Hey guys, still running around like mad getting things settled here. Baseball thread and general discussion both welcome.
Go Beavs!
Hey guys, still running around like mad getting things settled here. Baseball thread and general discussion both welcome.
Go Beavs!
There was nothing going on at all.
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Twitter comment of the day: https://twitter.com/BeavRecruiting/status/969375475687555072
More on the Clear Bag Policy from the baseball twitter page:
“Bags will be available for purchase at the marketing table outside the main entrance of Goss for $10, while supplies lasts.”
The tweet adds that once the bookstore has bags in stock they will no longer be sold outside of Goss.
Make that money OSU I guess?
I saw something about the clear bag needing to be of a very specific style and size possibly?
Can I just show up with an oversized ziplock bag full of my belongings? Or does it have to be the $10 bag OSU is selling?
Thinking about going to Saturday’s game with my kids, so snacks are essential.
per their new rule you can’t bring snacks unless your kids are 2 and under or have a health need for them.
this is from their twitter answer section:
snacks, if not for dietary/medical purposes or for two year old and under, cannot be brought in.
That makes my decision easy. I guess I won’t be going. Not going to starve my kids and not going to feed them $20 hot dogs/candy for lunch either.
Appreciate the heads up
The gate guards took a bag of peanuts from my 12 year old at a football game last year. For some reason it made me irrationally angry. After that, I just stuff my pockets with snacks for him. I’m not paying $8.50 for a Beaver dog. Same with baseball games, it’s almost always cold enough for a jacket of some sort. But, when I slide through the gate with my pockets full I always feel guilty, like I’m cheating or something, like sneaking down from the upper levels of Gill into a chair back. Maybe I’m setting a poor example for my son, I don’t know, but I’m not wealthy and living in Corvallis we go to a lot of Beaver sports events. Tickets aren’t cheap and it adds up quick.
Don’t forget – it’s all NON-profit! Selling a $2 hotdog for $8.50 is non profit…give me a break
Beaver Store is non profit too,,,yeah.sure
Nonprofits are designed to use their income in a way to limit their profitability. Doesn’t mean they don’t create wealth. They just redistribute/reinvest it.
For a giggle, just imagine ending up with me in front of you in line and trying to explain to the poor gate-person the definition of dietary and how food might fit within that category.
You could distract them while I sneak my lunch in.
Apparently these food rules were in place for football season, but nobody stopped me from bringing my backpack full of sandwiches and snacks for the whole family.
It’s sounding more like a concessions grab than anything security/safety.
Next they’re going to tell us our “endless popcorn” does, in fact, have an end.
It did say something about a one gallon clear ziplock being ok.
Here is the link to the Clear Bag Policy:
http://osubeavers.com/sports/2018/2/15/clear-bag-policy.aspx
A “1 gallon resealable plastic freezer bag” is acceptable; the $10 bag being sold is, apparently, 12″x6″x12″.
The link contains a list of items allowed into the venue, anything not specified is NOT ALLOWED. Some will be happy to learn that service animals are permitted, as are plastic chainsaws.
I’m seeing a new market for plastic chainsaws that can be filled with liquids.
… or nitrous.
What about crutches…or wheelchairs.
Those are weapons if I ever saw any!
Just buy a couple of these….
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/02/28/c-line-selling-plastic-shopping-bag-for-590.html
WT’s crew gags away another chance a win. I forgot how f’ing annoying Bill Walton is. STFU already.
Anyone else ready for Eubanks and Steven Thompson to move on? Those two have no feel for the game and they collapse in crunch time. Even though they are two of the “better” players,I think the Beavs would actually be better without them.
No, I don’t want them to move on. In fact, if the Beavs can come up with a PG for next season, this team could be very, very fun to watch. If DE returns, OSU will compete for the conference title. This team is still fairly young and it shows, but they are very, very close too to becoming a very good team.
These guys haven’t won a true road game in 2 years and you’re talking about competing for a conference championship?
Stevie another nice 2-5 from the foul line. Insanely poor pass in crunch time leading to the game losing turnover. Drew missed a point blank baby hook and a free throw. Alfred Hollins violates some rule and never gets into any groove. Yeah, I don’t know if it matters anymore. I would lay even money they underachieve next year also.
Rodent vs Rodent in softball today in San Diego. May the best Incisors win.
Prairie rodents seem to be dominating the wetlands rodents in these toothfests!
RBs at combine this weekend. Time for Nall predictions? I’m guessing sub 4.5 forty yard dash, and his catching ability impresses.
