The Siena Saints (MAAC Conference) are 2-10. They've played UCF, JU and Stetson, and snuck back up north to take 2 of 3 from Miami of OH last weekend. Looks like a good time for some different guys to see the field. TV: SEC Network + (on-line) Radio: WRUF 850 AM / 98.1 FM Listen Live - ESPN 98.1 FM - 850 AM WRUF Stats: StatBroadcast Live Stat Feed Game Notes: 3 10 Siena public (PDF) - Florida Gators Weather: 72 Deg to start and 67 to finish. 47% chance of precip at the beginning decreasing to 30%. (We should scrap Fri and play a DH on Saturday, but I can see where you wouldn't want Sproat to start Sat and again on Thursday). W wind @ 7-10 = blowing out to right field. Starting Gator: #8 Jr RHP Sproat (3-0, 4.86) Starting Earl: #49 GR RHP Marynczak (0-1, 5.51) Go Gators!
Their logo is a dog...a St. Bernard. So I assume they drink lots of brandy. Their baseball team is bad. Has not had one single home game this year. They do have two good starting pitchers, one who nailed Miami in 7. The rest pitch behind a fence to avoid getting killed, 5 were pitchers on Home Run Derby TV show some 60 years ago. Their leading RBI guy has 2/3 the ribeyes that Josh got in one game. Their leading HR hitter is four guys from the Bowery Boys with one tater each. Their coach is the famed Algonquin J. Calhoun, a disbarred lawyer, who led the Little League Farting Potatoes baseball team to a 0-23 record. Seriously, we should run rule them all 3 games in 7 innings.
I’ll say it on this game thread too because it’s always a possibility that leaves you with the WTF thoughts swimming around in your head— We need to play up to Gator Baseball standards—not down to their standards.
Shelby wasn't that far off and I'm not making up any of this. Looking over their team stats, they are batting a collective .189. No player has started every game. Their best hitter with a .300 average has only started in 5 games. Their next best hitter is only batting .257, yikes. The player with the third most at bats is only hitting.088 with only 3 hits in 34 ABs. Team only has 4 HRs and they have an OB% less than 300. In 12 games they have only scored 36 runs. Now the pitching, they have 3 pitchers with ERAs of, and you might want to take a seat on this one, I said 3 pitchers with ERAs of over 81, not 8.1 but 81. More realistically they have 6 pitchers with multiple appearances and 4 to 6 innings each with an ERAs over 10. Their two best starters have ERAs over 5.50. IN 12 games they have 18 wild pitches. Their third baseman Barbero has 6 errors. Hopefully we lay down a few bunts to test him,
Right now Weather.com shows Friday at 6 PM is 75 degrees mostly cloudy with an 18% chance of rain and breezy blowing at 13 MPH out to RCF. Rain chances go up around 10 PM to 34%. All the better to get the run rule and get out of there. Saturday looks perfect.
Now that basketball season is over can someone organize some Rowdy Reptiles to sit behind the first base dugout and when the game gets out of hand to start chanting "We Want Talbott" clap...clap.....clap.clap.clap Tucker needs a few ABs so he can get off the zero average spot.
^^^^^^^^^^^ Gotta win 4 games in the SEC tourney at least, to make the dance. ^^^^^^^^ Hopefully this Gator lumber company keeps putting up crooked numbers on the 'board and multiple dingers. GO GATORS!!!!
For me it is.... People will come Hoyt, People will come. The one constant through all the years, Hoyt, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game--it's a part of our past, Hoyt. It reminds us all of what once was good, and it could be good again. Aahhhh, people will come, Hoyt, people will most definitely come.
I live about 15 minutes from their campus. The field is covered with snow …after the last 2 storms. So they generally play on the road thru Feb & March. Yeah. They aren’t very good.
Yeah this is not an easy call living in Ocala wanting to make the trip up. Even if they start the game I don't think it will go 5 innings. If it wasn't for the crowds from the Bubly and Lacrosse on Saturday I bet they would hold until tomorrow. It feels like they have to try and play today to lessen the impact on traffic tomorrow. Sure would be nice if there was more parking just south of the ballpark.
Maybe some sort of recognition for their coach. Siena baseball coach Tony Rossi, in 54th season, announces retirement
