Here’s the weekend schedule. I’ll be watching as much as I can to see how Mitch looks this year. Go Beavs!
Feb 19 (Fri) 11:00 AM Neutral Kansas State Surprise, AZ
Feb 20 (Sat) 11:00 AM Neutral New Mexico Surprise, AZ
Feb 21 (Sun) 11:00 AM Neutral Gonzaga Surprise, AZ
Feb 22 (Mon) 2:00 PM Neutral New Mexico Surprise, AZ
Rotation has been announced:
Friday-Abel
Sat-Hjerpe
Sun-Pfennigs
Mon-TBD
Thanks, boss.
Very limited knowledge on the baseball squad and their opponents. Looking for wins obviously but more concerned about defensive percentage, impactful starting pitching, and finding reliable bullpen guys. Go Beavs!!!
Fourth!
Lineup posted on the team twitter. 4-5-6 batters are: Claunch, Mcmahan, Joe Casey.
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball
Thx man!
I don’t know much about these players. Probably been discussed already, but is there a live stream anywhere?
No TV, only way to watch is sign up (and pay for) something called Flosports
Info on radio, etc. here: https://osubeavers.com/sports/baseball/schedule
K-State’s starter, Jordan Wicks, is a lefty who led all Big 12 starters with a .035 ERA last season and was named a preseason all-American by multiple outlets.
**If Jon Warren is the Beavs radio guy today you may want to check out the K-State radio coverage
Anyone have predictions for this weekend? The schedule should be relatively easy, but I expect lots of rust from such a long offseason.
Kansas State: projected 8th out of 9 in Big 12
New Mexico: projected 4th out of 7 in MWC
Gonzaga: 6-10 in 2020
Like I said the first series last year, if we don’t sweep we’re not a good team.
I don’t know enough about each team to say, but based on pedigree I’d say the Beavs win 3 out of 4.
Why is Casey batting 6th? Was he a good prospect ever? From memory, thought he was an underwhelming recruit.
Who’s the player speaking right now? So articulate.
Kyler McMahan…dude has a future in speaking.
Agree he is articulate but some of his comments made me suspect he is saying what he thinks Canham wants to hear. Could be a good indication that players are buying into Mitch’s pitch, but I’m not convinced….yet.
I don’t know about all that, but if he had a podcast or was on a broadcast I’d listen.
BIG JIM on the broadcast today, helping (teaching in his gentle way) Jon W.
Not clear if they are actually in AZ.
Only chance we’ll learn worthwhile small details is if Jon allows BIG JIM to make frequent comments.
Lol, yeah didn’t realize how hard it is for Big Jim to get his thoughts in. I get it that they can’t see everything but just wait a second instead of guessing!
Due to the time off for all teams, I would expect pitching to be way ahead of hitting and see some sloppiness on defense.
On cue, BIG JIM mentions that 8 of the 13 total outs so far have been K’s
Canham had said he’d use the pen in these first few games, expected each reliever to get a couple appearances in the first two weekends.
And yet, he lets Abel go past 70 pitches to give up the first K-State hit…..and two runs.
Any word on Abel’s velo?
He was 89-90 most of the game. Hit 92 a couple times.
Hey, Cake, were you in the ballpark? If so it would be great to learn your take on the “vibe” around the team. Thanks
70 isn’t bad, Abel is capable of 200 in 2 days
The complaint should be about the lack of offense, not letting a pitcher give up 2 runs.
Yup, bases jacked with no outs in 2nd inning resulted in ZERO runs……….early, but you could feel this coming.
Agreed. I posted earlier this week the big question mark for the Beavers wasn’t going to be pitching and defense, but whether or not they could run produce at the plate. 2 runs isn’t going to win too many games but the game is into the 9th 3-2 so we’ll see if they can run produce in the last at bat.
Ryan Ober with a huge home run to make it 3-2 entering the ninth
Heart of the order due up for Beavs in ninth, and all three of them have had a hit today. Go Beavs!
Any idea why Jones didn’t start? I thought he would be a big factor returning for his 7th season.
I wonder why Parker isn’t on the call given that the radio guys are calling it via a web stream.
Is it an IATSE union thing?
How does Warren have a job?
I’m giving them a break since they are calling the game from Reser
He has a morning show on local AM talk radio in Corvallis… guy might be the worlds biggest goober.
