Rick Taylor to take a break

Grattitude to all Americans of our Armed Forces who have sacrificed their lives for our pursuit of freedom and happiness.

Happy Memorial Day.

Sincerely, “the Ayatollah of Rockin Roll-ah”

To all my OCS classmates, OC 3-66, who gave their lives in Viet Nam and all the others who contributed to the US Army, I salute and honor you and yur families on this special day of rememberance.

Memorial Day.

Will the day ever arrive
when men will turn
their swords into plows?
Since paradise was lost
the killing fields got only bigger,
fertilized with blood.

We honor our fallen,
with pomp and guilty hearts,
not always sure of rightousness,
but grateful for their task
to keep us safe and sound
behind our city walls.

Can we just hope,
that one day near,
mankind no longer speaks for God,
but shares a promise made,
so long ago,
of our common ground?

It is my dream
and deepest wish,
that one day not too far,
the reason for Memorial day,
may be for all of us
a distant memory

wafan #166 yesterday:

exact amoundo! – pilgrims were “kicked” out of Europe because of religion only to form their own “sect” in the New World.

On our East Coast trip in 1985, we visited Plymouth and the “rock” that now places their time in history – quite interesting.

At times, I wonder, if our Bill of Rights and Constitution would have been written the same way if it was written today rather than 3 centuries ago. Conditions were surely different then.

Aloha Kakahiaka!

Whoa.. so is Rick going to take all 21 credits in the fall?

We will miss you Rick, but best wishes and get your sheepskin.

Top Twenny!

Happy Memorial Day Gangeez! 🙂

Here’s to all those honored on this day.

And here’s to Rick Taylor, a great Warrior and a good “soldier” in his own right.

1000 mahalos to all our fellow veterans and those about to be. your service to our nation is undeniably a great sacrifice to all of us on the home front.

Godspeed and God bless you all!

Best wishes to Rick Taylor in pursuit of his degree and future life challenges…. and thank you and your family for your membership, committment and dedication to our warrior ohana.

and how about the stuff that dreams are made of?

kevin ribera a seldom used reserve replaces a suspended starter on the championship fresno st team only to hit two game winning two run homeruns to propel the defending national champs in to the ncaa tourney. oh, yah, he is named the mvp of the tournament.

al,

Add my congrats to Mr. “Ishii” Fujii. 😆

…the other one….aikeavewwylido 🙄

(normally pull for the Lakers)

Go AC!!!

forty wins ain’t enough.

both new mexico st and san jose st were ousted from the ncaa’s. i thought at least one of em had a shot. but, then again many prognosticators did say only one wac team would get in.

al, two words. Politics, Selection Committee. maybe three words.

and yet the bg12 & sec have 8 teams each, that’s a sweet sixteen all by themselves.

These are the 10 member selection committee for baseball. The committee is loaded to the east, south, and midwest. Somehow, the NCAA thinks that the east plays better baseball than the west. St Johns, Bucknell, Bethune-Cookman, and UL Monroe are represented on the committee. Why?????? The Patriot League????

CENTRAL REGION AD Bobby Staub
University of Louisiana at Monroe Sun Belt Conference SEP 2011

FBS CENTRAL REGION AD, Assistant Athletics Director Gary Overton
East Carolina University Conference USA SEP 2012

FBS MIDWEST REGION Deputy Commissioner Tim Weiser
Big 12 Conference Big 12 Conference SEP 2011

FBS MIDEAST REGION Head Baseball Coach John R. Anderson
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Big Ten Conference SEP 2011

FBS WEST REGION Head Baseball Coach Pat Murphy
Arizona State University Pacific-10 Conference SEP 2010

FCS NORTHEAST REGION AD, Director of Athletics John P. Hardt
Bucknell University Patriot League SEP 2012

FCS ATLANTIC REGION AD, Director of Athletics Lynn W. Thompson
Bethune-Cookman University Mid-Eastern Athletic Conf. SEP 2010

FCS SOUTH REGION Commissioner, Commissioner Kyle B. Kallander
Big South Conference Big South Conference SEP 2012

DI WEST REGION AD Brian Quinn
California State University, Fullerton Big West Conference SEP 2009

DI EAST REGION AD, Director of Athletics Chris Monasch
St. John’s University (New York) Big East Conference SEP 2012

An you wonder why the WAC gets shafted.

Former K-State AD will be allowed to make case for conference teams

May 12, 2009 – 9:57pm
MANHATTAN — When it comes to the NCAA baseball tournament selections, Kansas State and other Big 12 Conference teams could have an influential voice presenting their case.

