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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 5, 2023 13:37:35 GMT -5
That’s one of the many beauties of the greatest sport: every team has a chance to win in every game and at any point in the game regardless of the score. You’re down 7-1 with one out in the bottom of the 9th and no one on base? You can still win. In football, to contrast, if you are down 49-7 with 3 minutes to play you cannot win. Ponder this - no MLB team has ever won 120 games (120-42= .741) in a season yet in the NFL this past season alone 5 teams went 13-4 (.765) or better.
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Post by timholycross on Apr 5, 2023 14:11:57 GMT -5
Injuries play a major part, no doubt; but typically the KC Chiefs in Week 1 are the same as the KC Chiefs in Week 2. Can't say that about which pitcher(s) you face on Monday vs who pitches on Tuesday.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 5, 2023 14:22:21 GMT -5
Injuries play a major part, no doubt; but typically the KC Chiefs in Week 1 are the same as the KC Chiefs in Week 2. Can't say that about which pitcher(s) you face on Monday vs who pitches on Tuesday. Exactly--that's one of the keys to the more evenly balanced W-L records in baseball. .
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Apr 5, 2023 14:39:20 GMT -5
Most teams (not all) are going to win at least 60 games in a season, and lose 60. It's what happens in those other 42....
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 5, 2023 15:16:02 GMT -5
So just pitch your ace in 30 of those games. I should be a consultant.🙂
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 5, 2023 16:37:18 GMT -5
HC off to a fast start today vs Merrimack - up 6-0 in the 2nd
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 5, 2023 18:27:18 GMT -5
13-1 final at Fitton in 6 1/2 innings - run rule game Our team can hit but the question is the pitching in the league games ahead
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Post by Crucis#1 on Apr 5, 2023 18:35:17 GMT -5
Nate Chudy with 14 Strikeouts in the game.
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Post by timholycross on Apr 6, 2023 8:08:13 GMT -5
That’s one of the many beauties of the greatest sport: every team has a chance to win in every game and at any point in the game regardless of the score. You’re down 7-1 with one out in the bottom of the 9th and no one on base? You can still win. In football, to contrast, if you are down 49-7 with 3 minutes to play you cannot win. Ponder this - no MLB team has ever won 120 games (120-42= .741) in a season yet in the NFL this past season alone 5 teams went 13-4 (.765) or better. The other irony to your comments are that of the 3 teams I remember off the top of my head (there may be others) for exceeding 110 wins- the 98 Yankees, the 54 Indians and the 01 Mariners; only the Yanks prevailed in the post season.
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 8, 2023 0:57:26 GMT -5
That’s one of the many beauties of the greatest sport: every team has a chance to win in every game and at any point in the game regardless of the score. You’re down 7-1 with one out in the bottom of the 9th and no one on base? You can still win. In football, to contrast, if you are down 49-7 with 3 minutes to play you cannot win. Ponder this - no MLB team has ever won 120 games (120-42= .741) in a season yet in the NFL this past season alone 5 teams went 13-4 (.765) or better. The other irony to your comments are that of the 3 teams I remember off the top of my head (there may be others) for exceeding 110 wins- the 98 Yankees, the 54 Indians and the 01 Mariners; only the Yanks prevailed in the post season. How about the 2004 Red Sox. Down three games to none in the ALCS, Papi goes yard in the bottom of the twelfth and the Sox reel off eight straight wins against the best of the best.
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Post by HC92 on Apr 8, 2023 7:36:53 GMT -5
The other irony to your comments are that of the 3 teams I remember off the top of my head (there may be others) for exceeding 110 wins- the 98 Yankees, the 54 Indians and the 01 Mariners; only the Yanks prevailed in the post season. How about the 2004 Red Sox. Down three games to none in the ALCS, Papi goes yard in the bottom of the twelfth and the Sox reel off eight straight wins against the best of the best. I think he was referring to teams that won 110 regular season games.
