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  1. The Covington Chargers(CHS) just made SportsCenter for their state title win today. It showed the HR by the kid that either his Dad or himself had been really sick & it was a pretty touching short spot on SportsCenter. I can't remember the kids name from Covington though. He was a pretty big kid but the HR was hit as a PH HR off the bench. I don't think he had played much in recent weeks.
  2. What on the bold above? "It is what it is" is the only answer & anything other than that is the WRONG answer? Well, I know the Championship Game might could go with that answer but "It is what it is" IS NOT the only answer to stuff like this happening. I already had mentioned there are no WRONG answers because every answer will be an OPINION on this. So, you saying anything other than "It is what it is" as a wrong answer would not be correct. There are multiple possible opinions/answers.
  3. Please go back & read that post of mine. What did I post? I said Greenback AT THAT TIME didn't seem like a contender BUT what else did I post about them? I stated I wasn't ready or going to remove them as a sleeper. I always felt like Greenback could end up at least being in the Championship Game. I NEVER posted anything different either.
  4. The only reason I responded with a post towards you like I did was that you called me a clown. That's going a little too far. That's name calling so I have to protect myself. Wasn't trying to ruffle anybody's feathers myself. If you had kept the clown part out of it then I'm all OK with that post. LOL! I prefer sweet, cheesy corn instead of sweet crow! Yep. That's what we're going to have now come tomorrow's final state rankings. I thought I was done with you after calling me a clown but no need to have any hard feelings. I'm actually pretty easy to get along with. It was just your post calling me that clown in which it got to me a bit. No hard feelings buddy. Congratulations on Greenback winning the state title! I fueled them? Oh well. Maybe I should have done this to my 3 teams in the state tourney. Maybe they would have done better! LOL! Congratulations to Greenback- Class A, Covington- Class AA, & Farragut- Class AAA in winning state Championships. All well deserved! Covington was probably the team that played the best overall from start to finish of the state tourney. I picked Covington just before the season started to win it all in Class AA but changed my pick midway through the season to Greeneville. Covington just hit & pitched well the entire state tournament. I did have Farragut as my Class AAA pick from before the season til the end. The only other team from Class AAA I thought had a chance was Station Camp but they lost in the Sectionals. I certainly didn't expect Bradley Central in the Championship Game despite their tradition. In Class A, I picked Greenback to make the state tourney but not to win it. I had Gibson County as the winners before the season. I actually had TCA as the 3rd best team behind both Gibson County & Greenback. I think without a doubt though Greenback & TCA are the 2 best teams from Class A. I've got a question for you guys. How many of you would like to see high school baseball games changed to 9 innings? I'm for this myself. I mean college is 9 innings, the minors are 9 innings, & MLB are 9 innings. I would love to see the TSSAA to make this change. For Double-Headers make them 7 inning games instead of the 5 innings we have now . Some might say this is too much on pitchers. Some might say this is too much for all players. I say it's a good idea to prepare the players that will sign with some type of college for the next level. 2 extra innings isn't that much. I would say for regular season 9 inning games that go extra innings just make a rule that stops the game after an inning limit if still tied. Maybe 12 innings as a limit? If still tied after 12 innings then it's a tie. That's until postseason play where somebody must win. One other thing. Let's bring back up the Class A Championship Game between Greenback & TCA. Look at this linescore: Greenback 2R 5H 1E Trinity 1R 7H 5E Looking at just the linescore who should have won this game? I know games aren't won on linescores except for the most important part which is Runs. However, TCA had 5 errors with 7 hits. Greenback had 5 hits with 1 error. Did TCA give this Championship Game away or did Greenback earn it? It's kind of like the post from the Greenback/Lake County game were Lake County did this same exact thing. 4 errors & a key 2-R error with the score tied 2-2 helped Greenback to a win. There is no right or wrong answer here. I would just like some honest non-biased opinions on this. I'm saying that even though Lake County had that key 2-R error vs Greenback in which the score ended up being 6-2 Greenback anyhow that the Cherokees earned that game more than they did the Championship Game vs TCA. But, I feel like both games they were helped to the wins more than actually earning them. Again, there are no right or wrong answers. These are strictly opinion based. Thanks guys & it's been a very fun high school baseball season.