Tim Weiser, the former K-State athletic director, is deputy commissioner of the Big 12 and serves as chairman of the NCAA selection committee. And unlike past years, conference representatives this year will not have to abstain from any discussions of their own teams.

Just this week, the 10-member committee made up of athletic directors, conference commissioners, coaches and other administrators, completed the first of a series of conference calls.

The committee will gather Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis to select teams and assign them to regional sites.

Each member of the committee was assigned to focus on a geographic region throughout the season. Weiser was assigned to the Midwest and is in charge of the Big 12, Missouri Valley Conference and Horizon League.

isn’t rpi a wonderful way to determine who plays??? selection does not take into consideration, travel distance, costs to travel, etc which today determines who you play. Can San Jose and New Mexico afford to travel and play tougher rpi teams in today’s situation??? Also how can you use rpi for the entire us??? Does the ACC play better ball than the WAC??? Maybe, but they don’t play each other, so what is there to judge?? RPI?????

Coastal Carolina is ranked, but didn’t BBows beat them 3 our of 4.

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper’s

NCAA Div. I Poll (As of May 25, 2009)

http://www.baseballnews.com

Rank School (Record) Points Previous
1. U.C. Irvine (43-13) 490 1
2. Louisiana St. (46-16) 489 2
3. Arizona St. (44-12) 488 3
4. Cal. St. Fullerton (42-14) 482 5
5. Texas (41-13-1) 480 6
6. Florida St. (42-16) 478 7
7. North Carolina (42-16) 477 4
8. Rice (39-15) 474 11
9. Mississippi (40-17) 471 8
10. Florida (39-20) 469 9
11. Oklahoma (41-18) 464 10
12. Louisville (44-15) 462 17
13. Virginia (43-12-1) 459 21
14. Alabama (37-19) 457 12
15. Clemson (40-19) 456 13
16. Georgia Tech. (35-17-1) 453 14
17. Missouri (34-25) 450 15
18. Miami, Fla. (36-20) 448 16
19. East Carolina (42-17) 447 18
20. Coastal Carolina (46-14) 445 26
21. Texas Christian (36-16) 441 19
22. South Carolina (38-21) 440 20
23. Kansas St. (41-16-1) 437 22
24. Washington St. (31-23) 434 27
25. Oregon St. (35-17) 432 —
26. Cal Poly (37-19) 428 25
27. Minnesota (38-17) 426 24
28. Texas St. (41-15) 423 29
29. Texas A&M (36-22) 421 —
30. Elon (40-16) 419

Notice the word, RPI, comes into play, but does the seeding reflect it???

“We felt good about the decisions, not that we didn’t recognize that there were going to be people disappointed,” Weiser said. “And that is a heavy burden that we always feel about those kids, those teams that don’t get a chance, but I don’t remember a time where the committee didn’t have that same issue.”

Meanwhile, Oklahoma State (32-22) received an at-large bid despite not making the Big 12 tournament. The Cowboys were rewarded for a strong RPI and a 22-19 record against top 100 teams.

“Certainly we realize we’re going to be criticized or supported for our decisions,” Weiser said. “But the process has worked well for us in the past and it continues to work well, and until we come up with a better system, this is what we have to operate with.”

whitey . . .

He has to be stronger to be considered weak.

And, if he and his croonies do not want to hear negative comments they have two choices: do not go out in public, or address the issues.

whitey….so, let’s talk golf.

don’t you think that inspite of placing 26th, michelle wie made great strides in this recent tournament. she actually sucked it up inspite of a devasting first round, didn’t sulk, didn’t make an excuse, and actually played well the final three rounds.

to me, she finally showed some maturity, which i believe will pave the way for her success in the near future. her putts also looked more steady and she didn’t have a mini-tantrum when she missed.

i think if she played full time on the lpga her first win is just around the corner. all she needs is to get the first win.

…and not bad earning $303K for just a half year of “work”.

The NCAA doesn’t look at national rankings, they look at RPI to determine seedings.
I agree with the ncaa this year NMSU(rpi of 119) and San Jose state ( rpi of 76) did not deserve ncaa bids., especially not NMSU they jacked up their winning record against a bunch of nobodys in the pre wac schedule.

It’s too bad hawaii faltered so bad late in the season, just a little over a month ago they were in the top 20 in RPI. Sure wish we had a coach that could get the team playing well late in the season when it matters the most.

