Let’s hear your best celebration stories.
Other than that, general thread. Have at it.
The Twitter feed issue has been resolved. See my first post below for instructions. Your browser may vary, but that is the issue, and it is nothing to do with the feed. This explains why it suddenly went missing right around the time Firefox updated.
Site speed is still slow and needs optimization. If anyone here does site development write me and maybe we can work on this together.
I figured out the Twitter feed issue. It’s a browser security issue where they now by default don’t allow 3rd party tracking. I’m using Firefox. If you are, do this:
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You will be whitelisting AB, and this will allow the feed. Chrome might be different, so you’ll have to look that up. Also, you might have to disable AdBlock and any browser tracking software (UOrigin, etc). Try this first, though. If it still doesn’t work then whitelist AB and Twitter in UOrigin/Ghostery, etc.
Whew! That was driving me nuts.
Not a very exciting story, but I had to travel to Denver for work basically coinciding with the CWS finals. My coworkers and I went out in the evenings, so I wasn’t able to watch the first 2 games, aside from checking in on my phone from time to time. Then, the final game started while i was on my way to the airport to fly home. Fortunately, my flight was delayed an hour, so I ended up getting to sit in an airport bar to watch the game. Ended up boarding during the 9th inning, so i had to follow the end on my espn app. Final out occurred when I got to my seat. Saw another dude in Beaver gear boarding shortly after the game ended. He was also watching his phone, so I stood up and flashed my OSU logo shirt to him and exchanged high fives as he boarded.
Next day, my family was headed out down I-5 for a camping trip. We happened to be on the road just ahead of the team. Our route also happened to be through Corvallis and over to the coast from there, so I talked my wife into hanging out in Corvallis for a few hours to catch the rally in Goss. Was able to pick up one of the 1st National Championship shirts hot off the press. Sat in Goss with a few beers and a few thousand of my closest friends. Was a pretty fun environment to be part of, and was pure luck that I was able to be there to experience it.
Also, the friends I was camping with were on the freeway about the same time as the team. They said traffic was just crawling down I-5. Saw plenty of people on overpasses with Beaver signs. I guess the team was basically going down the freeway hanging out the sunroof waving to everybody, since they were moving so slowly. Nice little 90 mile parade they got to have all the way down to Corvallis.
I celebrated at about 11PM…I’d had an MRI scheduled for over a month. Specifically picked a day AFTER game three of the CWS, but did not account for rain delays. Turned my phone off at 3:30, and got home at 7PM. I’d turned my phone on after the appointment to use Waze to find my way out of Tacoma, but it about vibrated out of my hand from all of the text messages when I turned it on, so I just turned it back off. I have plenty of Duck idiots in my circle who like to rub it in when we lose so it didn’t necessarily mean anything good. Only one I saw was from my buddy up here: “Abel is a DUDE!” so I knew we were at least getting a good start.
Family had dinner ready and the game paused when I got home…was a little tough not to be watching it live, but man what a game. A couple fingers of Jameson in the later innings when things were looking good. Had about 20 text messages when I finally turned the phone back on.
Great day to be a Beaver.
Hey, I’ve been away from AB for a while. Anything interesting happen while I was gone?
By the way, the mobile/phone UI is much better now. Well done.
Thanks. There should be a link at the bottom on mobile to view the full/traditional site, too, for those who want that
We had a watch party in our neighborhood for all 3 games in the finals. We even had a few Duck fans cheering on the Beavs. I hope that doesn’t mean I have to root for their Ducks at some point ?. Game 2 party was at our house. The group remained upbeat until the top of 9 when it seemed a comeback was unlikely. When Grenier popped up there was a collective “Damnit!”, then a bunch of gasps when it dropped. Then when he singled to score Clayton, everyone went nuts. Then when Larnach homered it was like we had won game 3. People jumping and high-fiving everywhere. It was an awesome feeling. Game 3 was at our house again, because everyone thought we should do everything the same as we did for Game 2, right down to where everyone was sitting. Baseball fans are so superstitious. Well, needless to say, Game 3 fueled that superstition ?
Met assistant coach Bill Rowe at the Corvallis Knights game Saturday evening. Told him I still remembered his 3-run HR in game 2 of the 2006 CWS finals against North Carolina like it was yesterday. He responded (jokingly of course) that he had the biggest home run in Oregon St baseball history until Trevor Larnach one upped him.
So, for the finals, I flew in and out of KC and rented a car there for travel to/from Omaha. I was running a bit late for a timely arrival for Game 1 but as I drove north I had an AM radio station on so I could aurally track the occurrence of lightning, as well as get updates on the final series via 1620 the zone in Omaha; (the station whose hosts I used to enjoy hearing pull their hair out on Saturday’s in the fall during the Riley era on “Big Red Overreaction.”
