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Post by UICJohn on Apr 17, 2014 22:28:14 GMT -6
Gorgeous new stadium! I seriously can't wait to check it out. Gorgeous skyline. An amazing pledge from one of our greatest alumni.
And we suck bad. Lose to Wright St 11-5. Pathetic!
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Post by Chuck A on Apr 18, 2014 0:40:02 GMT -6
Our shortstop, Alex Lee, committed back to back errors that should've ended the inning. Now when you defense is playing well behind you, the pitcher tends to become too fine. That leads to walks and hitting people. Tomas Michelson just lost his composure.
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Post by axaguy on Apr 18, 2014 1:58:25 GMT -6
Wonderful gesture dedicated and opened today with and by Curtis Granderson. He's truly a very nice guy. Unlike many of the current crop of self centered, egotistical, immature athletes that dominate the sports landscape.
While with the Yankees he arranged with me to personally autograph a copy of his book for my friend's grandson which he re-autographed in person at the game. Posed for a picture of them together as well.
A bit disappointed that the crowd wasn't better than it was for the special occasion. Wayne Messmer sang the national anthem. Jim Schmidt emceed. Curtis cut the ribbon along with Paula Allen Meares. And, of course, Jessie Jackson horned in for pictures like he had anything to do with this.......... but couldn't miss a photo op.
Coach Dee's dad was there, too, and he, coach Dee, acknowledged the recent passing of his mom about two months ago. Coach said they had a game to play.
Too bad it had to spoil the afternoon.......................
Recap.......3 official errors by the shortstop. Two in one inning. Two on balls hit straight at him which he simply picked up and dropped before being late with the throw. Another fielding gaffe was a blown fielder's choice with runners on first and second. Grounder to him.....he went to second for the force when the runner was off with the pitch.......runner was safe, beat the throw because of his jump, when ss should have taken the throw to first to get the batter....now bases loaded.......whewwwwwwwwww. Then, of course, he helped the cause while at bat with the bases loaded one inning by hitting into an inning ending double play.............
MY KINGDOM FOR A SHORTSTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pitchers had at least three HBPs along the way too...... Relief held up to wrap up but we could only muster 5 to match their 11, with a 7 run inning along the way.....
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Post by circle70 on Apr 18, 2014 8:14:02 GMT -6
Our shortstop, Alex Lee, committed back to back errors that should've ended the inning. Now when you defense is playing well behind you, the pitcher tends to become too fine. That leads to walks and hitting people. Tomas Michelson just lost his composure. Chuck: I think you meant to say that when your defense is NOT playing well behind you, the pitcher tends to become too fine. It takes a lot of concentration to make sure that you throw pitches that cannot be hit to the shortstop. The 3 players that have played the position have committed 23 errors in the 30 games played so far. But hey, that's improvement. The original starting shortstop made 7 errors in the first 5 games. |
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Post by Chuck A on Apr 18, 2014 13:10:22 GMT -6
Yep, that's what I meant.
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Post by Big D on Apr 19, 2014 9:21:51 GMT -6
What in the hell is going on with UIC athletics? Opening series at Granderson Stadium, the series when this team will probably get more pub than during any other series, and not only do we get blown out on day 1, with Curtis there, but we also lose the series after two games? We have one of the best offenses in the nation? Anemic this weekend. Crown WSU now...they're running away with the thing.
I'm really tired of the state of UIC sports....for every sport that we were good in, we're now playing catch up with those that have bypassed us. Sports we are decent in (soccer at the moment), we can't come through in the clutch and make the tourney, and sports that really matter the most (basketball), we've been god awful at for over a decade.
So tired of this nonsense. How has Jim Schmidt kept his job here? Probably be not running the dept in the red and slowly upgrading facilities that will remain empty until someone wins some !#$% games around here. Give us something to root for dammit!
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Post by UICJohn on Apr 19, 2014 10:04:19 GMT -6
Haven't been able to keep up with the series until I checked the board and UICflames.com until now. Seriously disappointing. Baseball was (and still should be) our sport. I don't know what's going on. Are we still decent but others in the league have caught up (or in Wright State case passed us by)? As was pointed out, we are getting more media attention than ever (TV, newspapers, even national to some degree) and then we follow it up with this piss poor showing. Pathetic.
On my way to today's game. Excited to see the stadium. Let's pull out at least one win in this series.
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Post by circle70 on Apr 19, 2014 13:56:45 GMT -6
Big D wrote on another thread:
"What in the hell is going on with UIC athletics? Opening series at Granderson Stadium, the series when this team will probably get more pub than during any other series, and not only do we get blown out on day 1, with Curtis there, but we also lose the series after two games? We have one of the best offenses in the nation? Anemic this weekend. Crown WSU now...they're running away with the thing."
Just like good pitching takes care of good hitting, so apparently does real crappy pitching make mediocre hitting look good.
Yea, we lead the HL in hitting with a .309 team batting average. The problem is, opponents are batting .319 against our crappy pitching. Wright State is 4th in hitting with a pedestrian .265 average. However, they lead the league in pitching. Our pitching is a distant 4th, ahead of only the very bad Oakland and Youngstown State teams.
Our relief pitching has been horrendous all season, but at least our "Big Three" starters were showing steady improvement---until this weekend. In the 1st and 3rd games of this series, the starters gave up 17 earned runs in 8 1/3 innings. Again, this is to a mediocre hitting team.
I won't even talk about our equally crappy defense.
Moral of the story: you need more than good hitting to win games.
UPDATE: I guess I will talk about the crappy defense. After tying the score at 7, we make 3 errors in the 8th inning, allowing 2 unearned runs, and lose 9-7. We end up losing all 6 games to Wright State this year. Way to go, guys!!!
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