High & Inside, No. 11. One badass Baldcast.

Okay Stitch-Heads, here’s the latest from Mike Rooney and I on the coolest Baldcast in the country… Nay, the coolest baldcast in the entire world.   Best Line: Roons on Virginia coach Brian O’Connor, “It’s been a huge advantage at Virginia to keep his staff together. It says a lot about Brian O’Connor, who deserves [...]

20 Mondays – The 15th Edition

June 20th, 2011: The view of the black cloud that took over the skies of Omaha, looking like a retractable roof.

As you know, most of our nation’s attention turns to the numerous victims in Oklahoma City and the surrounding areas that were ravaged by an incredibly powerful F4 twister that flattened everything it its considerable path.

Growing up in Omaha, I still have PTSD from hearing the tornado sirens go off in the spring and scurrying down to the basement and huddling under our industrial-sized work bench.

The Triumphant Return of Don Ho and his Tiny Bubbles on the college baseball landscape

The late, great Hawaiian legend Don Ho would like to sing Tiny Bubbles into your ears.

It’s Don Ho time. “Tiny bubbles” are floating around everywhere in college baseball at this time of year. It almost seems like with this new RPI formula and the rewarding of road wins, the teams “on the bubble” are more numerous (and more diversified) than ever.

What A Relief Tuesday

Kentucky reliever Trevor Gott gets some fives after securing the win over No. 15 Indiana tonight.

I couldn’t help but notice all the good relief stints that occurred in college baseball tonight, several of which were on the tube. And also several of which had big NCAA Tournament implications. So I hope you don’t mind that I did a little write-up and running commentary below.

20 Mondays – The 14 O’Clock P.M. Edition

Don’t let the zombied faces fool you, these guys will beat the hell out of your team. Gage Smith (in the Rollie Fingers ‘stache), Brandon Leibrandt and Scott Sitz ham it up for the camera in the final inning of the Monday win over N.C. State. Supreme Tomfoolery.

A good bud of mine, Mike Groce, who is a radio host in Phoenix who has me on his show from time to time during the baseball season, sent me a link to an article from the Denver Post regarding this writer’s assertion that Colorado and Colorado State need to bring back baseball to their respective athletic departments.

If you want to check it out, click here.

High & Inside: The Latest College Baseball Podcast.

Mike Rooney and I do the weekly thing and we think we got it nailed down pretty good once again. We recorded this on Thursday night and not our usual Wednesday night. Sorry ’bout that. But as usual, we hope you dig it. Let us know what you think, guys and dolls:

20 Mondays – Lucky No. 13

The aerial view of Columbia’s odd-shaped field, courtesy of the Hudson River.

As you guys might recall, my highlight of the weekend was seeing the first NCAA tournament spot officially get grabbed by Columbia University as the Lions took down Dartmouth in two straight games on Saturday in New York City.

But Satow Stadium remains one of the oddest stadiums I’d ever seen.

The Weekend Preview – Back in the New York Groove

Grateful Dead-like, it’s going to be a long and strange trip this weekend. From Dingerville to Dogpiles, and Bayou Bashers to Burning on the Bowery. I hope to see some great baseball… and some rock-n-roll history as well.

I’m off to the Big Apple this weekend. Gonna go see who gets the first tux fitting for the Big Dance. And while I’m there, I hope to see some of the famous punk venues on the Lower East Side, home to places like CBGB’s, Cafe Wha? and the Bowery Ballroom. It’s Dartmouth and Columbia for the Ivy League title. A best-of-three that will take place a few stops up the A-line from where I’ll be staying in a friend of mine’s apartment in SoHo.

High & Inside. The Latest College Baseball Baldcast

Here’s the newest breath of fresh air from Eric Sorenson and Mike Rooney.

Hope you guys dig it. It’s one of the best Baldcasts in recorded history.

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A COUPLE THINGS I FORGOT TO POST.

Here’s a couple things I meant to post to my site from last weekend. I posted them on Twitter (What, you don’t follow me on Twitter? Gah!), but I’m posting them now.

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WHISKEY AT THE BIG TIDDY.

As I posted on Twitter last weekend, when the NCAA isn’t there, TD Ameritrade Park actually sells freakin’ WHISKEY! I ain’t kidding either. Here’s a picture of the booze they sell for seven bucks a shot:

Yes, you’re not seeing things. Canadian Club, Jim Beam and Jose Cuervo are for sale at the new downtown stadium during Creighton games.

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THE OLD ROSENBLATT

In case you were wondering, I stopped by the old Rosenblatt Stadium site while I was there in Omaha… it’s now mostly a parking lot with the skeleton of the old scoreboard and the fair poles still in place.

The new Rosenblatt display is in place and starting to be put together on the site of the old stadium.

20 Mondays – The Whip It, Whip It Good Edition.

Okay, imagine this being eight screens filled with college baseball images and replace the words “NFL Game Mix” with “College Baseball Bases Loaded” and replace all those 1990s college baseball scores with this decade’s 2-1 and 3-2 scores, and you get the idea for what ESPN plans to do this post-season.

You like being whipped?

I bet you do you naughty little gimp.

No. No. I’m kidding. That’s not the kind of whipping I’m talking about here. How about this instead: So during football season, do you like to go on the NFL Network and get the “whip-around” to all the big plays and exciting finishes before they happen? Then stay tuned Stitch-Heads ‘coz the Whip Around is coming to college baseball this coming post-season.

And who’s holding the bull whip, ready to give you welts on your back in the name of college baseball? Kyle Peterson.