  5. At the time of my post about Greenback being inconsistent they were playing that way. Then again, they had a top 5 toughest schedule in Class A so that could explain things too. One things for sure about Greenback this team can NEVER be counted out of a game regardless of the score. Summertown was rolling right along in the latter game today with a 4-0 lead & Greenback only had 2 hits of Summertown's SP. Greenback erupted with 4 runs in the 5th inning. They got the game winning run on a walk-off HR in the 7th. Their state experienced team plus talent is now paying off. I'm still picking TCA in the Championship Game but Greenback can most certainly beat them. I just don't see this game being more than a 1-2 run game either way. Now since I said that watch one of them blow the other away. LOL! The only chance of a blowout in all 3 Championship Games is Farragut vs Bradley Central in my opinion. I'm still in amazement that Bradley Central won their game today 4-3 with only 1 hit. I think Riverdale only had 5 hits but poor Riverdale defense cost them a chance at playing for the title in Class AAA.
  6. How flippin old are you? Your son is more mature than you are. What picks have you made or posted? My % is now in the mid 70% range so you want to call that bad? I used to coach high school baseball for 11 years as an assistant coach. What level have you coached? T-Ball league? LOL! These picks don't necessarily come down to knowledge either. This tournament was 8 teams from each classification that had a legitimate chance to win. Sure there were some favorites but anybody can be beat. I already said the state tournament was about pitching depth so you took that one from me so don't take credit for that comment. To be honest, your comments/posts are immature & not worth my time so don't expect to see me make another post directed towards you. Geez! Here are my picks for the State Championship Games: Class A Trinity Christian over Greenback Class AA Covington over Forrest Class AAA Farragut over Bradley Central Bradley Central from Class AAA won their semifinal game vs Riverdale with only 1 hit. Riverdale made 4 errors. Not a single one of the 4 runs scored by BC were earned runs. WOW! Farragut's bats were finally on fire in their AAA semifinal game vs Bartlett scoring 17 runs. I think they easily win the AAA Championship over Bradley Central. The other 2 games from Class A & AA should be better or closer games.
  7. Stop the name calling bud. Was that line drive to the shortstop not called a 2-R error? It was & should have been too. No, I wasn't at the game but watched it online. That 2-R error put Greenback up by 2 when it was a tie game. I said myself that that 2-R error still might not have lost the game for Lake County but that didn't make Greenback earn it either. I expect for you to take up for your team though. I have no horse in the race in this game at all. Could care less who won. My teams were University High- Class A, Elizabethton- Class AA, & Science Hill- Class AAA. So, I have no reason to make false/fake claims or comments. All of my teams are now out of the state tournament & I am not rooting for any particular school. Greenback just barely got by playing Lake County again later in the day with a late rally by the Falcons. I have NOTHING against Greenback. Nothing at all. Just telling & also stating the facts. Lake County could very well have won that 1st meeting with Greenback if not for 3 errors that cost them 3 unearned runs. I was one that even said Lake County was a team that I didn't see how in the world they made it to the state. It was because of their strength of schedule & pitching though looking back on it. Greenback is the better team but not by much. That's for sure! I went 13-3 with my picks from today. I actually made a mistake picking Goodpasture over CAK. I thought I had picked this game the other way around. I meant to anyhow but I have to take it as a missed pick because that's what it says. LOL! Here are my picks for the games on Thursday: Class A Semifinals: Summertown over Greenback TCA over Grace- Franklin Class AA Semifinals: Forrest over Sequatchie County Covington over Nolensville Class AAA Semifinals: Farragut over Bartlett Bradley Central over Riverdale DII-A Final: CAK over CPA D11-AA Final: Baylor over Christian Brothers
  8. Greenback did beat Lake County 6-2 BUT this game was pretty much given to them with Lake County committing 3 errors including a 2-R error by their shortstop on a soft line drive that went off his glove in the top of the 7th with the score tied @ 2-2. That made the score 4-2 & the 6th run by Greenback also came on an error by Lake County as well. Now, this doesn't mean Lake County deserved to win but the errors by Lake County didn't make Greenback earn the victory in this game. It was nip & tuck all the way until that top of the 7th inning with the 2-R error. I went 12-4 with my state Quarterfinal picks including the DII picks. One thing I've learned for sure now is that GCA- Franklin is legit & deserve to be where they are at. I knew they had a very tough schedule but I still didn't think with that record they would not only be here but look as good as they did against Loretto. They are for real & certainly a serious threat for the Class A title. They take on TCA tomorrow in the winner's bracket & this game will show how serious or good of a team that they really are. They beat TCA & I think they just might go on to take the Championship. It will be a tall & tough task though to beat TCA. I'm picking TCA in a 1-2 run game though. Greenback & Summertown should also be a solid matchup in the other winner's bracket game in Class A. I'm going with Summertown in a close game. Here are my picks