Saw a tweet that Nall met with 21 teams with real interest from the Lions and Vikings.
Sounds like a guy who’s going undrafted *rolleyes*.
I hope not. Practice team money is better than no money.
The Lions would be interesting. I guess the Vikings wouldn’t be too bad but if Cook is healthy it is his job. Nall could easily beat out Murray though, I don’t get how Latavius is even in the league.
Nall’s first unofficial 40 time = 4.67
https://twitter.com/JoshNorris/status/969644278153732096?s=19
WBB: The realtor gets a third crack at it tonight, can she make the sale? Not if Marie has anything to say about it, “Back to back has its advantages and disadvantages,” Gulich said. “It’s hard because they have a run at us, too. They know what we want to do. They know what our scheme is and the same for us. But now since we don’t have to adjust to any other team we can work on those things, which is good for us.”
Game is on PAC12 and should start shortly after all those clear bag and plastic chainsaw laden fans leave Goss.
http://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/basketball/osu-women-s-basketball-beavers-sun-devils-meet-for-the/article_415c40d9-08ae-5989-8806-323aa3f15f6a.html
Yeah Angry can kiss that Ryan Nall draft round prediction goodbye. He’ll be lucky to be drafted with that 40 time. Riley’s fault perhaps?
Shaun White scored a 55 on his second run in Pyeongchang, while I agree–I don’t think Nall’s a high round draft pick–maybe let’s wait and see how the whole draft process plays out.
Calibeav says:
JANUARY 2, 2018 AT 2:12 PM
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Toby Gerhart ran 4.53 I’ll eat my shirt if Nall doesn’t run in the 4.4’s
So let’s talk about the kind of shirts there are
Hahahaha
Lmao!! I’m here and hungry homies.. thought he would get to 4.49
All only 14 reps of 225 on bench. Thought he was way stronger .
That is surprising. Not the most important metric but still surprisingly low.
For a guy his size it makes me wonder about his work ethic and motivation to train and prepare. Chubb and Barkley both more than doubled Nall’s reps. Not a good sign in my opinion.
GA did complain that the players were weak.
Nall *
Glad I just bet myself a pizza and an IPA…
Heads you win, tails they lose?
For comparison Saquon Barkley … 29 reps and ran 4.4
That dude’s a freak.
Nall’s official 40 time, 4.58.
A little faster than I thought but in the range of expected times.
For those wondering how he could have slowed so much from his reported 4.4 time in training…it’s because he was hand timed in training vs the laser at the combine. In general, you need to add in about a tenth or two to the hand times for the human reaction difference.
He’ll likely get a faster recorded time at the pro day since those will be hand timed.
All in all, he did nothing to change his draft stock as a RB. If he’s being considered as a FB then the bench press really hurt him.
All the teams talking to him are doing their due diligence. They’d probably prefer to pick him up as a UDFA than use a pick on him. If he’s invited for private workouts, then that’s a good sign to get picked.
He’ll be fine, or should be in the end. He’s been given bad advice or refused to listen to good advice (likely both) for whatever reasons. He needs to raise his lows but refuses to acknowledge he has them. The pride thing doesn’t work with scouts unless your lows are other people’s highs.
It won’t be “fine”, he will be battered and bruised and out of football in 3-5 years unless he’s a statistical anomaly.
It’s the position he chooses. He could have a solid ten years of being an aggressor at a role position, one of those those franchise guys fans love who leads special teams and scores the odd TD here and there.
Instead he wants to be a superstar or something… and get broken often.
He’ll be fine within that context. Three or so years of minimum scale in the NFL should leave him with a decent chunk of change, a better outcome than most of the thousands of players who followed that path and met similar, more pathetic realities.
Tyler Malone single puts the Beavs up 1-0 at the end of the 4th
Heimlich allows a double 2-1 Hartford in the top of the 6th
Jim Wilson deserves a raise.
Larnach up next after a Hartford pitching change. 2 on, 1 out, 7th inning. Beavs still down 2-1.
Just noticed we have video if anybody wants the link.
http://pac-12.com/live/oregon-state-university
Larnach strikes out
Adley gets a nice hit out to the warning track while batting while switch hitting. 2 run double. Beavs lead 3-2.
Has Hartford improved as a program? I think they were here a few years back and every game was 15-2, their pitching was awful. 83mph fastballs with no location.
Adley with a huge 2 run double puts us up 3-2 in b7
Dylan Pearce comes in to close the game and gets the save, 3-2 Beaver win
Got to get the bats going again tomorrow
Keep the men’s hoops team away from the women, they blow a six point lead in the 4th quarter and lose to ASU. Poor close to the game.