Well, get the first man on and then can’t execute a sacrifice bunt not that it mattered because the following two hitters K. Can’t win games if you can’t get em on, can’t get em over, and can’t get em in.
Big Jim even said this is where Casey had great execution from his teams and it put pressure on the opponents. Should have been runner on 2nd with 1 out and two chances for a base hit and RBI. How many games were won in late innings just by execution when PC was the coach… hopefully they can get that same mojo going.
Great start for Mitch. /sarc
How many times did Mitch strike out in the game? LOL
He’s the recruiter and coach. He recruited and coached the guys who struck out, etc.
The guy is off to a really bad start. There’s no way around it, and there’s no way to spin it. His way out is to start winning games.
It’s still a small sample size, but I believe Canham is now 5-10 in his career. I’m guessing it’s been 20 plus years since Beav baseball has sniffed anything close to those numbers at any point in a season. It will soon be time to start winning.
He actually recruited almost none of them.
He should have gone for it on 4th.
Hey!
BASEBALL: K-State had a lot going for them; many/all of their guys played summer ball and they had an outstanding arm on the mound, tip the hat. However, and as much as many have expected little from the Beavs offense, you can’t give a decent opponent 7 BB, 2 HBP, and commit 2 errors and expect to win. This team doesn’t have the bats to overcome that sort of shooting yourself in the foot, especially when being unable to lay down a timely bunt. Can’t complain about only 5 LOB……….except when 3 came in one inning, and after filling the bags with no one out!
Claunch is gonna feel it tonight, hope he’s not hampered tomorrow.
EDIT/ADD: New Mexico had some pretty good radio announcers in the past, here’s a link for tomorrow…just sayin’
https://golobos.com/listen-to-live-events/
WBB: Good Gals by 25 over USC. Told y’all to watch the gals following baseball, I listened to most of the game and it sounds like Rueck is getting the team to peak at the right time. If you’ve got a heart you have to love Noelle. Walkon with few minutes but so enthusiastic, a real team player. Nice to see her hit another three and at a clutch moment too.
I watched all of it and the beavers shot the lights out. TVO looked like best player on the floor and Allah and Jones had solid games too. USC a decent team but the beavers just overwhelmed them. Turnovers still an issue but if this team can put together a late season run in the P12 tourney, you never know. Just watched UCLA slobber knocker the ducks and they look awfully tough. I hope the beavers are just competitive against the Bruins. The ducks were absolutely awful against UCLA. i’m not overly concerned about baseball. Titles are never won the first game of the year. As I recently pointed out, you gotta be able to score runs to win…
That’s Aleah, not Allah….jabbbbbjjjjabbbbb….pooof!
Aleah akbar
Aloha Snackbar.
Y’all call yourselves baseball fans??……..LOL
Glad I stuck with the Beavs broadcast, BIG JIM, ever the teacher, in good form today.
Beavs putting lots of ball in play, big difference in opposition pitching this time around.
Luck ‘o the Beavs favorable today.
B4, 5-0 good guys.
GRAND SLAM for Ober, 11-0 good guys B5.
BTW, Hjerpe looking better than Abel, 5 full with ZERO BB, no HBP, and 8 K’s
Wish I was there!
How did Abel look yesterday? first game back, right?
Angry tapping into his internet baseball championship skills predicting Joe Casey’s hitting ability.
Isn’t he like a .220 career hitter? Lol.
Running up stats vs New Mexico is nothing to talk about.
Get ’em on, get ’em over, and get ’em in! Boom!
Mitch Canham is a genius again.
Haha.
Nice bounce back game today. Ober back to hitting bombs, young guys getting some valuable reps, and Salgado hitting 97 mph on the radar gun.
>Salgado hitting 97 mph on the radar gun
That was a surprise to me, I hadn’t heard anything about him. He threw that first pitch and I wasn’t sure if I had a mini stroke or what. Pure gas. One of the hardest throwers we’ve ever had.
Any ab’s in the ballpark today?
I know beavergopher wasn’t, and we all know wannab is tied up working on the yacht. Some comments about pitch velo have made me think some of y’all are on site watching. Would like to know if anyone has input on the vibe surrounding the team….both days.
Thanks
MBB is so frustrating, they just can’t shoot the damn basketball! It’s not really a case of being unable to get looks. Down by 7 at home to CU with 7:30 left. They must be shooting under 40% again.
