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September 18th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^
Mr. Devotee,
How many hot dogs did Brady Hoke eat today?
September 18th, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
Does this include brats?
September 18th, 2014 at 11:09 PM ^
You guys are now accusing him of eating children too? Geeze....
September 18th, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^
Chicago Red Hots are the best.
Trust me on this one...
September 19th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:28 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
Tacopants
September 19th, 2014 at 7:10 AM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
of the 1984 Michigan baseball team and their professional draft status.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
was Hal Morris drafted by the Reds
2nd base I believe was Mike Waters drafted by the Mariners(could have been Tom Paciorek) and I can't remember the 3rd basemen.
Two other future major leaguers on that team were pitchers Gary Wayne and Scott Kaminiecki.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
1B-Ken Hayward (who doubled as a relief pitcher); Hal Morris was his backup as a freshman.
2B-C.J. Beshke (Mike Watters was starting in center field)
SS-Barry Larkin
3B-Matt Siuda
The full batting order:
16-Barry Larkin (SS)
4-Mike Watters (CF)
32-Ken Hayward (1B)
34-Casey Close (DH)
31-Kurt Zimmerman (LF)
15-Rich Bair (C)
22-Jeff Minick (RF)
6-C.J. Beshke (2B)
9-Matt Siuda (3B)
September 19th, 2014 at 5:41 AM ^
Edit: Nevermind. Was Sabo before or after Larkin?
September 19th, 2014 at 9:11 AM ^
I learned how to pronounce your Korean user name yesterday. I have no idea what it means, but I can sound out all the Korean letters now, so watch yourself.
September 19th, 2014 at 3:24 PM ^
...if you sound it out in an exaggerated American accent you might figure it out.
Hint: Think 'young men in a small Florida town chasing rabbits'.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
Didn't Chris Szabo play 3rd, same time as Larkin?
September 19th, 2014 at 9:23 AM ^
Chris Sabo played for Michigan in 81-82-83. Larkin played 83-84-85. They overlapped by 1 year only.
That 1983 team was easily Bud Middaugh's best team. They made the "final four" of the College World Series along with Alabama, Arizona State and Texas, but they were eliminated by Roger Clemens' Texas team, the eventual national champions. Mike Brumley hit a grand slam for Texas off Scott Kamieniecki to get a 4-2 win.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^
The barber at State Street Barbershop once told me a really interesting story about this group. As I recall, he said there was some kind of MLB labor dispute in the early 1980s, and a group of Cincinnati Reds came up to Ann Arbor to train using UM's facilities. They played with the Michigan players often while they were in town and were stunned by how good some of those guys were (some combination of Sabo, Larkin, and Hal Morris, I'd imagine). That's why so many Michigan guys from that era ended up in Cincinnati.
Or so said the barber.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:16 AM ^
This is more or less true. In 1981, when the strike was settled in late July (I think), teams were given a 1-week "summer training" period. The Reds, for whatever reason, chose Fisher Stadium for their location for this. I remember going to watch it at least one day in early August 1981. Since Bud Middaugh used to be in the Reds farm system, that might have been the connection to get the team up here.
But I'm sure Chris Sabo ended up practicing with the Reds at the time, and no doubt they would have been impressed. I'm sure the Reds would have tried to draft home town star Barry Larkin no matter what, but I'm also sure that the Reds and Middaugh had some sort of connection, because as you say a number of Michigan players ended up in the Reds' system at some point.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:54 AM ^
Hmm. I remember Szabo (I'm pretty sure there was a z in there) and I didn't get there until 1984.
September 19th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
Chris Sabo played for the Vermont Reds (AA) in 1984:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=sabo--001chr
He was taken in the second round of the June 1983 draft by the Reds, so would not have played for Michigan in 1984.
September 19th, 2014 at 11:06 AM ^
OK, you're right. But I'm sure I never followed Michigan baseball before starting college.
September 19th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
Your user name and avatar lead me to question your recollection on these matters.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
Nice! Since the history of the Baseball program is so poorly displayed on MGoBlue and the internet compared to the other sports, I've actually planned some trips to Bentley in the winter to do some big research into the history of the program for the Baseball SuperGuide I'm creating.
I've already completed my SuperGuides for Football, M & W Cross Country, Men's Basketball and Men's and Women's Lacrosse. Football is the only one that's printed but Basketball is next up to be printed.
The heavy duty work is already done for Softball and Hockey, which includes results from every game played against teams from all D1 conferences and neutral site games. That may not sound like much, but just think of how many games those teams play a year and how long they've been playing.
I'm also looking into getting my Football SuperGuide online. Somehow. That's probably gonna take a long time. I'd like to do that after I finish the whole set.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:21 PM ^
please let us know when it's online. i'd love to check out the football and bball superguides!!
September 18th, 2014 at 11:38 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 11:42 PM ^
Yeah, they're the shortest and easiest to make.
No head to head scores. Just annual results at championship events, individual accolades, championships and rankings.
By far the easiest sports to create and maintain. Lacrosse is going to be thicker physical copy and Lax has only been a sport here since 2012.
September 19th, 2014 at 8:33 AM ^
Nice. I had breakfast last week before the Miami game with Rich Adler, who wrote the Arcadia book on M baseball. Guy is an absolute fountain of knowledge about the team's history and the years when it was the other major sport at Michigan.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
Joe Carl
September 18th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^
Pretty standard question.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 10:38 PM ^
I can't answer the OP because defensive statistics began in 1965 with the sacks being recorded officially in 1979.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
3 words:
Space bitches, space.
September 18th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
September 18th, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
They didn't start officially recording eskimo brothers in official stats until 1997. C'mon man.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
is why we need the EBDB.
September 18th, 2014 at 11:25 PM ^
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September 18th, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
Not Wolverine Devetoo, but I can safely say, like a bag of sand.