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Sunday, February 05, 2006 |
Pickoff Moves
NCAA To Impose Uniform Start Date On College Baseball
The cold-weather states are jealous of the warm-weather states, and so the NCAA will impose a uniform start date on the college baseball season starting in 2008, according to Baseball America. All schools will begin their regular seasons starting on February 22; there's a bunch of reasons why this is a dumb idea:- Starting on February 22 won't make much of a difference for the University of Minnesota program, nor for any other cold-weather state.
- It's not that fewer games will be played, but that fewer weekend series can be scheduled. That means for teams like Cal State Long Beach, out-of-conference games with the Trojans may have to be eliminated or pushed to midweek. Since weekend attendance is always better, the programs will lose money and dilute their schedule strength.
- Because the away team has no cut of the gate, travel budgets will decline.
"We're down to five nonconference weekends," Long Beach State coach Mike Weathers said. "Administration will say, 'Coach Weathers, you still need to go through tickets and turnstiles at Blair Field.' "...
"Schedule-wise it will affect some relationships we've had over the last few years," Weathers said. "We won't play Baylor anymore, or it might jeopardize our Cal State Fullerton nonconference series, which is always a big moneymaker because the team that doesn't host the conference series hosts that one, and it draws well."
Dirtbags 4, Trojans 2
This has to be the funniest game I've ever heard tell, something perhaps out of an early-seasonMore On Weaver
Buster Olney has bagged on the Weaver signing rumor (all that it is until the press release), by publishing this table:Which is fine as far as it goes, but most of those starts were with the Tigers and Yankees, neither of whom had notable (and in the case of the Yanks, even good) infield defense. He's become an evenly balanced pitcher over the last few years (he was a notable groundballer with the Tigers); it should be interesting to see whether he can change his repertoire to adjust to the Angels' somewhat improved infield.
Weaver career vs. AL West rivals W-L ERA Opp BA Rangers 1-5 5.24 .313 Mariners 1-2 5.35 .302 Athletics 2-3 5.56 .299 Combined 4-10 5.41 .305 (82 earned runs in 136 2/3 IP)
(169 hits/555 AB)
Comments:
I wonder if the Rev's source is still standing by his story that Weaver will be announced an Angel come monday?
# posted by 
: 2/05/2006 12:23:00 PM
: 2/05/2006 12:23:00 PM
I'm not sure it's correct to say that Buster bagged on it.
After pointing out the poor stats, he says, "Still think it would be a good signing, if the obligation is for no more than two years. "
After pointing out the poor stats, he says, "Still think it would be a good signing, if the obligation is for no more than two years. "
# posted by : 2/06/2006 02:07:00 PM
: 2/06/2006 02:07:00 PMNewer› ‹Older
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