BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[wordsmith]

UMESS Boston USM game any scores

5-3 UMess Box Score attached.

http://usm.maine.edu/athletics/Baseball/stats/bbgm24.htm

[dgilblair]

WHINE WHINE WHINE!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not whining. There is a problem in the LEC with umpiring. The umpire at the 2nd KSC/RIC  game was fired. The ADs went against the coaches choice and hired a very weak umpiring group.

I heard the same thing....and the umpiring has been pretty bad from what I've seen.  Floating strike zones, easily intimadated, not knowing the rules.... pretty suspect for sure.  Now, I'm only comparing it to what I saw last year. 

[kscer]

WHINE WHINE WHINE!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not whining. There is a problem in the LEC with umpiring. The umpire at the 2nd KSC/RIC  game was fired. The ADs went against the coaches choice and hired a very weak umpiring group.

I heard the same thing....and the umpiring has been pretty bad from what I've seen.  Floating strike zones, easily intimadated, not knowing the rules.... pretty suspect for sure.  Now, I'm only comparing it to what I saw last year. 

It is so bad and the coaches know it. They start right at the beginning of the game trying to confuse and intimidate the umpires.

[dgilblair]

And it's not always the evil empire doing  it...lol

Quote from Joe Morgan on the trouble chase wright for the yankees is have tonight.

He's only throwing his fastball when he's ahead in the count or way behind in the count..........what the .... doe's that mean?

[Paul Heering]

He's only throwing his fastball when he's ahead in the count or way behind in the count..........what the .... doe's that mean?

that isn't even one of his worst comments.  I have to start this post by saying two things, 1) i hate announcers, they all need to go, just pump up the crowd noise, let me hear the PA announcer and if someone gets hurt or something odd happens, have someone chime in and 2) if i talked on the air for 3 hours a night, i would probably say a few dumb things.

here are some of my favorite lines by announcers.

Joe Morgan
When speaking about the book Moneyball, "I don't need to read that book to know that what it says is wrong"
When speaking of pitching, "If you get the batters to hit the ball at people, they are more likely to get out"

Susan Waldman (yankees radion announcer)
Earlier this year talking about Oriole's pitcher Adam Loewn, "Last August he came up as a 21 year old, he is now 22, and tomorrow he turns 23"  at that pace he will be thirty by next week.

those are just some, i think i recall seeing a website once that had a whole list of these

[dgilblair]

Maybe he's tryin to be the new yogi.....you know you could get cash for doin that and thats as good as money......lol

[Jcon2134]

Umass finally figured out how to come up with a clutch hit today at some points in the game. Now lets see if we can get on a run and get into the tourney and make some noise This win could turn the tide of there season there was alot more fire in there eyes after the win today HUGE WIN.

Not to be lost in all this the umpiring was not great again today Flaherty was thrown out of the game for argueing a call when the pitcher threw it to the shortstop at his postion on a pick off move now I know thats a balk but apparently mr. Flaherty didnt think so the strike son was inconsisent was the only problem with todays umps.

[wordsmith]

The Swamp was good to the Owls today as they swept the WConn Warriors 6-1 and 8-3. 8)

[wordsmith]

I see where Southern Maine (formerly EEIT) is rated 26th in the latest Alphabet Poll.     Laughable.

So. Maine is just like Notre Dame in Football, their rankings are never representative of their actual strength of schedule, how they play or their record. So, I must make the change to either Southern Dame or Notre Maine.

By the way, Notre Maine beat Bates today 19-13
Clipboards in the State of maine are safe tonight

[soxfan42585]

How did they jump to that?  I don't understand how they can move up like that...

[Bostonian]

I have them at 26...

[wordsmith]

26th is correct they are 17-7. Sorry

[ECSUalum]

Nice Job by J Esposito this afternoon against an pretty good hitting Trinity College team!!!

Gilblair and Castillo are hot hitters!!

Score by Innings                    R  H  E
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Eastern Connecticut. 402 110 402 - 14 16  2
Trinity (Conn.)..... 100 200 000 -  3  6  3
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E - Castillo(9); Moran(10); Kent Graham(2); C. Barnard(1); D. Anderson(4).
DP - ECSUBB 2; Trinity 2. LOB - ECSUBB 12; Trinity 9. 2B - Gilblair 2(8);
Sean Killeen(10); M. Sullivan(6). 3B - Castillo 2(3). HR - C. Barnard(1).
HBP - Dalton; Geraci; Castillo; M. Sullivan. SF - Riemer(3). SB -
O'Toole(10). CS - Riemer(1).

Eastern Connecticut    IP  H  R ER BB SO AB BF
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Joe Esposito........  9.0  6  3  3  5 10 33 39

Trinity (Conn.)        IP  H  R ER BB SO AB BF
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Eric McGrath........  2.2  8  6  5  4  2 14 19
D. Anderson.........  3.1  4  2  1  1  5 13 15
Rath-Noonan.........  0.1  1  4  4  3  0  2  5
M. Gyrguc...........  1.2  1  0  0  1  4  6  7
Dan Meehan..........  1.0  2  2  0  0  0  5  7

[kscer]

The LEC tournament field is getting interesting at the bottom end. There are five teams fighting for the last three slots, assuming USM doesn't completely collapse. Two good weekends coming up. #1 seed this year will be real important, not just for homefield but for matchup. KSC just won six conference games in six days. I don't think anyone else has that kind of pitching.

[ECSUalum]

Seems like certain teams get written up more often on the DIII Baseball web site headlines.  Particularly Wheaton, NJAC teams and UW Whitewater.

Any reason for this? 

Need to spread the love!!!