Sounds like Rocko DeLuca appreciated your suggestion and got in touch with the right people to make it happen.

I've made the mistake of not contacting the AD before when asking about baseball tickets. Instead some apathetic clown in ticketing. acted as if season tickets for baseball was a bizarre concept. . They could have just said they didn't offer them due to a lack of demand, and that wouldn't have been idiotic at all. People !

The $175 pricetag is a bit high considering current demand for UCD baseball tickets, but it's less than what the Bay Area schools charge. Have to bring in more money with all the upgrades. Stanford charges $225 for season tickets.. Cal charges $275+ for their Diamond Club seating, which is to say not the benches w/no back support- per their website.

I think I'd probably need to see a minimum of 17-18 games to get my money's worth out of the new season plan. I average about 3-4 games per season so that's a no-go. They still do offer the flexbooks with 10 vouchers for $80-pretty good deal.

In a different topic you mentioned the numbering on the bleacher seats. Don't think that's new. I recall they assigned seats in 2021 to force people to social distance.

Not a 2025 recruit but the baseball roster came out today. QB Caden Pinnick made the team as an outfielder, unless that's a mistake. He did play varsity ball for Del Oro HS, so maybe no typo.

except they couldn't post the new schedule. Made us read their article :rage:

That 4/4-8 part is a killer. Five games in five days. Four of them are on the road.

I still get only 55 games. Maybe one one of those non-conference series is 4 games instead of 3 ? I'll check.

I had located almost all the games from other schools' websites. The 2nd Stanford game was a surprise though. It must have been a late add.

The new video board is a nice surprise.

Still no roster up yet. They have the one from fall ball, but that has 42 players on it. At least 2 would be cut before the season. At least we know the master list from which the roster will be pulled.

I think Tommy Nicholson will have cut more than 2 players. In his brief history at UCD he has shown a tendency to play everyone or almost everyone on the roster. In 2022 he even found a game in which to play an infielder who was the very last player off the bench (probably just a random student who showed up at a tryout). I don't think that guy ever appeared in another college baseball game. Vaughn (and Swimley too if I remember right, don't know about Peters) seemed to have at least 3-4 players every year who wouldn't appear in a game + they'd be gone the next year. Nicholson seems to emphasize quality over quantity.

Edit: Their series with Utah Valley State is 4 games. 3/1 is a double-header, so there's that missing 56th game

I ate at that Mexican restaurant once. I was the first customer of the day and my burrito still took 1/2 hour.

De Vere's Pub ? I once went to the one in Sacramento. Sitting a few tables over were some Gen Z kids, and one of them was from NY (he said so). He was both "enlightened" and incredibly rude to his friends. So weird.

They have two Marvin McGhee brothers- III and IV. I wonder if, growing up, their mother would just yell a number when she was mad at one of them ?

They have a G/F named Jaden Alexander. His height is listed at 6'5, but maybe he tells people there was shrinkage ?

It seems that Bakersfield has a big problem recruiting players who want to stay 4 years. Only 2 of their players are not transfers, and they are freshmen so they may just transfer out once they've had enough of that city. Of the transfers only 1 isn't from a community college. A JUCO all-star team, just like in the D-II days.

You didn't by chance have a cat walking on your keyboard, did you ? LOL JK.

"State School !" is not even an accurate chant. UC's get state funding (not as high a percentage of costs though) too, so UCD is also a state school. Kind of an embarrasing blunder on the part of our predecessors.. I also don't think UCD is a significantly better school than Cal Poly.

Sac State is a perfectly good university. Since it is a commuter school students may not get the real college experience they wanted but it gets the job done. As others have mentioned Sac State has some grad programs UCD doesn't, like a masters in education.

Wow, you brought back a thread from 5 years ago ! That's probably the last time anyone posted baseball photos though

I saw a Saint Mary's game this year against UOP. Sat behind home plate two rows up, well 3 if you count the spread-out accessible seats. They have all sorts of signs telling people to stay away from the accessible seats, but they never do. The box seats are great.

Is your daughter an SMC student/looking at colleges? If either of you go to a game there eat somewhere else, seriously. They have some trouble keeping hot food hot it would seem.

I liked it better at the old cruddy version of the stadium when they didn't charge admission and you could bring in your own food. There is a good burrito place next to the Safeway.

