05-03-2021, 03:33 PM
(05-03-2021, 10:07 AM)BaseballJunkie Wrote: Baseball is hard.
The players know how hard it is. They need support from one another and from us in good times and bad, because it's not like other sports. Failure is more commonplace in baseball and, what's worse, you have time to dwell on it.
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Well, Baseballjunkie, if it helps, let your son know that Stanford baseball gets talked about a lot on this board because folks care, and we're all pulling for Stanford every game! And we're sure as hell not going to give up on him or the rest of the team.
Speaking of, Arizona is ranked #1 in the conference with a 15-6 record. Stanford is #2 at 10-5. Huuuuge series this weekend at Sunken Diamond.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)