Anyway, I got my wish, sort of. When I got within range of Omaha I heard the game was going to be delayed by the storm that was travelling north concurrently with me in my car. As soon as I arrived at the stadium I heard the announcement that the game had been postponed, which I immediately discerned was going to create stress because unless the Beavs won in 2, or God forbid Arkansas did, I was going to have to move my flight and extend my hotel and car rentals. In the end, of course, I was forced to do so.
Aside from the games themselves perhaps the sweetest part of the trip was the drive south on I-29 on Friday morning. I still had my orange OSU flag flying in the rental car window and I enjoyed watching the long red line of cars with Arkansas plates driving south furiously-fast away from the pain of Omaha, not a one of them flying a pig flag, while I savored all the ugly looks and occasional obscene gesture.
Haha! The last paragraph is awesome.
Not the coolest story, but I had a Duck fan that said we weren’t gonna win and was telling me when Mike Riley was hired a third time that Oregon State was lucky to have someone that actually wants to coach “that cesspool” a third time and that he’d help the Ducks win the civil war again.
Needless to say I texted a link about the championship, the link about Mike Riley leaving again, and asked him how his team did in baseball this year and how he liked the fact we’re gonna have a better coach on our staff in Football.
He just texted back “…Fuck you.”
It was one of the few times I’ve gotten a victory over him lately based on performance and good things happening to the Beavs
I live in SEC country (Nashville) so I’ve enjoy the run through SEC teams. Proudly wearing my my OSU gear to the office, and rubbing it in. Last year was rough.
But my favorite celebration memory will always be 06, the final was the week before I got married and I was watch sports center with my future father-in-law at his house in Sacramento and they showed the highlights of the Corvallis celebration and without thinking I say “I’d give anything to be there right now” and he goes “Really?”, as I try to talk my way out of it he says “it’s ok, I understand”
a highlight was seeing this gem of a post on an Arky message board after game 2:
Arkapigdiesel: “Life as a hog fan is like falling into a barrel of titties and one cock, with each and every time emerging from the barrel with a cock in your mouth.”
They also referred to anal rape as metaphor for success… a lot.
That would be the butt, Bob.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. When going to angrybeavs.com I get a bogus webpage saying the domain is expired. This happens on my computer with a wired connection on either one of my routers. It also happens on my Linux machine as well as if I VPN and remote login to my work computer. It does not happen on my phone (which is how I’m typing this).
Is anyone else experiencing wierdness?
More info: happens with chrome, Firefox and edge
Log out, then log back in.
I had an expired credit card on file so the domain didn’t auto-renew. I paid this morning, and it’s probably a cache issue where you have to logout, then in to fix it.
I cleared the cache but that had no effect. I also wasn’t logged in on my Linux machine. In fact I’ve never visited AB from that computer. Maybe there are some turds on some cache out there somewhere.
No, not clear the browser cache, but rather log out/then in on those machines. That will serve the new page. The cache is on my end/server not your browser. I think you’re getting an old server page.
Not sure I know what “logging out” you are referring to. I’ve restarted the machines and I can’t log out of the website because on at least two of the machines I wasn’t logged in. Also the page is wrong so there is no “log out” button. It’s wierd that my phone works and everything else doesn’t. Different networks. Different OSes.
Just tried my wife’s laptop and it works. Must be a me problem.
FWIW, I’ve had no problems on phone or computer. Phone is current version of IOS, computer is current Firefox.
I had to log in this morning and all my weirdness has seemed to stop. On my phone it would randomly bounce between the desktop and mobile versions. Logged in and so far so good.
Yep, if your avatar is showing then you are logged in, so marcdog is logged in. To logout you click “signout” in the upper right corner. Signing out and back in will reset any problems.
Saw on twitter the first screenshots of the new electronic ribbon board they’re installing in Reser for next season.
https://twitter.com/ZackLassiter/status/1014185429136863233
He also mentions they plan to utilize the full video board more frequently, rather than having digital advertisements take up nearly half of that space throughout the game. I wish they had gone this route from the get go when the installed the board.
https://twitter.com/ZackLassiter/status/1014217229649317889
How are they going to utilize the full board? The TV production is 16:9 aspect ratio, the full width of the board is about 28:9 aspect ration. If they do like I’ve seen them test, they will just push the whole frame to fill the aspect ratio, squeezing the vertical aspect down to make every face you see on the screen distorted to look as if they gain about 25lbs. The alternative is to crop about a quarter of the frame off the top and bottom, meaning the head-to-toe end zone look of a running back coming at you will show from the knees to the shoulders.
