A Sea Of Red

Its a Leap Day matinee to get the home schedule underway ...


Rider University
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Founded in 1865
Private School with no Religious Connections
Conference: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC)
Nicknames: Broncs
Most Famous Alum: Digger Phelps

Overall Record: 3-0


These guys dominated a weekend series at Maryland-Eastern Shore but it is tough to just much from those performances.

Not one mention of today's game by Lang in the sports section of our local fishwrap, but if you read the fine print on page 2 of the first section, the game is referenced directly under Barry Bonds' pic:

WHAT TO WACH FOR TODAY

Liberty University plays its BASEBALL HOME OPENER today at Worthington Stadium on campus. The Flames are off to a 4-0 start.

How does this make the news section but not the sports page?

Cider...it is VERY hard to compete with the HS tournaments going on at this time of year. I am quite certain it has nothing to do with Chris....besides...the paper has to keep room for all the AP and Media General "reports" that fill the sports section.

So does that mean today's opener is sponsored by WACHovia?

Listening on the radio. A - That's not GMTM! B - It sounds very windy!

Knucklehead wrote:Listening on the radio. A - That's not GMTM! B - It sounds very windy!

An unpaid job and 3 hours calling a baseball game......of course its not GMTM.

2 on 2 out for the Flames with Keller at the dish. I hope that wind is blowing out!
Wild pick throw and the runners are on 2nd and 3rd.
Keller strikes out and again we leave 2 on base!

ARGHHHH!

VERY WINDY...
...and a GREAT turnout for a late Feb game.

Team looks good playing small ball. The bats will come around. It's early.

Score?

3-2 now in the 7th as We gave up 2 unearned in the top of the 6th!

3-3 top of 7, now.

The runner scored on a single from second. He was only on second because he stole second on a wild throw from Hollinger.

Game over 4-3 flames
Phillips Homerun in the 7th the difference
Umberger strikes out 5 of the 6 he faced! He struck out the side in the 9th!

Hoo-Rah!

5 wins
NO losses
Sounds nice!

This was the most people I've ever seen at a Liberty baseball game in February.

I gotta say that Dustin Umberger is absolutely sick! Striking out 5 of the last 6 (as Knuckle mentioned), and on the swinging strikes those guys could not catch up to the fastball at all. I was at dinner after the game and I heard somebody say that Nicely only had the changeup working and didnt have a fastball.

Great win, I can't wait until I can make it up for some games.

Here's to hoping this win makes the Lynchburg fishwrap tomorrow. Good times hanging out with Fumble, Libertine, Super, HMO, & BJ at the game. In fact, BJ was doing play-by-play for several minutes standing on a single crutch in the stands (I wasn't sure if I should have tipped him for that or not).

Already on the real news at 6
http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0208/500311.html

I sit here in 20 deg weather with sleet and snow pummeling us, thinking about how bizarre it is that you guys are sitting outside, watching baseball

And Sid Bream's nephew runs exactly like his uncle.

Rocketfan wrote:

Knucklehead wrote:Listening on the radio. A - That's not GMTM! B - It sounds very windy!

An unpaid job and 3 hours calling a baseball game......of course its not GMTM.

That was Scott Wiebe, he was with us last year.. I will be doing Sunday's game... We left for Asheville at 3pm today so that's why I wasn't there...Who says it's unpaid?

Cider Jim wrote:Here's to hoping this win makes the Lynchburg fishwrap tomorrow. Good times hanging out with Fumble, Libertine, Super, HMO, & BJ at the game. In fact, BJ was doing play-by-play for several minutes standing on a single crutch in the stands (I wasn't sure if I should have tipped him for that or not).

hehe...thanks CJ. Just keepin the skills up as best I could. That shot by Phillips was nice...I wonder how Scott sounded on that one. Anyway I missed out on the bowties. you guys hand all of em out today?

still snowing,

Sideways now.

which is a nice change.