[OT] Baseball

[Josh '99]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:
I'll gladly be selective and remember the "one that really hurt" as definitive of a really successful sports year for Cornell![/q]Now come on, we've all recognized for years that while the Ivy title in hockey is nice, winning the ECAC is the real thing.  How'd we do in that, again?  

[ithacat]

[Q]NTR Wrote:

 [Q2]Trotsky Wrote:

 Does 2004-05 seem to anybody else to be a remarkable year for Cornell sports?  It seems like they are at/near the top in... damn near everything.[/Q]
That just shows how selective, and faulty, even short-term memory can be-  

Cornell has won, I believe, 5 Ivy titles this year [/q]

I'm thinking more along the lines of a top-5 finish nationally in wrestling, with one individual national champ; a top-5 finish nationally in hockey, with one OT goal keeping them from Columbus; a national championship in Men's polo; a second place finish in women's polo; a top-5 ranking (currently) in lax, with a team that could make a serious run at Philly...add a much improved football team and a basketball team that swept Princeton for the first time in 20 years and, yeah, it feels like a pretty good year.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

[Q]NTR Wrote:

 [Q2]Trotsky Wrote:

 Does 2004-05 seem to anybody else to be a remarkable year for Cornell sports?  It seems like they are at/near the top in... damn near everything.[/Q]
That just shows how selective, and faulty, even short-term memory can be-  

Cornell has won, I believe, 5 Ivy titles this year   (volleyball, wrestling, men's lax, women's track, and one that really hurt)-

but has finished DEAD LAST a remarkable 7 times!   (men's soccer and women's field hockey, basketball, fencing, ICE HOCKEY, squash, and tennis).

Harvard, by contrast, has won 11 titles and counting   (far too many for me to list here...) [/q]
Translation: [Q]Well, my daddy has an even bigger car.[/q]
Of course our memory is selective. That's human nature. The sense that Cornell is having a remarkable year, relatively speaking, isn't just the product of championships. We've been doing much better than expected in several high-visibility sports -- not to mention having some unexpected national success in a few sports that matter a great deal to us, such as men's lacrosse. Example of the former: When the football team and the men's basketball play well after many, many miserable years and end up finishing second in the league, the net effect is much greater (feelgoodwise, dollarwise, good-vibes-rubbing-off-on-other-sports-wise, whatever) than, say, when Princeton wins yet another women's swimming title.

I look forward to catching the excitement of all those Harvard championships at eBeren and eMurr.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

The Championship Series has been moved to Monday and Tuesday, the 9th and 10th, at Harvard due to a very stormy forecast for the Boston area this weekend.  

[French Rage]

[Q]NTR Wrote:

 [Q2]Trotsky Wrote:

 Does 2004-05 seem to anybody else to be a remarkable year for Cornell sports?  It seems like they are at/near the top in... damn near everything.[/Q]
That just shows how selective, and faulty, even short-term memory can be-  

Cornell has won, I believe, 5 Ivy titles this year   (volleyball, wrestling, men's lax, women's track, and one that really hurt)-

but has finished DEAD LAST a remarkable 7 times!   (men's soccer and women's field hockey, basketball, fencing, ICE HOCKEY, squash, and tennis).

Harvard, by contrast, has won 11 titles and counting   (far too many for me to list here...)

and has only been last once (women's lax).

The record for titles, IIRC, is Pton with 14 - doubtful, but still within reach, for Harvard this year. [/q]

Ice hockey?  You mean women's?  And you forgot the men's, thanks to a certain team losing to Dartmouth.

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]French Rage Wrote:
Ice hockey?  You mean women's?  And you forgot the men's, thanks to a certain team losing to Dartmouth.[/q]

That was "the one that really hurt".

[French Rage]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]French Rage Wrote:
Ice hockey?  You mean women's?  And you forgot the men's, thanks to a certain team losing to Dartmouth.[/Q]
That was "the one that really hurt".[/q]

Oh, I thought he meant women's track really hurt, which I found a bit odd.  Well, at least I got to pour salt on the wound. :-D

[nyc94]

Cornell swept the outdoor Heps which makes 8 Ivy titles on the season and the most ever according to the Cornell site.

http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-track/recaps/050805aab.html

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]nyc94 Wrote:

 Cornell swept the outdoor Heps which makes 8 Ivy titles on the season and the most ever according to the Cornell site.
[/q]
With Harvard, appropriately, last in both the men's and women's competitions.

[nyc94]

[Q]NTR Wrote:
Harvard, by contrast, . . . has only been last once (women's lax).
[/q]

The Harvard women were dead last at the indoor Heps.  The Harvard men were last in cross country.  With the outdoor Heps today that makes five last place finishes.

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

Game 1 of Best of 3 ILCS:

Harvard 2

Cornell 0  (Final)

Cornell has only given up 7 runs in 25 innings against Harvard this season but has no wins to show for it.  Game 2 underway in 30 minutes.

[RichH]

Game 2 audio on: http://www.whrb.org/

[RichH]

And Game 2 just ended, 4-2 Harvard.  Harvard sweeps the day, winning the championship.  The Cornell starter had a great outing, but it wasn't enough.

All you really missed if you didn't tune in were the snide jokes about how the 4th best team in the league got to play Harvard for the Championship.