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Charles Fischer

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  1. Oh, that was a dandy, as is this one below... "Is Will Stein a genius or merely another coordinator with a flashy playbook?" Lovely. Another writer-hack who gives us a typical blah-blah article...
  2. He makes my point why we should NOT have conference tournaments. So we play 30, that is THIRTY CONFERENCE GAMES, to have the season tarnished by one game in a silly tournament? Oregon State lost four games to us, had a similar record, SAT OUT THE TOURNAMENT WEEK, and did just fine in the seeding.
  3. Not to mention that USC had a MAD exodus of players over the last year, and they are trying to replace them...
  4. I agree with you David, that a rule change in the middle of the season is not only odd--but I don't know if I've noticed that before. Thanks so much for all this research for our benefit!
  5. How can this be? "While the exact number of deaths attributed to rhinoceros attacks each year is unknown globally, research suggests that such attacks are relatively rare." "However, it's important to remember that rhinos, especially the larger species like white rhinos (which can weigh around 5,000 pounds), are wild animals and can be dangerous, especially if provoked or if someone enters their territory. Their poor eyesight and tendency to charge when feeling threatened can lead to serious injuries or fatalities." "Hippos are considered a dangerous land animal, with estimates suggesting they kill around 500 people per year. While some sources claim a higher range (up to 3,000 deaths annually), the more widely cited figure is 500. This aggressive behavior is often attributed to their territorial nature and tendency to charge at boats, mistaking them for predators." Hippo Charging a Boat in Namibia...
  6. While I’m not happy to see Penn State as one of the nations top defenses, it certainly is not a surprise. We are going to have our hands full!
  7. Boy is that true, as I anticipated a couple more weeks to the season. To have it end so abruptly--is harsh. But...we will be BACK!
  8. Hello my Duck-Buddies, My initial suffering, binge, and hangover are now past, and I can step back and be reasonable about the 2025 Baseball Season. We had not won over 40 games in the regular season in a decade until this year, and so many new records shows continued progress, such as the new Home Run record broken again under Coach Waz. Seeing a new attendance record at PK Park is thrilling as well. But something that the coach referred to often in his interviews is how this team has more upside, but is not consistent enough...and that was certainly true. To win a co-championship and a good seed, the Ducks had to win 11 in row, and 16 of 17 at one point. The problem is...they peaked just before the Playoffs. It happens. This was a very good team that did not show their best at crunch time. There was grumbling about Oregon's non-conference schedule as we had four OOC series, and ten conference series. Remember, to make the tournament (64 teams) you have to be in the top 20% in the US out of over 300 D1 Baseball programs. Of the four non-conference series...Columbia made the tournament, and beat No. 16 Southern Miss. Rhode Island was in the tournament, and while Toledo was not, they were in the Tournament Championship game. Our final non-conference series was against Oregon State, of which we swept all four games. Other opponents showed well, such as USC making it to a final regional game before falling to Beavis. (We beat USC three times) St. Mary's beat Beavis in the first round, and we took two from the Gaels. Stunning Playoff Results College baseball was much more balanced this year, as quite a few other national seeds went down in their Regional. The No. 1 Seed, Vanderbilt, lost to Wright State! The No. 2 Seed, Texas, lost to UTSA, and the No. 10 Seed, Ole Miss, lost to Murray State...who advanced! In all, of the 16 national seeds, a total of seven of them lost their regional! Oregon was part of a trend! (Gallows humor) The highly exalted SEC started the Regionals with 13 teams in the tournament, and only advanced four, while the ACC advanced five to the Super-Regionals. In the Future? I See MORE Winning for Oregon Baseball!
  9. I wrote a post the other day about what the principals at one of the pay sites have been hearing as the Ducks' new recruiting strategy--and their use of NIL. They are NOT going to get into bidding wars for unproven freshmen, and will spend the majority of their NIL dollars trying to retain the current team, (since the majority are still young) and to use a major portion of the rest on Portal Transfers to fill holes. This made sense, and a couple of us suggested that maybe it is a short-term strategy based upon the relative youth of the team, with more going to HS recruiting later as the classes balance out. This is a strategy that is a step ahead of other schools, as they get into massive bidding wars, and this explains all the lost high-profile recruits, and the decommits from Oregon. But what if...the Oregon staff is thinking out even further ahead? That when the NIL caps are actually set...that so many of these schools will have to go back and change those 2 million contracts to $80,000 per year? How will THAT go over with players and parents? But the schools will have no choice! So now, a player is soured on that school that is changing the deal on his former big contract, and now, for the same new money being offered....the Ducks are looking good between the same NIL offer, access to Nike, the uniforms, the staff, etc. Oregon could then pick up a TON of portal transfers. And they will HAVE the money set aside for those elite portal transfers! Are the Ducks thinking two steps ahead, or am I so bored with Baseball ending so soon that I am hallucinating tactics that don't exist?
  10. The linked article refers to a 50 million package, so I believe it very well might be 10 million a year...
  11. The majority of verbals do stick, but they are certainly more fluid these days!
  12. Absolutely crazy and unsustainable. This is one way to get legislation figured out!
  13. It is so complicated now...you gotta feel for the coaches. All that work...
  14. Take on a powerhouse program when they're mad? NOT!
  15. 10-8 Cal Poly wins. I am locking the thread, as I do not need to see people post who never do unless it is negative. And I don't need "Nah-Nah" posts that are meant as salt-on-the-wound, as I've already deleted one of those. We had a great season, but fell short. It happens.
  16. 10-8 Cal Poly after eight innings. Boy our pitching...
  17. 9-8 Cal Poly after seven innings, as Oregon's Drew Smith and Jeffery Heard hit back-to-back home runs over center field! Who would have thought that the replacement for Aroz would hit two dingers today? But then the worst of two worlds happened...the Ducks put in Ian Umlandt--which I cannot understand, as we will need him as a starting pitcher in a later game...and then the Mustangs hit-the-heck out of him.
  18. 6-5 Ducks! This is after six innings, as the replacement for Anson Aroz...Jeffrey Heard, got a dinger over the center field fence to tie it. Then Oregon's Burke-Lee Mabeus got a blooper single in shallow left field to set up The Pride of Portland Oregon, Ryan Cooney, who blasted a two-run homer over center field as well. The crowd went nuts... There is a stiff wind blowing out toward center field, so anything up in the air can get carried long, and Cal Poly got a HR that way.
  19. 4-3 Cal Poly after five innings, as the Ducks' Carter Garate singled to get to first, got to second on a wild pitch, and then was advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Then came a LONG at-bat with Dominic Hellman, who fouled off tons of pitches, and with two outs and a runner on third...we needed this. He got the pitch he wanted and blasted it out of the park and into the left field scoreboard for a two-run homer! The crowd was razzing the pitcher, and went crazy with the HR. The Mustangs are hitting Oregon's Grinsell much more than I would have thought...
  20. 3-1 Cal Poly after four innings. Sigh…
  21. 3-1 Cal Poly after three innings. Oregon's Ryan Cooney got a double to center field, got sacrificed to third, and Dominic Hellman hit him with a single to left field. Left two stranded!
  22. 2-0 Cal Poly after two innings. They caught a Grinsell fastball for a two-run HR.
  23. 0-0 after one inning, and Grayson Grinsell looks good.
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