Congrats to Blackburn looks like they are taking care of business for now. Doubleheader today with Mac.

Eureka / Greenville should be an interesting game. Greenville is surging but Eureka should be able to give them a contest. Does the loser miss the tourney? It would seem that way for Eureka. If Greenville gets the loss the sand will continue to pour out of the top of the hourglass. 

It would be too bad to have a great season, then stub their toe in the SLIAC Tourney and not get to go to the NCAA's. They should be rewarded for their play regardless of the SLIAC Tourney.

Hopefully they will be regarded as strong enough to go to the NCAA tourney regardless of the SLIAC outcome.

Greenville is creeping up. Is Blackburn looking over their shoulder?

Quote from: theoneandonly on April 20, 2009, 12:16:06 PM
well if it keeps raining like it is, they may not even be able to finish out the regular season conference. I saw first hand how wet the greenville field, Maryville Field and Blackburn Fields have been these past couple of days.

They must get these games in. Otherwise schools will be left out that should be in the playoff. They need for the Conference to pull together and get their fields ready to go. If at all possible the games could be made up at third party schools. That would be better than leaving the season 80% complete.

The bad weather is killing us! No games! pitching is all messed up ! what next?

Just checking in from the sliac site. BigPoppa is always braggin on you guys. Looks like there are some squabbles but overall you seem to care more about the stats and players. Way to go! I guess I should start watching and commenting on CCIW games.

GAMES TO WATCH
A real last chance for Eureka this weekend. Not to put the pressure on but it needs a sweep of Westminster to stay in the playoff hunt. The Maryville - Fontbonne match up should be real revealing and let us know much more about the playoff picture.   

Quote from: depew24 on April 14, 2009, 06:28:03 PM
To answer your question, yes, a less talented team can beat a team with more talent but i think in baseball, heart plays less of a factor. That's my opinion.

Up to this point Webster has not lost a conference game so at this point I don't care how much heart the other team has they have not won. And this is fact.

Due to your honest answer that yes a less talented team can beat a more talented team. We have no disagreement.

Quote from: depew24 on April 14, 2009, 06:19:40 PM
I believe that just because a team is more talented than another does not mean that they also do not have more heart!

How do you rate heart? Simple question. Answer that

No one ever asserted that talent means no heart or that heart means no talent. Rating heart is the hardest thing to do in sports. As a coach, pushing your players to excel reveals heart. Usually you can tell a lack of heart easier. When the more talented team loses to the less talented. I have had that pit of my stomach feeling of winning when the odds were against us. Rating it is impossible but you just know when you have the better team on the ropes.

I answered yours you answer mine.

Do you believe in the entire history of mankind that a team with heart ever beat a team with better talent? Simple question. Yes or no?

Do you believe in the entire history of mankind that a team with heart ever beat a team with better talent? Simple question. Yes or no?

depew - You still don't get it. You are the one that said that heart has nothing to with baseball you said, "For those of you who think that heart with the the 'x-factor', you're wrong. Talent will be the 'x-factor' and Webster has too much. Sorry. Baseball isn't a sport that you can get all jacked up for and then play really well. You need to play each game the same and that's what Webster does. Get all hyped up if you want but then you'll start to make mental errors that you don't normally make."

The majority of the comments were not about Webster at all, it was about the fact that intangibles like heart and desire can outweigh talent in any sport. The above is as simple as I can make it.

Quote from: depew24 on April 14, 2009, 04:55:43 PM
I'm right here VD.

First of all, that Yankees are NOT the most talented team in baseball, just the highest paid. Sorry for whoever said they were the most talented. You're wrong.

Second, Webster has more heart than any SLIAC team. There you go, sounds dumb right? BECAUSE IT IS! You can NOT say that one team has more heart just because they have more seniors on a team. That's one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. So stop it.

I guess if you want me to stop being correct about my Webster predictions then SOMEONE in the SLIAC beat them. If it's all about heart then just have more. Want it more. If talent doesn't play as big a factor then why are they undefeated in conference. Because they are better than everyone else.

Here I am VD...

By the way, what are you the oneandonly of? Nice name.......oh yeah, I'm not on here all of the time because I do have a life outside of a D3 forum.

Hey way to go, not responding to any of the valid points against your foolish argument. I'm assuming your reading comprehension scores were fairly low on the ACT's or SAT's so let me rephrase the arguments against your hypothesis that heart doesn't matter in sports.

Webster good.
Other teams not so good.
Other teams could try better show more heart.
Webster not try as better less heart that day.
Good team gets beat by not so good team.

I hope this will make it easier for you to understand. If not I could prepare a flow chart with simple drawings.

I don't know how Maryville is going to fit in all of these rainouts. It will push their pitching staff if they are going to try to get them all in.