18 points in the seconf half with two minutes left.
Seems like Lucas has disappeared after his hot streak in the middle of the season.
Defenses are keying on him and running him off the line. Tinks being the amazing strategist that he is doesn’t have a solution for getting him open three looks, so they pass the ball around the perimeter and hope Ethan can score.
Reichle is a liability on the floor. He gives effort but can’t shoot worth crap.
He has a nice form, but he’s a head case. I heard a rumor that he and Silva will be back. Ethan is going to Europe. I wish Tinkle would develop Tariq Silver, he looks good when he’s out there.
61-57 loss. 36% shooting.
Stinkle…..
Has anyone honestly developed under Tinkle? Even guys like Eubanks and Kelly were good when they came in and didn’t ever seem to take it to another level.
“Even Eubanks was good when he came in…”
Eubanks was like a wildeyed racehorse with all kinds of athleticism but no game understanding. Tinkle didn’t improve his abilities at all and placated Eubanks crazy attempts at shooting jumpshots rather than posting up and learning how to be a force under the basket. Eubanks had a notion that he needed to be Nowitzki to make it in the NBA. He is in the NBA based on Spurs liking his size and athleticism more than his still raw basketball skills after 3 years with Stinkle.
Tinkle is a weak coach that has played favorites for 6 years and pushes much harder on the role players. Hence the role players transfer out because they aren’t stupid and see it happening real time.A true leader/coach sets a high bar for all and holds all up to it allows the team to push one another as a unit, not creating fragmentation within the locker room. I have no first-hand knowledge other than watching the rinse repeat cycle from afar and it is easy to spot. No chemistry/no trust/no camaraderie among the team is a clear tell. It has been the coach’s kids/the rest divided for too long.
Doesn’t it seem like Ethan is basically the same player after 4 years except he gets the ball more with Tres and Stevie now gone? Would have been nice to see him completely take over the game like McKinley did and lead the Beavs to a victory over a slightly more talented team. He seems to have a knack for scoring late trying to catch up instead of putting the opposition on its heels.
I don’t know if I can be helpful but I’m ticketed for all 4 games down here. My observations.Abel looked great. My only beef is I thought Canham intended to go four innings with the starters and get the releavers some quality work. So when Abel comes out in the 5th I thought “what the hell,I didn’t care if the score was 0-0, get some other kids throwing (we have a ton of them). Sure enough, Abel goes 1-2 and boom, we go down 2 runs. Now Abel gets pulled. Glad they got a hit or Mitch would have had him go the distance. Two, our at bats were terrible. Either we suck or we were hitting against the top pitcher in the ncaa. Three, Casey is the only one who can bunt sorry Angry. Last, it’s early. Let’s see where they are once league starts. NOTE: BEAVS STAY HERE AND PLAY GRAND CANYON UNIV 3 or 4 games starting next weekend I think.http://angrybeavs.com/baseball/15937 Check schedule.
Thx for the report.
Sorry I’m reporting late. New Mexico State must have used their best pitchers in game one. We hit the ball hard all game. Even had several homers resulting in pitching changes and we would continue to club the ball. Biggest takeaway was our bullpen appears to be solid. Mulholland made me smile. Tosses the ball to the plate and appears not interested in striking the batter out. More like here’s my mid 80s pitch. My fielders will get to anything you nit.. AND they did. He looks like his old self back in the saddle on the bullpen. Last, turned seasons first dp. Overall, looked fast in the outfield.
Thanks so much for the report. Please give us more as you are able.
From the radio, I believe Canham has coached at least part of the time from the third base box, are you seeing any indication of “fire” from him? Either at the umps or mistakes by his guys (BigJim pointed out at least one baserunning error which Canham should have seen up close and personal).
Do you have ticks for the Grand Canyon series?
Lineup today shows Preston Jones leading off in CF, Claunch back to catching batting 3rd, Gretler starting at 3B
As expected, Pfennigs on the mound…nobody taller on the team….6’6″
Other interesting changes too.
https://twitter.com/BeaverBaseball
Troy Claunch RBI single is followed by a 3 run Joe Casey yo make it 4-0 B1
Ober doubles in Jones after his 2nd triple of the first 2 innings and Gonzaga pitcher is pulled after 3 outs, 5-0 good guys B2
We appear ok on the mound today. Canham in 3rd base box all the time. No fire when errors occur. Always appears positive. Lots of fist bumps, hits or errors. Angry sure to be happy for Casey. 2 hrs in 3 games?. Seriously, Casey is swinging early in the count. Something he never did in years past. He’d was trying to earn a walk. To my eye, some coach explained to get on base, swing away! I think game one he stuck out but they all did!