LPGA, aka as the 38th parallel tour.

Thanks to all the Vets on Memorial Day!

Well, we got into Yankee Stadium today at $20 per. Unfortunately, the Yankees are in Texas playing an away game.

Took in the stadium tour. Got to touch the $2500 seats, sit in the dugout, and take a peek into the Yankee locker room. Those of you planning on coming to NYC next year while attending the Army game may want to take in the tour.

oldie, that is a good one. $20 for a seat in Yankee Stadium!!!!!

Central Arkansas

American Idol winner, Kris Allen, is a business major in his junior year at the U. of Central Arkansas.

Oh well, so much for their API….

whitey,

My son just happened to see the ad for the tour on the Internet. It was better than not getting in at all. I wanted sit in the plush seat behind the plate, but that was a no-no.

There’s air conditioning blowing into the dugout. I guess they don’t the high paid stars to suffer.

The $60 dollar bleacher seats in the outfield are just bench seats. Someone said they’re sold out for the year. Not sure if that’s true.

back to work and carlos santana.

UCA finished the season 10th nationally in both pass offense (282.3 ypg) and total offense (438 ypg), while putting up 37.5 points per game – tied for third best in the country. The Bears were also 6th in pass efficiency (162.5), 3rd in kick returns (24.8 yards per return), 8th in 3rd down conversion percentage (48.1) and led the nation in net punting – averaging 37.94 per punt while allowing only 25 total punt return yards for the year.

Hmmm…sounds familiar.

As it has for most of the spring, the University of Central Arkansas defense was dominant in the Bears’ Purple-Gray Game on Friday night at First Security Field at Estes Stadium.

The UCA offensive units, attempting to replace two All-Americans and three starting offensive linemen, scored a combined 13 points as the Purple beat the Gray 10-3. The Purple totaled 129 yards of offense, while the Gray finished with 113.

“Offensively, I am very disappointed in the overall production,’ said UCA head coach Clint Conque. “There were way too many penalities. The offensive line play overall was very poor and we cannot have a good offense unless we improve up front.

“Not having several players and injuries created a lack of chemisty and continuity in the line.’

ok tsaikos, my spacecraft is getting warmed up and i hear voices thru “transcendented” cranium. not from the darkside, but from a newer part of the universe. going check it out. ten four, over and out.

al,

Yep, along with his top receiver…

While the airplanes carrying former University of Central Arkansas football players Nathan Brown and Marquez Branson will be heading in opposite directions Thursday morning, they will be taking the two former Bears to the same destination _ the National Football League.

Brown signed a free-agent contract with the Jacksonville Jaquars and Branson with the Denver Broncos at the conclusion of the 2009 NFL Draft on Sunday. They both report for mini-camp on Thursday to get their first taste of professional football.

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Trapasso and Donovan meet…

Or perhaps a beatwriter “walking in” on the meeting…??? 😆

***Off-topic ranting***

Saw Terminator Salvation yesterday and I must say that I CANNOT wait for Transformers 2: The Revenge of the Fallen!!! 😆

As a fan of the Terminator franchise, if felt like T3: Rise of the Machines was done in haste to remind folks that doomsday was going to happen no matter what happened in T2; Judgment Day. T4: Salvation had promise in many people’s minds. Christian Bale did a good job as John Connor and Sam Worthington made a good impression as Marcus Wright, but I think a lot of Terminator fans wanted a sense of “closure” and maybe it was our fault for expecting T4 to bring that closure to everything or maybe I’m looking too far into it.

James Cameron did the first two movies and famous music video director “McG” directed this latest edition of Terminator.

Too often when a new director takes on a sequel or extension to a franchise does it leave fans wanting more. Well except for what Christopher Nolan did as he SAVED the Batman franchise from being a joke!

T4 is good for the most part, but not exactly part of the summer “blockbusters” that usually come out. I still don’t know how “Night at the Museum ” beat it though… Never hated Ben Stiller so much in a movie before.. 👿

T4 rocked. Though not as good as Star Trek, it moved the story forward in an intriguing and thoughtful way, with lots of explosions of course. I liked that although the story deals ultimately with fate, it never squashes hope and yet still warns us as UH futurist Jim Dator (and avid UH fan) says, we create our tools, and then they create us.

So there are some 100 days until the football season starts. ST: just enough time to do a short bio on each UH football player. How about offering them a standard format: name, position, high school, summer plans, goals for next year, what is the best thing they like about Hawaii. Something like that.

