Quote from: D O.C. on May 20, 2010, 09:37:28 PM
I am out to  dinner. Thanks for the updates.

Come on D.O.C., don't disrespect your momma like that when she's taking you out to dinner! Get off the boards!

wow, what a weekend ! this makes for a huuge game between Redlands and PP next saturday. If Redlands wins, it wins the season series 3-1 and controls its own destiny to win SCIAC. If PP wins, the season series is split 2-2 and PP is up 2 games with 2 to play. What is the next tiebreaker after head-to-head? Run differential? A playoff? Will PP have clinched by winning vs. redlands?

i guess we'll find out tomorrow 

And how about this Kang guy?! Takes over at SS this year and is hitting over .450 with Hedman-like power (hit his 7th bomb today). i caught the wesleyan game and overheard that he he and his parents snuck out of north korea and immigrated to the USA when he was 4 years old, and now look at him. must be proud to see their boy living the american dream! and boy can he run!could there be interest from some major league scouts??

Quote from: BigPoppa on March 19, 2010, 03:57:30 PM
Is Menlo better than advertised? They beat a 15-2 Redlands team and sweep three from a strong Pacific Lutheran team. So hard to get a read on them.

Or is redlands worse than advertised? they have beaten nobody yet. La sierra, a mediocre CMS team, a mediocre la verne team, a struggling cal lu, and (sorry browneagle), a poor oxy team.

Quote from: BigPoppa on May 15, 2009, 07:13:06 AM
... and since they play almost the entire SCIAC conference every year without actually being in the SCIAC.

though it must be noted that the "sciac co champs" actually were under .500 against the sciac this year: 1-2 against whittier, 0-2 against la verne, 1-1 against cal lu, 0-3 against PP, 3-0 against CMS, 1-1 against redlands = 6-9.

Quote from: ppfan on May 13, 2009, 04:24:16 PM
All of today's games are postponed until tomorrow. Does this mean that the winner of the west regional will have 1 less day of rest than all the other regional winners?

looks like you are in luck IKeepscore! pp fan, I think tehy will be in the same position because a lot of other regionals are 8 teamers, but i'm not sure, maybe ralph or big poppa would know? I didn't see the d3baseball.com predictions, I guess the hens are getting some respect after all! as for wondering why you would have workouts in front of major league scouts during the season, was never invited to any major league tryouts but I think if you are lucky enough to get a tryout you do it whenever a scout asks you to! 

is the NCAA regretting its choice of linfield when mcmurry or chapman could have hosted a sunny, warm tournament??

whats with the lack of love for my hens? this is outrageous! this board should be littered with stories about hedman and kangs tryouts with the Dbacks last week and colvin's 94 mph heater. no respect. whats with all the talk about the hens being underdogs last i checked they were ranked #1 in the country!

PS LA Mike, will you be in oregon for the regional? I'd love to hear from a good ol' SCIAC supporter  I can't get out of my job down here in Pasadena, the market wont just stop without me! 

do you think hendrix would definitely get shipped over a pool C such as cal lutheran? I understand they would want they would want to keep PLU in linfield since its so close, but doesnt the team that won their conference get to go to their own regional? I know cal lu's record is much better, but still.

whats with the inconsistency in the regional rankings? Cal lu was unranked last week, went 3-0 against lowly whittier, and now they are 3rd in the region?? I do think that is cal lu's rightful place, but I dont understand what changed the voters minds.

Quote from: BigPoppa on April 28, 2009, 01:53:05 PM

Quote from: LA Mike on April 28, 2009, 01:39:31 PM
This is a first inning post -- Ralph good posts all year !!

The Chapman era needs to take a break.  PP swept them, Redlands split with them, they split with Cal. St. East bay, split with Cal. St. San Marcos & Kean, beat Oxy once and lost 2 of 3 to Cal Lu and La Verne-early season games.   I know that Chapman swept McMurry, but a lot of other teams beat them also.  [Similar to everyone that plays Menlo and sweeps them-- (Redlands and Chapman)]

If there is the chance to take Hendrix out of the west "just to balance other regions", could we bring in another team to the West ??