Also there is a weirdo superfan (at least I hope he's a superfan and not just a weirdo) who roams around with a camera and shouts incoherently. Added entertainment but some people find it annoying.

I have been a couple of other times. One time (it was against USF) I was sitting right behind one of the former USF coaches who was fired + banned from their campus. He was showing this much younger woman who didn't seem to be his daughter how to use a radar gun. They each left separately. When they came back a couple innings later they each had messy hair. Hmmm...wonder what they did ? They couldn't ban him from being around the team on the road it would appear.

Well yes, some of what they said was garbage too.

I don't like hiking either. Too many insects and things on which to trip. So we at least have some common ground there.

Also well put. I think it's a useful thing to once in awhile take in a game at an opponent school (Aggies visiting or no) for fun when possible. It kind of humanizes "the enemy". You see how their fans positively support and value them in their own environment instead. They're not just invaders who must be destroyed. Puts it all into perspective.

In my experience opponents' fans are much more tolerable at home than when they come to Davis. I could say that of their players too-much more jackassery when in Davis. Maybe you don't notice it as much in football because so much is happening at once, but in baseball I promise you that you would hear them yell stupid, obnoxious crap all game long. Doesn't matter that their parents are often in the stands. The road must bring it out in them. I try to stay away from the gatekeeper mentality of "How dare they act this way in my house ?" as a reason to dislike the team and fans, something I surely would've done as a student. It's just not worth getting worked up about. Just a game.

Interesting. I hadn't considered the timing of his resignation.

I'm going to play hornet's advocate here and say there is a kernel of truth to what SSUCDalum said. It is kind of weird to follow your rival to the point where you're listing and discussing their recruits.

It's even kind of weird to do that with UCD recruits, but I let that go in the name of school pride.. They're just names, people. The names are all but meaningless to outsiders anyhow. It's up to the recruits and coaches to make them mean something. Everybody looks good in their highlight videos. That is why they are called highlight videos. Wake me up when one of them does something truly unusual, like throw a 200 yd pass that winds up in a parking lot. If I go to a game I root for whoever shows up. Not my job to be any more invested than that.

I guess I just don't care that much about it, but the Causeway rivalry seems kind of stupid. Anyone with a brain knows both schools play an important role in supplying the country with essential workers and useless bureaucrats alike. It's just an excuse to be hateful for some.

I thought Katz retired due to health concerns ?

I just noticed a couple of former Aggies signed contracts with Pioneer League teams: P Brett Erwin with the Ogden Raptors and C Michael Campagna with the Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers . According to the league transaction page.

Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers-how stupid ! They're just too lazy and cheap to come up with a new team name. What a joke of an organization.

Both of them finished their college careers elsewher. Erwin played for Maine (as a grad student only I believe.) Campagna left for San Francisco. He left a team with hazing issues to one where the initial set of coaches collectively provided verbal abuse +some sexual harrassment for the team. Way to pick college baseball programs Mike !

Andrew LaCour also re-signed with the High Wheelers.

Well to be fair there were too many levels of the minor leagues and teams, so some reallignment was neede.. If you had a hs player who wasn't a first-rounder he would probably be 23-24 at the youngest by the time he got to the majors, and that's assuming he didn't repeat any levels (Rookie/Complex League, Short-A, Low-A, High-A, Double-A, Triple-A.. Lots of time to get hurt and lose their potential. Short-A, in which some of the current Pioneer League teams were classified when they were affiliated (Others at the Rookie but not Complex. It's level) seemed like an unnecessary step to me. It was primarily intended to get college players into games their draft year, but now that they are just being sent to the complex leagues to get minimal reps that classification is obsolete.

MLB wanted to make sure teams could choose affiliates offering the best facilities for their players so they established the new standards. Of the Pioneer League teams I know Glacier (which never had an affiliation) has a top-notch stadium. So do the Ogden Raptors (formerly a Dodgers affiliate).

Updated Schedule to include the Hawaii, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal Poly schedules.

My QB guess is Xzavior Guess. Best name. I think Harper would be a poor choice. No way he's as good as Hastings, and if he were he would have played more. Lower ceiling. If there's to be a re-build you want continuity, and a new group of star players won't get that with a new starting QB in a lame duck season.

I presume the dog/assistant coach is leaving too. How dare they ?!

Dodgers won the WS. Padres + Angels are irrelevant lol.