Jones up leading off 2nd inning. Wow, another triple down over first base. Followed by Obers double. 5-0, nobody out. Zags changing pitchers.
I don’t want Casey to fail. But it was a legit question why he was batting 6th giving his career hitting record. If he’s on the roids and things have changed then I’ll change. We’ll see as the competition gets better.
So in 5 years of college you can’t get better? Angry you’re better at begging for money than judging talent.
This post is going to age badly in Pac play.
And thanks for the rental space in your head. It makes up for your freeloading here.
How? All I said is Joe Casey is a worthy of hitting 6th in the lineup and it doesn’t matter what he was rated 5 years ago in HS. And you don’t need roids to do that. He also doesn’t look anything like someone on roids.
As far as head space, keep deleting and editing my comments. Oh but you don’t do that. ;)
Two down. Over on 3rd. Casey hbp. McMahan walks. Bases loaded. Armstrong up.
Armstrong flies out. On to 3rd inning.
I totally agree Angry. League will reveal all!
Agree only to a point; not gonna face many better arms in the PAC than the K-State kid.
BTW, 6 LOB in 3 innings sounds like the old Beavs! Not complaining, but I bet Pat would be.
AND, Luck ‘o the Beavs seems positive today.
7-0 going into bottom of 4th. We are playing big time defense, throwing out batters going down to first from 10 feet onto the grass at short.
Darn, Casey laid down a bad bunt to lead off and then….strikes out on a called 3rd strike. By the way, Jones has 2 triples and a single after 3 today!
Sanchez got the DH today and is showing poorly at the plate. I see a lot of frustration on his part.
They started hitting Pfenning hard. Calhan switching pitchers. 7-4 Beavs. Washburn on the old now in relief.. 1 out.
Washburn hit a batter each of last two innings. DPs erased both innings. We’re up bottom of 5th stillleading 7-4.
Jones now 4-4 on the day, 2 triples and 2 singles
My mistake. Bottom of 6th. Zags changing pitchers. We have two on, no outs and another bad bunt. AND AGAIN. Strike 2. Luckily mcMahan then hit a single. Armstrong up, no outs. FINALLY, he hits a double and drives in 3.
Is your first name Crocodile?
Ober 2 run single and claunch 1 run single makes it 13-4
Followed by a Wade Meckler double to make it 14-4
Lady Beavs up 24-20 on UCLA in Q2. Still plenty of game left, but this would be a big win!
Can ham is such a good coach! Lol
Canham
Canned ham?
Spam?
FINALLY, the smoke clears and after 6 innings tha score is Beavs. 20
Zags. 4
BIG, BIG win for WBB, whip #8 Bruins 71-64
Was just going to post this. Gals looking better every game. It’s a big win that should boost their confidence.
WBB with a huge road win over UCLA, 71-64.
ESPN kept saying their bracketologist had the Lady Beavs as a “last four out” team for the tournament before this game, so this likely puts them in for next week’s projections.
BWB’s with a huge win at Pauley. Scott R can still coach, apparently. T Von O looks to be quicker version of Mik Pivec. The other frosh, Goforth, is a very good athlete.. If Taya can get back to some semblance of her old self and Brown rehabs well, this will be a formidable team next year.
Coorsdale needs to sit. She has done nothing. Today 24 min. 0 pts and 0 reb. 3 fouls and a turnover.
She did play solid defense but her offense has disappeared.
In not sure how you play 24 minutes and don’t even get a rebound. Smh. She’s never been much of an offensive player, but she’s regressed. Even putting up her freshman numbers would be a boost. Rueck sees something there I guess.
Never over react to one game in baseball. Key stat is overall run differential. After 3 games… 36-8. Tough loss against kstate but encouraging signs after 3 games. If team can rake against bad pitching and their own pitching can keep them close against better teams, they’ll win 35-40 games and compete for P12 title. Stay healthy and stay the course.
