Harbaugh warms up Michigan pitcher, Shane Morris at Ray Fisher Stadium
In Michigan Baseball's doubleheader sweep of Purdue (also a series sweep), Harbaugh was at the game warming up Michigan closer Bryan Pall.
See: Harbaugh in khakis crouching.
Harbaugh now has Shane Morris on the mound warming up. Looks like he’s QB1 and Michigan baseball’s closer.
— Ben Fidelman (@bfidelman) April 18, 2015
John Beilein was also at the games today with his grandkids-
What a great day with the grandkids while watching @umichbaseball @umichsoftball combine for 4 wins #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/8SKaDPzCrT
— John Beilein (@JohnBeilein) April 19, 2015
Big series sweep for Michigan as they are now 3 games above .500 in the B1G.
Michigan took game 1 against Purdue in a 9-0 rout and won the second game in a close 7-5 win.
Michigan outscored Purdue 25-8 this weekend.
The man is everywhere!
Harbaughpalooza!
Almost surreal to have him here!
April 18th, 2015 at 10:30 PM ^
That's what more interesting...he seems to be like a kid in the candy store. Doing whatever he can, whenever he can. Love it.
The guy is a rock star and winning the hearts of all the maize and blue!
But....but...Harbaugh doesn't want to go back to the college atmosphere.
It seems like there is no pitching in college baseball.
It's not as fun as it used to be. The aluminum bats aka "PING!" being gone has reduced the number of high-scoring, high-flying shitshows.
Doubtful we'll see another instance of Michigan beating MSU 27-6 like they did in 2008, again.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
1-0 is all that's needed, whatever sport a win is win with exclamation point when beating rivals!
April 18th, 2015 at 11:45 PM ^
Amen nothing I would rather see - speaking as a fan of traditional Big Ten football - is a 0-0 game take to overtime and won on a pick-six. No need for this high-flying, offensive oriented changes to the rules of the game!
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April 19th, 2015 at 10:39 AM ^
Pick six is too exciting. It has to be a safety
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April 19th, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
in the endzone
April 18th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
I'd like to see them bring back the ivory bats from the 1920s. Damn environmentalists.
April 19th, 2015 at 12:14 AM ^
Tusk, tusk, tusk...
The real high performance bats were in the 1990s. I saw future MLB pitchers Mark Mulder and JJ Putz face each other and the game was 14-10 in the 5th inning. All these kids who would never play baseball beyond college were squaring up Mulder like he was a high schooler.
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April 19th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
27-6 this October sounds just wonderful.
Let me try to explain this in terms you might understand, WD. The absence of "pings" is to baseball as noon games are to Michigan Stadium.
And good riddance to 27-6 scores. That's a football game, not a baseball game.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^
Does anyone see this as a positive for Shane? Seems like Harbaugh is mentoring him
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I was wondering the same thing. Maybe he and Harbaugh are getting closer? Maybe Harbaugh sees the most upside with Shane given his cannon arm. Will be interesting to see who ends up playing the most this fall. I'm sure Jake R. isn't coming to Michigan with the thought of sitting on the bench. The QB battle this summer should be intense.
Shane has the most pure talent. With Hoke, it just seemed like, Hey Shane, go out there and play.
With Harbaugh, he knows firsthand the position and is going to do everything to connect with him. Shane needs guidance and Harbaugh is the best possible mentor.
Agreed. If anyone can mentor Shane to help him reach his full potential it's Harbaugh.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
I kinda feel that the best thing for Shane is to have JR start this year, get phased in here and there, and take over next year.
I think that's probably what will end up happening, but then I wonder how difficult it will be for JR to learn the offense. Hopefully he's studying the playbook as we speak.
the transition from fastball to changeup.
I see it as a positive. I have been saying Morris has a lot more talent than he showed under the Brandon sock puppet staff since the beginning of the 2015 QB discussions. I am not losing hope that Harbaugh can turn him into a very good QB.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
Get off my lawn.
April 19th, 2015 at 12:12 AM ^
Boooo.
April 18th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^
All things Michigan. What a Man.
April 18th, 2015 at 11:09 PM ^
He talked to the Women's Gymnastics team about Bo the week of the B1G Championships.
What he said worked. They went out and defended Crisler, dominating the rest of the B1G and winning their second straight B1G Championship.
I will say that if it wasn't obvious before that - despite all the places he could have gone - that Ann Arbor was where Harbaugh really wanted to be, it probably should be now. Warmup catcher, motivational speaker....as someone said above, he tries to be where he can when he can and it is great to witness the seemingly boundless energy.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
His son has to be amazed at this....getting to see his father in his TRUE element...all the while working for him. Has to be great
It reminds me of the quote a recruit said about meeting JH. Coach told him and the group of recruits he was in that UM will be back on top again because he loves UM AND Ann Arbor too much to fail.
I thought it was interesting JH included loving A2 and not just UM. To me, that screams love. To an impartial observer, this may seem innocent enough, but to me who loves both UM and A2 as well, this shows this is his dream job, because he understands/knows being a student at UM is not all there is to it. Living here is just as rewarding. It is a great college town and community too! It's the whole package, not just a football team.
Or as my Sparty dad would say, Ann Arbor is 1 square mile surrounded by reality.
And to use another quote about Ann Arbor, a long time boss of mine at a restaurant told me when I asked if he was going to move after he sold his business, Mickey Mouse never leaves Disneyland.
With the fun JH is having, it appears Mickey Mouse might have left, but he definitely is back home!!
Long story short, I'm loving having JH as our coach. And he couldn't care less about that, because he's too busy, loving being our coach!
Go Blue!!
I know a few of the girls, they loved Harbaugh but they were going to win regardless! Great girls!
Women's tennis are sweethearts too and they wrapped a share of the BIG Friday and will beat Penn St today which might make them solo champs, but I'm not sure if anyone else has to lose to make that happen or not.
April 19th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
to beat Penn State at anything.
And they did it! BIG champs again!
with all the awesome Harbaugh-mania going on all over campus, I've been thinking about how lucky Michigan is to have Jim Hackett right now.
Apart from hiring Jim Harbaugh (& allowing Harbaugh the $ & flexibility to assemble the staff he has) I think the biggest plus for Jim Hackett right now is his willingness to let Harbaugh be Harbaugh.
The dude is seemingly everywhere at once, softball, baseball, ultimate frisbee, recuiting camps, interviews, etc. He's living the dream, and is obviously enjoying the hell out of himself (deservedly). He's got a big ego for sure, but backs it up with a big brain and a big heart so that although he pust himself in the spotlight 24/7, he's actually a genuine guy.
Can you, even for a second imagine Dave Brandon standing idly by not saying a word as Jim Harbaugh singlehandedly takes over Michigan athletics with an enthusiam unknown to mankind?
I'm not trying to start another round of DB bashing and it doesn't matter whether you liked him, or though he drank unicorn blood by night; there's no way Dave Brandon lets someone else take center stage like this.
I'm sure Dave Brandon loves Michigan, but his love for Dave Brandon always seemed to get in the way.
I don't know how calculated it is, but right now Jim Hackett's doing all the right things I'm NOT hearing about.
So Morris throws a football left handed but a baseball right? Or am I reading the picture wrong?
Reading wrong