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5-0 Ducks after seven innings, as Grayson Grinsell is up to 121 pitches...and he still slaps the Huskies with a wet newspaper! Jeffrey Heard subs in at right field, and justifies the move with a home run over the right field fence to add to the lead!

4-0 Ducks after six innings, as Grinsell has been SO GOOD. He has 101 pitches...he has gone further before, but do you risk his arm versus a reliever not doing as well? Four runs is not enough with these BASTARDS we are playing...

4-0 Ducks after five innings, as the pitchers have been superb. With a lead--it is crucial that Grayson Grinsell keep the Huskies howling...and he has.

4-0 Ducks after four innings. I got to hand it to the Husky pitcher, as he is mentally strong and pulled himself together together. Meanwhile, Oregon’s Grayson Grinnell, has been wonderful, as he got out of a bases-loaded jam and left Washington with nothing! (I enjoy this WAY too much)

This is what I am happy to see for B1G play....adding the two intra-league long, springy bangers to set screens, rebound, defend, dunk and block shots. If we aren't going to shoot 40% from 3PT, then we need rebounders and rangy defenders to cut off lanes on the break and extend pressure on defensive sets.

4-0 Ducks after three innings, as Grinsell’s change up pitch is driving Huskies nuts.

4-0 Ducks after two innings. Grinsell put the Bastards down 1-2-3.

4-0 Ducks after one inning! The Bastard-Huskies have a great pitcher, Max Banks, who was 8-0 in his B1G game starts thus far. Oregon counters with Grayson Grinsell who has shown his usual tough fastball, a slider that appears as a fastball and shifts lower, and then a nasty curve that drops. He blanks the Huskies as we would want... Can you say MELTDOWN? The Washington pitcher may have had a 2.97 ERA in BiG play, but he had not faced the Oregon offense, nor the PK Park crowd. He walks Mason Neville, while right-fielder Parker Stinson sacrifice-bunts to move Neville to second base. Jacob Walsh then drives a grounder just past the second baseman on the right side, and scores Neville from second as the throw from right field is late! Drew Smith gets plinked, and then Anson Aroz zings a hit right over second base to score Walsh from second base! Maddox Molony walks to load the bases, and Burke-Lee Mabeus walks to score another! With Ducks-on-the-Pond, (Bases Loaded) we see Carter Garate get plinked AGAIN by the Husky pitcher to complete his meltdown to our glee!

No.. still garbage

Yes, Grinsell will be fine, Husky pitcher is undefeated in B1G. Need to get some runs, however they come, this time. Scoring position is the red zone, have to Just do it, Ducks. Besides the Uskies are an Addidas school.

Devin Bell originally came from La Grande High School, and went to Western Oregon University, and pitched this year a low 2.39 ERA for the Wolves, and he did it pitching a boatload of 75 innings. He will be here in Eugene next year with one year left. Oregon has done well with most players who have shown excellence at a lower level college and moved up.

It takes a lot, but I'm actually being entertained by the NBA Playoffs, particularly the Knicks-Celtics series. The Celtics are going for a repeat and are the No.1 seed, the Knicks are No.6. But the Knicks are up 2-0, thanks to sweeping the first two games at Boston. Both games the Knicks were behind, by a lot. They won game 1 in OT 108-105, game 2 by 1 point, 91-90. Now the series switches to Madison Square Garden. Is the pressure all on Boston? You'd think. But it might be on the Knicks. Boston loves the 3. But so far, they're 25/100, 28/100, they might be up 2-0. If the Knicks win game 3, I think it's over. But what if the Celtics win? In the other Eastern series Indiana is up 2 on the Cavaliers, The Pacers won game 2, despite being down by 7 points with :35 left. In the West, Denver won game 1 in OKC, 121-119. But OKC won game 2, 149-106. Golden State and Minnesota are 1-1. Steph Curry is out for now with a hamstring.

Well deserved!

30, I'm in complete agreement. But ESPN and Fox will not pay the same money without a football and men's basketball conference championship game, and basketball games. Flex-scheduling in the final football regular season will shorten the season by a week and bring in more money than is being paid for football championship games. The B1G and SEC proposal to expand the field and have four teams each in the field also includes the B1G and the SEC telling the PO Committee which four teams are in. In 2024, 9-0 Oregon would have played Minnesota in Autzen. If the Gophers pulled off a huge upset, Oregon, Indiana, and Penn State would be the PO representatives, with the Gophers knocking out the 4th-place Buckeyes. With three at-large spots in a 16-team field, Ohio State would have received an at-large bid. Do I like the regular season, not counting for PO and bowl seeding? No. But then again, with so much difference in the strength of conference football schedules, a final regular season flex-scheduled PO does not bother me as much as single elimination postseason conference champions, where 12-seed Purdue can host the tournament. In football, in most, if not all seasons, I like the Ducks finishing in the top 4, playing another home game, and the money for OBD and Lane County that comes with a home game.

