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26 minutes ago, snakehead26 said:

if i was opposing team I wouldn't pitch to Snell in those situations cause he is the only long ball hitter we have.

Just had the very discussion here at the park.  Need Blankenship to get rolling to protect him.  Lamar now up 9-3.  

5-3 Birds.  Snell with a 3 run shot.  His 6th long ball of the season. 

Riverside 2-0 after 2. 

 Back at it.  0-0 after 1. 

Win it 5-0 move to 11-3 on the season.  14 K's by the starter and the 1 reliver that got the final 5 ours.  2 PM tomorrow.  

Faces 1 batter in the 8th.  Pop up to left.  Exits game giving up 3 hits and no runs. 

4-0 Lamar through 7.  11 K's and the stater is headed back out for the 8th. 

On 3/9/2023 at 9:36 AM, Kountzer said:

I am not trying suggest something is wrong, just seeking clarity.  

I don't understand how Hitchcock, which has a population of 7,000, has a high school with only 490 or so enrollment.

Must be a lot of private schools in that area.

7000 divided by 70 (using this as though all age groups were equal in size and no person over 70 lives in the community) is 100.  100×4=400 (3A enrollment).   Dont know the official total for Hitchcock. Not being a smart A#$, I promise.  City limit population and what's counted for population in school districts can be very different.  In this case, maybe most of Hitchcock's school population lives in the designated census area for the town.  Just speculation on my part.  

One example. Kirbyville has a population right at 2000.  If the high school has 400 students, 1/5 of the entire population of the town would be high school students. Taking it further the K-12 population would be 1300 (100 per grade).  Only 700 people in the town would not be in school. Rural area population and school size are very odd. 

Thin crowd tonight. 0-0 through 2 and 1/2.   Lamar SP has 6 strikeouts through 3 innings of work. 

1 hour ago, Coach_Izzy said:

Again you have tough kids & you have kids that’s going to report to mommy…boot camp goes on at just about every school in Texas (that’s worth a damn at least) and probably a lot tougher boot camps are happening than the one we’re discussing. Tough kids don’t go report to their parents that they had to do too many push ups. No coach in their right mind is purposely sending kids to the hospital, I’m sure it’s kids at NS & other schools across the state experiencing the same discomfort the Rockwall kids felt. Diff is they’re fighting through it & not running home telling mommy.

You mean to tell me an entire team did 200+ push ups & yet only a few had to go to the hospital? Common sense ain’t that common 

Tough has nothing to do with it.  It's a scientific principle. Ask any CSCS and they will confirm. You simply don't take a muscle to exhaustion in a anaerobic style over and over.  Microscopic muscle tearing, which can be beneficial, will be exercibated and that's just the start of your problems. 

I'll add this. It's likely the tougher kids that are working hardest in an unsound program would be the ones hospitalized by pushing so hard. 

On 3/8/2023 at 8:52 AM, Coach_Izzy said:

Just a bunch of soft a** kids & parent's if you ask me, having boot camp in the off-season is nothing new. This same thing is going on at North Shore right now & you won’t hear one complaint! 

No complaing because it's definitely a scientific based approach.  Take ANY person in the world and train a muscle or group of muscles to the point concentric muscle contraction is impossible, eccentric contraction is failing easily, and do it over and over and over...HOSPITALIZATION is happening soon.  Even an elite athlete from North Shore or the University of Oregon. 

Exercise physiology matters!!  Tough, not tough, whatever you want to argue....if you are going to work athletes extremely hard there is a process that must be undertaken to prepare the body.  I know nothing of the strength and conditioning program at the high schools mentioned in this thread, but it's quite obvious that the "punishment" administered was not physiologically sound.  

The Oregon situation from several years back that I linked here should be all any coach needs to know that there must be progression to go to "extremes" without detrimental effects. 

Tough night for the Cards.   Too many walks and 2 big flys by the Tigers.  

2 minutes ago, spidersal said:

#1 LSU put a spanking on the Cards tonight. Not quite ready for the big dogs. Hopefully have a good weekend series vs UC Riverside. Still 10-3

3 hours ago, baddog said:

Anyone know today’s date in Texas’ history? March 6th. 

Final day of 13 days to glory?

19 hours ago, spidersal said:

Good comeback today. 10-2. 10-3 after LSU loss and then nice matchup with UC Riverside. I would think they would be same caliber as Penn Hopefully win 2 of next 5 before St Louis. I look for them to be 12-6 as they head to St Louis series. Davis’s best team since he has been at Lamar. Success still comes down to making it to the regionals. I hope this is their year to do it

You have a game extra in the 12-6 projection. That would be 6 games on the present total instead of 5. Assume you meant 12-5.

Would be nice to see a sweep of UC-R and take a game from one of the weekday matchups.  

Simply winning 3 out of the next 5 regardless of who the wins come against would be decent. 

LSU on Wednesday.  Tigers are 10-1 and on a 5 game winning streak.  UC Riverside out of the Big West next weekend at home. 

Another close one. LU up 2-1 after 5. 

2 minutes ago, WOSdrummer99 said:

My coworker told me to listen on 560 KLVI. I tired going thru their website. But I heart radio didn't have the game on. Any ideas on how to listen for free besides the old antenna radio?

I never can figure out the KLVI broadcast schedule with Lamar  baseball.  

2 hours ago, spidersal said:

Struggling with penn that came to Beaumont winless and I don’t think South Carolina is any better than A&M. Can’t continue to make errors along with poor pitching and hitting and win. Game #1 no hitting and 4 errors game #2 poor pitching and 2 errors  Just poor college baseball. Maybe they will get back on track today

Lots of ups and downs in baseball. Yes, there were a few bad plays here and there, but I wouldn't consider it poor baseball.  Penn was out scored by 5 runs in a 3 game series against an SEC squad thats ranked with a 10-1 overall record. Penn did hit the ball well yesterday, but it wasn't poor baseball by any stretch.  Penn is a quality baseball squad and although they may not hold the education quality of Harvard on the Neches the baseball squad would be a dominate team in the Southland year in and year out. 

First pitch today at 1.  Go birds!  

Something some of you may find of interest. Lamar's 8 opponents that they have faced this season are a combined 22-54.  Two teams are winless (HCU & New Mexico St.) with 11 and 10 losses.  Also, Alcorn State has 1 win on the season against a D2 school and is sporting a 1-9 record.  

Without those teams the record of the others is 21-24 and Lamar hold a 6-2 record against the other squads.  

On 2/27/2023 at 12:28 PM, rupert3 said:

LOL do think those are real weenies.  But that's nice.   Do yall remember nickel beer nights and foamer nights in the Astrodome?  Foamer night light on when Astros hit HR and beer was free the rest of the game until 7th inning.

Those were the days.

 

Just reading through these. My brother jokes that he still has shoulder trouble from my dad yanking him up on any deep fly ball back in the dome foam days.  Thanks for the memory. 

3 game win streak, but feel short 1-0 in a shot a at a 4 game streak. Quality of opponents...well....

Had a food truck, Taco Rey.  As someone that attends almost every weekend game, I had no idea until I arrived.  Advertising that would be helpful. 

Editing.  Game did go 10.  At some point the posted run for Penn in the tenth was put in the 9th inning on the in stadium board. Very confusing way to deal with extras. 

Accustomed to just clearing the inning by inning and start extras with the 1st. 

Drop it 7-6.