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Thread for the weekend series. Beavs should sweep again and will very likely be 17-0 heading into conference play (3/15)
Probable Starters: OSU LHP Matt Boyd (2-0, 1.27) vs. TSU RHP Kyle Finnegan (1-0, 1.59)
| 03/08/13 | vs. Texas State | Corvallis, Ore. | 5:35 p.m. PT |
| 03/09/13 | vs. Texas State | Corvallis, Ore. | 2:05 p.m. PT |
| 03/10/13 | vs. Texas State | Corvallis, Ore. | 1:05 p.m. PT |
Go Beavs.
A beautiful weekend for baseball! Too bad I can’t go. Boooo!
I wonder why they stretch 3 games over 3 days instead of doubling them up Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun.
locusimperium says: per Mike Riley, Sean Harlow graduated early and will be on campus for Spring ball
oneoldbeav says: Other than the usual “neat” and “awesome” stuff not much of note from Riley on the broadcast tonight. He said Mannion and Vaz would get lots of reps in the Spring and a decision not likely to be made then, no surprise there. He did mention that Vaz and Mannion are getting guys together 3-4 times a week.
When asked about what went right last season he mentioned the approach of all involved; they started each Monday focused no matter what had happened the previous Saturday. Also specifically mentioned having well defined goals each week.
steveEbeaver says: Starr only pitches a third of an inning. He comes out in the 7th and walks the leadoff batter, gives up a single through the hole and an infield hit and a run so in comes Bryant. With Esposito behind the plate and runners at the corners Bryant fans the batter but Nate throws the ball over Smiths head and runner scores from third. 2 Ks and a flyout for Bryant. 11-4 Beavs at the stretch
GoBeavs90 says: Moore starts tomorrow and Wetzler on Sunday. Child has been moved to the midweek starter, I believe.
Quatre says: A bit surprised. I figured Child would be given the opportunity since Moore is just a freshmen.
GoBeavs90 says: Wilson and Reese were talking about how the move might have something to with matchup vs Arizona next week and setting up the rotation for it. Arizona has a very fast infield and a ground ball pitcher like Child isn’t a good matchup for that. I could definitely see Child moving back into the weekend rotation later on. I can understand the move now though.
beavergopher says: Gophers have a very good hockey player named………………Mike Riley.
Played the Beavers of Bemidji State tonight, so I got to hear Mike Riley and the Beavers
several times watching the game. Was freaking me out LOL.
mckalk says: Even though the last name is not spelled the same, I think MR would still bestow “neat deal” status on that factoid. And three hockey brothers on the same team is deserving of some kind of Slapshot reference, but I can’t think of one right now.
steveEbeaver says: Reed is handed his 3rd loss of the season as Vandy takes care of the ducks, 4-1. The only offense the ducks could muster was a solo HR as the Vandy ace pitched a complete game and only allowed 2 hits.
mckalk says: Immature and petty…..probably, but a Beaver win and a Duck loss in the same day always puts a big smile on my face.
oneoldbeav says: I noticed that as well, although I try not to pay much attention to the ucks. Given the level of competition this week it seems to me the gap in RPI and SOS between the Beavs and ucks will narrow on the Nolan site.
Aside from what Nolan thinks, I do believe the competition level faced by both teams will factor in to their performance when conference play begins. Right now, no disrespect to Nolan, I think the ucks have had the overall tougher schedule but doubt that factor will be enough for them to outshine the Beavs this season.
Jack says: RPI is RPI. Nolan only reports it, and record has a lot to do with it. SOS is probably the second most important factor.
NPI is a little different. In hoops we would be looking at Kenpom vs. RPI. That’s how different they are. Don’t buy into what ESPN sells with BPI in hoops. It’s untested and only sounds good in a vacuum. Sometimes you get so far into the weeds that you’ve lost the channel.
mckalk says: So is this on the coach or the player…Beavers up by 5 with 30 seconds left….Morris-Walker fouls Dinwiddle while he is shooting a three. Stupid, stupid play…..even though it looks like the Beavers will win.
GoBeavs90 says: That’s on the player. I don’t recall it happening any more than twice all year. Mental mistake
mckalk says: Wow, Beaver hoops wins 64-58. Today holds possibilities for the rare “double,double”. Ducks have already lost in hoops and are trailing Vandy last time I checked. Beavs are ahead of Texas St. If that happens, it will call for two shots of Maker’s!
