What a great invention.

I can't make the weekday games for Hardin-Simmons Univ., but while working at the office yesterday, I was able to monitor play by play of a great pitched 2-1 game between Hardin-Simmons Univ and Trinity Univ. HSU's four pitchers allowed only one un-earned run in the 9 inning contest to win against a Trinity team ranked #22 in the ABCA DIII preseason poll.

Freshman son has his work cut out getting on the mound with this HSU pitching staff.

Any other posters using GameTracker to monitor games?

Yes, gametracker is great...many times I am able to find a radio broadcast of the play by play on the internet as well, it makes for a great combo. But I must admit, I do feel a little weird sitting and staring and the computer for hours upon hours...

But

It beats not hearing the game--if you cannot be in the stands it is a great means of "being there"

Bullwinkle...

I'm with you. I listen to the game while watching on gametracker.

But if I had to choose, I'd prefer to listen to the game as you can hear the crack (or should I say plink) of the bat, the crowd, and you get a better sense of what is going on by following the announcer.

Southpaw Pop: I agree that GameTracker is fabulous when work gets in the way of baseball. My problem is the darn computer kept freezing every time Trinity got runners to 3rd base in the 7th, 8th, and 9th.

We love Gametracker here ... get to follow several schools at the same time (by clicking on "Scoreboard", you can find a menu of all the games on Gametracker for the day) in "one sitting". Since we follow several colleges and players, it makes for great entertainment, especially since I can take my laptop into the kitchen and "watch" the games while I prepare dinner.

(Does this all sound insane? Well, yes, but most hard core baseball parents understand it ...)

I have located gametracker but my son's small D-III school doesn't seem to post the games. Any suggestions?

Yahoosports provides audio to many games also! When you can't be there, it's great to be able to follow the games!

I love gametracker when my son is not playing on it.

But when he's pitching on it, I can't stand it!

Monitored my son's games this weekend in New Mexico and it was almost as though I was sitting in the stadium. Although we didn't do so well it was a great experience for the guys, and believe it or not you can really get emotionally involved in the game through gametracker...I mean like verbally rooting for your team and players and shouting at the screen when the other team hits a homerun.

Sirguy ...

I believe the schools have to subscribe ... if they don't want to expend the money, as our son's school didn't, there isn't much fans can do about it. As I understand it, one of the fans at my son's college offered to pay for the subscription, but the AD didn't bite. It may require additional personnel ... I don't know ... and that is costly for a school with the smallest athletic department budget in all of the Univ of California system

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Headin' to South Bend come April

FBM, Noticed this new little message on your posts. Sounds like you will be using those frequent flyer miles to O'Hare? Congrats to AJ on the assigment.