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NYUH,

Never saw Star Trek yet. I did hear good things even from people that weren’t too big on Star Trek to begin with.

Stephen Tsai:

May 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Kazz:
Baughman was coming off an arm injury, so there wasn’t much expectation for her.
But when Smethurst was out, then they slotted Baughman in there, along with Gonzalez. Gonzalez got hurt, and Baughman was more of a once-through-a-lineup pitcher. That’s when Ricketts emerged.
But give credit to Baughman. She really gutted it out this year, and became an effective No. 2.

I’m sure Baughman laid it all out on the line considering it was her last year. No student athlete wants go end their college career on the bench, especially from an injury.

For sure if Gonzalez and Baughman were healthy from the beginning we may still be following the Wahine at this point into the NCAA tourney. Ricketts could have been added to the hitting line up, etc…

2010 should be fun. Can’t wait to see what Majam can do at the plate along with the newbies mixing up the infield. It’s gonna be hard to replace Warwick at 3rd though.

BTW… I know the APR performance thing came out a few weeks ago, but with Smethurst gone, what is that going to do to softball’s schollies and whatnot? It’s one player so hopefully it won’t even reflect back on the program.

bertussi could be the ss or 3b next year. known for the long ball, too.

Speaking of 3rd base…

Any one know if Vinnie made an early decision to leave or stay?

Al,

I think UH baseball is going to need to have as many players as possible out of their program finish their schooling.

Selfishly I do hope Vinnie comes back, but if not, he should go on to be a good ball player and making decent money doing it provided the injury bug stays away.

11 teams in the collegiate baseball top thirty did not win 40 games but they played in conferences that sent 6 to 8 team to an NCAA regional. Conference play was tough and the wins and losses reflect the high rpi in these conferences.

Let’s go Denver….AC needs to see some action!

ST how many scholarships are allowed for softball?

Hey stephen quick volleyball question, You said they might get a middle blocker from europe, I’ve heard it’s either a french player or a fellow German team mate of Jonas Umlauft? Any of that true?

Wow. I gotta give Fresno its due respect, again. In the regionals two years in a row, the hard way!

Go WAC!

Isn’t it amazing that Fresno St, going into the last week of WAC regular season play, was almost the last team out??!!?? If they didn’t take care of Sac St, they would have had to stay home.

c_c
I’m @ Tiffany’s & the company that makes the sign is Neon Tech.

1-800-neon-tech.

NYUH:

your #76 post – who is Jim Dator? – avid UH fan!

ST:

know of any more “transfers” to Warrior ball by former local players? most happy to see Barit making the move!! LB’s will be overflowing with bodies.

beside this and naming of the new women’s BB coach, nothing else to “thrill” this group.

understand Corey’s bro is back and will be practicing with the team for off-summer work out – mentioned to his uncle that if he can make a solid contribution at “special teams” that would be a big plus for UH.

is Wade Keliikipi still intent on going to the Pacific Northwest?

U-Dub is talking about revenue sharing for Pac-10 football TV revenue. It sounds like the TV money for the Pac-10 is not split equally, but instead the teams that TV wants to show get extra money. That type of deal gives an incentive to do well and would benefit UH, instead of how the WAC splits the TV money equally so Idaho and Utah State get the same money and UH.

One thing to note is that the Pac-10 gets over $43 mil in TV money…doesn’t the WAC get something like $1 mil?

As athletic directors around the Pac-10 grapple with ways to balance increasingly tight budgets in increasingly tough economic times, Washington’s Scott Woodward is among those favoring a somewhat contentious idea — revenue sharing.

The Pac-10 has what commissioner Tom Hansen refers to as “hybrid” revenue sharing. The conference shares postseason revenue for football bowl games and the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

However, football TV revenue — one of the biggest moneymakers for schools each year — is not shared. Instead, the participating team or teams keep the lion’s share of the money, essentially splitting 59.5 percent. The other 40 percent is shared evenly among the other teams. For non-conference games, the participating team keeps its entire share of the money.

That results in some wide disparity in incomes each year.

In 2008, for instance, USC took home $6,469,584 in revenue from TV games that were part of the regular Pac-10 package (the totals do not include money for local TV games, which pay out far less). At the bottom of the scale, Washington State took home $3,029,526.

But success on the field doesn’t solely determine TV income. Washington, despite an 0-12 season, was fourth at $4,740,518, a testament in part to its rabid following and large media market. Oregon, despite finishing second and winning 10 games, was seventh at $3,967,724, in part due to being in a smaller market.

