoes obviously, why not the bat?
All because of the record book, not because it makes any rational sense. The metal bat's pop is dumbed way down from 10 years ago too.
I don't think aluminum bats should be used in baseball...from high school (or sooner) and up.
I'm fine with aluminum bats for fast/slow pitch softball...but not baseball. Baseball is meant to be played with a wooden bat.
But they make a cool sound. I think you just don't get it.
nothing cooler than the crack of a wooden back on the ball
...or the thud of a shoulder pad to a leather helmet. That's the best.
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jdgaucho
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 08:29 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:39 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:28 PM)HuskyU Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:27 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 10:37 AM)oasispirate Wrote: When you think about it, every sport that uses equipment has modernized it, the one exception is MLB and the wooden bat. Hockey, Tennis, Golf, LAX, etc have all updated it.
Even MLB has upgraded gloves, helmets, catchers gear, shoes obviously, why not the bat?
All because of the record book, not because it makes any rational sense. The metal bat's pop is dumbed way down from 10 years ago too.
I don't think aluminum bats should be used in baseball...from high school (or sooner) and up.
I'm fine with aluminum bats for fast/slow pitch softball...but not baseball. Baseball is meant to be played with a wooden bat.
But they make a cool sound. I think you just don't get it.
nothing cooler than the crack of a wooden back on the ball
...or the thud of a shoulder pad to a leather helmet. That's the best.
Yes. We need to get back to leather and wood.
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
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WhoseHouse?
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
The Big West isn't even the top mid-major conference anymore. Get that little league **** out of here. It goes SEC, ACC, Big 12, American.
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HuskyU
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
Ya. No major conference ever finishes 14th!!! in conference RPI. That's Diaco ridiculous.
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01-15-2019 10:18 PM |
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
old Disco Diaco....still can't believe you hired that clown
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01-15-2019 10:28 PM |
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HuskyU
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 10:28 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: old Disco Diaco....still can't believe you hired that clown
I hear Disco and Tubbs are performing together at Barnum and Bailey.
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jdgaucho
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
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HuskyU
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 11:52 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
A one hit wonder doesn't make a better conference. That's like saying the Missouri Valley Men's Basketball conference was better than the ACC last year because Loyola Chicago made the Final 4.
Nice try tho.
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01-16-2019 12:00 AM |
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DowdyPirate
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 11:52 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
Regional Hosts...Im sure you already know
Congrats on being worse every year.
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01-16-2019 12:03 AM |
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jdgaucho
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 10:16 PM)WhoseHouse? Wrote: The Big West isn't even the top mid-major conference anymore. Get that little league **** out of here. It goes SEC, ACC, Big 12, American.
That's cute. If you AAC folks are always bowing out of the NCAA Tournament before the Big West, you're not ahead at all. When one American team goes further than the BW, then we'll accept you as a fellow p6.
maybe this is the year...
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-16-2019 12:03 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 11:52 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
Regional Hosts...Im sure you already know
Congrats on being worse every year.
Cal State Fullerton hosted their Super Regional. Im sure you already know
Congrats on flaming out early every year.
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01-16-2019 12:10 AM |
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HuskyU
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
It's gotta suck to be in a conference where almost every school is a knock off University of California. In New York, we call that Canal Street.
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01-16-2019 12:11 AM |
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DowdyPirate
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-16-2019 12:10 AM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-16-2019 12:03 AM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 11:52 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
Regional Hosts...Im sure you already know
Congrats on being worse every year.
Cal State Fullerton hosted their Super Regional. Im sure you already know
Congrats on flaming out early every year.
Hosting a super as a 3 seed is hardly something to brag about.
Congrats on beating up on weak west coast regionals.
ECU easily claimed a series win against the bane of the Big West’s sole postseason participant last season. The Big West had one tournament participant. That’s pathetic.
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01-16-2019 12:30 AM |
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-16-2019 12:05 AM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 10:16 PM)WhoseHouse? Wrote: The Big West isn't even the top mid-major conference anymore. Get that little league **** out of here. It goes SEC, ACC, Big 12, American.
That's cute. If you AAC folks are always bowing out of the NCAA Tournament before the Big West, you're not ahead at all. When one American team goes further than the BW, then we'll accept you as a fellow p6.
maybe this is the year...
Maybe this year yall can crack the top 10 in rpi and actually get back to being a decent mid-major.
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 11:52 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-15-2019 05:42 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote: (01-15-2019 02:58 PM)jdgaucho Wrote: (01-14-2019 03:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote: From the D1Baseball Jokers:
Can you give us 2 or 3 Mid-Major programs to keep an eye on this Spring?
Aaron Fitt: I’m pretty high on several AAC teams that didn’t crack our rankings: UConn, UCF and South Florida all strike me as likely postseason teams that could make runs at the Top 25 as the season unfolds. Out West, I really like New Mexico State, which returns a ton of proven veterans from a WAC championship team. Brian Green’s got that program rolling right now, they’re going to be dangerous.
https://d1baseball.com/chats/2019top-25-...n-edition/
So a consistent Top 3 - Top 5 conference is mid-major??? P5 bias continues to influence non-football sports. SMH.
can't call yourself a top 5 conference when the Big West is viewed as one, and is always lasting longer than the AAC in the postseason. As I've said, get back to us when an AAC team advances to the College World Series - something UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine have done this decade
Yet since this current American lineup has begun the Big West has not finished higher than 8th best conference and the American has not finished lower than 5th.
2018
American:4th
Big West:14th
2018 Super Regional participants
Big West: 1
American: 0
Worst year ever for the BW and it still went deeper into the postseason. Congrats on the top 5 conference RPI, though.
You’re coming across very mid major here.
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-14-2019 07:39 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:28 PM)HuskyU Wrote: (01-14-2019 07:27 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: (01-14-2019 10:37 AM)oasispirate Wrote: (01-09-2019 05:05 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: its bush league...it feels like Im watching Tue night slow pitch softball.
hard pass
use wood bats or Im not watching
When you think about it, every sport that uses equipment has modernized it, the one exception is MLB and the wooden bat. Hockey, Tennis, Golf, LAX, etc have all updated it.
Even MLB has upgraded gloves, helmets, catchers gear, shoes obviously, why not the bat?
All because of the record book, not because it makes any rational sense. The metal bat's pop is dumbed way down from 10 years ago too.
I don't think aluminum bats should be used in baseball...from high school (or sooner) and up.
I'm fine with aluminum bats for fast/slow pitch softball...but not baseball. Baseball is meant to be played with a wooden bat.
But they make a cool sound. I think you just don't get it.
nothing cooler than the crack of a wooden back on the ball
Lets bring back the wooden tennis racquet and golf drivers while we're at it!
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2019 09:36 AM by oasispirate.)
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CoastalJuan
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
(01-15-2019 10:18 PM)HuskyU Wrote: Ya. No major conference ever finishes 14th!!! in conference RPI. That's Diaco ridiculous.
Just want to point out that while Disco was 11-26 at UConn, Mo was 9-26 at ECU.
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2019 12:54 PM by CoastalJuan.)
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CoastalJuan
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RE: Preseason Baseball Rankings
Aaron Fitt from D1Baseball was on HTC last night talking about their Top 25 and AAC baseball. Talked a little bit about UCF/USF/Houston/Uconn also being regional teams. He said UCF should bounce back, USF has been under the radar good lately, and that UConn is probably the best team in the NorthEast. Enjoy...
Link: Audio - Aaron Fitt from D1 Baseball joined Igoe on HTC
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