BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

Considering this tournament is bringing money in for Wooster (I'm sure),

It's bringing in money for the NCAA, if anyone. That's how the NCAA works.

[pg04]

Were there games actually played today or did the Sports Information Departments of each school just have a tug of war? 

Seems like the Wooster people are the only people wanting to actually talk baseball. 

[Spence]

My God!  I come in here to check on scores and I see the power outage is still the hot topic???  Is there baseball being played or what?!  Last time I checked, OWU's and Marietta's SI depts combined don't do as good of a job as Wooster's SI dept!  Maybe if OWU's SI dept did half the job that Wooster's does, you might not have had to rely on Wooster's SI dept for your precious updates!!!

Did you happen to read what Pat posted a whie back?!  In case you missed it, allow me to highlight it for the slower ones and you should know who you are by now:

I doubt that the entire campus revolves around Wooster baseball.

And to take a page from Pat's book of answers from another conversation on another board...

Ding ding!!!

EXCUSE ME?! WHAT?! You've got to be joking that Marietta doesn't do as good a job. We've done this so many damn times we could do it with our eyes closed and half drunk (and some of us have been at times! especially on day 4 of "captivity"). Get over yourselves. Marietta's sports information director kept a live update feed that was running ahead of my internet radio feed most of the night. This isn't his tournament to run. Last week he was in Fayetteville, NC helping do radio when the softball team was in the regional down there.

On the radio tonight they said that the Hope and Marietta players were helping to prepare the field...isn't that the host team's responsibility? Was the tournament banquet brought in from Damon's at picnic tables like it was the year I went to it at Thurman Munson?

At the risk of sounding egotistical, Marietta does a better job with the regional. The community support is better, the support staff is better (non-Marietta players don't touch the tarp, even when Marietta isn't playing), the facilities are better. That's not in any way to say this should have been at Marietta this year, but for you to knock anything about Marietta in conjunction with this tournament is just the act of a raving loon.

[pg04]

At the risk of sounding egotistical,

Many on here would say that's a risk you are used to taking.

Sorry you asked for it 

[Pat Coleman]

I think the reference to sports information is 365 days a year, not just today.

From an unbiased angle I think it's hard to deny that Wooster's Web site is more complete, has more photos and I know it more often has the things I need when I go to look for something.

[Spence]

But then, Wooster and their fans have never been too receptive to the idea that they might be fallible.

Boy, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black Mr. I'm an expert on everything...

I suppose it would be if you made inaccurate generalizations. I've never claimed to be an expert on everything; I was wrong about several things that happened today. Now if you were to say I have an opinion on a lot of things and think it's usually right, I would agree. But that's not what you said. Part of the problem is that what some of you think are opinions, aren't.

[Spence]

I think the reference to sports information is 365 days a year, not just today.

From an unbiased angle I think it's hard to deny that Wooster's Web site is more complete, has more photos and I know it more often has the things I need when I go to look for something.

Guess it depends on what you're looking for. I was looking for the 9th inning of Wooster's game today and it was early in the 2nd game before I found out. For a site that has a live update, I don't think that's very good at all, and it isn't the first time this year it's happened. Once it happened in between games of a doubleheader! Maybe they do it every game and I've only followed certain games.

I've never had a problem with the work the current Marietta sports information director does, in spite of the fact that I applied for the job what seems like 50 years ago for all my life has changed since then. I don't think I could have done any better than he has, so it would be pretty hard for me to be critical.

pg04: Good one! I sure did leave the barn door wide open there!

[Pat Coleman]

I specifically restricted my comments to the information on the Web. I don't know what info Marietta produces that we don't get. I know what Wooster posts is what we need. ::shrug::

[Spence]

It's all experiential as far as that goes. Without doing some kind of audit of the sites I can't really remember much that Wooster's site has that Marietta doesn't. And I like the extra stuff Marietta's site has (like the wallpapers, one of which is my board icon!).

[woosterbooster]

To the detriment of THIS website, during the time of the year that most of us look forward to, two posters have successfully managed to hijack the subject away from the baseball played during the first day of the tournament.  That's a shame; it really could and should be so much better here.

[countyroad]

Three hits apiece. One home run apiece. The only thing to choose between the teams really was the error. I'd just be thanking my lucky stars that you won a game you very easily could have lost if I were you and not worrying so much about how long other teams might be around.

A little hypocritical don't you think? 

Scot's Fan-
  Interesting news on the Methodist game.  That's something you don't expect to see.

What's hypocritical about what I posted?

What's hypocritical is the fact that you're telling someone to not worry about another team, when all you do is concern yourself with other teams.

[Spence]

Three hits apiece. One home run apiece. The only thing to choose between the teams really was the error. I'd just be thanking my lucky stars that you won a game you very easily could have lost if I were you and not worrying so much about how long other teams might be around.

A little hypocritical don't you think? 

Scot's Fan-
  Interesting news on the Methodist game.  That's something you don't expect to see.

What's hypocritical about what I posted?

What's hypocritical is the fact that you're telling someone to not worry about another team, when all you do is concern yourself with other teams.

I didn't say anything detrimental about how anyone won yesterday until you did. Not to mention that I usually do it on the correct board, or at least in the correct region.

FYI, the winds in Roanoke were blowing from the SW and gusting up to 30 mph before the rains came. All three winners in Ferrum scored double digits. Ferrum's more in the mountains than Roanoke, so depending on terrain effects they might have even had higher winds than Roanoke. That could have a lot to do with the scoring.

Given my line of work, I should have checked that first. After all, a bunch of people joked when I told them I was doing weather that I should have learned quite a bit just from being in Coach Schaly's office! lol But I'm doing tactical training right now so not checking it as often as I would be otherwise.

[countyroad]

I didn't say anything detrimental about how anyone won yesterday until you did. Not to mention that I usually do it on the correct board, or at least in the correct region.

What did I say detrimental about how anyone won yesterday?

[Spence]

Well whoever the bloody hell it was. One of you kilt-wearing Scottish bastahds, as my friend from south England would say.

[ScotsFan]

Part of the problem is that what some of you think are opinions, aren't.

What??

No, I just think the problem is, most of us in here just flat out don't like you.  And it has pretty much everything to do with your opinions, whether they are or aren't your opinions (whatever that's supposed to mean)?!

BTW, I was the one who brought up the score from the Ferrum Regional.  And I didn't realize that when I brought it up, it was somehow being 'detrimental' to how anyone won or lost a game.  I should have known better as Spence takes anything anyone from Wooster has to say and turns it around on Wooster!

I was just trying to point out that I don't ever recall seeing a football score on the 1st day of the NCAA Tournament as that is the day when most teams are firing their aces!  My point wasn't to be 'detrimental' as a certain poster interpreted it?!  It was even brought up in the Blog page for Christ's sake!  Why didn't you go rip him a new one for making such 'detrimantal' comments?!

Oh, and I'm sorry that I didn't go and check Weather.com before I made my 'detrimental' comments?!  Give me a break!

What's really funny is that I tried to make an actual baseball conversation and Spence had to predictably turn it around on Wooster.  And then we had to proceed to spend the next couple of pages reading about Spence and OWUrocks whining about Wooster not having a live feed or how they never updated the 9th inning or whatever else they wanted to vent about Wooster.  Meanwhile, we have some pretty intriguing matchups today that we could be talking about instead.  Here's a novel idea: 

CAN WE PLEASE JUST TALK BASEBALL ALREADY?!?!