I don't know if this is just circumstantial evidence but I think there are signs that Sac State's baseball team has been feeling a financial squeeze as a result of state budget cuts/other university activities.

One of them is that they curiously play 2 pm (non-conference) and 4 pm (conference) games on Fridays. Now the 4pm game times may be a standard for the WAC (since it crosses time zones), but who exactly is being helped by the 2 pm non-conference Fridays ? UCD did them purely out of necessity in the past. Doesn't help the fans still at work or school. Doesn't help the visiting team getting short-changed on travel/prep time. 2 pm on Saturday is fine. Everybody's already there. Could this be about something as simple as saving on electricity ? Hate to think it's come to that !!

Second, the team isn't travelling out of the state this season for non-conference games, with the exception of Nevada. They don't even go to Southern CA this year. Seems like the furthest south they go for non-conference might be Fresno State.



There also seems to be fewer out-of-state non-conference opponents visiting. There are more what I would call "bus ride" opponents coming in on the weekends. They have weekend games (home and home)each with San Francisco, Pacific, and Saint Mary's, teams they and UCD would typically play on Tuesdays. This may be another cost-cutting move, since neither team has to arrange for accomodations.None of those opponents likely have big baseball budgets eithet and probably appreciate the savings. Not very many mid-week games, some of them are add-ons to their series against these opponents.

It's a lot to assume just from reading a schedule, so I hope I'm wrong.

Wow, which dorm were you in ? I was in Segundo + we had one large room for each gender per floor. It wasn't very well-insulated because I would often hear the RA talking to a resident in the shower (both of them were women) on the way down the hall in the morning. You didn't even need to be close to the women's room to hear it.

I doubt you were describing any of the Cuarto dorms (unless they've renovated them since) because those were all like refurbished motel rooms/apartments-except maybe Thoreau Hall, which I remember was four rooms sharing a common entry + bathroom ? Maybe the old Tercero buildings (not Leach-it was a single story) ?

I also see value in men's + women's spaces. I used to live in an apartment complex that had a central gym building with men's and women's entrances + those entrances had showers and saunas (no lockers). There were so many times women couldn't be bothered to walk 10 ft to their entrance and walked through the men's shower area instead. And if you brought that up with them they would say something along the lines of "Nothing in there I haven't seen before !" Not the point. People value their privacy. Just because men can and sometimes do walk around shirtless does not mean that men's rooms are free peep shows . A man (and I'm just guessing on this-no personal experience ) walking through the women's entrance would likely have resulted in the police being called. Good luck with telling the cop, "No big deal. I've seen breasts before."

I just know at some point the whole third locker room/restroom thing is going to blow up in people's faces because you can't prove or disprove "other", not even with a DNA test. So hypothetically a cis-gender male could go use the "other" room with a biological female who doesn't identify as either or maybe they just don't want to be around a bunch of cis-gender men and women when changing. And he could get away with it too should there be a complaint, by just saying he is gender-fluid + doesn't identify as male currently.

Too often people who aren't smart enough to solve greater society problems (but think they are smarter than everyone else) get elected to positions of power by others who similarly lack these smarts (and that's why they vote for them), where they unleash their simple-minded + ill-informed solutions on the public. Evidence the CA government. Some of these types were likely involved in planning ARC's facility.

Good thing they will have cubicles to sort of help with this. I don't know how much this arrangement really helps from a maintenance point of view. Fewer walls but more enclosed spaces to clean. Also if someone passes out in a cubicle an EMT has to search for the right one.

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Sounds great. Maybe Rocko is the visionary leader who can actually get something done with baseball.

It just figures that the lights are finally in the first year I decide to really stop going to games (not like how I "retired" from this message board). Still will follow how they're doing. Maybe they'll win the conference this year too just to spite me. Hope they do.

I'll tell you what college baseball I was interested in seeing this year-I briefly considered seeing a game at Sonoma State before they shutter their program. Then I saw some pictures of their ballpark. Some nice redwoods in the background but otherwise just a very basic field you might see in a local park- except they weirdly have some box seats from the Milwaukee Brewers' old stadium.

You know what really is terrible for the Seawolves though ? They have a brand-new coach in a lame-duck season.

SSU would be playing Jessup U (now in D-II). I followed the Warriors a bit last year when former Aggie James Williams III played there. I have to say Jessup baseball players are uniquely fortunate. Imagine a road...err...plane trip to Hawaii every season. This is because their new conference includes Hawaii-Hilo, Hawaii Pacific, and Chaminade.

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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.