GoBeavs90 says: Beavers will be the 11 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament and likely face USC. If they were to beat USC, they would face Oregon.
whiskey soaked napkins says: do we know this for a fact? If Wazzu beats USC today we still finish tied for last and WSU would beat us in a tie breaker I believe since they beat FUCLA the other night.
whiskey soaked napkins says: not correct. If Wazzu wins, we are the 12 seed per the pac-12 tie breaking procedures. Since Wazzu beat FUCLA they would win the tie breaker and be the 11 seed
PAC-12 TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE-SEEDING AND TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURES
Seeding:
The seedings and pairings shall be determined upon completion of regular season play on Saturday, March 9. The won-lost percentage record
of the teams in regular season Conference play will determine tournament seedings. The team with the best won-lost percentage
in Conference play will
be seeded #1, the next best won-lost percentage in Conference play will be seeded #2, and so forth through all the seeds.
Tie-Breakers:
Tie breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding will be:
1.
Two-team tie
a.
Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.
b.
Each team’s record vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings
until one team gains an advantage.
When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior
to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.
c.
Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.
d.
Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
http://championships.pac-12.com/mens-basketball/files/2013/01/Tiebreaker.pdf
Jack says: That didn’t keep Nikegon from giving up less than ten minutes into their game on Thursday. In fact, one of Nikegon’s players used it as an excuse for not playing well.
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Imagine everything nasty I’ve said on this site and everything nasty you have ever thought. Now imagine all that being bundled into a nice post-game speech for the Beavs on Thursday.
We’re talking a paint-peeling talk. And we’re not talking screaming and yelling. We’re talking disappointment and frustration.
Now I wish I would have DVR’d the damn game. I took the family to the home and garden show and a hike at Pisgah instead.
GoBeavs90 says: Beavers basketball wins 64-58 on the road and never surrenders the lead in the 2nd half after going ahead and finishes a team off. Strange.
whiskey soaked napkins says: Lol! Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. I did not see it (thank you directv). but the box score shows Colorado shot poorly. I highly doubt it was because of the defense our team played.
GoBeavs90 says: A team does not shoot that poorly from the field and from three without some good defense.
GoBeavs90 says: A team being an overall poor defensive team does not mean they can’t play defense well during an individual game
whiskey soaked napkins says: I was questioning it because I have yet to see it this season. At least not that I can recall
GoBeavs90 says: 2 runners on and Brandon Jackson comes in to get the Beavers out of the inning. 4-3 Beavers after 5 1/2 innings
GoBeavs90 says: RBI single by Danny Hayes and Conforto gets called out at home, looked like he might have been safe. 5-3 Beavers after 7 innings
JD says: He got tagged in the back, it definitely looked like he may have had his hand in there before the tag.
GoBeavs90 says: In typical bunt situations, Casey seems a lot more aggressive this season. Putting runners in motion and guys are pulling the bat back and trying to slap the ball past infielders. Not just the typical bunt and move guys along. Liking the aggressiveness and forcing the issue the season.
Grape says: Haha, you guys might find this entertaining.
AH… baseball season is here. Let me see; throw ball, nothing….scratch crotch, yawn, get sign, throw ball….nothing….rub crotch…. get sign, throw ball….nothing….spit…throw ball… nothing….OH wait….foul ball, OH well. But wait…here comes the coach to argue for five minutes that the ball was fair, very exciting. I would rather watch haircuts than baseball. Oh well… JB
PS: Thank God a Beaverless March Madness is on-tap. Even the CBI won’t touch that mess.
Beavergopher says: PBH, I know you are a huge wrestling fan. If you have BTN you can catch the B1G finals as I type.
Beavblazer says: Had a pretty nice day at the ballgame yesterday. Crowd was pretty quiet, but woke up in the 4th(?) when the hitting started happening.
I was reminded of why I sometimes hate going to sporting events where you’re packed in with others in tight seating. Dorky college guy 2 rows in front of me decided the 5th inning was as good a time as ever to just vomit right on himself. He tried to hold it back at first but sortof had that look of lard-ass from Stand By Me, where he knew it was past the point of no return. Instead of getting up to find a garbage can (which was literally 10 feet away from him) he just lets it explode through his hands, it splatters out the sides and hits an old lady to his left right on her glasses. She’s trying to wipe herself off, and he just sits there like nothing happened for about a minute before he decided it’s probably time to leave the game (covered in his own vomit). Luckily the 2 seats in front of him were empty at the time, but a few minutes later those people came back to sit after going to the concessions. They see the vomit on their seats, not sure of what it was and almost just sit down in it. Then the old lady who had wiped off her glasses hands them her vomit covered single napkin, which the use to gently wipe of their seat and then sit down, none the wiser. The old lady to her credit, didn’t get pissed off and just powered through and finished the game after getting splattered on.
