The Oklahoma-Alabama game is in rain delay. In the 2nd inning. It'll be a while. Which means I'm going to have to find out what happened tomorrow morning when I wake up.
This one's goign to get a really late start - Alabama and Oklahoma are only in the 2nd inning of their game, which has to finish before we can play ours. I would like to think they would consider postponing our game to tomorrow, but they have a tight schedule with 8 teams. A few years ago, we beat ASU at something like 3 in the morning on then-freshman Sierra Romero's 2-run home run, so they're not afraid of ultra-late games. Hope we don't get stuck with that crap again.
I, along with the coaches, would much rather play tonight. Because if it's moved to tomorrow and we win, we'd have to play a doubleheader tomorrow.
Plus, many including myself wouldn't be able to see the game as we have work.
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Worded very poorly but I think you know what I meant to say. My apologies.
So wait, th coaches don't want to play tomorrow because you have to work? :P
In addition to being Jay Z and Benn, WD is also Coach Carol Hutchins.
No, he just WANTS to be like her.
Not convinced a double-header is automatically worse. These women have played about a thousand double-headers in their lives, they're used to it. Being forced to play 'til past 3 AM (and then good luck getting to sleep w/ all that adrenaline) will mess up your sleep schedule big time. Last time we had that happen, we ended up losing to a Washington team we should've been able to handle.
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If that happens, I'd be tempted to have Driesenga stay at the hotel and go to bed early so she at least wouldn't be messed up for the next game. Of course, the risk would be that if Betsa started to struggle she would have to stay in.
Late games go with the turf.
Honest question - I can see how late games would go with the turf in terms of travel teams & so on, but are they still regular occurences when it comes to the really high-stakes games (state & national championships, etc.)? I don't know much of anything about how the high school level works, so I am wondering.
The game BEFORE ours is in a rain delay. That game is only in the 2nd inning. It's been that way for 2.5 hours now.
The latest our game will start is 1am EST. Seriously.
NCAA should've been paying attention to the weather and not had such a long break in between sessions.
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Honestly, for being an outdoor site that's the same every year, I'm surprised it's not in Southern California.
It's the epicenter of where softball recruits are from and we'd have no weather problems to worry about.
Enjoy your MOMS POSBang Friday!
Southern California is not the greatest market for college sports. Plus it is expensive.
I live in northern San Diego now, I have lived all over the US, and in my experience, SoCal is one of the least passionate places when it comes to college sports. The passionate college fans that I do know, almost all of them are for colleges not in the PAC12 footprint.
And you root for Michigan, which isn't in the PAC12 footprint. Were you trying to prove my point?
There are about 23 million people in Southern California. There are about 3.8 million people in the entirety of Oklahoma. Big enough difference to make up for the less interest per capita.
batters like it when a routine pop-fly gets sucked into a tornado and results in a 5,279ft home run.
It's been dumping rain here in Oklahoma for the past couple of days. Don't think it's supposed to stop until this weekend.
"Just heard from UM official -- teams are packing up and leaving the stadium. uncertain of game times tomorrow."
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What they should do is shift the entire schedule forward a day.
This game in delay and our game is played tomorrow night while tomorrow's currently scheduled games get moved to Saturday and so on.
This would provide the best options for people who want to see these games. Plus, this is the WORLD SERIES.
Do not force doubleheaders on team's that normally wouldn't play them. Shift it a day.
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I would be stunned if they made a team do a DH.
That can fly in conference tournaments, but this is what these players and coaches have been working for their entire lives.
Forcing doubleheaders on teams at this stage will not happen.
Forecast looks really bad for tomorrow. I hope they figure something out that is fair to the teams in our side of the bracket.
Actually, the times these games were supposed to played--7pm and 9:30pm EST--have clear forecasts for tomorrow.
60% chance of rain past 2pm though. This will potentially set the tourney back an entire day.
It already has. We play at 9:30 Eastern tommorrow. So this eliminates any doubleheader possibility.
Clearing in the evening.
Best link for live weather (click on hourly to see the hour by hour rain forcast):
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Okla…
Here's a Google Maps link to see the stadium location to plug in on the weather map.
https://www.google.fr/maps/place/ASA+Hall+of+Fame+Stadium,+20801+North+…
You know, for being the #2 seed, we've gotten really screwed in terms of scheduling this entire post-season so far?
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Making a statement. Couldn't edit since someone had already posted after me once I saw the question mark.
It just seems that our top ranking has done us more harm than good in terms of scheduling both in the Big Ten tournament and now the NCAA tournament. Obviously, the matchups are why it matters but still.
I'm not seeing how we ar being screwed. Because it rained? Because we are the prime game on the schedule? Because we are getting the most exposure? Because we are the top ranked team that EVERYONE is watching (or will watch once we play)?
If Harbaugh was scheduling the tournament, this is exactly where he would want us positioned. Quit your whining - you sound like a girl (and not one who plays softball for the University of Michigan).