Huge win for women’s b-ball team. This team is going to be damn good moving forward. I wouldn’t want to be top seed in ncaa and have to play Beavs. Beat ducks and 1 win in P12 tourney and they should get in.
Too bad about those two losses to Wazzu. Both games were winnable. They would be sitting comfortably. They will have to earn it now. Need to beat the Quacks.
Yeah, too bad we didn’t have TVO available in at least the first game and I can’t recall if she was available for the second game. Certainly, the addition of TVO has made a huge difference allowing Aleah to spend less time handling the ball and more time shooting it. Plus, TVO replaced a lot of Jas Simmon’s minutes who just wasn’t very productive. The future certainly is bright with Greta Kampschroeder coming in next year along with two other solid recruits. This team will be loaded next year if there are no offseason defections via the xfer portal.
Great day to be a beaver. Beavs hammer the Zags and Beavs whoop the bruins. I posted several weeks ago that when she joined the Beavs, TVO would be a great player for the beavs. It appears she’s the best freshman in the Pac 12. If the beavers can play a few more games that were canceled, I think they make the tourney. Great win today and certainly now looks like the best team in Oregon after you know who got spanked by UCLA.
…play a few more games that were canceled
Not likely. As Rueck said postgame, no one wants to make up a game vs a team that is lower in NET and he doesn’t expect anymore games other than nike prior to tourney.
Wildcats owe us a postponed game, but not likely to happen.
From here on out, if they aren’t already doing it, teams are gonna do their best to get Jones into foul trouble. I’ve seen some good stuff from Jelena but can’t count on her for extended minutes. Overall, the team has better depth than some and that’s a big factor in tourney. As has been said, Brown will be a big shot in the arm next season (hopefully).
I had heard last week there was a possibility of making up some games, but you’re right if they were against lower ranked teams, it wouldn’t help. I’m not sure even beating the Ducks is enough to qualify the Beavers because they just have played too few games. I guess maybe the Beavers will just need to go out and win the P12 Tourney and prove they belong. At the moment, they certainly look more the part than the Ducks do and I think OSU may very well be the Ducks too as the Ducks have lost their mojo. We shall see.
To be clear, I took Scott’s point to be that teams ranked well above the Beavs wouldn’t be agreeing to play the Beavs now.
Thx for the clarification as I completely misunderstood as I didn’t hear the interview with Rueck.
OT…..but still BASEBALL:
Regarding Luke Heimlich and the Tecolates Dos Laredos…….
“The franchise has solid verbal agreements with Greg Mahle, Andre Rienzo and Jose Oyervides for them to be three of their five starting pitchers this season. The Tecolotes project hopeful-returnee Luke Heimlich as another starting arm. However, Heimlich is hesitant to come back to the Gateway City as he hasn’t pitched in over a year.
Their season starts May 21.
https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/A-look-at-the-three-starting-pitchers-the-15967063.php
It’s too bad. The “journalists and crusaders” ended up winning to some degree, they screwed Heimlich out of a career and a living with their scorched earth approach. I hope Heimlich is able to have a decent life despite missing out on life-changing financials.
Looks like we got two new in-state PWO linemen. I guess it can’t hurt to get more big dudes in there and see what they can do. Part of a successful line recruiting strategy for us has to be taking above average numbers in order to get lucky with one or two underrecruited guys (in addition to emphasizing the quality guys to fill the top of the class).
I would like to see them do that at the defensive line position specifically DT. They’re so thin there they could probably have a pretty good chance at contributing in a couple of years.
What do you think about President Biden after 1 month in office and 40+ executive orders later?
Is he a dictator? Where is the legislative process now?
Curious about your thoughts in general after all of the vitriol directed at President Trump…
Apologies if this is the wrong forum for the political question. Just curious where the guys on the board are after a month. I’m not trying to ruin a topic or troll anyone. I’m just wondering about honest assessments of Biden.
Looks like Trump supporters want to reach out for honest dialogue after supporting a piece of shit for four years where the goal was to own the libs.
You said, “supporting a piece of shit”. I guess you didn’t realize that no one supported you!
He has a major foreign policy decision to make in the coming months.
S. 4813 (Taiwan Relations Reinforcement Act of 2020) looks to have bipartisan support in the Senate, as it was drafted by both Merkley and Rubio. This would be a major step towards recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign state with an increase in military aid.
If Biden signs it, he’ll be a national hero who really does stand up for democracy. If not, you wonder how much influence China’s Wall Street investors have within the inner circle of current administration.
