TheMick

Right on Brother. Spring is in the air and there's a district game tonight in Oakland's house. At least I can rest my vocal cords. Mick

Thank you Longgone. I believe it's time for TheMick to take a sabbatical from Coach T. I seem to have stepped on someones toes and that was never my intention. I consider all the boys an extended family and I respect Coach Reavis and what he's trying to accomplish. I don't know where Blaze is getting his information but someone doesn't seem to like me. I hope everyone has a great year. Mick Go Stars!!

Point taken. Good luck to you guys this year.

Ouch Blaze, I resemble that remark /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Just thought this was the place for armchair coaches to post their thoughts on the team and the lineup. Seems like that's what everyone else is doing on other threads. I support Coach and always have...wouldn't volunteer my time to help the program otherwise. I wouldn't make much of a Summer coach unless you guys need someone to grill burgers or work concessions /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> that I can do. Pretty harsh on the injury Blaze, don't want to wish that on any player and the 3 game suspension will be served and we'll support the team while it is. You must not have seen me at the Lavergne game cheering for the guys, I was over on the right side of the bleachers.

I think there are more than two players that sat last night that could have made a difference but I agree that the best nine should ultimately play, but it's still early. We'll see where we are when that first district game rolls around. Assuming that everyone is healthy I think you'll see the best that Siegel has to offer when we play Oakland on the 17th. If some of the guys are still hurting it will be interesting to see who we send to the plate and how creative Reavis can get. I can only address one of our injuries personally but things are definitely looking good and we're ahead of schedule. Coach will find a way. Go Stars!!

Thanks brother, I appreciate that. We're working with Dr Malcom Baxter at the moment and he seems to think based on the MRI results he can have us throwing again in about three weeks. As long as we can make the throw from right field to third without pain we're good to go. Doesn't affect the swing at all.

Can I interject something here? Only kidding guys. Good luck this year.

The doc says he can start throwing after three weeks of physical therapy. We went in expecting the worst and got great news. Really nothing wrong with the shoulder other than a bone bruise. After the day big Dave had I'm going to have to revise my batting order. How bout Fullerton/Schloss/Shaffer/Robinson/Kosinski? Makes me start trembling just thinking about it. Thanks Brother

I'm jumpier than a long tail cat in room full of rocking chairs during a ball game and can't seem to sit much anyway. But thanks.

Well, you know, home from work sick and too much time on my hands. And as for the Oakland players, I don't dislike them at all. Sinor plays on our Summer team and is a heck of a player. Just don't ask me to like the Oakland program because you are, after all, Siegels rival. We can talk baseball on the 7AAA thread and the players can trash each other and that's cool. Let's save the Siegel thread for talk about Siegel and not about Oakland like Borobaseball suggested.

Siegel has won their game against Columbia. Kosinski hit a 3 run dinger and a grand slam. Not a bad way to kick off the season. Go Stars!

See post 154

"However, Siegel has done nothing to merit all this preseason HYPE that I keep reading on here" You're on the attack Borobaseball in a Siegel thread. It certainly sounds like you're an Oakland fan based on what you said in your original post. Now if we were posting on the 7AAA thread then all is fair game, I understand that. I wouldn't post negative comments as a Siegel fan on an Oakland, Blackman, or Riverdale thread.

Sticks and stones brother. Give my regards to Southpaw. The journey East may ultimately culminate between an old priest and a young priest. And one other thing...I'm rubber and you're glue. Have a nice day

This is a Siegel thread...we don't like Oakland.

To put things in perspective we must rely on a satirical film with abstruse analogies that address the task at hand... "In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again". "There will be growth in the spring". Thy will be done Go Stars!

I apologize, it wasn't my intent to imply that all teams from East Tennessee are arrogant. The focus was on Farragut and I should have been more specific. Actually, I'm quite surprised to see some of the posts coming from the Farragut folks. Siegel's trip there last year was a positive experience, other than being shelled 15-0 of course. My hope is that just a few are not representative of the entire Farragut program. Good luck this year.

Amen brother. I'm starting to wonder if the hospitality the Farragut players, coaches, and parents showed Siegel last year was just an act. Perhaps success breeds arrogance in East Tennessee.

Sorry about that. It sure was pretty.

Shaffer's arm will be fine. The players get on here and read this stuff and it just makes things worse when you speculate about an injury that you know nothing about. He came out throwing 110% after a 7 month layoff and his shoulder hurts. It doesn't bother him when he swings the bat and his X-ray was negative. He'll be ready to go before the season starts and that's all that matters. Forget about Shaffer's arm and move on to another topic.

He has a healthy swing. Throwing arms a bit sore but he'll be fine in few more days.

Watson was...well, Watson was Watson. He can gas it up. Townes turned on a Watson fast ball and hit it in the gap to left center but that's just Townes...guy can flat out knock the cover off the ball. Other than that one hit, Watson dominated. Robinson didn't pitch Saturday, he DH'ed or EH'ed or ZH'ed or one of those things...I'm still trying to figure that stuff out, but he hit in the 4 hole. We looked pretty good offensively...Dove looks to be in mid-season form swinging the bat, had about 4 hits Saturday. The rest of the guys hit it around pretty good. There was a lot of wind so both teams struggled with fly balls but I thought the guys played well defensively for the first pre-season game.

I wouldn't call it a big surprise but Pack threw a nice third strike hook to get Townes looking. That'll come in handy down the road during those big district games. Our Sophomore pitchers did a good job Saturday as well and should be able to help out when we're deep in a tournament. I thought Dove had a great game at the plate with 3 or 4 hits and how about John King on the hill...fanned three straight. I even saw Bartlett out there throwing peas...is there anything this guy can't do? Go Stars!

I don't know how all of our rivals looked but Siegel was very impressive for the first pre-season game. The guys hit it around pretty good and our pitching is deep. Looks like good things are ahead for Coach Reavis.

Woke up this morning and there was a different smell in the air. There's a baseball game today. It doesn't get any better than that. Go Stars!