They better look at some footage on that screen. Or maybe they plan on having special cameras with special framing just for the video board. That whole board was never thought through when they bought it – they just jumped at the opportunity to having something bigger than what the team down the road had…for, what, a year?
Comments say they’re losing the ads on the jumbotron and will use the full screen during games for the first time.
They do read angrybeavs.
Here’s my story: Turned 60 last week, and had a party Saturday night for 30-40 people at my house. Had my music playing in the living room and the back deck, but the TV in living room was on mute during the party replaying Game 3.
Was a great conversation piece…people would randomly come into the room and watch a bit, discuss the game and move on. I succeeding in getting drunk that night, but knowing the Beavers were still national champs when I woke up was a beautiful thing!
Here is my celebration story. Work in Los Angeles with a Duck fan… made sure to wear my Beavs Baseball warm-up jersey to work Friday… I didn’t see him at work.
I’ve worn a different Beavs shirt everyday since Friday. Have spilt dinner on everyone of them so far and running out of clean Beav shirts… but not before some young guy in Costco screamed go Beavs to me as I stood there thinking do I know this guy… my wife pointed to my stained shirt and said you are wearing a Beavers shirt bright boy.
Go Beavs!
Should mention, I went to my first Hillsboro Hops game last night and saw my cousin’s first pro pitching game (they gave each pitcher 1 inning). I was talking to his mom/my aunt before the game. they’re from the state of Washington. She said she was told the Royals have agreed to sign Luke Heimlich. I don’t know how accurate that is, since it’s word of mouth, but I do see on twitter that the Royals have an announcement scheduled for this afternoon, so stay tuned….
https://twitter.com/JoshVernier610/status/1014245637976678403
Timing makes sense. Drop the news at the end of the day before a holiday. The 24 hour news cycle won’t have the chamce to cover it fully, and most likely NBA free agency news will dominate ESPN for the next week anyway, so it will come and go quietly while everybody is off at their BBQ/firework parties.
Yeah. I heard this was a done (verbal) deal before the CWS and just had to wait to finalize.
Why make any announcement at all? They should just sign him and send him to the minors (bad pun??). Oh god…just think if he’s stuck in the minors for 10 years.
They’re also apparantly signing their 1st rounder today, so not sure if this is an announcement for that, for Luke, or both. Guess we’ll find out soon enough
Stuck in the minors is a poor choice of words.
Royals are my new favorite team! Always loved the ’85 club with George Brett, Bret Saberhagen, and Steve Balboni!
Congrats to Luke!
I think the announcement may be for signing Brady Singer
Aaron Fitt and Kendall Rogers both predict Beavs in Omaha again next year.
Ted Cahill with Baseball America does not, but he puts the Beavs in the next 8.
Live link to the Kansas City Press conference.
https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1014271484838068224
….and no Luke news at the presser.
Regardless, it sounds like Angry and I have both been told Luke will be signing with the Royals, through different people. Hope he gets his shot.
Agree with Angry though, the minor leagues could be a lonely place for a guy like him. Hope it all works out.
A server at the Chipotle near U of A threatened to refuse me service because I was wearing an OSU shirt, today.
I hope we meet them in the finals again next year and blow them out.
He/she was serious?
Chipotle? Were you trying to meet your recommended daily allowance of foodborne illness?
If the server wasn’t just joking, you should write corporate. And watch your food prep if you go there again…
The lines at the Chipotle in Salem have been much smaller since the shitter outbreak. It’s makes the being there for work meeting more tolerable.
Doctors charge big money for that same product, they call it GoLYTELY®
You have to give Chipotle credit. They only give their customers intermittent outbreaks of what other fast food joints give their customers on a daily basis.
Yeah they spit in your food dude.
OT: swoosh u and coaching salaries:
Austin Meek writes about the loss of the softball coach and wonders about the long term effect. He discusses revenue in the PAC12 and says, “The Duck have a bunch of coaches who could end up on someone else’s wish list: Robert Johnson, Kelly Graves, Dana Altman, Casey Martin and others.” he leaves (surprise) Mark Campbell off that list along with (no surprise) George Horton.
Has the FB budget grown to the detriment of other sports? Even Acrobatics and Tumbling, or Beach Volleyball?
http://www.registerguard.com/sports/20180626/austin-meek-mike-whites-departure-reverberates-at-oregon
National Championships in sports people give a crap about:
Oregon State: 3
Hole: 1*
*that basketball “natty” back around when the Reser mammoth was still alive.. does that even count if there is no one left who witnessed it?