Not impressed with his China stance, but I can vote with my dollars on my own so…
According to the American Bondholders Foundation, about 20,000 American households hold up to $2 trillion worth of bonds from the Chinese government, dating back to the Qing dynasty. Some bonds have been defaulted on three or four times.
While Americans can “vote with their dollars”, the SEC needs to step up and enforce regulations to make Chinese investors disclose their finances prior to trading on our exchanges. I believe Thatcher was the only western European leader that told the Chinese government that they could not trade on the London exchange if they didn’t pay off their loans. CCP did and it helped Britain get out of their recession.
Isn’t Merkley our Senator from New York?
I think he was born in Myrtle Point and grew up in Portland.
No, that would be Wyden…
This sums up how I think about it.
Well, the girls are frisky in old ‘Frisco
A pretty little chick wherever you go
Oh, and I walk and they walk
I twist and they twist
And I shimmy and they shimmy
And I fly and they’ll fly
Where we’re out there having fun
In the warm California sun
We’re out there having fun
In the warm California sun
Are you sure those “girls” in old Frisco were born girls? You might get a pickle surprise if your not careful.
…as long as you wear two masks and maintain social distancing requirements.
I think it’s WAY too early to try to grade Biden’s work. I’ll be looking primarily at progress with the pandemic, schools, and the economy over the next several months (although I recognize there are many other issues out there also).
If Biden can get us some blue-chip linemen, I’ll consider voting Democrat in ‘24.
How many jobs does Biden need to destroy before you realize the mistake you made?
Welp there goes the thread.
New challenge: every time someone mentions politics, you have to respond in a way that brings the conversation back to OSU athletics, no matter how weak the link.
A few examples:
“Transpacific Partnership? Tinkle does need to start importing more 7-footers from China and Australia, doesn’t he?”
“Speaking of healthcare reform, when is OSU going to drop Nike and get some better shoes that don’t cause so many foot injuries?”
“While we’re talking executive orders, do you really think JS should have gone for it on 4th down last weekend?”
Excellent!
Some will be able to tie in BitCoin and oil stocks as well!
Speaking of head men with dementia, what is Mike Riley up to these days?
Very good!
The number of EOs used by Obama-Trump-Biden is insane. If it keeps up like this, the we are basically electing dictators for 4-8 year terms. Checks and Balances are badly out of balance.
If an EO is illegal then it should be challenged in the courts. So I don’t think this is a failure of checks and balances. To me it is a failure of the legislative branch to do their job. Of course with the ever increasing politicization of the judicial branch consistent court rulings are more difficult to come by… another failure of the legislative branch.
May want to check your data before posting. The last 3 admins aren’t out of line with their predecessors.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-orders
Were my four years getting wasted at OSU worse than a con man running the country for the same duration?
AB translation:
Was Gary Andersen’s OSU tenure worse than Larry Scott’s P12 tenure?
Homofries and Bendoverbeav in usual form.
Idk what’s worse. Constantly bitching for four years or continuing to bitch about the last four years.
It’s over. Let it go and start paying rent
What’s worse? Frat boy homophobic nicknames. It’s over, let it go.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to piss on your participation trophy there princess
“Princess?” Quoting yourself–It’s over, let it go.
But if you want to keep trying…just remember it only took a couple of snowflakes to shut down the state of Texas.
Wasn’t it Yogi who said, “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”?
I wouldn’t call you Princess either, but Dip Shit…yeah!
Been offline the past few days, but noticed footballscoop is saying AJ Steward is a strong candidate for the RB job now. So now Blitz has him on their list.
I seem to remember someone here on AB (AirplaneZzzipppy?) in early February saying the same thing. AB scoop?
Last week I mentioned the new recruiting coach (Moala’s old job) would be a current grad assistant, but wasn’t sure which one yet. Still dont know, but I think it could end up being our WR GA, Austin Brown, who also happened to start following AJ Steward on twitter. Go figure
VanAkeren and Richards were the other 2 GAs who I thought it could potentially be.
Careful using the “GA”, some of us might think you’re discussing Gary Andersen….
Per Adam Rittenberg, Oregon State will be hiring Steward to coach RBs. Good tip AirplaneZippy
So now the question is was this a good hire?
