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Well, it was two great wins for the Ducks yesterday. Today they both got run ruled,

Lee always brought fun to the show. Missing him will be like missing Keith Jackson. Both among the best.

14-4 UCLA is the final with a run-rule in the eighth. Bottom line is that none of our relief pitchers could do a lick...and we went through a ton of them. Yeah, I need more Beer...

Corso to McAfee::Sublime to Ridiculous

8-4 Bruins after seven innings. Oregon's Santiago Garcia only knows how to throw fast-balls, and UCLA hit them out of the park. Jacob Walsh added a homer for the Ducks, but....

4-3 Bruins after six innings. Oregon's Will Sanford missed an easy throw to first base off a bunt, and UCLA scored as a result. The Duck pitcher has the talent, but is learning the mental toughness needed, and two straight bunts by the Bruins were meant to test the Duck pitcher. Whew!

Home runs can be useful.

3-3 after five innings, as Oregon's Colin Clarke continued to get beat up, and finished the inning with Bruin runners on 1st and 3rd, but he got through the inning without another run. He has plinked three batters in five innings, and now it looks like another Duck pitcher who has work off the "Yips," Will Sanford, is coming out for the sixth. This can be great, or a nightmare....what entertainment! And Jacob Walsh tied it up...

3-2 UCLA after four innings, as Oregon's Collin Clarke is coming apart. His first two batters got hits, he plinked the next batter to load the bases with no outs, gives up another hit to score one Bruin run, and let another score on a wild pitch. I am ready to pull him as the Ducks are still in the game, but I see he has come out to pitch in the fifth inning.

Gentlemen: I am locking the thread, as we had two very prominent OBD members who posted every day--get into a big dispute a year ago on this topic. It set the stage for more discord on this topic later, and now both OBD members are gone--and it is all due to disagreement on Coach Sanders. I don't like where this thread is headed, and we've lost enough good people to this topic.

Okay, the team that scores first doesn't always win, go Ducks!

2-1 Ducks after three innings, as we left two stranded on base!

2-1 Ducks after two innings. Both pitchers have settled down, and dispatched their side easily in this inning. Nice snag by Carter Garate at the hot corner as a UCLA line-drive did not get past his diving catch at third base.

2-1 Ducks after one inning. Yep, you saw that right, the score for nine innings yesterday is matched in the first inning today. Both starting pitchers have similar ERAs, but it comes down to the particular day. Collin Clarke had a pitch hang over the plate, and it became a dinger for UCLA. Meanwhile Mason Neville had a full count on him, and blew one out of PK Park as well. In the pre-game interview with Waz...Coach acknowledged that we are a HR hitting team, thus look for the right fast-ball to feast on. Thus, he felt that if Oregon batters were patient, that a changeup pitch from Bruin pitchers will come their way as, "a fat, slow pitch" to blast, and that is what Neville got. He also tied the season record for HRs with Walsh with a third of the season left! It was cool to see Drew Smith take a full-count walk, then steal second base, and have Anson Aroz hit him in for the second run. A busy first inning!

Lanning is Lanning, I don't want any other coach, particularly Prime or Curt "Google Me" Cignetti, both polar opposites of everything I admire and respect about Lanning. Cignetti brought a bunch of transfers with him to Indiana and beat a season full of cupcakes, Sanders had the Heisman winner and a projected first round pick at quarterback, but couldn't win the Big 12, which incidentally was won by a coach who was under the radar for most of the season, Kenny Dillingham.

The phrase "If you're really good you don't need to say you are"1 implies that if you are truly good or competent, you don't need to boast or advertise it.

You couldn't have said that better. The guy is smart. He works hard. He shows some level of concern for players ' futures. Then he say stuff like "somebody get me a mirror" when asked who is the best coach in college football (among other things). It reminds me of the time Richard Sherman ranted after an NFC Championship game when San Francisco beat Seattle. What he said was perfectly logical, but the way he said it had people asking " what in the hell did he just say?". Sometimes style detracts from the substance.

A considerable amount of what he says is valid. It's just wading through all the self aggrandizement that is hard at times.

A Shout Out for Dan Fouts! https://collegefootballnews.com/nfl-draft/best-nfl-draft-pick-ever-from-every-big-ten-school Where's Haloti Ngata?

Not a B1G Topic Per Se: I Wonder if Joey H. Still Wants J. Wilcox as the Ducks HC? The unraveling of Cal: Star exodus, a donor ultimatum and a football program running out of runway - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Golden Bears won't have a fully weaponized NIL purse until power shifts from coach Justin Wilcox to new GM Ron Rivera Last one out the door in Berkeley, please shut off the lights.

Sorry...I don't get it.

What exactly is Josh Heupel doing right now??? I know what I'm seeing...

I am hoping that the Ducks elevate their level of play unlike any time in the season thus far, as for the first time they are the underdogs. So far...that was true with Grayson Grinsell, and let's hope it continues with our next two starting pitchers.

Absolutely. If Duck wasn't a Duck to the core, He'd be a great co-host, I'd shove McAfee out and replace him with Duck in a minute.

This game had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and none more so then when Lombardi took Grein out I could understand it, but over the years her pitching moves haven't always worked. But this one did. When Sokolsky whiffed the two Bruins to end the 6th, I shouted as loud as I have during any football game!