Saw yuck fan on the tweets claiming baseball wasn’t a real sport and hole u had more important nattys, in golf and track.
Hee hee, quackers are so cute sometimes :)
Hole can’t compare to even the Razorbacks in track if they want to glory in their own fake limelight. Arkansas had something like 48 track titles, MBB title, Football title…
UofO needs to be careful how they try to deflect other’s accomplishments to make themselves seem more accomplished. Pretty soon they can’t even match up to a fat hog from the south.
Both golf and track are sports where you try to beat your own teammates. Could you imagine in the CWS where Abel has just struck out two Arky batters, has the ball in his hands and looks to Larnach in RF and yells to him, grab a bat, you’re next in line for K?
I love golf and my youngest son ran track in HS, but both sports are inherently different than football, basketball and baseball in that they are individualized sports rather than true team sports.
I can guarantee had the Ducks been in CWS rather than the Beavs and won it all, they’d treat it like they actually invented the sport.
Funny thing is, they’ve gone all in on football and got close but ultimately failed….coach bolted for greener pastures. Same story on softball, same result and same coaching outcome. The only thing left is basketball and I suspect before too long that Altman will realize he’s taken the Ducks as far as he can.
The Ducks have been and will always be second place finishers because they don’t know what it takes to win a championship. Golf and track….sheesh. Then the revert back to 1939 and their “national championship” in basketball. Well, given the lack of relevancy, that’s about as relevant as golf and track.
Both golf and track are sports where you try to beat your own teammates. Could you imagine in the CWS where Abel has just struck out two Arky batters, has the ball in his hands and looks to Larnach in RF and yells to him, grab a bat, you’re next in line for K?
Umm… wut the fuk?
I mean… why wouldn’t he ask him to run to LF to block for him when he was trying to score a goal by getting the ball into the bullpen?
That sounds more exciting, and it has the added benefit of sounding less silly than your weird rant.
National Championships are National Championships.
I guess the Beavs 8 consecutive national c-ships in racquetball count then….
They’re not an official NCAA Championship, much like the Ducks 1939 hoops “championship.”
But they’re impressive.
I like the auto engineering wins more. There are several national and world championships involved there.
As usual, *technically* true, yet missing the point entirely.
Not really.
Anyone who wins an NCAA National Championship gets to be proud of their accomplishment.
What you believe it holds in value due to your biases has little to do with anything.
Of course they can be proud. My point is that despite all the Uncle Phil money they’ve poured into athletics, they’re trailing us in the biggest 3 (football, basketball, and baseball). That’s pretty funny and amazing.
I get it.
You think it’s a dick-measuring contest that only follows the rules as set by your parameters.
It’s all good
Oh brother.
Are you this fun to talk with in person, or is it a message board special?
Jack’s having another off day. In other words, you could say, Jack’s off quite a bit.
You two are nothing if you’re not completely predictable… and boring.
I think most reasonable fans will agree that football, basketball and baseball in that order have and will always be the most recognizable team sports in the professional and amateur ranks. I think we can also agree that baseball is certainly not at the same level of interest or exposure as football and basketball in college sports.
I’m not sure what that has to do with winning a national championship, but you know what they say about small hands on short people who BIRG… or whatever.
My celebration was drinking a bottle of Deschutes Reserve purchased last year before the
start of the regionals to celebrate the seemingly inevitable CWS victory. It tasted even better after another year of bottle aging. The next afternoon we drove out to a small town in the west burbs and drank beer at a microbrewery owned by a fellow Beaver alum. My receptionist got caught up in my excitement and watched all the games. She now has the hots for Adley.
“purchased last year before the start of the regionals to celebrate the seemingly inevitable CWS victory”
YOU were the one who jinxed the team!
Watched the third game at a bar in Tualatin. Owner of bar is OSU grad. Owner bought everyone in the bar a shot when the Beavers won and we all toasted the victory. Great way to celebrate.
Anyone notice that hog hat in the dugout for Arkansas? So sad after all those home runs prior to facing superior OSU pitching they couldn’t get any use out of it.
But, but….SEC !
Must have something to do with “that brand of baseball they play out west”.
Happy birthday USA!
It’s actually July 2nd.
But who’s counting?
It’s always official when the document is signed.
Okay.
Then it’s August 2nd.
Here is a gallery of shots from a photog who spent 15 days covering the Beavs at the CWS:
http://www.karlmaasdam.com/new-blog/
Oh man, that photo of the 3 Razorbacks looking up at the foul ball is PRICELESS!
That play would make a great statue.. ball on the ground….players looking at it….
Title:
“The final out?!?””
“Pig. Sooiee.”