Kiss any more games in Corvallis goodbye!
Your cognitive dissonance is noted.
They learned to not screen our like the men. Last 3 minutes were a 13-1 disgrace
Not screen OUT
Welp, having a good women’s bball team on campus was fun while it lasted…Now back to just baseball leading the charge. Don’t know why I ever even begin to think we’ll be competitive in anything else. #dilusional
Give me a break. That’s your thought after a third place Pac 12 finish, after a championship 3-peat including a Final 4 and sweet 16s? Better find a sturdy umbrella to protect yourself from that sky you think is falling!
He’s just trying to mix it up. #dilusional
#dilutional
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Rueck will be in the WBB Final Four at least once in the next 3 years. They are in a transition year without a true pg and thin on physical bigs. That changes next year, by adding the 2 talented bigs, Aussie pg/shooter, and Slocum will free up Pivec by doing all of the pg duties. Ionescu will meet her match in Slocum and WBB will once again regain the Pac12 title, and a big run in the tourney. Besides, a big run in the tourney may happen anyway with this group this year. They can just rest up for a week now.
Love the optimism. Maybe. A bunch of freshmen next year. No Gulich and no one with PT to come in and play the 5. Sporadic scoring at the other positions. We’ll have to see the tall kids have the skills and coordination to play D-1 at this level. We might have to wait until that group plays a few years to develop. Corosdale was a 5 star and she’s had a pretty quiet freshman year, as an example.
Abel hitting as the DH in the first game, then the starting pitcher the seconds nd
Second*
Beavs up 3-0 after 2
Still 3-0 after 5, Fehmel has only given up 1 hit but the bats have gone dead after the 1st inning
Fehmal allows 1 hit in 9 innings and the Beavs get the win 5-0
Hartford leads off with a triple followed by a single to put them up 1-0
MBB up 25 on the road 54-29 at the half, announcers mentioned in the last 40 minutes they have scored 111 points against Wazzu. Does the road losing streak end today?
Update-Beavs get the monkey off their backs….92-67. Would have had 100 easy except that Ronnie Stacy was inserted into the game with about eight minutes left and ground the offense to a screeching halt. Stat line 0-5 from the field and 0-4 from the foul line.
Gretler homer makes it 3-1 Hartford
Troy Claunch single drives in Preston Jones 4-2 Hartford
Does Jim Wilson seem annoyed with his partner at times?
Warren is pretty clueless about the sport of baseball lol
Adley with another clutch double scores casey and greiner to make it 5-4 good guys
Beavs get the win 5-4 to advance to 11-0
This is good to come home to.
Thanks for posting updates, guys.
Camera angles during the game today are horrible. They’re focusing the camera on the batter from the third base line angle. At least with the view behind the plate you can see the play develop but with current angles shown, you can’t see crap. Sheesh!
Warren is not the only guy that needs fired in the media box.
Adley scores on a passed ball 1-0 Beavs
Larnach with the grand slam puts the beavs up 5-0 in the 6th!
Big time hit
Did we win?
Yes 5-0
Hartford 0-5-0 Beavs 5-6-0 Gambrell scatters 4 hits over 7 innings with 103 pitches. Pearce with a 1-2-3 8th and Muholland finished it off.
Larnach with his 20th RBI already
Baseball!!!!1!!
What would Casey do?
Next weekends opponent, Cal State Fullerton, likely won’t be giving Impulse any business. Their HC suspended 7 players for missing curfew during their series vs Tulane. Suspension was just part of the punishment, in addition to sprints HC Rick Vanderhook had ’em sit in the bleachers deep in the outfield. Vanderhook said, “I wanted them to be fully embarrassed,”
He added this about the lineup shuffling resulting from the absence of the suspended guys, “Then we had to make some moves because other guys who played were too scared to play a new position and didn’t know what to do, so I guess they never watched baseball before.”
http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/2018/03/fullerton_baseball_suspended_p.html
Casey would win
Props to the Fullerton coach.
If you had a couple hours to kill, why in the world would you end up in some grungy den of wine cooler puke that pretends to be a club but just plays a 4/4 bass line (of no discernible note) repeatedly?
This “commitment” tweet made me chuckle this morning.
https://twitter.com/kiaeemg_13/status/970662562370150401?s=19
Maybe he should think his teachers for teaching him the definitions of words and stuff.
Sadly, that tweet is gone, must have changed his mind.
Funny, he revised it by striking out the last line.
