Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
Arizona never led the whole game…both west coast number one seeds blown away…I’m sending Rail five bucks because I feel sorry for him…
What a horrible pick..Arizona for the game and second half….
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Heim
EOG Master
Just off the top of my head. Bruins covered v. St.Mary, St. Mary smoked Indiana. There's two.
WCC not a major conference, but AAC is?
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
Crickets from Railbird
we have to put the 1-12 in context. if it's 12 losers where the average spread was Minus 10 and the favorite was not covering but was still winning the game straight up, well, that's a *better measure* of who the superior team is than ATS.
Heim
EOG Master
Oh non-West teams. Didn't specify that.
I have West coast 3-10 ATS versus teams with less than two syllables.
Heim
EOG Master
Soccer big in OC, especially girls.
Go to any school on the weekend, fields filled with tournaments.
BB courts, empty.
railbird
EOG Master
softball has passed soccer maybe, atleast caught them as #1.
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
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Already 10 lead changes in the St Peters game early in the second half….Arizona never had a lead vs the Cougars game…what a fake number one seed
Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
Cronin let his team down…he gave the game away….
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
I don’t see pickup hoops anywhere anymore. I look at players like Ivey and he really needs another year. Problem is he’s projected top 3-5, so he’s gone. There is little cohesion on teams from year to year.
Almost Allright
GO Bucks!!!
You used to be able to tell what major sport season it was by what equipment was laying in the yard. Those are days gone by.
I miss my neighborhood baseball games.
If we had 10 guys, we played five per side with "right field out."
Would have been great training for today's MLB game where everyone is a pull hitter.
And to think my Little League coach (Mr. Fasiang) changed my hitting stroke from a beautiful uppercut (think Kris Bryant) to a level swing.
Murphy’s Best
EOG Dedicated
Yeah I know what you mean since I played in the early 80’s. My high school field was small with the left field line 266 ft & right field line 270 ft. We were taught to hit the other way (oppo) & to hit ground balls! What a waste of a home field advantage. Think of it as Fenway Park for a high school.
Almost Allright
GO Bucks!!!
I grew up in a very rural area. Other than little league practice a gathering of friends to play ball took effort and was a rarity. Years later it dawned on me why in high school we had great basketball teams and very little luck in baseball or football. Out of the three sports, basketball is the one that is easiest to improve upon individually. We had ball handlers and shooters.
growing up in the 80's and early 90's my buddies and I would play at Orchard Park and Heritage Park in Irvine. All of the marines from the Tustin helicopter base (LTA for Lighter Than Air) as well as the El Toro Marine base, would come out there in droves.
on many a Saturday, a few buddies of mine and myself (all about 6 to 6'1") would go out there but we did not "look like" ballers so we would not get picked up. on a fine Saturday afternoon around aged 18, i had enough. i told my friends we would pick up some "scrubs" and we would run the court all day and "teach them a lesson".
so from about 11 am to 5 pm we beat squad after squad after squad right in front of their women and children. whenever the game got tight, I asked my teammates to get me the ball and get the hell out of the way (i was a scorer, pippen slasher type, but not a great shooter).
at the end of that day, my buddies and i walked by their picnic benches, and i said "gentlemen, today you saw what a TEAM OF FIVE" can do against single ballers. oh, and "please make sure not to avoid picking us up on your team in the future because if you do you're gonna piss me off and we're going to embarrass you again". half those marines almost spit their sodas out of their mouths.
pick up basketball back in Irvine, CA in the 80's and 80's before the marine bases were closed, were some of the best times of our lives................
