BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

irish21 · February 09, 2006, 05:33:27 PM

I must have slept through this segment of the show...when did Augie and Lechnir start liking one another?

BigPoppa · February 09, 2006, 06:11:54 PM

Quote from: irish21 on February 09, 2006, 05:33:27 PM
I must have slept through this segment of the show...when did Augie and Lechnir start liking one another?

Believe it or not, they are somewhat cordial... at least they used to be. I am not sure if things have changed at all. I know for quite a while they had some trough recruiting wars going on. Often, people associate competitiveness with dislike and lack of respect.

Hey Irish... any updates on the player we previously talked about??

REDMENFAN · February 09, 2006, 06:12:27 PM

Irish, from what I know and have heard, I have been told they actually get along quite well. I used to think as well for some reason they didn't like eachother. However, I've been told they get along just fine and actually talk every once in a while to talk baseball... I could be wrong, but from who I heard it from I doubt it. By the way, how's Pat? I played football one year with him my sophomore year when I transferred to Carthage. As much as I went against him with the starting 1's on offense and defense on the field in practice, i never picked him off once! Also played baseball one year with him (well actually watched from the dugout in a uniform next to augie listening to him just waiting for the next great one liner to come out of him mouth!

BigPoppa · February 09, 2006, 08:17:24 PM

Quote from: REDMENFAN on February 09, 2006, 06:12:27 PM
Also played baseball one year with him (well actually watched from the dugout in a uniform next to augie listening to him just waiting for the next great one liner to come out of him mouth!

Do any of these sound familiar?:

"This is like a sore D!@k, you just can't beat it." or

"Son, you're gonna hurt your neck throwing the ball over the plate against this guy"

"Domin, go get thrown out of the game!"

"If baseball was a game of rah-rah, we would have cheerleaders in the dugout... shut your mouths and hit."

I am sure there are many, many more out there.

REDMENFAN · February 09, 2006, 08:47:50 PM

The "Augieisms" are really never ending. We all know Augie loves to hit, and last year our strength was obviously pitching. We're winning games 4-1, and 5-2, and you could tell he just missed those 15-8 games when the mentality was simply "you can't score more than us."

BigPoppa · February 09, 2006, 09:11:08 PM

I remember playing a game at North Park in the bitter cold one year and Augie was so angry about us winning game one by a score of 2-1 that he forbade us to cheer at all in the second game. Our dugout was dead silent for seven innings and all you could hear was Augie talking to himself for three hours. At one point, Jack Richarz hit his first college homerun as a senior and he refused to let us go out to congratulate him... now that I think back on it, those times were hilarious.

That guy still cracks me up.

cubs · February 10, 2006, 11:13:49 AM

Quote from: REDMENFAN on February 09, 2006, 04:01:49 PM
Any word on how that big lefty from oshkosh is doing? I believe his name was Jordan Timm.

Here are his numbers from last season:

Jordan Timm: Individual Stats (Pitching)
Team From To W L ERA G GS SV    IP H R ER HR BB SO
Dunedin Blue Jays 0 0 16.20   1 0 0    1.2 2 3 3 1 1 1
Auburn Doubledays 0 1 6.75    1 1 0      4.0   5 3 3 0 1 4
Lansing Lugnuts    2 0 2.47   18 4 5    47.1   39 16 13 2 16 44

REDMENFAN · February 10, 2006, 01:24:39 PM

Thanks, looks like he's doing very well where he was at most of they year, got roughed up a little bit at the higher levels, but he only pitched a few innings there.... Former Carthage Catcher Kevin Sullivan was signed by the cubs organization, and will most likely end up in AA or AAA. There was a big write up about it in the kenosha news a few weeks back.

irish21 · February 10, 2006, 02:13:13 PM

Redmenfan...I remember you! Your Dad tailgated with us several times at the football games. I think I remember your football debut. Didn't you have a couple of picks to start your Carthage career?

Pat is doing well. I know he misses competitive sports. He started playing softball this past summer with guys he went to high school with. He told me that he and the Grybash brothers are coming up for the weekend to see Augie and the boys. Kenosha's in trouble this weekend!!

Poppa...he is definitely academically ineligible! Tough blow to the Redmen!

BigPoppa · February 10, 2006, 03:25:49 PM

Quote from: irish21 on February 10, 2006, 02:13:13 PM

Poppa...he is definitely academically ineligible! Tough blow to the Redmen!

That one hurts... I guess we will find out how deep they are right away, huh?

REDMENFAN · February 10, 2006, 05:59:04 PM

First off, I know who you two are talking about, known since I helped with the Christmas baseball camps over break, and that is definately a huge blow. Irish, my second game as a redmen I had two picks, my first was a terrible one because we lost to the school I transferred from. Hate to bring back painful memories, but we were up and the converted a 4th and 18 or 19 with 2 minutes left and went on to win, pretty much summing up that season and the one after, play good enough to almost win, but not quite good enough to win. Hopefully I see pat, I'm at Johnny's house quite a bit so hopefully we all meet up. Hope to see you at some games this year?? I am student teaching so could not play this year, already miss listening to Augie every day and horsing around with Jarvis

BigPoppa · February 10, 2006, 06:41:46 PM

Anybody have any predictions for the players of the year in the conference?

Best Player?
Best Pitcher?
Best Hitter(AVG)?
Best Hitter(power)?
Best Defensive Player?

I am curious to know what people think of the returning talent in the CCIW.

REDMENFAN · February 11, 2006, 10:12:29 AM

Best pitcher I'm gonna have to say senior Jon Olson from Carthage. I think he will have a very similar year statistic wise as Dan Grybash had his junior year (Grybash was 9-0 with a 1 something ERA.) When you can touch 90-91 and compliment it with above average off speed tough, I don't care who you are, as long as you throw strikes you are going to be successful at the D-3 level. Just look at Hymes from Wesleyan last year. He threw hard, but I would say that's about all he did, which was enough to get it done most of the time. Hopefully he can learn some good off speed stuff in the Astros organization.

REDMENFAN · February 11, 2006, 10:14:03 AM

sorry, in a hurry, that's supposed to be "off speed stuff"

augie_superfan · February 11, 2006, 10:31:30 AM

REDMENFAN,

Himes was not the one that threw hard. That was Cory Lapinski. It is also completely unfair to say that is all he did. He also had a tight little breaking ball that kept people off balance all day. Sure, throwing hard is probably what got him drafted but if all he did was throw fastballs, then his stats would not have been what they were.