See you guys tonight.

Anyone know if ESPN will televise the game free on ESPN3 again?

Go Beavs!

Jun 4 (Fri) 11:00 AM PT.
TV: ESPN3

Go Beavs!

One thing we can all agree on: Go Beavs!

May 27 (Thu) 6:00 PM Away Stanford Stanford, CA

May 28 (Fri) 6:00 PM Away Stanford Stanford, CA

May 29 (Sat) 12:30 PM Away Stanford Stanford, CA

It’s only Monday, and I’m not in the mood to argue all week, so we can move on to milquetoast topics and go back to burying our head’s in the sand. Mitch is not the guy. Period. Will archive the prior thread for posterity. Disappointing reactions here. I expect ABs to have higher expectations.

Moving on…Stanford is playing mediocre baseball as well, having gone 3-3 over their last 6. Should be an interesting clash of two powers playing Mike Riley style baseball. Odds are Stanford takes 2 of 3.

Those of us who were nervous about what we were seeing were told baseball would get back to dominance once Bailey was gone and we settled on a full-time manager. Then that happened, and our manager was horrible in year one. Then we were told his performance was due to the Covid shortened season. Now we have a full season in the post-Bailey, full-time manager era, and we see he’s not that good with Xs and Os; he’s not good at setting a lineup (Casey batting 5th was a red flag from game 1); and he’s not good at creating cohesion within the lineup – different lineup every game. He’s not good with pitching changes (or hiring the correct pitching coach), either.

My question is this: what exactly is he good at? Name a strength of Mitch. Just one.

Anyway, despite all this, the sentiment on Twitter seems to be: “because he is ‘one of us’ we have to give him more time.” That’s fine, but the more time you give someone who’s clearly not the right person, the more time you waste and bigger the uphill battle once you finally do cut bait. In short, Mitch can ruin the program forever just like Jimmy Anderson. I don’t know if it will be that dramatic – we might just linger in mediocrity for a while – but we definitely have a program in decline. Our recruiting even seems significantly worse, so that’s the pipeline of talent a few years from now.

The era of baseball dominance is clearly over, and people don’t want to fight for greatness. Instead they want to fight to preserve Mitch’s ego and pride and are using the “give him more time” trope to do so. This is bullish for tribalism, but it’s not what makes dominant baseball.