The last line in this message used to read:
“My recruitment is still open”
https://twitter.com/kiaeemg_13/status/970709138555760640?s=19
“I will be commuting to the university of LA Tech. My recruitment is still open.”
Sweet jeebus, prima donna much? So basically “please other programs keep telling me how great I am and maybe I’ll change my mind but on the other hand I’ll keep this place holder in case I don’t see something else I like better.” LA Tech should pull the offer.
Punctuation. The difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
This is a high school senior?
Either way you are giving someone a hand.
Definition of “Tweet”: An opportunity for self-inflicted embarrassment on a tremendously large scale.
I’m still waiting for a tweet from a recruit who says…..I would like to thank my own hard work, genetics and a little luck for my scholarship offer today, God didn’t have anything to do with it.
perfect, although family and coaches might get a nod.
Maybe family falls under luck (you can’t control who you are born to), coaches might be luck although I suppose if your parents have enough money you get the coaching you need? I was sort of being sarcastic with all of the kids starting off their tweets with “I am blessed to receive a scholarship offer….” Opposed to kids in Syria not being blessed?
Maybe I missed such a post, but have you all noticed that Danny Moran is no longer the beat reporter for OSU baseball? I understand his replacement is a stringer from the Eugene newspaper. Makes me think that OSU and the Oregonian worked out a modus vivendi in order to finesse the LH situation. One wonders who took the first step. Moran/Oregonian probably figured it would be too awkward for him around the team; nor would I be surprised that after some initial attempts Moran saw he was getting frozen out by Casey and the team and adapted accordingly.
Furthermore, it appears that this blog did a vital service by publishing Meyer’s essay because since it appeared the Moran/Canzano/Rogers narrative has been capped.
This is what I’m waiting for, and it should have been Moran’s initial take, if he wasn’t so obviously biased against LH: a story about a major college athlete who overcame a youthful indiscretion and became a major league prospect. Maybe we will see that before the spring is over.
Canzano will lay in the weeds until the team is more in the public eye again. Wait till the team finds a way to get in the national news again(like going on a record setting win streak or by having another historic run through the regular season). He will save whatever he has for the moment he can get maximum exposure, and then suddenly he will be outraged again and demand change. It’s been his pattern for years.
A baseball story as we lead into march madness would just get lost in the national headlines right now. For him it’s all about being seen as he shifts his moral compass accordingly.
This is remarkably spot on. Well put
you may be right about the timing of an Oregonian rejoinder, but Meyer is already working on his second take on the issue as well
Bingo, predictable dolphin lover
Canzano is a lowlife, fuckstain POS journalist that would write inaccurate shit or lies about his own mother if it helped his column or show. Dude is ALL about himself and always has been. Someone should call and ask him on his show about how he cheated on his ex with his current wife while still married to his ex. How’s that for someone with such a “moral compass”?
I don’t think Moran is biased for or against anything but the truth. And I don’t even know if he’s skilled enough to know the people around him who directed his writing were simply playing for sensationalism.
If you want to say that burying large swaths of truth in order to be salacious about outing a 12 year-old survivor is being biased against Luke, not truth itself… meh. They’re squeezing what stories land in their laps for everything they can bank. It’s what they do there.
Don’t care about Dolphin Boy. He’s evil.
” I don’t even know if he’s skilled enough to know the people around him who directed his writing were simply playing for sensationalism.”
So, Moran is simply a tool? Could be. However, once the Eggers and Meyer pieces came out one must revise that to “spineless tool”.
Personally, I don’t give Moran a pass. He’s a fucking adult, I don’t know why some here want to treat him like a naive little baby. He knew what he was doing (along with his bosses) and he knew it would be a click worthy story for a couple of weeks. Remember, Brad Schmidt was also on this story and he does this kind of “journalism” for a living.
I like the fact that there is a vocal opposition now ready and willing to combat the idiots like Canzano, Rogers and Dodd when they beat the horse with incorrect language and half truths.. I think it shut them down effectively this time around. I will be interesting to see if they revisit, I agree that draft time will probably be their target for one more attempt.
Who’s giving him a pass? Being a tool doesn’t mean he didn’t do what he did. It just means his motivations are different than that of the more seasoned vets. His direction was how the story became so weird and one-sided. His pliability speaks to his spine.
At this point in time, he has chosen to please the circus. So when he wakes up at 40 and discovers that he’s still defined as a soft, unprofessional tool, he doesn’t forget what made him that.
I think they are all playing in the same sewer. I don’t see any distinctions. They are all cut from the same cloth.