The discussions about the second team from SCIAC should be Cal Lu.  They have been consistent all year, beating the teams they should beat (splitting some times) and were ranked all season.  Redlands lost 2 of 3 to Cal Lu, split with Whittier, split with CSEastBay, swept La Verne/Oxy/CalTech.

What you call Pool C "do-overs" are a method for the strong conferences to get the proper teams a place to play in May.  If you look at the list of teams that have automatic berths so far --- 5 are NR-RV, 3 are not even on the list and only the SCIAC and NWC have ranked teams (GF &PacLu)--so far.   There are some strong teams that  will have to wait for next year,  but the teams that can play, should be supported in the selection process.  We have this final games and conference tournaments this week and weekend -- one of those "patience things" we have to deal with in this hypothetical season of D3BB.

Back to the Bullpen for now--- Looking forward to Linfield Regional.
LA Mike

The "Proper" team won the Pool A bids... every Pool C team had a chance to earn that same bid. It was decided on the field, where it should be. By not winning a Pool A bid, teams leave it to others to decide their fates, which is ALWAYS a dangerous scenario. Either way, Pool C hopefuls that are left our have no one to blame but themselves.

Big poppa and ralph,
       I sort of see where you are coming from, and you guys keep using the same flawed argument. Yes, of course these teams "had their chance" to get a pool A bid and get in the tournament, and they screwed up. You can say the same thing about the mediocre pool B teams that get in who "had their chance" THE ENTIRE SEASON and lost 40% of their games. on any given day, a good pool C team such as millsaps or UTT can run into some bad luck- a bad bounce, or just hitting everything right at people, etc. why do you think its more fair to judge a team that has been consistently good the entire year and lost in a 2 game conference tournament vs. a team that had a chance to get it done ALL year and failed. Look at chapman. they failed against la verne. against whittier 2/3. against PP 3/3. against cal lu 1/2. I can go on. why are their consistent screw ups less valuable that 1 small screw up in a flukey conference tourney. Doesn't make sense. If chapman or another independent has a resume that is CLOSE to a pool C, they should get in. if its not in the same ballpark, they shouldnt.
      I remember way back from my statistics classes that your sampling error, that is, the chance that a particular team does not play indicative of how they actually play, will rise as sample size increases. Sample size of a conference tournament = 2-4 games. Sample size of a season = 40 games. you tell me which is more subject to error.

Quote from: IkeepScore on April 24, 2009, 12:29:41 AM
Someone keep me posted on the PP CLU game, I am not going to be able to make it , my wife went into labor tonight

Its a girl

Congrats ikeepscore! what are you going to name her?? if i can get out of work early and get down to claremont, I'll update you! Though I suspect you have better things to be doing with you time than read my posts!! 

man compete,
           back in my day, that kind of thing would have gotten some high heat in my direction. you better watch your back next oxy series. hope browneagle isn't going to tell his son about this

thanks for the update oxybob,
     it looks like the hens are really clicking! according to my calculations thats 8 HRs for frederick now. i hear he spent his winter break hitting and working out with his second cousin ryan zimmerman, and it really seems like it has paid off! hope those hens keep up the hard work! this hedman-frederick combo is scary.

browneagle, while they did play a somewhat easy schedule in the first part of teh season, you are not taking into account the injuries they have sustained since the first half. kand didn't play last weeked for some reason, and he has been hitting some cleanup for them. dunlap, an all league pitcher last year, has been hurt. they werewithout league player of the year mandelblatt's bat since mid march. however, according to my sources all 3 are coming back this weekend. so PP will be at full strenght and this team will not go down easy. look for a little deja vu this weekend!

"the team who's pitching staff comes out of the bullpen throwing sound/ controlled pitches and has their bats working in their favor to produce runs) will walk away with a victory."

Wait, I'm confused! Are you saying that the team that scores more runs and gives up less will win?!?!?!?Thank you for your incredible insight, browneagle! and its hard to take you seriously when you predict PP to lose the last 26 games.