for Wednesday's games: Class A Winner's Bracket: TCA over GCA- Franklin (close game, 1-2 runs) Summertown over Greenback (close game, 3 runs or less) Loser's Bracket: Loretto over University High (Loretto by 3-6 runs) Eagleville over Lake County (Eagles by 3-4 runs) Class AA Winner's Bracket: Forrest over Loudon (close one, Rockets by 1-3 runs) Covington over Nolensville (Chargers by 3-5 runs) Loser's Bracket: Sequatchie County over Haywood (SQ by 4-5 runs) Elizabethton over Pigeon Forge (another close game, Cyclones by 1-3 runs) Class AAA Winner's Bracket: Farragut over Summit (Admirals by 3-5 runs) Bradley Central over Independence (Bears by 4-6 runs) Loser's Bracket: Bartlett over Science Hill (Bartlett by 3+ runs) Riverdale over Arlington (Warriors by 4-5 runs) DII-A Winner's Bracket: Goodpasture over CAK (Goodpasture by 1-3 runs) Loser's Bracket: CPA over Clarksville Academy (Lions by 5+ runs) DII-AA Winner's Bracket: Baylor over Christian Brothers (Baylor by 5-8 runs) Loser's Bracket: Father Ryan over Ensworth (FR by 1-3 runs)
  9. One other thing guys. I have looked at each quarterfinal matchup closely from Class A-AAA. There really are no what you would call clear cut favorites in any of the 24 opening round games. I mean the matchups are all solid. 2-3 weeks ago I would have thought Farragut playing Bartlett would have been a clear victory for Farragut. Can't say that now because Farragut has lost a couple of games in which I didn't see coming. This is the time of the postseason where Starting Pitching depth matters the most. Farragut in Class AAA clearly has the best SP depth of any team in Class AAA & probably of all 3 DI classifications. I would place Summit as having the 2nd best pitching depth from Class AAA in the state. Class A's pitching depth is pretty even but TCA, Greenback, Lake County, & Summertown are all pretty close. University High has 2 excellent SP's but after that it's a dramatic drop off. In Class AA I see Forrest, Loudon, & Elizabethton having the best pitching depth with Pigeon Forge not too far behind.
  10. You hit the nail on the head with strength of schedule. I would included pitching a little as well but not nearly as much of a factor. LOL! I've heard of & watched them all either live or on demand. All of these teams are solid ballclubs. Grace- Franklin's record makes them look like a team that shouldn't even made it to the Regionals but boy their schedule plus some early season injuries were the culprits for their record. I still say they are the most surprising team from Class A to make the state tourney. By the way, it response to you asking me about the toughest Class A baseball schedules. I listed the Top 10 in a prior post & now I have them in what I think is the order I would place them in. Here they are: 1. Grace Christian- Franklin 2. Lake County 3. Eagleville 4. TCA 5. Greenback 6. Summertown 7. Loretto 8. East Robertson 9. Gordonsville 10. Columbia Academy I based my order on strength of schedule of course. The Top 3 teams listed above played between 6-12 teams ranked in the Top 20 whether in state teams or out of state teams in tournaments. The other 7 teams played teams that were ranked Top 20 5 times or less. That's where I get the order. Of course, some of the teams above played ranked teams more than once when it was teams from their conference. The bottom 5 really could be swapped around in any order from #6-#10. Columbia Academy played the least amount of Top 20 teams but they did play a couple of tough teams. Also keep in mind my ordered list here ONLY includes the regular season & not any postseason games. Looking forward to the start of the state tournament tomorrow guys. Glad it's double elimination & if double elimination was the case in either the Regionals or Sectionals I strongly feel like there would be a few different teams that would have made it. It is what it is though. Maybe the TSSAA will implement or at least consider rule changes in the future. Then again mabye not either with this bunch. LOL!
  11. TSSAA State Baseball Tournament Quarterfinal Matchups: Class A Loretto over GCA- Franklin Trinity Christian over University High Lake County over Greenback Summertown over Eagleville Class AA Forrest over Haywood Loudon over Sequatchie County Covington over Pigeon Forge Elizabethton over Nolensville Class AAA Summit over Science Hill Farragut over Bartlett Bradley Central over Riverdale Independence over Arlington DII-A Semifinals Clarksville Academy over Goodpasture CAK over CPA DII-AA Semifinals Baylor over Ensworth Christian Brothers over Father Ryan
  12. Well, now that all of the Sectional games are completed I can post my record for my predictions. Not so good. I went 16-8 in total from all 3 classes (A-AAA). That's a 66.66 winning %. I went down in % from my Regional Finals picks (72.72%). I guess that I could say that's expected because the games only get tougher to predict as we advance in the postseason. I will have ALL of the State Quarterfinal picks too submitted by Monday evening. The matchups are set in all 3 classes (A-AAA) plus the Semifinals for DII-A & DII-AA as well. I will include the DII Semifinal picks as well this time. I think the most surprising teams to make the state tourney for baseball from each class are Grace-Franklin (Class A), Haywood (Class AA), & Arlington (Class AAA). Forrest from Class AA with their record could be considered a surprise but not because of their tradition. Lake County from Class A is a little bit of a surprise to me also. The rest of the 19 teams from DI really aren't a surprise for me to see them make the state tourney. However, I thought a select few of them wouldn't make it because the road to make the state seemed too tough for them.