Happy Independence Day to all the angry Beavs out there, and also to the ones just slightly agitated.
Riley’s gone so its mildlyupsetbeavs.
Wait till football starts…….angry in no time.
A couple tweets worth your time:
1) Lundeberg shows pics of Goss with “thousands of” people signing in chalk.
twitter.com/The_Real_Bob/status/1014581962923634688/photo/1
2) And, a more thought provoking video suggested by Eggers. He referred to it as “An interesting TED re teen false confessions (Heimlich in mind of course)”
It is titled, Why teens confess to crimes they didn’t commit”, by an educated young woman; a psychology professor and researcher to whom BT and Crapzono would never give the time of day, I assume.
It will take you less than 15 minutes to view her talk, you won’t regret it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lindsay_malloy_why_teens_confess_to_crimes_they_didn_t_commit?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2018-07-03
Thanks, OOB. Those of you who are tech savvy need to send a link of that to Canzano, Dennis Dodds, the SI and NYT reporters, ESPN and every other malfactor of supposed journalism for their misfeasance. Dodds especially.
I had seen that too and replied with a link, for those two dumbbells, doubt they bother watching though as it contradicts their gravy train frame of thought
I’m not sure why it takes a TED Talk in 2018 to start making clear what has been clear for decades.
I remember an excellent Frontline episode back in 2003 or 4 that described all this much better than this. In fact, I think another Frontline episode told of how children were coerced to make confessions. And yet another episode told the story of most of the minorities in a certain Texas town going to jail for all these same reasons.
I’m glad you all are starting to see American justice for what it really is, as opposed to the ostensible fallacy it’s been presented to be in the romantic American mind. But you all have ignored study after study after study that shows this if this is something new to you.
Why do you start to see what’s been in front of you for decades only now?
And do you simply stop at believing only children are victims of this lazy form of justice?
Fun game,
Pick one team to win game 3 of the CWS, everyone at full strength, the 06 team, 07 team or 18 team? Why?
Also which team is the best? Who would win against each other? Does one stand out over the others?
18 obviously…
Honestly I think the 05, 12, 13, and 17 teams were all better than the 06 and 07 teams. 2017 team was the best team they ever had.
concur. I’d pick ’18. Their resilience, especially with two outs, is the difference maker. I’m pondering his comment about whether the 17 team was better than 18. The starting pitching was better, to be sure, but look at how much better both Larnach and Rutschman were in 18 vs. 17. Now that I’ve scripted that observation, I think I’ve convinced myself that 18 was a better team.
18 was more experienced where it counted.
18 for sure.
17 they should have won, they were SO talented, yet during the regular season they had won so many games at the end of games, with walk offs and tight games…yet they came unraveled with one shirty performance, Greg Street.
This year they were so damned gritty, so determined, maybe that was because of that asshhole Street. They definitely earned their place.
Plus they faced Arkansas, the anti-clutch team, in the championship series. Beavs were used to dealing with adversity, Hogs folded when they couldn’t catch a pop-fly.
I think they’d have done well in 2016 – the unbelievable snub that fueled 2017.The Luke + Greg Street + alarm sequence that, in turn, fueled 2018. Riley gone and a CWS championship in hand, where do we look to be angry beavs?
“Riley gone and a CWS championship in hand, where do we look to be angry beavs?”
Hey guys, what’s up?
Hey coach, I’ve met you, you seem like a nice dude, and I also met and liked CR, sadly, I feel like you’re a worse version of your predecessor.
Adley goes 2-3 with a walk and scores the winning run in his first game with the USA baseball game against Japan on the 4th of July. He should buy some lottery tickets. Save goes to Max Meyer of the Golden Goph’s who’s closing for the team.
https://cpe-prod.usabaseball.com/assets/images/9/1/6/284325916/cuts/793×400/cut.jpg
LSU coach digs our catcher.
“If you want to pitch great you have to play great defense behind them. Pitchers can’t do it alone. First of all, it starts with Adley Rutschman. He caught a tremendous ballgame. He just joined the team yesterday and jumped right in there like he has been here the whole time. He caught some really good arms and made it look like he’s been catching them his whole life. All Adley does is win baseball games. He is just a gamer and a winner. Whoever he plays for is going to win a lot of games. I’m glad he is on our side now.”
My cousin pitched with Adley in the Cape Cod league last Summer and really enjoyed working with him. Adley is becomming the new Chuck Norris
If you work in an office with Chuck Norris, don’t ask for his three hole punch.
When Chuck norris bats, he hits a 2.000.
Chuck norris went skydiving and his chute didnt open, he took it back the next day for a refund.
Chuck norris counted to infinity, twice.