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 10, 2023 11:35:11 GMT -5
Halfway thru the league schedule and playoff teams are almost set - with HC (3-8) and Lehigh (1-10) far behind the other four teams who all have league records over .500 The Mountain Hawks are at Fitton this weekend with the battle to stay out of the cellar at stake
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 10, 2023 11:50:39 GMT -5
Halfway thru the league schedule and playoff teams are almost set - with HC (3-8) and Lehigh (1-10) far behind the other four teams who all have league records over .500 The Mountain Hawks are at Fitton this weekend with the battle to stay out of the cellar at stake The good news is that we are done playing the academies (with the exception of one more at Army) and then ten of the final 14 PL games are against L and L. Getting to 11 or 12 PL wins should be good enough to qualify for the PLT, which seems like is the goal for this program at this point.
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Post by hcbaseballalum on Apr 10, 2023 15:20:59 GMT -5
Sad that is where we are from a goal perspective in the first place.
We only made the playoffs last year due to a tiebreaker.
Still could potentially make it this year. Need Bucknell to falter with the tie breaker against them if we can beat them again. Losing to teams near the 4th spot will make the tiebreaker impactful.
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Post by cruskater31 on Apr 11, 2023 7:57:33 GMT -5
All the games vs. Lehigh and Lafayette will help and certainly the head to head series down in Lewisburg will be key. That being said, are we capable of making the PL tournament? I am not sure our pitching staff has it in them to make a run like that. I don't think we have a starter with an ERA under 5. Toomey continues to impress in the outfield...
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 11, 2023 20:01:16 GMT -5
Bizarre game today at Stonehill We won 20-7 despite being outhit 15-11 - benefitting from 5 Stonehill errors
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Post by HC92 on Apr 11, 2023 21:10:58 GMT -5
Meanwhile . . .
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 12, 2023 0:24:57 GMT -5
Who replaces BU in the baseball beanpot? I assumed UMass and just checked, that's who joined BC, NU and HU. It's the least thing I'm worried about, but leapfrogging HC and going 47 miles further west to UMass is a small slight to Holy Cross Athletics. And also I suppose to newer D-1 baseball teams from Merrimack, UMass Lowell and Stonehill who are all also closer to Beantown than UMass Amherst.
But HC baseball is not ready for prime time just yet. Northeastern is 26-6 and didn't even make the final in the Beanpot. Glad we missed the Huskies this year.
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 12, 2023 7:27:19 GMT -5
LS, UMass is terrible in baseball and I believe our rpi has been better in most years - they are the only D.1 team that starts their season in March - it is true they almost upset BC in the Beanpot last week.
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Post by bfoley82 on Apr 12, 2023 7:54:26 GMT -5
LS, UMass is terrible in baseball and I believe our rpi has been better in most years - they are the only D.1 team that starts their season in March - it is true they almost upset BC in the Beanpot last week. Yea, UMass baseball has been terrible for years. It is underfunded and no one cares about it out there. All the Beanpot tournaments are glorified nonconference games.
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Post by hchoops on Apr 12, 2023 8:05:52 GMT -5
Bird ball ? now what genius BC birdbrain came up with that clever phrase.?
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Post by bfoley82 on Apr 12, 2023 8:20:45 GMT -5
Bird ball ? now what genius BC birdbrain came up with that clever phrase.? Pete Hughes the head coach when they joined the ACC
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Post by snapper on Apr 16, 2023 14:40:50 GMT -5
10 league games left if my math is right. . 8-2 gets us to 11-13 which may get the 4 seed. There’s still a chance.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 16, 2023 14:55:26 GMT -5
10 league games left if my math is right. . 8-2 gets us to 11-13 which may get the 4 seed. There’s still a chance. It's actually 11 games. No chance this team gets to ten PL wins.
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Post by sader1970 on Apr 16, 2023 15:27:58 GMT -5
Since I don't follow the baseball team as closely as I do the football and basketball teams, the tenor of this thread seems to be unhappiness with the coaching staff. I do report every week or so to my Classmates on how the various teams are doing.
Men's LAX has not won a game at all. They are 0-12 (0-7). Softball 11-27 (0-9). Women's tennis 6-8 (0-4). That's a whole bunch of teams that have terrible overall records and 3 that have yet to win a PL game.
So, while not personally looking for any of these coaches to be axed because none of them get the resources of our football and basketball teams, we know (or assume) that those sports have coaches that sign multi-year contracts and (gag) apparently if fired still get paid their full contract.
Does anyone actually know if these non-revenue sports coaches have a similar contract situation or are they contracted one year at a time?
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