Saturday, January 24, 2009

Dirtbags picked fourth in preseason poll

Big West coaches vote LBSU fourth in preseason Big West poll

Season preview coming very soon....

Friday, January 9, 2009

LBSU Baseball - The 2009 Edition coming soon

This will be short and sweet, but I wanted to get the ball rolling a bit in anticipation of Dirtbag baseball in 2009.

Thanks to the wonderful folks at the NCAA we will again have to wait until late February (instead of late January) for college baseball. I can't think of anything worse unless of course you are them and you have had to listen to cold weather teams bitch and moan for years about the competitive disadvantage of southern, warm weather teams like those in Florida and California.

So we are stuck with this for now. Baseball's version of midnight madness and spring practice is not getting to play until after Valentine's Day. Now we just get stuck with enough games per week that the schedule could be confused with a pro team.

Anyway, it was a highly successful season for LBSU in 2008. Not only did the team take a share of the Big West crown and get to host a regional but ex-Dirtbags took the baseball world by storm. John Bowker homered in his first two games as a Giant and Evan Longoria won ROY, was named to the AL all-star team and played in the World Series.

In the draft the Dirtbags had 11 players selected and other ex-Blair Boys like Giambi, Weaver and Tulowitzki are still playing good ball.

The Dirtbags will have to replace a ton of talent in the coming season. But more on that with a full-scale team preview in the next few weeks. Check back all spring for stories, stats and more!