Those aren’t credits that roll after Walker Texas Ranger. It is actually a list of fatalities that occurred during the making of the episode.
Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because he is afraid of the dark, but because the dark if afraid of him.
Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
Chuck Norris can kill your imaginary friends.
Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack… even a heart isnt foolish enough to attack Chuck Norris.
Ghosts sit around campfire and tell Chuck Norris stories.
Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.
Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete.
There once was a street called Chuck Norris, but the name was changed for public safety because nobody crosses Chuck Norris and lives.
Chuck Norris broke the law once.
It still hasn’t been fixed.
Chuck Norris can make scissors beat rock.
Chuck Norris doesn’t flush the toilet.
He scares the shit out of it.
The universe isn’t expanding.
It’s just trying to get away from Chuck Norris.
Chock Norris can leave the Hotel California.
Not Chuck Norris’s politics, I hope.
Manierei also said, pre-cws, that he would be shocked if he stuck with that after first and then 2nd loss.
insert after shocked if – OSU didn’t win the cws – no weaknesses. Wonder if . . .
I was vacationing in the Sothwestern part of Missouri last week with my wife’s extended family. If I were in town, I probably would have convinced my wife to let me go to game 3, but alas, I was in Missori, sweating my arse off in the sweltering heat/humidity. Luckily, I was able to get my kiddos asleep by the 6th inning and was able to watch the entire way in the dark by myself. Once Abel got the final strike 3 call, I went running out of my cabin, down the row of cabins to where my wife’s aunt was watching the game….we converged in the middle and started screaming and cheering. She’s a big KC Royals fan, so she knows what it’s like to win a championship and how exciting it is to do so. My wife’s cousin’s husband was “rooting” for Arkansas. He jinxed Arkansas by predicting the game 2 score 5-3 Arkansas…he got the right score, just mixed up the teams. So naturally I yelled out to him at the basketball court area of the ‘resort’ we were staying at “GO BEAVS! We’re National Champs!” My dad wanted me to make the 6 hour drive back to Omaha for game 3, but the wife wouldn’t let me take the only car we brought. So I was stuck.
BeavRecruiting tweeted this link, if you haven’t checked it out, you should…there are some GREAT pics from Omaha.
http://www.karlmaasdam.com/new-blog/2018/7/2/karl-maasdam-photography
Ha, scrolling up I see oob had already posted that link. Well then, just consider my above post a thanks!
Great pictures…that was fun to scroll through.
So enough being happy beavs.
When does Simple Jack get the fuck out of the football program so JS can hire a real coach?
#hegone, #TPBSanAntonio
then why is his name still on the coaching staff list on the OSU Athletic website if he’s gone?
https://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?path=football
Exactly. That’s where I started, hoping to see an updated coaching roster.
I’d assume it’s because of the holiday week…..or incompetents, take your pick.
Didn’t Riley say he’d be around reviewing film and giving some input from that angle? I think his new gig is only like a 5 month commitment or something.
Someone mentioned in a previous thread that any contact by Riley would seem to be not only a conflict of interest, but possibly a violation.
It is surprising to think that no one else would be qualified for such a role as reviewing film and objective input.
I’m not sure really. I hope he just sells his house and leaves.
In what sport will OSU next win a national championship next?
I’d say baseball is most likely, women’s basketball next most likely.
Baseball next season.
I dont know a lot about gymnastics, but we seem to be pretty good. Maybe?
Is porn a team sport?
If you have to ask…
Its Similar to track…..a bunch of events but it’s all just running in the end.
I would go with golf……
Another good riddance Riley observation………watching P-12 Network and they were showing what I guess was a commercial/short feature and it was Riley coaching recently. Number one, time to kill that, he’s history and number two, where else would you see a commercial for a TE coach??? The media were and probably still are deeply sucked into the nice guy image. He needs to be exited from the program 100% this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwlYo8EYTWI
Sadly, I would bet even money that he will be back a fourth time in a more official capacity when his new job ends and even worse Riley has caused me to agree with a Canzano opinion piece for the first time ever!
Sadly, based on history, I have to agree that it would be no surprise to see the powers that be in the AD accept another go round with Smilin’ Mike.
Don’t know what Canzano may have said, here is a (June 21st) report from the Salem paper with a couple interesting quotes.
“I want to thank coach Riley for his contributions to our program and wish him the best in his new challenge,” Smith said in a statement…and, “there already is tremendous interest from coaches around the country to join our team”… “We will hire the right coach who will help us build on the significant momentum we have underway in recruiting and student-athlete development,”
When Riley was hired by Smith in December, he said “I’m not looking to do anything else except help Jonathan Smith at Oregon State.”………then, in June, he said, “This is the place for me,” Riley told the San Antonio Express-News on Thursday. “I think this thing is getting put on a very solid foundation.”
