road trip of a lifetime

[bhan]

some small acknowledgement at least:

"You need three things to make it this far," Lucia said. "You need to be good, lucky and healthy. We haven't been the healthiest team of late, but we have had a little luck. We had the regional at home and we took advantage of it."


http://www.startribune.com/stories/512/5317410.html

[ithacat]

[Q]Will Wrote:

Contrary to popular belief at Lynah, not every single penalty the Red take is undeserved.[/q]

Boo...It's all their fault. :-D

[ithacat]

[Q]jmh30 Wrote:

 [Q2]ithacat Wrote:
Flying back I sat next to a young guy from northern Minny who was on his way to his Peace Corps orientation in Detroit. He said he had wrestled in high school and had been ostracized.[/Q]
That's not the same.  Everyone makes fun of wrestlers.   [/q]

Due to the outstanding nature of the Cornell wrestling program, and the fact that the smallest among them could turn me into a pretzel, I respectfully decline to admit that I agree with you;-)

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 Well, a) that hasn't happened yet. b) I'll believe it when I see it. c) Just cause Schafer wants it doesn't mean I have to like another example of lack of homogeneousness in hockey.[/q]


Homogeneity, not homogeneousness.

[KeithK]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
How about if some fields have dirt between the bases and others had carpet?  And the teams playing on the carpet just happened to be particularly good at bouncing balls off it into the outfield?[/q]The point is that in baseball, post-season series are not one and done.  One team has home field for a few games and the other has home field advantages for the others.  It evens out.  If the NCAA tournament were played in a best of seven it wouldn't be unfair to give Minny home ice for four games when the other three were at Lynah.  (Well, we'd still grouse about the three vs. four because we'd think we deserved a top seed, but whatever  :-)  )

[ithacat]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

Homogeneity, not homogeneousness.
[/q]


Yeah, but what's more fun fun to say say? :-D

[Lauren '06]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
How about if some fields have dirt between the bases and others had carpet?  And the teams playing on the carpet just happened to be particularly good at bouncing balls off it into the outfield?[/Q]
The point is that in baseball, post-season series are not one and done.  One team has home field for a few games and the other has home field advantages for the others.  It evens out.  If the NCAA tournament were played in a best of seven it wouldn't be unfair to give Minny home ice for four games when the other three were at Lynah.  (Well, we'd still grouse about the three vs. four because we'd think we deserved a top seed, but whatever    )[/q]
And the team, the fans, and the band would die of stress and exhaustion moving back and forth between game sites.

[KeithK]

[q]And the team, the fans, and the band would die of stress and exhaustion moving back and forth between game sites.[/q]Come on, wouldn't it be great?  Four best of seven series to win it all?  Add in some travel and rest days and it would only take about two months.  Do this for the conference tourneys and it would reall ybe fun!  Who needs to go to school (or work) from April to June?   ::nut::

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]KeithK Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:
How about if some fields have dirt between the bases and others had carpet?  And the teams playing on the carpet just happened to be particularly good at bouncing balls off it into the outfield?[/Q]
The point is that in baseball, post-season series are not one and done.  One team has home field for a few games and the other has home field advantages for the others.  It evens out.  If the NCAA tournament were played in a best of seven it wouldn't be unfair to give Minny home ice for four games when the other three were at Lynah.  (Well, we'd still grouse about the three vs. four because we'd think we deserved a top seed, but whatever    )[/q]

How does this work in the NCAA regionals in baseball?  Do the hosts schools play in their own regional?  (You want to talk about unfair?  Before baseball expanded to 64 teams they used to have eight 6-team regionals which were double-elimination tournaments.  The loser of the 3-4 game had to play the winner of the 1-6 game in the second round, which typically meant a quick exit for the #4 team.  I know this because UCSB was the #4 team the one season I really paid attention to Gaucho baseball.)

[CowbellGuy]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=homogeneousness

[KenP]

age, i expect more from the person who adminstrates this site

[KeithK]

[q]How does this work in the NCAA regionals in baseball?[/q]No idea.  I was thionking MLB - I've never followed NCAA baseball beyond occasionally wandering over to watch a game at Cornell.  The championships at least are played at a neutral site, but I suspect there may be a home field advantage in the regionals.  I don't know if baseball is big enough to have the "host school can't play in their own regional" rule that squeakball has.

[CowbellGuy]

Are you still going on about homogeneousness? Was my reply not sufficient? And if you were just trying to be funny with "administrates," it is, in fact, just as valid as "administers." If you don't think so, read a dictionary. How is it that I use a valid word in perfectly valid context and everyone crawls out of the woodwork to unjustly criticize it, but no one has a problem with Ari's last column?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

 [Q2]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:
We don't need to take cowbells from students, win by home ice advantage in what should be a neutral-ice tournament, and restrict the ability of our opponents fans to enjoy the game.[/Q]
Given the occasional hostility of Lynah ushers, and our tendency to put the visiting band on  the glass in O, we're not in a very strong position to throw stones here.[/q]

John,

The hostility of Lynah ushers is toward the Faithful, not the visitors.  At least by my experience.

We let the visiting band play unrestricted.  We don't takes section O's signs away.  They have the right to be as rude as we are (moreso if they're from Clarkson).  

I think we have a very defensable position.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Everyone didn't criticize it.  I corrected what I thought was an error, but just a silly insignificant thing.  I should have used a smiley.  

I'll give you credit.  I had no idea that your usage was correct.

mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa