The Dartmouth baseball team's trip to the NCAA Tournament ended with a thud Saturday as the Big Green dropped a 16-0 decision to Kansas. The Daily Dartmouth has a story and there's another on the Dartmouth sports information website. It's probably precious little consolation to the Big Green that North Carolina, which had to play well to take a hard-fought, 5-2 win over Dartmouth in the opening game, pounded Coastal Carolina yesterday, 15-5.
Green Alert Take: Baseball is a funny game. Things happen that simply don't happen in other sports. A very good Penn State football team is never going to lose a 49-0 game to an average Temple team, but a 100-win New York Yankees Juggernaut can drop a 16-0 game to a last-place team. It happens. Sure, Dartmouth's lopsided loss to the Jayhawks is going to sting for some time, but don't read too much into one game. Dartmouth was a very good team this spring. That's baseball.
Green Alert Take II: If there's something I've come to believe after being around sports for a long time it is that the first time you make it to a championship tournament you really don't know what to expect, which can take a toll. And that if you can make it back again the next year, there's a very good chance things will be different. The Dartmouth baseball team graduates some talented players, but it returns the bulk of its squad next year along with its entire pitching staff. With some solid recruits headed to Hanover, the Big Green will have a good opportunity to make it back to the NCAA's in 2010 and to experience a different result. Nothing's guaranteed because, well, because it's baseball. But it will be fun to watch.
Hard as it might be to believe, I don't spend much time surfing the net for enjoyment. Nah, most of the time I spend cultivating my severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome is to deliver you the goods on this blog.
So please excuse me for being late to discover the hilarious Club Trillion blog written by Ohio State basketball end-of-bencher, Mark Titus. The counter on his site lists 1,421,464 visitors, which is, oh, slightly more than the number who stop by this electronic neighborhood in an average ... decade. Then again, nothing you'll find here is as funny as Titus' Jan. 14 posting on his unrequited relationship with the ESPN personality he refers to as, "My main squeeze, Erin Andrews-Titus."
For the record, the Club Trillion title is spun out of a basketball line score. In his very first entry, Titus wrote, "...(W)e devised the plan of trying to get the 'trillion' which occurs when we play 1 minute and do absolutely nothing that would appear in the box score, thus making our stat line say 1 minute played followed by a bunch of zeroes."
Root around through Mark's archives. The guy is good.
And finally, that certain Hanover High freshman catcher's final jayvee baseball game was cancelled because of rain this week and the junior catcher's final softball game is today at 5. That pretty much means you'll be stuck reading about my Green Machine Little League team until our season ends in another couple of weeks or so. Did I mention we are 5-2? ;-)
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