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/sports/college/oregon-state/2018/06/21/mike-riley-leaving-oregon-state-again/722320002/
To paraphrase Canzano’s article, he called out Riley for using Oregon St. this time around and that he’s tired of the “Riley nice guy” narrative. It was almost as if Canzano was reading AB!
Maybe Canz is trying to make nice with AB, just as it has been said that he is with OSU fans??
naw, couldn’t be.
I’m not tired of MR being a nice guy. I wish him the good fortune to remain one for the rest of his life.
I’m tired of OSU using that excuse to completely forego simple, foundational best practices in hiring. It speaks to a gross inefficiency in the AD and the culture of the school as a whole. He seems to be completely oblivious to any professional standards and/or expectations. But if we enable that obliquity, then it’s us accepting it, not him dragging us toward it.
Nobody who bought the nice guy thing as anything remotely resembling a reason gets to be angry at anyone but themselves on this go-round.
“I’m not tired of MR being a nice guy.”
Careful, Jack. Don’t confuse actually“being” a nice guy with having been surrounded with a “nice guy narrative”.
I have the luxury of not caring about any nice guy thing, real or contrived.
I didn’t put myself in the eventual position where I had to accept responsibility for my stupidity. So I don’t have to create conspiracy-like excuses which lay blame on someone else for being who he has always been… just to save my ego.
In other words, I fucking told you so.
But I won’t claim prescience. I simply defer to simple and foundational rules set by the cumulative experiences of everyone ever.
It saves time and energy, and I get to not wring my hands when the rules themselves turn out to be prescient.
The football program will never succeed until it completely exorcises MR from it’s colon.
I was following a series of tweets from Max Gordon and Kyle Nobach, re: Casey’s approach, do any of these sound like a certain spastic bike riding fool you may have seen around VFC?…
“The number one enemy to greatness, is good”
“Good is the guy that’s just happy to be on the team. Great is the guy taking everyone’s job”
“Good players want to be left alone, Great players want to be told the truth”
We must resist the dark side of Canzano. He is a predictable hypocrite changing as the wind does around him. Don’t give credence or time to anything he says or does, because he will change as soon as the need arises.
I think JS has realized the ridiculous shadow that Riley’s presence cast (without much merit at this point) over the current staff and program. My guess is that JS had a meeting with Riley and said, “You should go ahead and take that job for both of our benefit.”
JS may have misread how infected the old guard and media were with the ‘nice guy Riley’ theme. Only after a few months of enduring it did he decide to shut it down and move Mike out of town. IMHO
If this is indeed the explanation, I don’t see JS bringing back the Riley media circus anytime soon anyway. Good for the program long-term and great for JS in the short-term. QB recruiting is about to take off as a result, which will launch all other position recruiting in the next classes.
There might be some truth to it, even if it’s not as direct as this.
The AD and Smith had to see the schism they immediately created when they made the hire. And it was one they were never going to ameliorate in their favor. If anything, they would lose adherents as they slowly realized their position was based wholly on feelings.
So I would not be surprised if there was some shock that there was gambling at this establishment. But I also can’t weigh that scenario as likely as the obvious, given they set themselves up for it in the first place.
-dark side that is Canzano-
I think we need to be dubious of the “consultant thing” also. Bikester is only coaching (and being paid for) the “next league that fails” for five months. Eggers seemed pretty sure Riley will be at OSU in some capacity, so what’s the difference, he’s still here?
Given Riley will reside part of the time in Corvallis, I don’t think zero influence is reached until Smith is no longer HC.
Eggers’ new piece says Casey might retire, says he has a source close to Casey.
I question Eggers on some of this information, especially about Casey’s sons. It comes across as Eggers venting some rumors since Casey just hasn’t called him back for a while. I think Casey was on Nigel Burton’s radio show yesterday so he’s around.
https://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports/400341-295955-will-coach-pat-casey-step-down-at-osu
Kind of odd timing. Is Eggers looking for some attention, it’s a dead period in college sports. Not sure why Casey is not corresponding with Eggers (maybe he is just busy)? I thought Egger’s did as much as he could to show the other side of the Heimlich situation, one would think Casey appreciates that.. It has been noted here, that Riley and Eggers are friends, not sure on the Eggers/Casey relationship.
Well that’s not great.
Reasons why it might happen:
1. Yeskie might be getting restless and maybe it’s time to slide him into the head coaching role before we lose him entirely?
