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Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-03-2014

The Stanford Baseball season reflected in CARDBoard topics:
April 12: Time for Marquess to hang up his spikes? started by StanFan88
May 6: Stanford Baseball: "I'm not dead" started by Papa John
May 19: Baseball: fading... started by garvin
May 25: Baseball sweeps started by BobK
May 30: NCAA Baseball Regionals started by 2 for 2028

And now the Super Regional begins at Vanderbilt at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, noon on Saturday and, if necessary, noon on Sunday (all games on ESPN2). And this is a return trip to Nashville for the Cardinal, who were swept by the Commodores in a three-game series played Feb. 28-Mar. 2.

I love this narrative!

Re: Baseball Super Regional - TreeWeird - 06-03-2014

Maybe Marquess reads the CARDboard and was motivated over the last couple months  ;D

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Robbie - 06-03-2014

(06-03-2014, 12:54 PM)TreeWeird link Wrote:Maybe Marquess reads the CARDboard and was motivated over the last couple months  ;D

I'd love for Marquess to be carried from the field on the shoulders of his players, ... and not come back. He's done marvelous things for Stanford baseball. He deserves every accolade bestowed upon him.

But "done" is past tense. "Will do" is what is needed.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - fullmetal - 06-03-2014

The players have to play for themselves.  It's their legacies that they're writing in the history of the game at Stanford.  Hope the team buckles down and keeps climbing that postseason learning curve.  It's a hard road to the top, but they're beating the odds!

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-03-2014

(06-03-2014, 01:26 PM)Robbie link Wrote:I'd love for Marquess to be carried from the field on the shoulders of his players, ... and not come back. He's done marvelous things for Stanford baseball. He deserves every accolade bestowed upon him.

But "done" is past tense. "Will do" is what is needed.

Sorry to disagree with a fellow Roble-ite, Robbie, but, based on some of the managerial moves that he made versus Indiana, I'd say that Marquess is doing marvelous things.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-04-2014

Per Stanford Baseball's twitter account, the team flew back to Cali on Tuesday so that the players could attend Wednesday morning classes. There's no mention of when the team will fly to Nashville, but, given the time change when one travels east, it would have to be Thursday morning at the latest.

Is this "pit stop" back on campus required by NCAA rules? It seems crazy to me to ask a team to spend Monday night in the Eastern time zone, Tuesday and, I guess, Wednesday night in the Pacific, then Thursday in the Central. All for the purpose of attending a single day of classes. With today's technology, shouldn't it be possible to keep up with classwork via Skype and other tools?

Re: Baseball Super Regional - CTcard - 06-04-2014

(06-04-2014, 12:29 AM)Papa John link Wrote:Is this "pit stop" back on campus required by NCAA rules?
...
With today's technology, shouldn't it be possible to keep up with classwork via Skype and other tools?

Well, this is the last week of classes for spring quarter, with Wednesday actually being the last day of classes. Finals run Friday through next Wednesday. It seems plausible that a final meeting with profs/TAs, picking up assignments, and coordinating taking finals on the road is worth a last stop at campus.
But, it is inconvenient. 

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-04-2014

Thanks, CTCard. I was not aware that spring quarter finals start this Friday, but, even so, the travel schedule still seems insane to me.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - FarmBoy - 06-04-2014

Stanford baseball must have a brobdingnagian handicap during the playoffs relative to other teams who are already finished with school. Remembering my experience during finals, I can't imagine how they do it, even with taking a light academic quarter in the Spring and all the support they probably receive as athletes. And how do dual sport guys like Zach Hofpauir manage the academics? They can't go light in both Fall and Spring and stay on track to graduate, can they? Wasn't Toby taking 20+ credits during his final football season so that he could graduate and have time to prepare for the draft? These guys really are remarkable.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-04-2014

I agree wholeheartedly, FarmBoy (as you wish).

For the heck of it, I checked Vanderbilt's academic calendar. They finished spring finals on May 1. They do have something called Maymester--I'm not kidding--which is apparently a four-week mini-summer term. Summer semester proper began yesterday.

Oh well, some folks have complained that quarter schools like Stanford and UCLA have an advantage in football and other fall sports, since a decent number of games are played before fall classes begin. I remember having a conversation with semester-school folks who thought that true freshmen at quarter schools should be ineligible to play any sports until those freshmen actually attend their first college classes. Of course, the easy solution would be to enroll them in a few units of summer school.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - CTcard - 06-04-2014

(06-04-2014, 09:08 AM)Papa John link Wrote:Of course, the easy solution would be to enroll them in a few units of summer school.

Which we do.

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Treebound - 06-04-2014

As opposed to school's like SC and 'Bama that suggest you depart your high school early and "enroll" with them in the Spring.  Miss your senior year of high school?!  All this talk of an even earlier signing period is focused on the athlete as opposed to the STUDENT athlete.  NCAA be damned! 

Re: Baseball Super Regional - FarmBoy - 06-04-2014

Quote:I agree wholeheartedly, FarmBoy (as you wish).

Princess Bride reference?

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Papa John - 06-04-2014

(06-04-2014, 01:15 PM)FarmBoy link Wrote:
Quote:I agree wholeheartedly, FarmBoy (as you wish).

Princess Bride reference?

No doubt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88svMqo3ZEk

Re: Baseball Super Regional - FarmBoy - 06-04-2014

An article on the ESPN Pac12 blog about ZH: http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/73078/hoffpauir-making-an-impact-for-stanford-baseball

Some quotes:
Quote:“Stanford was really only program [recruiting me] that had repeated success of two-sports athletes,” Hoffpauir said. “Was I just being told I could do both or is there evidence that it had worked in the past? It was a big part of why I chose Stanford.”

...if the price is right, he said he’d be open to going the Gaffney route and leaving for the minor leagues. Like Gaffney, Hoffpauir didn’t redshirt during his true freshman football season, which would allow him to step away from football for a season -- essentially redshirting his senior year -- then return to the football team the following year if he’s not sold baseball is the correct permanent fit.

“Things worked out pretty well for Gaffney,” Hoffpauir said.


Re: Baseball Super Regional - BobK - 06-04-2014

Great story but interesting that Hoffpauir commited to cal first.    :) ???

That does seem unnecessary - jacketree - 06-04-2014

Making a pit stop in Cali. I mean Cali is in Columbia (South America) for cripes sake.  And on T-shirts worn by people bent on bastardizing this State's name.

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You kids get off my lawn!!




Re: Baseball Super Regional - Treebound - 06-05-2014

Those are the same people that use the term "Frisco."  They aren't from our fair state!  And if they say "the 101" or "the 280" they are likely from SoCal and not NorCal.  I guess with that much traffic in LA, I might put an emphasis on the freeways as well.  "The 405 is the world's longest parking lot!"

Re: Baseball Super Regional - BobK - 06-05-2014

As the late Herb Caen wrote those in SoCal think of their freeways as god like.  THE 405.  :P

Re: Baseball Super Regional - Rally - 06-05-2014

(06-05-2014, 08:11 AM)Treebound link Wrote:Those are the same people that use the term "Frisco."  They aren't from our fair state!  And if they say "the 101" or "the 280" they are likely from SoCal and not NorCal.  I guess with that much traffic in LA, I might put an emphasis on the freeways as well.  "The 405 is the world's longest parking lot!"

So right, drives me crazy, especially "cali" (which, for some reason, David Lombardi seems to use an awful lot :(