If ever an award should have been unanimous, it's this one.

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I don't know if Michigan helped themselves by being swept , Run Ruled in game 3 by Oregon during the season. Grein was off the last series of the season, Sokolsky came in, wrapped it up. Sokolsky got the start against Michigan, didn't have it, Grein came in, still doesn't have it back. Hopefully both will have it next week.

Irregardless of how this loss effects their regional/super regional draw, if it locks them into tournament focus, it was worth it.

Conference championship games need to be abolished. Talk about devaluing a season? The NBA has trouble getting people to watch until the Playoffs, so they even have a ridiculous Tournament during the season! Of course they also have a Play-in round. But it makes some sense because it lets teams at the bottom crawl in to the Playoffs, but it does not make them a champion!

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The first game and a half of the season the offensive line was in a complete mess. The second half against Boise State the offensive line started to look significantly better and then by Oregon State it was a pretty dominant force and it just kept rolling from there. There were several games and plays that they just didn't get the same amount of push at the point of attack. The line certainly was not as good as previous years but some B1G defensive fronts were physically bigger than what we typically faced in the Pac-12 (see the Oregon State game). I think the injuries played a greater role than Terry in the overall decline of the running game this last season. That and not having Irving who had a wonderful combination of vision, breakaway speed and balance that made him an explosive play waiting to happen. James had the power but he lacked the breakaway speed. Whittington had the break away speed but seemed to lack the vision and balance to get him into the open field. Those were problems consistent with these players going back to 2022 and 2023 and not indicative on this particular offensive line. If this year's offensive line starts off as poorly as last year's and there are no real significant injuries, then I'll go ahead and put more blame on Terry. I think the whole staff was put in a difficult position as two preemptive starters and rotational players in Iuli and Bedford were out due to injury so late in fall camp that they did their best to find a solution. The first game was awful and the second game was mostly awful. But by game 3 and 4 it looked much improved. As for the 2016 dreaded Alamo Bowl. The starting center went down for Oregon not long after Adams was out of the game. Helfrich and company had to make a decision. Put in Doug Brenner (who was actually the third string center) or burn the redshirt of Jake Hanson (the actual back-up at any other point in the year). They opted to preserve the redshirt of Hanson as burning it for the second half of a bowl game didn't seem like a good deal. Sure Brenner and Locke were not good... but also blame the defense for that game as well because they gave up the 30+ point lead.

I LOVE the 16 team format, so that nobody can claim that a team who was legit at the end of the season is left out. But I HATE the season-ending conference "Play-in" games. That is why we have a regular season, and as Oregon fans know...it is hard to beat a great team twice. At what point are we going to stop the nonsense for every last dollar? Softball had an incredible season tainted....because they got over the hump and won the conference championship with a full effort. But could not keep the intensity for the silly conference tournament. In Baseball? I would feel the same way if Iowa won the regular season championship and Oregon won the tournament. The champ should be Iowa in that case, as 27 games should not be negated by a couple of games in a tournament. Calm down Charles...

Is the B1G Baseball Tourney a single-loss and your out format like the Softball Tournament? If this is the case, why bother? Why risk regular-season success and possibly ding the NCAA tourney seeding? As I noted in the Softball post, Fox and Friends would not have offered less money if Softball and Baseball did not have a conference postseason tournament.

A single loss and you're out when you can run into a hot pitcher? Why bother? Perhaps an NCAA tournament outlier sneaks in, but at the cost of dinging the regular season's champ seeding? I don't believe the conference media deal would be a cent less if this tourney were not played. I hope the conference covered the cost of getting to and from Purdue.

This was exactly why I wished we had lost a game during the regular season in football. It certainly woke up the Buckeyes. Humbled them and forced them to bear down and fix their issues. Playoffs are a death sentence. Too many things can go wrong in a playoff game, and running the table in the regular season doesn't make a team feel the sting of one that got away (which is worse in the playoffs because that loss is the worst form of church bells-its final, and you can't do a damn thing about it). Imagine Ohio State had humbled us in the regular season. Especially because of lethargy. Duck Nation knows the Buckeyes absolutely benefitted from getting back to business a week earlier, and only off a two week layoff. Buckeye fans are crowing all over the internet the Rose Bowl was what was supposed to happen in Eugene. Hogwash. We would have played Ohio State better than Texas did if we had faced them in the CCG (as Penn State also found out, we have a pretty damn good offense). Now we have to wait until this year to silence that damn fan base like we did last October. Better yet, I'm looking for a sweep. It's time to put Ohio State in the same class as USuC and the Fuskies. I hate those fan bases, and nothing is sweeter than inflicting revenge. Losses make you or break you in the regular season. They are a necessary part of the game as far as I'm concerned.