  13. @HingleMccringleberry I have went through the Class A baseball teams that have been or are still in the postseason. I have came up with 10 teams that I've decided on having the toughest schedules for 2019. I have not yet placed them in order of the hardest down to the least hardest. I will list them here & post back later with them in order starting with the team I think has had the toughest schedule: 1. Eagleville 2. Gordonsville 3. Grace Christian- Franklin 4. Summertown 5. Columbia Academy 6. Loretto 7. East Robertson 8. Trinity Christian 9. Lake County 10. Greenback
  14. I'll wait until after tomorrow's final Sectional game between Sequatchie County & Signal Mountain to post my record for the Sectional picks. I have missed quite a few I know that with 1 more left to go. I will also post comments about what I thought about these Sectional games as well.
  15. Here are my Sectional picks: Class A Sectionals: Greenback over Wartburg Harriman over University High Gordonsville over Eagleville Grace Christian over Monterey Summertown over Columbia Academy Loretto over East Robertson TCA- already advanced to state Lake County- already advanced to state Class AA Sectionals: Greeneville over Pigeon Forge Alcoa over Elizabethton Loudon over Grundy County Sequatchie County over Signal Mountain Sycamore over Forrest Nolensville over Greenbrier Haywood over Chester County Covington over McNairy Central Class AAA Sectionals: Farragut over Tenn. High Science Hill over Hardin Valley Bradley Central- already advanced to state Riverdale over Soddy-Daisy Station Camp over Independence Hendersonville over Summit Bartlett over Houston Collierville over Arlington
  16. By the way, there was actually 3 Regional Championship games played tonight. I got them all 3 right so I went 18-6 overall with my Regional Finals picks. Still in shock over the Farragut loss when I picked the game to be a run rule game for Farragut. LOL! Will post up my Sectional picks soon. Thanks guys for the discussion & great posts we're having from this thread.
  17. I will have to take a look @ the schedules. Do you mean of the teams still left in the postseason or just in general from Class A? TCA had a 20 run 2nd inning. WOW! I knew MAHS would get beat pretty easily but didn't expect it to be that easy. I think the bottom of the 2nd inning lasted like 30-35 minutes. Geez!
  18. We were talking about University High's pitching & not Greenback's. I'd say LOL! It must have been that Farragut didn't use any of their best pitchers & was satisfied in just making the Sectionals to save their ace for that. Not bad but I've done better. Could go up or down too with 2 more Regional Championships later today.
  19. Once ALL the Regional Championship games are done after tomorrow night's games I will replay back with my predictions for the Sectional games. These will be another one & DONE situation so teams better bring it or they're going be watching the games from home on TV or actually still going to watch the state tourney games in person as non-participants. I don't really have a favorite team left in the race but I have to stay local & root for Tenn. High & Science Hill (Class AAA), Elizabethton & Greeneville (Class AA), & University High (Class A). I think Greeneville has the best chance of all of my favorites but I also think Tenn. High & Science Hill both could be sleepers. I just don't know which one though has the better chance. They are about as even of teams you will see play & they're from the same conference as well.
  20. Well, so far with my Regional Final picks I have went 16-6. There's still 2 more Regional Championships left to play tomorrow. I picked Bartlett & Collierville in these 2 Class AAA Championship Games. I'm stunned Farragut got beat by Hardin Valley to lose home field advantage for the Sectionals but this stuff can happen to any team. There are no more mulligans left now in the Sectionals. They will gain a mulligan back though if they can beat Tenn. High in the Sectionals & advance to the state tourney where it's back to double elimination. I did not think Hardin Valley could beat Farragut a single game on their absolute best day/game.