The total TV revenue for the conference was $43,250,000, meaning if the money was split evenly, each school would get $4,325,000. For smaller-market schools, that extra million or so every year would make a huge difference.

By charging for nonsubscribers to read the web versions of their newspapers, some newspapers have increased their subscriber totals while increasing revenue.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is a rarity among large U.S. newspapers – it’s selling more weekday copies than a decade ago. In Idaho, the Post Register’s circulation has remained stable, while many other print publications have lost readers to the Internet. How can this be?

The executives behind the Arkansas and Idaho newspapers believe it’s because they’ve been giving free access to their Web sites only to people who subscribe to the printed edition. Everyone else has to pay to read the Democrat-Gazette and the Post Register online. Meanwhile, most publishers have been giving away their stories and photos to all comers on the Internet.

“To me, an online subscription is just the commonsense thing to do,” says Roger Plothow, editor and publisher of the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho. “To just give it all away on a Web site is completely and blindly idiotic.”

Newsday’s owner, Cablevision Systems Corp., plans to charge for online access to the Long Island, N.Y., publication beginning this summer. MediaNews Group, which owns The Denver Post and 53 other daily newspapers, has decided to charge for the online version of its print editions but hasn’t said when. Having already killed the print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Hearst Corp. is assessing whether online fees could help save its 15 remaining daily newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle.

“Online fees will give people one less reason to stop subscribing to the newspaper” in the print format, said Steven Brill, Journalism Online’s co-CEO. “Fewer people will be saying, `Why am I buying this thing when I can get it free online?'”

Even though print ads aren’t attracting as many dollars as they once did, they still sell for about 10 times the price of online ads.

Best wishes to Rick Taylor. I hope that he gets his degree this year and that he can go somewhere for a master’s degree where he can play with his final season of eligibility.

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Hey ST, re your Zorm comments yesterday, I agree he needs to chill. He may coach himself right out of his job.

I think we’d all like to see Colt get a few more serious looks in the preseason when he had the “it” factor in the Hall of Fame game and made everyone around him better.

Speaking of that, Kobe Bryant doesn’t seem to be making anyone on his team better. He is a great player, but my image of him has lessened during these playoffs.

Frank25- God Bless and Safe Home!

Frank25,

Thank you for your service to our country. I hope that you have a safe return soon.

The expected lawsuits against the Cowboys for the people injured when the practice bubble collapsed just got a lot of new ammo…someone sure didn’t do their background checking!

The Dallas Cowboys used advice from a man who falsified his educational credentials and served federal prison time for drug trafficking to make major structural reinforcements to a practice facility whose collapse injured a dozen people.

The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday that the consultant, Jeffrey Lawrence Galland, was engineering director of a Las Vegas company called JCI even though he had no engineering license. Galland acknowledged the newspaper’s findings, but said his background had no bearing on his ability to help clients.

Galland provided a written summary of his credentials that says he has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Eastern Washington University. The school said he pursued that degree but never graduated.

The summary also says he has been working toward a master’s degree in structural engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. School records show no sign he ever attended, officials said.

Galland was arrested in 1994 after breaking into a home and pointing a gun at a woman in Great Falls, Mont., police there said. Charges included burglary and assault.

The following year, Galland was convicted of burglary in state court and sentenced to probation. Then he pleaded guilty in federal court to using a firearm during a violent crime and conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana, court records show.

The tentlike practice facility came crashing down in fierce winds May 2, permanently paralyzing scouting assistant Rich Behm.

Scientists have discovered a key protein that might explain the anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits of dietary restriction.

Scientists have found a genetic link for autism, a specific region of chromosome 5.

Free play links pau.

jm2375:
Do I have to go to work tomorrow?

I don’t know. Do you? I know I do.

:snicker:

👿 😈

Peaches and I went to see Star Trek this afternoon. As a long time trekkie, I have been waiting for this show since Scott Bakula’s Enterprise. I was not disappointed. It wove the characters in nicely– in this version of the time line…

SteveM,

Wow, you seem to have taken the description of the movie right off of something I read (or was it wrote?)….

Saw a coupla addahknows while we were having dinner afterwards…

I miss Captain Phil

LizK,

Sometimes I miss Capt. Honolulu.
(I can still make his salute though)

star trek………..?

i may have watched two episodes in my entire life.

btw, i thought the little birdie said that there were two d-1 guys?

Star Trek,

That’s the one with Luke Skywalker, right? Or is that the other one?

