BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[motorman]

All I said was that I had never heard of it before. I too have scored close to 100 games, some before you were born.

So did you have your kid at like 40 then?

See you are way too interested in my personal life.

[Spence]

Oh FFS. If I was really that interested, I wouldn't have asked, I would just find out myself.

See, it may come as a surprise, but I know the year in which I was born, and so for you to have been accurately officially scoring baseball games before that and have a kid that is a senior in college right now...well it would put you pretty far out there on the curve as far as age when said kid was born relative to the norm, particularly at that time. Has nothing to do with giving a crap about your life and everything to do with thinking you're full of crap.

Even at all of that, nothing says you actually know how to do it. Nothing more common than amateur scorekeepers that just "kind of" know how to score, well enough for their own purposes.

Bottom line is you were wrong, you made a big stink about how Marietta was cheating and giving their pitchers cheap wins, and then your kid got one when he desperately needed a confidence builder. Normally I wouldn't have noticed or cared, but I just thought it was funny.

[motorman]

You want my whole bio Spence? So you are a grad student in Minnesota so that makes you what 25 tops? I started in college at Mount at 17 and majored in math and accounting so I know the difference between 19 and "like 75". I also took enough English classes to know the difference between hyperbole and the truth. You can't make an exaggerated statement and then in practically the next sentence say everything you posted is the truth. Guess they don't teach that at Marietta. So I could be as young as 42 and have scored games before you were born. And regarding the starter getting win with less than 5 innings rule you admitted that you didn't know the rule so don't get so all high and mighty on me about that.

[Spence]

So you are a grad student in Minnesota so that makes you what 25 tops?

     

And we stop here because you already lost.

Boy, don't I wish.    I'm guessing less than 1/4 of our program is younger than 25.

[motorman]

So you are a grad student in Minnesota so that makes you what 25 tops?

     

And we stop here because you already lost.

Boy, don't I wish.    I'm guessing less than 1/4 of our program is younger than 25.

Sorry I didn't take into account the 6 years it took you to graduate from Marietta.


Just what is it about scorekeeping at mighty Etta that makes you a pro and everybody else an amateur? Must be that lucrative pro scorekeeper career dried up forcing you to go back to school.


Too bad you had to take potshots at Berg and Coach Palm on the national regional rankings thread but didn't have the stones to say who you were talking about. You knew you would be laughed out of there if you made that claim in addition to your factual error about that school never going to Appleton.

[Spence]

So you are a grad student in Minnesota so that makes you what 25 tops?

     

And we stop here because you already lost.

Boy, don't I wish.    I'm guessing less than 1/4 of our program is younger than 25.

Sorry I didn't take into account the 6 years it took you to graduate from Marietta.

Just what is it about scorekeeping at mighty Etta that makes you a pro and everybody else an amateur? Must be that lucrative pro scorekeeper career dried up forcing you to go back to school.

Too bad you had to take potshots at Berg and Coach Palm on the national regional rankings thread but didn't have the stones to say who you were talking about. You knew you would be laughed out of there if you made that claim in addition to your factual error about that school never going to Appleton.

Pretty much all of this is inaccurate and most of it uncalled for.

You're right, the facts don't fit your hypothesis. So why the hell is it your hypothesis? Is there not another possibility? Do you think maybe there are other programs that are highly ranked and/or have been in the past that have NEVER made it to Appleton? Maybe even *gasp* outside the Mideast region?

Heck I'm surprised YOU know that Heidelberg has been to Appleton since you don't seem to find any value in anything that happened before your kid started playing D-III. Hint, there really aren't any programs that are typically highly-ranked in the Mideast that haven't been to Appleton. Manchester, Adrian, Wooster, Heidelberg, Marietta...all have gone. 

[EttaFan1]

Back to baseball discussions for a while.

matchups for the weekend.

"Game of the week"  Heidelberg at Ohio Northern:  Lots on the line for both teams.  Northern's slim playoff chances are at stake, and they are in a must win situation to make that happen.  A sweep greatly helps their situation, a split and they need help.  Get swept and their season ends on Saturday.  For Heidelberg, there is plenty at stake.  Being regular season champions, hosting the OAC tourney, regional playoff seed.  Two wins will put them in a spot where tiebreakers are on overload.  A split and they will most likely make the trip to Marietta next weekend.  IMO the only way this isn't a sweep by Heidelberg is if they make a bunch of errors and give up a lot of unearned runs.  They have been bitten by that bug before on a number of occaisions.  Northern's pitching can potentially keep them close.  I don't think the bears can hit well enough to get over the hump without some extra outs.  If the wind is blowing out at any clip, this is dangerous for Northern.

Best of the rest:  Mount Union at Otterbein.  Mount has all but been eliminated from the playoffs, but there is a very SLIM chance it could happen.  So they have something to play for other than pride.  I'm sure this is not how they envisioned their season going, but you just never know.  Otterbein is kind of a Jekyl and Hyde type team.  They play Heidelberg tough, splitting and having  the tying run on third in the loss, and split with the Quakers.  Will the Cardinals show up?  This is too close to predict a sweep either way. 

