re: SEC Baseball Discussion/Scoreboard - SEC goes 7-5 on Sunday

Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:20 pm to scrooster

Posted by 1801

Charleston

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 2/26/15 at 10:20 pm to scrooster

quote:
Frick those taterheads

Amen Rooster!

and Cayce ... once again

Just to get the blood boiling again....2014 edition

March 8, 2011...an account of the Tuesday game at Fluor Field by Rixon Lane

I walked into Fluor Field in Greenville that Tuesday night with high expectations. Two top-15 programs playing in a third game of a series would’ve been great, no matter what the teams. But this was the defending national champions facing their bitter rivals in the midst of the most heated series in recent rivalry history in front of 7,000 frothing fans, half garnet and half orange. Fluor Field was a hornet’s nest, and half the hornets couldn’t stand the other half.

I should have realized this night was going to be different when the coaches went to the plate to meet. As they spoke with the umpires, USC’s players spilled out of the dugout, bats in their hands. They piled them up and circled them like a bonfire, pretending to warm their hands on a brisk Greenville night. This wasn’t the sort of brash stunt that Ray Tanner’s teams usually participated in.

But tonight, this wasn’t a typical Ray Tanner team.

In the hours between the final out at Clemson and the first pitch in Greenville, Tanner and his players had a meeting. The bat warming accusations, the Lamb comment, the “shenanigans” as Tanner would later call them, all were discussed. The Gamecocks left the meeting with a decree from their coach.

Let loose.