[Husker] Baseball

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

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> 
>       Depends how you look at it.  If you are going to be a great team 
> you have to run with the big dogs and beat the big dogs.  Nebraska 
> couldn't run with the big dogs this year.   If you want to say we did 
> pretty good because we hung in there pretty well okay that's fine. 
> Please take that mentality over to football. 

Uh, no, Bob, let's not, and that's my problem here. This is Nebraska 
BASEBALL. It's not football. It's not even close to the same mentality. 

It's taken me a long time and a lot of therapy and damned hard work to get 
here, but let's not even come close to confusing the two, and that's my 
basic problem with Nebraska fans with this type of mentality. I don't mean 
to get into a rant here (ala Dennis Miller) but it's time that we stop 
confusing the two. This year was not as good a year as we wanted because 

- we look at wins the same as football, i.e. - we should win *every* game 
- but baseball doesn't work that way
- we think about baseball in the same way, i.e. - win the big 12, win a 
national title - but baseball doesn't work that way - mostly because 
there's this whole tournament thing
- I need help here because I'm still mentally working through baseball, 
but it ain't football, and it's plain DAMNED unfair to compare the two and 
Husker fans need to stop having that mentality. 


If we go .500 in football 
> or under and competed in every game and play a big time schedule then we 

> should be satisfied.  We should be patting everyone on the back and 
> congratulating the coaches.  However, I can tell you what will happen if 

> the football team is under .500.  I understand football is different 
> than baseball but this team was not in the upper level this year.  Could 

> they compete? Of course.  Are they among the top teams? Of course not. 
> The fact the Huskers were lucky to be in a regional is not BS.  But, 
> everyone is entitled to their opinion.
>

Okay, so now we suddenly switch back to baseball because it's convenient. 
Let's not do that either. I'm not trying to be rude here, Bob, because 
like I've said, it's taken a while for me to understand baseball. 

It ain't the same, no matter what. If we lose tonight against ASU, it 
isn't some proclamation against Tom Osborne, or Nebraska football, Turner 
Gill, or Darin Erstad. It's because we didn't have the arms and the hands. 
Nothing else. 

And if I'm wrong, then Jeff Volk can prove me wrong. :) 
> 
> Bob Beach
> 
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Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com