Interesting, but not exciting:  Muskingum at JCU:  it has been covered previously how this has a factor in the race for the top spot in the tournament.  JCU has clinched the third seed.  Pool C birth is a consideration in the streaks plans.  Muskingum is playing for pride.  JCU has solid pitching and Muskigum's hitting is not particularly impressive.  I would be very surprised if JCU doesn't come through with the sweep.

Ho Hum....Cap at BW:  Cap is bad.  BW swings it well.  Cap is in trouble.  BW likely wraps up the fourth spot with a sweep over the lowly crusaders.  One win is enough if ONU splits with Berg. 

Ho Hum Part 2: Marietta @ Wilmington.  The key element here is margin of victory.  Marietta needs to win by at least a combined total of 8 runs or more to break the tie if Muskingum and Otterbein remain tied.  I don't see this being a problem.

At the end of the weekend this is what I see...(in seed order)

1 Marietta 15-3
1 Heidelberg 15-3
3.  JCU 12-6
4. BW 11-7

Marietta wins the tiebreaker becuase Otterbein finishes higher in the standings than Muskingum.  This is going to be a VERY tough OAC tournament.  Maybe the most competitive in years!

[Spence]

Marietta wins its first game in Wilmington, 10-0. Credit Wilmington, who kept it close for most of the game. 6 MC markers in the 9th blew it open.

Brewer taking no chances. He went with Herstine and Byers is expected to start the second game. Not a surprise.

Ohio Northern is batting in the 10th, tied 3-3 with Heidelberg. Derek Hendrixson has been brilliant in relief to keep Heidelberg in it. Eltzroth went 9 innings for ONU, giving way to #2 starter Ben Glischinski as Stechschulte knows they need two wins to have any chance at postseason play.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount takes game 1 by a score of 8-7.  Collier and Carlino both gave up some runs today.  BW eliminated them yesterday with their sweep of Cap, but it's the last games for a good senior class so I'm hopeful for a sweep anyway.

[Dr. Acula]

Marietta wins its first game in Wilmington, 10-0. Credit Wilmington, who kept it close for most of the game. 6 MC markers in the 9th blew it open.

Brewer taking no chances. He went with Herstine and Byers is expected to start the second game. Not a surprise.

Ohio Northern is batting in the 10th, tied 3-3 with Heidelberg. Derek Hendrixson has been brilliant in relief to keep Heidelberg in it. Eltzroth went 9 innings for ONU, giving way to #2 starter Ben Glischinski as Stechschulte knows they need two wins to have any chance at postseason play.

I looked at the live stats a while ago and you've got to tip your cap to Eltzroth too.  Last I saw Berg only had 3 base hits and that was in like the 6th or 7th inning I think.  They had scored a run on a balk and another on a steal of home (I'm assuming the 1st and 3rd variety) so they definitely weren't hitting him around at all.

[Spence]

Yeah if you're ONU you might think you should have already won this. Their defense hasn't been very good in the season though.

Hendrixson has gotten double plays in the 6th, 9th and 10th. I was thinking I would have bunted just to make sure you get to LaMarca, who hasn't been retired yet in the game. The one in the 9th (and 10th for that matter) was with 2 strikes, so I suppose they could have tried to bunt and just not been successful. Hendrixson's probably the only pitcher in the league that I really wish had chosen Marietta...and what's more is a HS teammate of his did! (Annett). Oh well, we all made mistakes at that age.

Have a feeling this ends in the 11th one way or another.

[Spence]

Berg loaded the bases on BB, BB, FC (no out), then Belliveau gunned down Harkness at the plate for a 9-2 double play, then Glischinski got a strikeout to end the inning.

3-4-5 up for Northern, which has 5 of their 6 hits. Lamarca the 3 hole has not yet been retired in the game.

I believe Marietta can clinch the 1 seed if ONU gets the upset here, because then the tiebreak would stop at ONU and not even get to the Otterbein/Muskingum mess.

I wonder if Brewer knows about what is happening right now up there. There weren't many in-game updates from the radio crew. Byers keyed into the live stats as the Game 2 starter for Marietta.

[Spence]

Ohio Northern has defeated Heidelberg, 4-3 in 11.

[Dr. Acula]

Definitely differing philosophies so far today.  Mount is playing to win hands down.  Other than starting Stotler at catcher in game 2 (and he's started a number of games this year) they haven't strayed from their normal lineup at all today.  Other than Carlino we haven't seen another senior pitcher yet.  Meanwhile Powell started a kid from Sweden with 10 AB's all year at 3B both games because he's a senior.  And he just got in both of his senior relievers who rarely pitch to make sure they got to pitch in their last game.  I'm all about winning, but that's a classy move by George.

[Spence]

Chris Winpigler with a grand slam to blow it open in Game 2 in Wilmington. 9-0 in the 6th.

Heidelberg up 3-0 in the 4th. Scored 3 in the 2nd despite not getting the ball out of the infield. Looks like if Northern found some guys that can play defense, they might be a pretty good baseball team next year. Pitching has been good.