2011 MVC Baseball Tournament

[ShockerFever]

Let's hope for extra's.

[ShockerFever]

No, this is the Valley where everything is lollipops and rainbows. We have to be fair. Or some artificial semblance of fair that belittles the regular season and leaves multiple times each tournament where the home team is decided by a jankity system and a coin flip.

Spot on, spot on.

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[The Mad Hatter]

Blue scores in the bottom of the 8th to take a 7-6 lead going into the 9th.

[GoShockers89]

Redbirds are dunzo. Our side of the bracket has played out beautifully so far.

Let's hope the Tress have another 5 error game in them for this evening.

[WuDrWu]

Time to chop some trees. Maybe it's because they had no business winning the basketball tournament, or maybe it's just me being crazy, but they seem to have an arrogance about them, not befitting a 6th place team of a crappy athletic program.

We need to bury these guys and send them packing in about 5 hours.

[Cdizzle]

Time to chop some trees. Maybe it's because they had no business winning the basketball tournament, or maybe it's just me being crazy, but they seem to have an arrogance about them, not befitting a 6th place team of a crappy athletic program.

We need to bury these guys and send them packing in about 5 hours.

I was hoping it would only take about 2 and a half.

[martymoose]

I'm not going to count our chickens, but I like our chances of making the final. I'm hoping CU goes down to SIU to teach the Valley a lesson about trying these new locations for the Tourney. There's only one place that's going to make money and look good on TV...and it's not at CU with 20 fans in the stands.

[MadaboutWu]

Can you name a single tournament where the higher seed bats last in every game?

And why should a higher seed that gets sent to the loser's bracket and wins it get to bat last against a lower-seeded winner of the winner's bracket anyway?

If we want to make up ridiculous comparisons why don't we reward the higher seeds with getting to use the old aluminum bats?

Maybe we should use a tee and make a rule that every player has to get to bat too, while we're at it. And as we're being fair, we should probably move the fence in 100 ft. so everyone has a chance to hit a home run.

[shocker22]

Can you name a single tournament where the higher seed bats last in every game?

And why should a higher seed that gets sent to the loser's bracket and wins it get to bat last against a lower-seeded winner of the winner's bracket anyway?

If we want to make up ridiculous comparisons why don't we reward the higher seeds with getting to use the old aluminum bats?

Maybe we should use a tee and make a rule that every player has to get to bat too, while we're at it. And as we're being fair, we should probably move the fence in 100 ft. so everyone has a chance to hit a home run.

Yes, Every seeded baseball tournament I have ever played in from highschool, college, and professional.

And the higher seed should be home because they earned the higher seed from a long regular season and that should be worth something.

[ABC]

Creighton goes up 1-0 on a wild pitch.

On an intentional walk!

[Wuzee]

Time to chop some trees. Maybe it's because they had no business winning the basketball tournament, or maybe it's just me being crazy, but they seem to have an arrogance about them, not befitting a 6th place team of a crappy athletic program.

We need to bury these guys and send them packing in about 5 hours.

According to their website, the Trees are going to run out Brandon Flora, a junior reliever, as their starter tonight in what figures to be a Johnny Wholestaff effort.

He's got a 2.70 ERA -- but has only thrown 13.1 innings in 20 appearances. Opponents are hitting an even .300 against him but with only one extra base hit.

He's threw the final five meaningless pitches in a 5-2 loss to WSU last year, recording an out against the only batter he faced.

[shocker22]

Time to chop some trees. Maybe it's because they had no business winning the basketball tournament, or maybe it's just me being crazy, but they seem to have an arrogance about them, not befitting a 6th place team of a crappy athletic program.

We need to bury these guys and send them packing in about 5 hours.

According to their website, the Trees are going to run out Brandon Flora, a junior reliever, as their starter tonight in what figures to be a Johnny Wholestaff effort.

He's got a 2.70 ERA -- but has only thrown 13.1 innings in 20 appearances. Opponents are hitting an even .300 against him but with only one extra base hit.

He's threw the final five meaningless pitches in a 5-2 loss to WSU last year, recording an out against the only batter he faced.

This is what scares me...this team against a johnny whole staff. Put in a bunch of thumbers against us and we simply overswing and try to pull everything. Hopefully we adjust at the plate.

[WuDrWu]

2-0 Bjs top 8.

[ShockerFever]

sCUm prevails 5-0 to move them into the nightcap in front of surely will be 10,000 in the feature time slot on a beautiful night. No excuses now.

I hate rooting for MSU so I think I'll just watch as a neutral observer in that one. A sCUm win forces both to play tomorrow with no rest. An MSU win sends sCUm packing. Kind of a win/win or lose/lose.

[shockerofandover0943]

Does our game still start at 4 or does it start earlier?