D1, al

Wait! Might you be thinking of Sgt Sacto’s “googles”? I can’t remember if I ever saw Cpt Honolulu, but I can remember Sacto. Hmmm, even that young, I guess I had an affinity for NCO’s LOL

sgt sacto???
i think it was capt hnl.

let’s ask stevem, he would know.
nah, he probably forgot already.

ralph would know….oh wait no tv in lanai city until the seventies.

i was never into captain Honolulu, checkers and pogo stuff…watched westerns with sheriff Ken… 🙂

Hey Ralph! Can you believe that I was once on the Sheriff Ken show. Lived a couple of blocks away from him in Kaimuki.

Take care my man…

I can’t wait to see Angels and Demons, and Star Trek…mahalo for your reviews.

Captain Honolulu…I miss that show LOL!

al:
May 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
sgt sacto???
i think it was capt hnl.

let’s ask stevem, he would know.
nah, he probably forgot already.
…

You’re right…I was there with my finger googles watching the black and white TV, but didn’t remember Sgt. Sacto’s name until BG mentioned it…I remembered Sgt. Sacto more than Captain Honolulu.

Star Trek — I didn’t read any reviews but know die-hard trekkies who have read all the production books (like me) will find many inconsistencies/omissions in the pasts of the original characters. Still, I thought it was a nicely done and a movie that fulfilled my hopes for such a “prequel”.

Work day tomorrow…good night everyone!

Looking ahead the baseball program will have to improve to keep pace with a WAC conference that saw promising underclassmen on several teams, in particular FSU and LaT.

Hitting is a major concern as we need to replace Vinnie Catricala’s bat and gain improvement from the rest of our returnees. Whether Coach Mike makes a tutorial adjustment remains to be seen. The team slumped in late season–that is a red flag and he needs to address the issue.
We will need Greg Garcia to step up next year as he is the likely lead-off batter.
Montplaisir struggled with the curveball and needs to be retooled. Kevin McD KO’d too much and Roquemore needs to hit linedrives. Chevalier is an interesting batter but played sparingly–he needs to work hard in the off season–his bat has possibilities. Christian Johnson is a hard hitter but looked terrible against lefties and he too, KOd alot.
Van Doornum has potential as does Fujii.
The key will be the amount of quality work these players spend in the cage under a mentor that knows his stuff.
Kolt needs to be more selective in his second year as pitchers werent throwing anything good to him once they figured he was a first pitch swinger.

On the mound we lose Jayson Kramer and Greg Alexander. Again we need to see development in our youth hurlers– Linsky, Little, Sisto and Moore.
We are in dire need for southpaws as Spangler and Davis are the only two I see, unless we have another on short order we recruited.
None of our hurlers are flame throwers so they will need to develop off-speed stuff and charlie-balls with consistency and location.

Hopefully Coach Mike sees the light and is heading more for big bats than smallball–it wont work in the WAC.

but when are we gonna have a “chat with charlie”?

…

i want to know if tino is going help recruit that serbian middle ?

did charlie announce his staff yet?

That’s really too bad about Rick…I would love to see him play!!! Had the pleasure of meeting his father when we played Alabama. Thanks for being a Warrior!

One-handed basketball player just earned a D-I scholarship.

Kevin Laue, a 6-foot-10 center whose left arm ends at the elbow, was often told he would be an N.C.A.A. Division I basketball recruit if he had two hands.

It turns out the second hand was not necessary. Laue, who is from California, has accepted a scholarship to play for Manhattan College next season.

Since December, Laue said he had been contacted by about 100 people with similar disabilities. Some had lost limbs; others were born without them. One couple’s newborn daughter has a condition similar to Laue’s, and her parents told Laue he was a source of hope.

“Now that I’m going into a bigger pond, hopefully I can really touch some people,” Laue said. “If I can help anybody, that’s so great. But I also want to focus on playing ball.”

Great Morning All!

Agree with BG. The long weekend whizzed by too fast!

Have a great 4-day week erryboddy!

HiHo….

AL:

all we had ….(was) tin soldiers

weren’t they lead? I recall that we had to give them up for the war drive to make bullets =WWII

A Day for Rememberance – honoring our fallen warriors and a salute to those serving our country.

FloridaTed: great posting and I pray that war in whatever form beco0mes an obsolete word.

STEVEM: Posting from Vancouver – does that count? Saw the Island Princess pull out yesterday from our hotel. Tomorrow’s our day!