Warning!! Danger!! Annual Off-topic Baseball Thread '07!! Beware!!

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I'm curious to see who the previously ranked 1AA teams are. I'll have to do some research.

Anything yet? I'm interested in what you find. Having grown up watching 1-AA football and its playoffs, I have a fondness for it. It certainly beats the heck out of those silly bowl games and voting for a National Champion! Plus there's some pretty good football played at that level.

[dblref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

You could use that one for Michigan, MicK.

Appalachian St.?

Appalachian Freaking St.?

Keep in mind that Appalachian State has won the 1-AA championship the last 2 years, and I believe MIchigan was overrated to start with.

[mick]

Dan said to start watching in September.
It is September. Should be fun.

Playoff watch
AL Central standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Cleveland	79	58	.577	--
Detroit	73	64	.533	6
Minnesota	69	69	.500	10 1/2

Wild card standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
New York	76	62	.551	--
Seattle	74	62	.544	1
Detroit	73	64	.533	2 1/2
Toronto	70	66	.515	5
Minnesota	69	69	.500	7

table from detnews.com

[mick]

Did you know that those poor practice squad players are to be paid a minimum of $4,700 per week ?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Veritek has caught Boston's last three no-hitters (Nomo @ Balt, Lowe @ Tampa Bay, Buchholz vs. Balt). The only player to catch more no-hitters than Veritek was a guy who played for the White Sox in the late teens and early 1920's.

Most no-hit games caught, career (nine innings)
4 - Ray Schalk, Chicago AL, 1914 (2), 1917, 1922

3 - Alan Ashby, Houston, 1979, 1981, 1986
3 - Yogi Berra, New York, 1951 (2), 1956 (WS Perfect Game)
3 - Roy Campanella, Brooklyn, 1952, 1956 (2)
3 - Bill Carrigan, Boston A.L., 1911, 1916 (2)
3 - Del Crandall, Milwaukee N.L., 1954, 1960 (2)
3 - Lou Criger, Boston A.L. 1904, 1908, NY A.L. 1910
3 - Johnny Edwards, Cincinnati, 1965 (2), St. Louis 1968
3 - Silver Flint, Chicago N.L., 1880, 1882, 1885
3 - Jim Hegan, Cleveland, 1947, 1948, 1951
3 - Charles Johnson, Florida N.L. 1996, 1997, 2001
3 - Ed McFarland, Phila N.L. 1898, Chicago A.L. 1902, 1905
3 - Val Picinich, Phila A.L., 1916, Wash A.L., 1920, Boston A.L., 1923
3 - Luke Sewell, Cleveland A.L., 1931, Chicago A.L., 1935, 1937
3 - Jeff Torborg, Los Angeles N.L., 1965, 1970, California A.L., 1973
3 - Jason Varitek, Boston A.L., 2001, 2002, 2007
2 - ***forty-two catchers
1 - ###one-hundred-thirty-one catchers

http://members.tripod.com/bb_catcher...s/catchno2.htm

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Anything yet? I'm interested in what you find. Having grown up watching 1-AA football and its playoffs, I have a fondness for it. It certainly beats the heck out of those silly bowl games and voting for a National Champion! Plus there's some pretty good football played at that level.

I'm having a hard time. Probably have to find a website that lists every poll for each year and pick out which teams might have been 1-aa at the time. I agree about 1-AA. Some pretty good NFL players have come from 1-AA.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Some pretty good NFL players have come from 1-AA.

Neil Lomax comes to mind. He was the QB when Portland State beat Delaware State 103-6. After the game, the Portland State baseball coach said (with the press listening) "I wonder if Delaware State has a baseball team?"

BTW - at the time, Darryl "Mouse" Davis was PSU's head coach and he ran the "run and shoot" offense. The team, whose official nickname is "Vikings", were jokingly called the "Fighting Mice" in those days.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Buchholz was drafted by the Red Sox using the draft pick they received as compensation from the Mets when NY signed Pedro as a free agent.

Pedro pitched for the first time in nearly a year and got the win yesterday for the Mets. He also got his 3,000th strikeout. Good day for him, obviously. I'm really happy for him. His velocity is not there, maybe gone for good. Who knows? But he was still pretty effective. He sounded really humble in the post-game, too. Like he was just so happy to be back, he realized how good he had it. I'm probably reading too much into it. Congrats, anyway, to Pedro.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Buchholz was drafted by the Red Sox using the draft pick they received as compensation from the Mets when NY signed Pedro as a free agent.

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Pedro pitched for the first time in nearly a year and got the win yesterday for the Mets. He also got his 3,000th strikeout. Good day for him, obviously. I'm really happy for him. His velocity is not there, maybe gone for good. Who knows? But he was still pretty effective. He sounded really humble in the post-game, too. Like he was just so happy to be back, he realized how good he had it. I'm probably reading too much into it. Congrats, anyway, to Pedro.

You'll stunt your growth if you keep quoting yourself.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

You'll stunt your growth if you keep quoting yourself.

Didn't ol' Doc Brown warn us about this in 1985? Or was it 1955? I get so confused. At least he had a cool car.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

The sad fact is that they will still get votes. It would be surprising, but they might even retain a top 25 ranking. Name recognition and program history have too much to do with the NCAA rankings.

I told you so. The entire system is a joke.

By the Associated Press...
"The final fallout from a disastrous opening weekend for Michigan came Tuesday, when the Wolverines dropped all the way out of The Associated Press Top 25, an unprecedented fall from No. 5 to unranked.
Since the AP poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989, no team has taken a bigger tumble in one week.
Michigan also fell from No. 5 to out of the USA Today coaches' Top 25.

However, twenty-two of the 60 head coaches that vote in the poll kept Michigan in the top 25. One voted the Wolverines as high as No. 10.But it was not enough to keep Michigan out of the "others receiving votes" category between Clemson and Miami."

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Neil Lomax comes to mind. He was the QB when Portland State beat Delaware State 103-6. After the game, the Portland State baseball coach said (with the press listening) "I wonder if Delaware State has a baseball team?"

BTW - at the time, Darryl "Mouse" Davis was PSU's head coach and he ran the "run and shoot" offense. The team, whose official nickname is "Vikings", were jokingly called the "Fighting Mice" in those days.

Kurt Warner and Bryce Paup come to mind for me, both former Northern Iowa Panthers who had pro-bowl NFL careers.

[mbyron]

Hey, can't you people read? This is the off-topic BASEBALL thread! Go start your own off-topic thread if you want. Sheesh.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Hey, can't you people read? This is the off-topic BASEBALL thread! Go start your own off-topic thread if you want. Sheesh.

You sound like that Chuck guy who started this mess.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

You sound like that Chuck guy who started this mess.

I know there's a rumor that Chuck still posts on here using an alias.

Hmm, have you ever seen Chuck and mbyron in the same room together?...