[Husker] Baseball

[Tony Lambert]

No I don’t Skylar, I meant for it to be sent to the list. Sorry about that

Tony Lambert

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From: "Skylar Dodds" <sklarbodds at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:44 PM
To: "'Tony Lambert'" <bugeaters1 at hotmail.com>
Cc: "'List Husker'" <husker at tssi.com>
Subject: RE: [Husker] Baseball

> ***** Tony asked me this off list, but I thought I'd send it to everyone 
> to
> read.  Hope you don't mind Tony *****
>
> Weber's performance was surprising to me.  He's been a little inconsistent
> for my tastes, but yesterday he was stellar (7IP / 4H / 1ER / 2BB / 9K) so
> we'll see how that spells out the rest of the year.  To be fair he's had 3
> straight quality starts (6+ ip, 3 or less ER), but his last start he 
> allowed
> 5 Runs, only 3 earned.  Granted, 2 unearned runs are hard to blame on a
> pitcher, but he really ran into a brick wall.
>
> If you would have asked me about the depth a month ago, I would have told
> you it's going to be an adventurous year from the mound.  I thought we'd 
> be
> average at best and our hitting was really going to have to come on to
> really compete in the Big XII.
>
> Now I'm kind of thinking the other way around.  Our hitting has been 
> decent,
> but losing Tezak in the middle of the lineup really hurt.
>
> It's still very early, but what Newman's done with this staff is nothing
> short of remarkable.  A great team ERA in college is 3.00 or even 3.50.
> Right now we're at 2.82 which is fantastic.  We're 2nd in the Big XII 
> behind
> aTm who's at 2.54 (Childress, dang we miss him), but I'd bet we're Top 20 
> in
> the country (they haven't put out the numbers yet).
>
> As far as a Big XII title?  I still doubt it.  There's some REALLY good
> teams in the Big XII.  I said at the beginning of the year (and I stand by
> it) that if we win 35+ games Coach A deserves COY consideration.  If you
> consider that we lost six pitchers to the draft last year and we're 2nd in
> the Big XII in pitching, WOW.
>
> I like our chances any weekend with our pitching, but fact of the matter 
> is
> Missouri, Baylor and Texas are REALLY good.  7 out of the 10 teams in the
> conference have 5 losses or less.
>
> We play Oklahoma and Arkansas (Coach Van Horn) this week and that will be 
> a
> great gauge on how good this team really is.  The only downside is we play
> Arkansas in a midweek matchup, so we don't get to throw our best versus
> their best which is too bad.
>
> --
> Skylar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Lambert [mailto:bugeaters1 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: Skylar Dodds
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Baseball
>
> Skylar, What do you think of Weber's performance yesterday ? And do the
> Huskers have the depth at pitcher to contend for the Big 12 Title.
>
> Tony Lambert
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