Supposedly he was one of BYU’s best recruiters when he was there a few years ago, so he should be an asset there.
Obviously, he recruited Texas while at Rice, and looks like he pulled in a couple RBs that had Power5 offers (Of course it is hard to tell if that was just him or the whole staff).
I wonder if he will still recruit Texas while at Oregon State or if he will be expected to take over Pitre’s locations.
Im not convinced Pitre was a great recruiter anyway. Good, but not irreplacavle. People give him credit for JJ, but i think that signing had more to do with Bobby Pleasant. And we all saw the drop off in priduction after JJ was unavailable for periods of time.
BYU?……..does this indicate a Poly connection??
Mormon connection. All his recruits will come in 2 years later
Lots of coaches congratulating him in the replies to his “official” hired tweet. I take that as a good sign.
https://twitter.com/Coach_Steward/status/1363995985265913857?s=20
FWIW, I’ve confirmed the hiring with 1 source. Apparently the team hasn’t confirmed the hiring with Oregonlive yet, for whatever reason.
Baseball: End of the 1st, 0-0.
Preston got to 2nd with 1 out, but no one was able to bring him home. The hot-hitting Casey and McMahan are due up in the bottom of the 2nd.
End of the 2nd, 0-0.
Frisch got into a little trouble, but got out of it with back-to-back strikeouts.
McDowell and Hamilton got on with two outs, but Armstrong grounded out to SS.
End of the 3rd, 1-0 Beavers.
Dukart got the RBI (Jones) on a groundout, then it was 1st and 3rd with one out and Casey did the worst thing possible and hit into an inning-ending DP.
Middle of the 4th, 2-1 New Mexico.
Frisch struggling with consistency; A triple and beaned a batter in the back, but has 3 KOs.
End of the 4th, 2-2 tie.
Hamilton with the bunt single RBI (McMahan), but the Beavs blew a big opportunity, as they had 1st and 2nd with 1 out and hit into an inning-ending DP AGAIN.
I have to run, so no more updates from me.
Do you have a non-Warren radio link?
No, I’m following stats because I don’t hate myself: http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=333012
At least Jim balances it out a little.
https://radio.securenetsystems.net/cwa/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KQTM
Home run dukart puts the Beavs up 3-2.
Besides Dukart the lobos new pitcher struck out the other 3 batters.
4=2 as Armstrong single to center to score 4th run.
Sweet
Top of 8th. Watkins threw the 7th. Three up three down. Salgado on the mound for the 8th. Current score 4-2 Beavs.
Salvatora gave up a single and struck out 3. Beavs at bat bottom of 8th.
Regarding Warrens performance, anyone else think it’s past time for Josh Worden to be given a shot?
Much like Bob Lundeberg who lost his job to Steve Gress, we are seeing the “old boys” club fail to provide the best product.
JMHO
Warren is awful. Worden has a great voice and is well spoken. I’ve never heard him do play by play but can’t be worse than warren.
Warren. The runner didn’t touch second on his triple and is called out.
I meant wow!
I’m listening to the Lobo call. They get a donation to the food bank with every strikeout they get. Beavs making sure no one goes hungry. Smh
End of 8th. Beavs 5-2. Verberg on for Beavs.
Nice to see the bottom 4 in the order with 9 of the 13 Beavs hits……OTOH, not so nice to see only 4 hits for the rest of the crew. Spring training’s the time to sort out the order, we may see changes like Armstrong and McMahan moving up. What will Mitch do?
Beavs win 5-2!
Final. Beavs 5
New Mexico 2
Nice, I called a 3-1 series.
How did Casey do today? I guess he’s the guy we’re going to follow now that A@A has a hard-on for him.
WBB NET: Beav gals go from #40 to #34 after the sweep in LA. Nike up 1 place to #7 after their split (and shellacking by UCLA), UCLA drops 2 places to #9.
All adds up to a big opportunity this Sunday; another chance for a road win vs the #7 ranked team.
Ducks are 0-6 vs teams ranked in top 25 this season. I had no idea that was the case with all of those 5* players. I wonder if Mark Osborne still thinks the beavers WBB will never be able to land blue chip talent now that we have goforth, TVO and Greta K. incoming as well as Meagan Beers. Maybe MO should have just left OSU without throwing shade on osu’s recruiting.
You mean Mark Campbell, right?
