I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
ACC in the MLB
With the recent positive changes in the NC State Athletics Dept., some of the recent baseball entries had some brief mentions in the comments sections about a “leveling of the playing field” with regard to budgets and recruiting. I had wanted to put together something about recent recruiting results/class rankings of the ACC baseball programs, [...]
Congratulations, Texas Rangers
Wanted to take a moment to congratulate the Texas Rangers for their big win over the evil New York Yankees to advance to their first ever World Series. The Rangers’ fellow Texas-based partners in futility, the Houston Astros, managed their way to the 2005 World Series…so, now only two Major League franchises have failed to [...]
Congratulations, Coach Avent & Aaron Bates!!
Just a little baseball news during the All-Star break – after 13 years without winning an ACC Championship or finishing in first place in the conference, NC State Head Baseball Coach Elliot Avent got a big boost to his program when former Wolfpack first baseman Aaron Bates was called up to the major leagues by [...]
Closing the Book on ’08 Baseball
For some of us, the last memories of ’07-’08 Wolfpack sports is a good one: the great run of the baseball team that ended one win away from a berth in Omaha. Included in this run was a win in the first regional hosted at home for the Wolfpack (and two nice wins over a [...]
State Guys to Watch for in MLB in 2008
Yeah, I was in the show…You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, someone else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. (Crash Davis in “Bull Durham”) [...]
Record 8 of “Pack 9″ Drafted
Despite yet another ‘nice’ season, Elliot Avent’s 10th season as NC State baseball coach ended like all of the others — without the Wolfpack bringing home any hardware of distinction after a 7th place finish in the country’s toughest conference. Don’t go over the deep end ASSuming that old SFN is against Avent and wants [...]