What the fuck is wrong with people? Vomit guy didn’t even apologize and just left the game, leaving the nasty, orange (Go Beavs!) mess behind.
On top of that there was some redneck asshole who got impatient with my pregnant wife because she wasn’t exiting the stands fast enough (like you could go any faster than the fans in front of you) I could hear him mutter under his breath, “Come On!!” when she leaned over to pick up her jacket upon leaving. Fuck that guy.
Other than that, great day.
Timber! says: I was just thinking to myself, “self…who besides Conforto is providing HR power for this team?”
steveEbeaver says: Vandy fails to complete the sweep. ducks get 5 runs in the 8th, all with two out and only one hit. Vandy pitchers with 2 HBP, 2 BB and a WP in the inning. Vandy fielders threw in an error for good measure. 7-5 ducks final.
UNLV sweeps Stanford, 5-1 today.
oneoldbeav says: OT- Cliff reports on the FB rules committee’s recent decisions, “The big one requires players who target and hit defenseless players above the shoulders to be ejected along with the 15-yard penalty.”
This is gonna further highlight the well founded complaints about the quality of officiating. The intent to avoid injuries is fine but with the caliber of the zebras we’ve seen in the PAC12 it is really going to rile up many fans. I hope Riley stands up for his guys when the next screw up occurs and also when he is meeting with those coaches who say he is such a nice guy and claim to value his opinions!
GreatWhiteHunter says: I’m too lazy to look it up right now, but thought maybe someone remembers off the top their head…wasn’t our series with Oregon at Oregon last year? I was just checking the schedule and see we play there this season as well. I could have sworn we closed the regular season out with a sweep on their turf in 2012.
GreatWhiteHunter says: Thanks…memory is failing me.
Sure hoping to get a chance to see these boys live…thinking maybe their trip to Seattle in April.
ObjCritic says: S-I’s early look at the Pac-12:
• Oregon State: How long will the Beavers’ quarterback controversy continue? Oregon State had a memorable, and unusual, 2012 season, starting 6-0 and eventually finishing 9-4 (after going 3-9 the year before) with both Sean Mannion and Cody Vaz (after Mannion got hurt) taking successful turns under center. However, what began the year as a luxury turned into a headache for coach Mike Riley down the stretch. Both Mannion (against Oregon) and Vaz (against Texas in the Alamo Bowl) had nightmarish performances in late-season losses. After starting hot, Mannion finished with a dismal 15-to-13 touchdown-to-interception ratio, and thus Riley declined to pull Vaz in the bowl game even as he coughed up three turnovers and took a staggering 10 sacks. Oregon State returns ample talent on offense, led by receiver Brandin Cooks and tailback Storm Woods, but expect the competition between Vaz and Mannion to dominate discussion throughout the spring — and probably into August
Jack says: Maybe Vaz can take the five step drop and just take a knee. Anything is better than a misread under center followed by that standing fetal position he does.
helmsley says: Ouch –
mckalk says: I never really understood Cunningham leaving early unless he or his family needed the money. I wonder how hard CR pushed back, if at all? Jared’s game clearly was not ready for the NBA. When the foul calls started to dry up towards the end of last season, he was particularly ineffective.
helmsley says: I hope Craig Robinson pushed back – if he has any basketball sense at all, he would’ve, should’ve. OTOH, to say there was a #1 draft pick out of your program probably sounds good. In the baseball program, Brian Stamps left too early as well and I got the impression Pat Casey was blunt about telling him not to go.
mckalk says: You make a good point, I can’t find the quote, but there’s one out there from the off season where CR was sort of patting himself on the back for developing and sending J-Flight off to the NBA. If I remember correctly, it was in regards to how it was going to help recruiting. I thought at the time that it was a bit premature, but I guess Cunningham has some guaranteed money. It will be interesting to see if he really gets another shot with the Mavs next season.
WorldBeav says: From Aaron Fitt’s (Baseball America) chat today:
Q: Gray, Anderson and Shipley have popped up as potential first round pitchers this year — are there any pop-up hitters with similar talent this year or next?
A: …Here’s a guy for next year: Dylan Davis at Oregon State has all kinds of talent, and he’s really putting it together as a sophomore. He hasn’t hit any home runs yet, but there’s real juice in that swing, and it’s encouraging to see him hitting for average.
steveEbeaver says: OT–Are lighter helmets the answer in football? I like the idea of a sensor so that if a player leads with the head and sustains a certain amount of impact he’s done for the day.
Jack says: OT…
It’s just preliminary science, but it appears to be quite thoughtful.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0307/Global-temperature-rise-is-fastest-in-at-least-11-000-years-study-says
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