Yes, I meant Campbell..thanks for correcting me. I knew when I typed it, it didn’t sound right and you proved that.
I can’t remember, did Campbell have any beef with Reuck before he left? He’s always rubbed me the wrong way, apparently, he didn’t learn any humility from Scott. And how long is this dude going to remain an assistant head coach? He’s young, take an HC job somewhere, build a program if you’re personally such an amazing recruiter.
The way I understand it, no inside knowledge just reading what others have said, is that he left for more money and didn’t give OSU a chance to match. On his way out, he told a few recruits families that you can’t win at OSU. That didn’t sit well with the staff.
yeah, he told Katie McWilliams before leaving OSU that the reason he was leaving was because OSU would never be able to recruit blue chip players. Classy comment by Campbell to a young lady that I believe was a blue chipper and he recruited.
AJ Steward is official
https://twitter.com/Coach_Smith/status/1363994732985114627?s=19
Pretty meh hire. Hopefully he can be that guy who does well here and moves up in the coaching ranks. Really need a guy like that in the program.
Lots of coaches (high school and college) congratulating him in the replies to his “official” hired tweet. I take that as a good sign.
https://twitter.com/Coach_Steward/status/1363995985265913857?s=20
He’s moved up pretty quickly the last 4-5 years from Rice to BYU to Arizona
With Rob Vanderlaan leaving OSU via transfer recently, a potential OL transfer to keep an eye on is Kaimana Wa’a. From Corvallis and went to CVHS. Signed with Hawaii in the 2018 class. Then transferred to Texas State this past December, but has recently backed out of that commitment due to some type of unspecified family emergency. Was a Rivals 2* OL out of HS.
Do any of you guys raise bees? We’re thinking about giving it a shot.
Or maybe just putting up a box/super with lemongrass in it and seeing if we get any wild hives or swarm hives.
If anyone does it, give me some details on difficulty, costs, etc.
Check the farm stores near you. Most of them have bees available to order and also have bee keeping classes. The online stuff is good but picking an experienced keepers brain is worth the covid hassle. I would do it at my place, but I’m too afraid my neighbors spray to many pesticides ( farmland and lawn maintenance companies). I do have 180′ of berries and a small orchard that would probably benefit, but I also haven’t seen a lack of pollination over the last 6 years. And I don’t eat honey.
Thanks. Great info.
Do you know if it’s possible to put a box out and wild bees or a swarm take it over?
I’m not sure, but I dont think it’s that easy. Keepers seek out wild hives. I see flyers for free bee removal in my area from time to time. That a good question to ask the pros though.
You should raise Murder Hornets.
Or Killer Bees…
PS. Haha. Just saw Casey was 0-4 with 2ks. Was wondering why it was so quiet today…
Two questions I’d like to hear opinions on:
1. Rank starters from first baseball games 1-4. Is Hjerpe the best right now? Abel being the potential Friday night starter seems like a great weapon to have. Correct me if I’m wrong but in 2018, he really didn’t come on until the end of the season, and the following season he barely pitched. We have yet to see him put together a complete year. No fault of his own, but I’m curious to see the longevity of his stuff. Is he a Jorge Reyes or a Matt Boyd (I thought Reyes had short term success).
2. Rank qb depth chart you’d like to see for the Fall.
1. Abel only allowed 1 hit to quality competition. I know it’s a small sample size, but if he can maintain the sub-1 WHIP, he’ll be fine. The others didn’t face fantastic competition, so it’s hard to say much. I expected Pfennings to be better.
2.
1. Best QB
2. 2nd best QB
3. 3rd best QB
4. 4th best QB
In all seriousness, I think Gebbia was better than Nolan and deserves to be #1 unless Nolan/Gulbranson/Vidlak blows everyone away in the Spring.
Noticed UW offered QB Katin Houser today, on his birthday.
So you can pretty much scratch any chance of Houser ending up at OSU. Back to the drawing board for a 2022 QB. Such is life for Oregon State QB recruiting.
https://twitter.com/katinhouser/status/1364307964220252160?s=19
There’s always little Mannion…
Tell me you’re joking please. I don’t think I could handle another interception machine v2.0.
Clearly you’re in the nature over nurture camp.
What do you think, after baseball finishes on the weekend put up a general thread for the week?
Edit: Quick turnaround this week with the Monday game and then a Thursday. I’ll just put up the Grand Canyon thread early.