I was on the verge of dismissing Mizzou baseball's chances of making to the CWS and then they went out this weekend and outscored No. 5-ranked Nebraska 37-13 and TOTALLY REDEEMED THEMSELVES!
OK, sorry for the Harry Dunne impersonation. But in all seriousness, I really don't know what our chances are of making it to Omaha. But all of a sudden we've won 8 of our last 10 and might be getting hot at the right time.
I think the big X-factor is Nick Tepesch (you could also count Rick Zagone and possibly Ian Berger as significant variables). It's no secret our bullpen might be the combustible relief corps this side of Busch Stadium. But Tepesch easily has the best stuff of all our relievers and has the best potential to come out of the 'pen and pitch 3+ dominant innings. He did a solid job today in only giving up one earned run in 3.2 innings.
But his inexperience has shown all year. His control has been downright awful at times. He's a guy that could come out and not give up a single hit or not get a single out, depending on the day.
But at least we're playing well for the time being.
Now onto a few links from the past few days:
- If Tiger baseball isn't able to make it to Omaha, then maybe their female counterparts can advance to OKC. For more info, Dave Matter is taking a hiatus from football to cover softball's run.
- Did you realize that Athena Night Club reopened? Did you realize there's already been another altercation outside the club, this one involving gunfire? Sigh.
- So Kansas cheated to win the National Championship. Not really. It's impossible to determine how much blame should be put on KU at this point and as Jason Whitlock points out, the real criminal is the NCAA. But I recall getting an inordinate amount of crap during the Ricky Clemmons era so I have no problem rubbing Beakers fans noses in this. You deserve it whenever you try to argue that your school's athletic department spotless. Bottom line, it's likely that every athletic department in the NCAA, from mid-majors on up, contain a certain degree of corruption. And it looks like Kansas might be worse than most.
- Willy-Mo and Leo Lyons are "Ridin' Neon." Personally, I'm partial to Willy-Mo's performance at the Sun Bowl talent show:
- Also from youtube, if you ever feel like reliving the Glen Dandridge era, here it is courtesy of GD25 himself:
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Dandridge made that video himself? And I don't think Leo was featured in that rap video.
Leo is not in the Sun Bowl video but in the one I link to he makes an appearance at about the 2:10 mark.
And since the username of the guy that made the Dandridge video is GlenD25 and his only two videos are Dandridge highlights, I'm going to assume it's him. But maybe it's just a big Glen Dandridge fanatic. Who knows?
The public has finally got what they've been clamoring for: a Glen Dandridge highlight video...what took so long?
The days of scouring youtube each morning have finally come to an end.
Marcus Woods is also a YouTube producer...
http://www.youtube.com/user/mwoods20
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