Moran may well have been manipulated in the manner Jack describes, because usually salacious news and commentary sells better than uplifting stories. But Moran has been apprised of two comprehensive narratives (Eggers and Meyer) contrary to his own, and neither he or anyone associated with his enterprise has shown an openness to looking at the situation anew. They are locked into their narrative. That’s bias.
I wonder if Canzano will wait until the MLB draft to state his case (Heimlich should never again play baseball) in the hope of influencing interested teams.
Well, if that POS hypocrite does, that will provide LH legal counsel even more motivation to file a libel and defamation of character lawsuit against canzano and the Oregonian. That said, I’m not sure LH legal counsel needs additional motivation. I fully expect they will sue after the season is over. If Luke goes undrafted again, his lawsuit will be a slam dunk.
Just a note, The Oregonian was predictably tooting it’s own horn a day or two ago as Moran/Schmidt were nominated for their “investigating” reporting on Heimlich. It was vaguely some Top 10 award thing, I didn’t care enough to read further detail.
Answering one phone call and doing zero follow up on the facts of the matter is now “investigating”? I guess no one dropped a dime on GA, er, the crack staff at the O hasn’t fished their investigation on the ex-coach’s exit.
There’s a dime to drop about GA?
Do tell.
Worth a read: Lundeberg on Madrigal
http://www.gazettetimes.com/sports/beavers-sports/baseball/osu-baseball-madrigal-stays-positive-looks-forward-to-return/article_d9918406-81fe-555e-830e-6d398ae2e6f1.html
Welp, short of winning the Pac-12 tournament the men’s hoops team appears destined for another invite to the Craig Robinson Invitational. Personally, I am on the fence about even taking said invite but I will say that the road trip to Washington WAS encouraging. Hollins and Ethan Thompson have been showing flashes of finally putting it together. Maybe another game (or a few) would be beneficial down the road? That said, if WT can’t get this team that will be full of juniors and seniors back to the big dance next year, it might be time to cut bait.
Negatives…..Berger is a decent role player. Too bad he’s out of eligibility. I have yet to see ANYTHING from Kone or Reichle that remotely suggest either of these two were highly rated prospects coming out of HS. The lack of a true PG is killing them. Neither of the Thompson brothers are PG’s. This NEEDS to be the number 1 priority in recruiting. Don’t recruit JUST one!
The lack of bench production has been nothing short of hot garbage and has resulted in the patented long scoring droughts when the starters are not on the floor. Eubanks needs to just fucking stop going for the blocks. Focus on footwork, playing defense and rebounding instead. Also hit the damn weight room FFS. Eating eggs was never the answer. The Ducks will be very good next year and beyond if they keep that recruiting class intact. Does not bode well for winning civil wars. Arizona is going to take a step back. Washington will not because of Mike Hopkins. The youth excuse will no longer fly.
Positives: Ronnie Stacy is gone. Tres has had a good year coming off of missing almost all of last season. Next year Eubanks and Thompson Jr will be seniors. Tres will be a redshirt junior. Stacy is gone. Everyone else has another year under their belts. They finally got the road monkey off their backs. Stacy is gone. UCLA will continue to underachieve because of Steve Alford.
I don’t expect a Pac-12 title. Maybe that makes me a bad fan (looking at you Angry) but I DO expect this team to be in the top 4 of the Pac-12 standings at the end of the regular season in 2019. If that doesn’t happen then we just might need to cut bait and start over. Again.
This opening round game against UW is very winnable but they will get the Leg Humpers best shot since they are on the outside looking in for the NCAA tournament. A 3 point multi OT win at home and a 2 point loss in Seattle. But I will say this. With UW being on the wrong side of the bubble and the Beavs not even close, you can expect the refs will not be kind to the Beavs.
NO MORE EXCUSES IN 2019!
In a recent interview WT showed little enthusiasm for taking this team to the CBI; he sees value in a trip to that tourney only for teams lacking in experience.
I agree that the refs may not be on our side as the conference will lean toward the favorite. WT needs to be on them hard and early about getting calls. Very winnable game though and so is Usc. I could see them making a deep run, only team they don’t really matchup well with is Stanford.
They had 9 losses this year that they had the lead in the second half, but couldn’t finish. If they can find a way to win those types of games next season this will be a good team.
BALEBALL today, vs Casey’s alma mater; 5pm.
Yeskie has said we’ll see a few arms, will Tweedt get another shot today?
Streamed by the school:
http://pac-12.com/live/oregon-state-university
what time is the game in PT?
Mid-week game today against UP Pilots.
Beavs up 3-0 after 2 thanks to Trevor Larnach with a three run jack