tpm, our sky boxes are reached via a step ladder the frats leave at the rf wall, right behind the HR fence . . great view, but sitting on a wall can get old . . eh, those are also the free seats
if that's not your cup o tea, Tech reciprocates with ACC and most other opponents for the "player pass list"
Prep, I do see your need, our fence down first base-line is only about thigh-high, and y'all who "hang on the fence down the line" keep falling into the field of play
c'mon, blue has a game to do, he can't be continualy calling time to help you back over
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Posts: 3616 | Location: NE Ohio | Registered: December 27, 2002
if that's not your cup o tea, Tech reciprocates with ACC and most other opponents for the "player pass list" .
Yes I know as I said the cheap FREE seats. Just hope the parents seats are better than the ones given at FSU, you need binoculars. CU gives seats above the dugout to parents both visiting and home, nice jesture. Have you ever been to CU games? Have you ever heard about teh Cheap seats, that bus parked behind CF? I understand that is the place to be come gameday. I also understand it is deadly for the visiting team.
That's why the all HATE to play at Clemson!
Posts: 10780 | Location: South Florida | Registered: July 28, 2003
When I asked my son how his summer team (Chatham A's, Cape Cod League) would fare if you "transplanted" it into his college conference (ACC), his immediate response: "The Cape League team would dominate EVERY ACC team." Having watched both leagues extensively, I'd concur.
Posts: 672 | Location: Charlotte | Registered: December 29, 2002
Rather than compare rookie teams with D1 teams, What level of play would Cape Cod league match with? Short season,low A? Do these leagues give instruction or work on new skills?
Posts: 1176 | Location: NJ | Registered: December 30, 2002
After reading this thread, it sounds like it's quite convincing that the best D1 school's players would be fortunate to be able to carry the bat bags for even the short season rookies. That kind of surprises me since many of these players are 18 and 19 year old players just out of high school as well as quite a few light hitting, over-hyped latin players.
Do colleges still get to play exhibition games against the mlb squads during their spring training?
From my recollection, even against players much superior than short season rookie ball, the college teams acquitted themselves quite well.
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Posts: 714 | Location: Midwest | Registered: April 26, 2004
I think many of the best college pitchers would do just fine.
I also think the majority of the "big bangers" in college would hit a Mendoza-like .100 using wood.
Actually - you dont even have to watch a college team play against a pro-A ball team to watch this.
Just watch a decent collegiate summer league season.
Hitting with wood is a completely different animal - especially when you are facing top pitching at the collegiate or pro level IMO.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
Posts: 5809 | Location: Huntersville,NC | Registered: December 27, 2002
Originally posted by SBK: After reading this thread, it sounds like it's quite convincing that the best D1 school's players would be fortunate to be able to carry the bat bags for even the short season rookies. That kind of surprises me since many of these players are 18 and 19 year old players just out of high school as well as quite a few light hitting, over-hyped latin players.
Do colleges still get to play exhibition games against the mlb squads during their spring training?
From my recollection, even against players much superior than short season rookie ball, the college teams acquitted themselves quite well.
I can't recall a college team even getting more than a run off in a spring exhibition game. The pro players are usually the bench and minor leaguers in the exhibition games.
Most GA Tech/Braves BC/Red Sox games have been blow outs.
Go to a D1 game and a high A or AA game in the same week. The differences in nearly every aspect of the games are striking. Why would they even be close? The college kids are 18-20 year old part-time amateurs. The pro guys are 22-25 year old full-time professionals.
The pros are bigger, faster, throw farther, harder and hit the ball harder, with wood. It is like comparing, um, Big 10 Golf and the Nationwide Tour. It ain't even close.
Posts: 4792 | Location: Florida | Registered: December 26, 2002
May I add - many of those "overhyped" Latin players you speak of grew up hitting a baseball with a 2x4.
Not a $350 metal rocket launcher - that can produce 360 foot screaming liners on a check swing. LOL
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
Posts: 5809 | Location: Huntersville,NC | Registered: December 27, 2002
Its, Tend to agree. You have to take the wood bats out of the equation for the D1 teams to be competitive with the short season A teams.
One of our local kids did quite well in D1 ball then hit about .125 in the Cape Cod League. Must have been lack of reps though because he was drafted after his senior season and hit .280 or .300ish in short season A, only a bit less than he hit in college with aluminum.
I've seen a fair amount of A games over the last couple years and while they're clearly better at that level than D1 teams there are enough kids out of HS still trying to catch up on the A teams that the D1s wouldn't be completely blown out if the wood bats were taken out of it.
They don't always play the players with the best stats in the minors. They often play a player with more talent who is struggling to learn because they feel that player has more long term potential.
Posts: 4703 | Location: Southern CA, USA | Registered: January 02, 2003
Some o0f the Elite teams (HS Kids) from Ontario play the rookie class teams and beat them. They also have played D1 college/D1 JC and beat them as well. Every spring several Elite teams square off against these teams in Florida.
Posts: 4182 | Location: Canada | Registered: October 13, 2005
Although this is college player they were not playing bench guys.
Senior Chris Emanuele at home plate after homering in the first inning of NU's exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox. Photo by Jim Pierce. Senior Chris Emanuele started the Northeastern baseball team’s exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox with a blast, homering off of 2005 American League All-Star Matt Clement on the third pitch of the game, but the Huskies eventually fell to the Sox 9-2 Friday night at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, Fla.
Posts: 4182 | Location: Canada | Registered: October 13, 2005
Originally posted by BobbleheadDoll: Some o0f the Elite teams (HS Kids) from Ontario play the rookie class teams and beat them. They also have played D1 college/D1 JC and beat them as well. Every spring several Elite teams square off against these teams in Florida.
BHD, not sure what you mean about the comment concerning "rookie class" teams? Are you talking about short season A, like the NY/PENN or teams in the Pioneer and Appalachian leagues. What are you referring to and when were these games played???
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Posts: 2052 | Location: ca | Registered: February 11, 2003