2. Maybe it’s time to move Casey up to some kind of higher position in the administrative department. Heck, I’d give him any job he wanted, including Barnes or Ray’s job lol
3. If he wanted to go out on top then there’s never a better time than now.
4. He has said in the past that he hasn’t wanted to do a victory lap/farewell tour. If it happens it will be sudden.
Reasons why he’ll stay:
1. He has a son who’s a sophomore playing ball for another couple years at least.
2. There might not be as much pressure to perform next year so maybe it can be more of an enjoyable season and less high stress?
If he leaves because of lack of support from Barnes or Ray then I absolutely can’t wait for the day that they are both fired. I wouldn’t trade 100 of either of them for 1 of Pat Casey. Pat Casey is THE most valuable person at the entire university, hands down, and it’s not even close.
Reasons why he’ll stay? I disagree.
1) He is on record as saying it may be better for his son to be coached by someone else; said he felt his other boy was shortchanged by having dad as coach.
2) Pressure? There always will be pressure on Casey, it comes from himself.
Not saying he won’t stay, just disagreeing with those two reasons.
As for him moving to an administrative job, I’m not convinced that is something to which he aspires. And, I wonder how many coaches could handle having him as boss. (I do think Rueck and Smith would get along well because they seem to share some of the same traits; they both look for character in team members, much like Casey.)
Um… you have a big spooge of hyperbole on your straw man… no… on your right… your other right… yeah… right there.
Who is the George Fox coach? Sign that man up.
Just listened to Nigel’s interview with Casey from Thursday. Casey talked about taking time off in Brownsville the last several days. He talked about how every year he needs to make sure he’s physically and mentally prepared for another season. From the interview I’d be more worried he’d take an MLB job than retiring.
and this from Kendall Rogers just now:
@KendallRogers
4m4 minutes ago
Spoke to a source with knowledge of the situation at @BeaverBaseball. Any report of Pat Casey potentially retiring right now is inaccurate. Casey’s retirement is not imminent. Go on with your Saturday, college baseball fans.
very poor form by Eggers to write that article today. So Pat hasn’t answered your calls for a few days, get over it.
Poor form indeed. Very close to baseless speculation, IMHO.
I note that Eggers, while one of the best scribes following the Beavs, is not batting 1.000 with his predictions: last November he said, of Beau Baldwin’s chances to become HC at OSU, “If I were a betting man, that’s where my money would go.”
I’m not at all concerned that Casey would leave for an MLB job. I actually believe his mantra that he likes influencing young men to be the best person and player that they can be; something that he’d see lacking in a job in the Big Show.
But then, maybe I should listen to the interview before spouting off! Link?
George Fox is Marty Hunter, he’s been there for quite a while. I don’t think they’ve made the playoffs for about 9 or 10 years now, but they are competitive.
My youngest attended a GF youth football camp, Casey’s brother is an impressive man also. I kind of wish the Beavs had hired him instead of Smith! Casey started from scratch in ’14 and they were in the top 25 last year. Finished 7-3.
George fox baseball is a mess
I wouldn’t call 25-19 a mess? What’s your basis for that comment? I think Hunter has a ,560 or so winning percentage. I had a sister-in-law graduate from there, so I follow them a little. Hunter was an assistant when they won the natty in ’04.
To top that, George Fox Baseball has an assistant coach who works with catchers, the guy is no slouch!
It was a top program when Bails was there. Now it isn’t. It’s facilities were in pristine condition, Hunter doesn’t put in half the time Bails did
100% this ^
We need to look for a men’s basketball and football coach at George Fox.
Until the current football coach is given a chance I dont think we need one from George Fox.
No more chances. George Fox needs to be the automatic pipeline for OSU. Two incredible hires is enough data for me. Fire Smith immediately and hire Pat’s brother!
I gave him a chance. Then he hired Bikey and blew it!
DIDJA KNOW:
According to this report from hometown TV, Kevin Abel’s very first 9 inning complete game was the CWS final. Not in HS or college had he gone 9 before!
http://www.cbs8.com/story/38583532/madison-high-school-alum-returns-as-cws-hero?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
What’s up with the rumors of Yeskie going to Mississippi State as pitching coach?
According to Kendall Rogers, OSU is making Yeskie one of the highest paid assistants in college baseball. Also says Casey is going nowhere, so basically, the annual summertime rumors seem to have been squashed already.
https://twitter.com/KendallRogers/status/1016452335499870210
From Kendall Rodgers:
It’s been a big week for @BeaverBaseball.
1) Pat Casey is going nowhere. There were rumors over the weekend that Casey might call it a career.
2) OSU keeps Yeskie and he welcomes back a ridiculously good pitching staff.