Diamond Ducks vs. Washington State, Fri./Sat./Sun.

[ICamel]

Our Beloved Ducks this weekend take on the Cougars of Washington State at PK Park in Eugene.

 

Friday at 6PM

 

Saturday at 3PM

 

Sunday at Noon

 

All 3 games are streamed live. Click on hyperlink Live Stream of Game and scroll down to April 22, 23, 24. The live stream link will be on the right of your screen titled "Watch".

 

Radio on the Oregon Sports Network.

 

Or attend in person! Tickets range from $7 - $10

 

GO DUCKS!

[EastBayDuckDad]

Be there on Saturday, baby. A short stroll across the parking lot from Autzen to PK after the Spring Game. My brother is coming up from the Lassen area (he was a walk-on pitcher for San Diego State back in the 70's when we was young) joining my son and me behind the visitors on deck circle along the 3rd base side with cold microbrews in our hands and fire in our hearts. Yhere are tickets left for the game from what I gather. C'mon out, man!

 

Go Ducks

[Guest Axel]

This weekend, the Washington State baseball Cougars (yes, there is such a thing) bring their one-game winning streak to Oregon for three games against Our Beloved Ducks.

 

We know this isn’t that other Pac-12 school up there, the really disgusting one that makes us all reach for a stomach distress bag, but we are bound by honor and duty to bash anyone and anything that has it in for our Ducks.

 

The Cougars make the journey from a nowhere called Pullman within another nowhere called the Palouse, an area best known for having trippy-colored rolling hills, the same colors that you will, in fact, get from tripping out on mushrooms or LSD.

 

Because the average daily temperature in the Palouse is about four degrees Fahrenheit, it is impossible to play baseball there for 11 and a half months out of the year, which explains why the Cougars are bringing all their baseball gear down here, not that it will do them any good with their 5-13 Pac-12 record, a good indicator that the Cougars will have trouble playing baseball anywhere for 12 out of 12 months.

 

If Wazzou baseball accomplishments are what you seek, we encourage you to keep on seeking, unless you consider it an accomplishment that the Cougars during the Gerald R. Ford administration played two games at the College World Series and promptly lost both of them.

 

Do they have sports customs at Washington State? Yes, but you don’t really want to hear about them, because Wazzou traditions mostly foreshadow athletic contests where the Cougars are pulverized and ground to kitty litter by those same depraved and degenerate Washington Huskies that we also despise.

 

Sportsmen say that the Palouse region is a haven for “outdoor recreational pursuits,” the chief one being not freezing to death. Farmers somehow grow things there, in dirt that’s harder than Portland cement, and they’re rewarded for their efforts with winter wheat and hypothermia. We have no idea what winter wheat is used for, presumably bread cold enough that you can chip your teeth on it.

 

We don’t mean to overstate the sucky weather situation in the Palouse, but suffice it to say that when Pullman’s hometown folks want to escape the bone-numbing cold, they hop on Expedia and check out the cost of airfare to somewhere warmer, like Siberia.

 

And in case you’re wondering why any sane people would decide to build a university on a landscape that’s less hospitable than the plains of Mars, the people who made the decision were not sane—they were from Washington, where the number-one export is psychosis.

 

Is there any benefit to living in the Palouse, a place more suited to the Twilight Zone than planet Earth? Well, sort of. Washington State University has established a reputation for being a rollicking party school, which is another way of saying that the student population joins the local yokels in getting mindlessly drunk every weekend.

 

Meanwhile, the Cougars pass their time on campus wondering how the game of baseball is played and waiting for Mother Nature to release her icy grip from their seldom-used Bailey-Bratton Field. And who were Bailey and Bratton, you ask? Perhaps they were former Cougars coaches, but our guess is that they were genius pioneers in the field of cryogenics. Brrr!

[30Duck]

On 4/22/2022 at 9:46 AM, Axel said:

And in case you’re wondering why any sane people would decide to build a university on a landscape that’s less hospitable than the plains of Mars,

Who said they're sane?

[Guest Axel]

On 4/22/2022 at 9:46 AM, Axel said:

And in case you’re wondering why any sane people would decide to build a university on a landscape that’s less hospitable than the plains of Mars, the people who made the decision were not sane—they were from Washington, where the number-one export is psychosis.

 

[Charles Fischer]

The Cougars actually had a game postponed recently because it was snowed out!  (In April!) That is cold!  As George Raveling once said about Pullman..."this isn't the end of the world...but I can see it from here!"

 

 

[EastBayDuckDad]

They grow and make some good wine close to Pullman. Since the official activity in eastern Washington from September to April is drinking (May to August as well), not much of it escapes that area though.

 

On 4/22/2022 at 9:46 AM, Axel said:

 

Is there any benefit to living in the Palouse, a place more suited to the Twilight Zone than planet Earth? Well, sort of. Washington State University has established a reputation for being a rollicking party school, which is another way of saying that the student population joins the local yokels in getting mindlessly drunk every weekend.