BB: LL: Liberty League

[BoomerIL]

NYBB....

It's "tough love" for karma points.

[WLCALUM83]

i told you people...pete is good. 

everyone should give me karma points b/c i knew he was going to make it and everyone doubted me.

Looks like he's going to be out of action for a bit: (5/29 note)

http://www.frontierleague.com/transactions.php

[BoomerIL]

Pete's supposed to be in Chicago this weekend for a three game series against the Windy City Thunderbolts.  My son will have to see if he is traveling with the team this weekend.

[ocho]

No Liberty Leaguers drafted? Awwwwww....

[BoomerIL]

ocho.....

Yeah, unfortunately no Liberty Leaguers were drafted, maybe next year.  Do you know of anyone from your area that did?  Anyones name we would recognize from this website?

[WLCALUM83]

Pete McEneaney pitched a 1-2-3 inning in his professional debut tonight for the Traverse City Beach Bums. Traverse City whitewashed the Midwest Sliders, 8-1.

Pete McEneaney's stats for all of 2008 can be found here:

http://www.frontierleague.com/teamstats/traversecity.php

(scroll down a bit.)

[shoeless]

 

Hey boom,

how do you think liberty league will shape up this year.  I like RPI's chances again of course.  But if you shore up your defense i put you in the running with RPI, St Lawrence and Clarkson this year.  Pete will be hard to replace in rotation but you have lots of folks back.

Shoeless

[BoomerIL]

shoeless.....

How was your summer??

Defensively, you make a good observation about how UR played in the conference playoffs, and in certain games during the season.  I have to admit you were correct when you said the defense was not at times stellar.  We blew it!  Also, I really appreciate you giving UR a chance of being in the running this coming season with the teams you mentioned in your post.  With the exception of RPI, I don't recall St. Lawrence and Clarkson getting any national attention last season.

Anyway, UR did give some games away with their defense and also stole some games as well.  That's baseball!!  That is why it is such a great game to watch and follow no matter what two teams are playing.  An aquaintance of mine that was at the College World Series said, with no reservation, that RPI had a better team compared to the teams he had seen in Appleton.  The best teams as you know, don't always advance in tournament play.  He also put UR and several other schools in RPI's category as well.  I know it is going to be hard for you to believe that, but you have to give credit where credit is due.

I think that UR will be better defensively than last season with some new faces and transfers, hitting should be equal to, our even better just based on the incoming and transfer players trying out for the team.  But as usual, pitching is always a concern, and that holds true for any school.  Losing Pete was big along with Fishback.  Fishback struggled most of the season with back problems, but I think we have two that will share the closers role.  The 1, 2, and 3 starters look really good.  The 4 spot has 4 or 5 guys that could fit in to that role.  I'm baseing this on some practices only.

Let's keep in touch, I know you like to "ruffle my feathers."  It's always good to get other peoples opinions.  It makes you think!!!   

[shoeless]

Yeah i like giving it to you.  I felt with Pete, Brocks (i think) and Veenema you had the top 3 pitchers last year and your hitting was good.  So that is why i like blaming your defense.

you got some transfers that is good?  what positions?

you lose pete, your ss and your catcher and dh which all 3 were good hitters. 

RPI will be back and strong. 

Of course you are the contender to beat, i love giving you crap.

[BoomerIL]

You refer to Brocks, but I think you meant Park.  As far as the transfers, I believe there is a catcher, an outfielder, and a pitcher.  There are a lot of freshman as well.  What DH are you thinking about?

[shoeless]

you lost the dh that was player of year vanderstine and you lost your catchers.

[BoomerIL]

Vanderstyne will be back.  I believe he red-shirted his sophomore year, and is doing a fifth year.  We have several catchers that are very capable of filling the #2 position.  I'm just hoping my son gets to play!  I'm not trying to create any hype, but there were about a dozen new faces trying out for the team.

I'm going to watch them this weekend, so I'll have some idea of how they might look in March.  You know, considering that the teams from New York and New England have to deal with a short spring practice season, they have done fairly well in the regular and post-season.

[nyy2344nyy]

Boomer - see you in Olean - Big Ed

[nyy2344nyy]

UR will have a tough time replacing Pete - he was a workhorse and the "ACE" of the staff last year!!  The pitching staff will have to step up this year to continue moving this program forward - they are certainly capable and as we all know - it all comes down to pitching!!!

[BoomerIL]

Big ED?  Thee Big ED???  My Friend Big ED???   

I'll be com'n in Friday afternoon.  I"m bring'n the book, some seeds for the team, and I hope sunshine!!!  It'll be great seeing you.  Is mom going along?  Mines going to a dinner party Saturday night through her office at some country club.  Has to be there.  For her its mandatory and free.  Anyway, she will be up in October.   Me, would have cost me $150.00.  As my favorite actor would say, "man's got to know his limitations!"  My limitation was missing son playing baseball.  Priorities you know.  Besides, didn't you tell me that it goes by really, really fast??  There is not a lot of time left for me to watch my favorite player, so I'll be there.