  21. Yes, Meredith plays basketball for UH as well. Degennaro does have more than a fastball. I know for a fact because I've seen him pitch twice this season & at least 3 times last season. He is mostly a fastball pitcher though. He depends on placement more than trying to throw it by guys. He does hit 87-88 MPH on the gun at times with that fastball. He also has a slider & a cutter. If he starts trying to throw the slider & it isn't doing what he wants it to do then he usually ditches that pitch for that game after 2-3 slider pitches. He throws the cutter usually only on 2 strike counts. I would say normally he throws 80% fastballs, 15% sliders, & 5% cutters. The final score of this game against Greenback was about what I figured it would be. I said no team would score more than 3-4 runs. I thought the score would be like 2-0 or 4-2 Greenback. UH just doesn't have enough bats especially when it comes to facing ace pitchers. Then again we can say not many teams can hit ace pitchers at just about all classifications. I thought Rossview was a team that could hit ANY pitcher going into the postseason because their bats were on fire scoring like 8 straight double-digit games going into the Regionals. They were held to 3 runs by Hendersonville though.
  22. Bad news for Elizabethton in Class AA. Evan Perkins (their starting Catcher) & leading hitter & RBI guy fractured his foot in the Semifinal game vs Grainger. That's a MAJOR blow to the Cyclones. Their backup Catcher is a freshman. They do have a 1B that has played some Catcher when he was much younger but he's not practiced any there since the 6th grade. Betsy has strong pitching but to throw a freshman receiver in there at this time of the season with very little playing time is going to be tough for Elizabethton. I thought they had a chance of beating Greeneville before this happened but I give them a much smaller chance in doing that now. It's going to effect them more though in the Sectionals because they don't have to win this game to keep their season going. Giving him 1 game that's not a lose & go home situation will provide the freshman some experience & help Betsy maybe in their Sectional matchup.
  23. I mis-quoted what I wanted to say. I said their District title instead of saying a District title. It was some team winning the District title from being the #7 seed & not necessarily the Conference with Harriman in it. I'm beginning to think now it was the Harriman softball team but I'm still not 100% sure yet. I'm from the area where University High plays. Please don't count them out or short. They have 2 ace type pitchers in Degennaro & Meredith. They aren't as strong hitting the ball but they've been in double digits quite a few games this season. They lost a lot of games in tournaments as well against much bigger schools. They didn't lose a single conference game including their District tourney. They blew everybody in their conference away just about every game. Degennaro can also swing the bat really well. He's UH's leading hitter & not just their pitching ace. I think Greenback has the advantage for sure but if Degennargo is on pitching it will be hard for the Cherokees to score more than 2-3 runs against him. They also have Meredith available as well. He's not far behind Degennargo in just about every pitching stat. This will probably be a low scoring game. I would be shocked if either team scores more than 3-4 runs. UH can pull off the upset here against Greenback even with Greenback having more past postseason experience. It will just be a matter if Degennaro is fully on with his stuff. If he is Greenback can't hit him & to be honest not many Class A teams can except for maybe TCA & Gordonsville.
  24. Here are my picks for the Regional Finals since they're all set now: Region 1-A: Greenback over University High (UH could pull off mild upset) Region 1-AA: Greeneville over Elizabethton (close game) Region 1-AAA: Science Hill over Tenn. High (Toppers are HOT!) Region 2-A: Harriman over Wartburg (Harriman playing better) Region 2-AA: Alcoa over Pigeon Forge (close one) Region 2-AAA: Farragut over Hardin Valley (could be run rule game) Region 3-A: Gordonsville over Monterey (3-5 run win) Region 3-AA: Signal Mountain over Loudon Region 3-AAA: Bradley Central over Soddy-Daisy (mild upset) Region 4-A: Eagleville over Grace Christian (5-10 run win) Region 4-AA: Sequatchie County over Grundy County Region 4-AAA: Riverdale won Region 5-A: Columbia Academy over East Robertson (close one) Region 5-AA: Hendersonville over Station Camp (upset) Region 5-AAA: Greenbrier over Sycamore Region 6-A: Loretto won Region 6-AA: Nolensville over Forrest Region 6-AAA: Summit over Independence (mild upset) Region 7-A: Trinity Christian over Lake County (5+ runs) Region 7-AA: McNairy Central over Chester County Region 7-AAA: Bartlett over Arlington (Arlington very well could take this game) Region 8-A: Middle College over MAHS (5-8 run win) Region 8-AA: Covington over Haywood (another possible run rule game or at least 5-10 run win) Region 8-AAA: Collierville over Houston (Collierville & Farragut are probably the 2 best teams in Class AAA)
  25. I thought that I read this from Harriman's Twitter feed. I know for a fact that I read a #7 seeded team won their District title. It might not have been Harriman but it was some team. Maybe it was Harriman's softball team instead of their baseball team. I will have to go back & find out because I've looked up so much information about a lot of teams both baseball & softball. Not saying you're wrong either. I just thought it was Harriman baseball. I bet it's the softball team instead. I will find out soon though which team pulled this off.
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