First, today's game with Indiana State has been canceled. Actually, forfeited, as Corbs had the guys all revved up to play some baseball despite the chilly temperatures and was in no mood to let ISU off the hook.
To get to Nashville from Terre Haute the S'mores tried to charter a flight. But, the airport was closed. Their coach considered taking a Greyhound but the bus station was closed. As a last option he considered the team hitchhiking to the Ohio River and then catching a Riverboat down the Ohio and then the Cumberland Rivers to Nashville. But all the Riverboats were under quarantine. It was also a Casino so many of the players wouldn't have been old enough to get on board anyway..
At that point the ISU coach gave up and forfeited the game.
The Dores pick up their 30th win of the season against just 8 losses. They have won 9 of their last 10 and 19 of their last 21. Polls have yet to be released this week but we're thinking they might be as high as #2. Time will tell.
Fresh off a series sweep over the de-feathered/de-clawed/re-neutered Gamecocks in Nashville over the weekend
(only 2 games were played because of the entire Vandy campus being flooded due to the Monsoon rains on Sunday -- only The Hawk remained clear but there was no way to get to the field without beau coup canoes and, besides, Kumar never learned how to swim.)
There was a lot of rough action in the SEC over the weekend as well:
1. UT went to Alabama and Tony Vitello had to wrestle a rabid possum before game 2 could be played. The animal was packed up and shipped to his home in Knoxville to join the Black Bear in his backyard so that it, too, could play with his children. He once had 4 children; now it's down to 2.
[He had to wrestle it not because it ran run onto the field; Tony just wanted to wrestle somebody to show how Sicilian he is so the Bama AD suggested a rabid possum just to liven things up and entertain the crowd. Tony agreed on the condition the possum not be put to sleep afterwards and, instead, he could take it home to join the rest of the "zoo", an endearing name he calls his family and pets]
2. Georgia's entire outfield was attacked by swarming killer bees that had somehow escaped from the Auburn Team Bus. Fortunately, several subs were available to finish the game.
3. There was a brawl in Starkville after the 7th inning between State and Ole Miss players AND fans. After police sorted it out there were insufficient players left not taken to jail to complete the game. The SEC Office was, at first, flummoxed about what to do. After some money changed hands State was awarded the win because "their stadium is better than anybody else's and they only have 33 full baseball scholarships unlike Vandy which has unlimited full scholarhips."
SEC Commish Sankey approved the final decision. In related news, construction on Sankey's 4th Beach House starts next week in Panama City. Panama, not Florida; he already has a Beach House in PCB, Destin, and Saratoga.
4. Florida fans flooded the local hospital after 90% of them injured both rotator cuffs doing the Gator Chop after each Gator run scored as Florida swept Mizzou by a combined score of 38-4.
5. Paul Mainieri was ejected from Lexington Friday night. It had nothing to do with baseball. The Mayor asked him to leave. He and Alex Bregman had broken into the Kentucky Basketball Dorm to, as he explained to police, "just to look around for ideas." To keep from being hauled off to jail he agreed to return to Baton Rouge on his own recognizance. Alex was detained, however; the Mayor felt he had been insufficiently punished by MLB Commissioner Manford for Sign Stealing so he was doing what he could to remedy that. He's also a big Dodgers Fan due to hometown hero Walker Buehler being a Dodger.
6. Arkansas fans got out of control while celebrating their National Championship. Not of baseball, they've never won that; they were declared winners of the Best College Baseball Stadium competition. Fayetteville's local jail was not large enough to hold them all so many were detained in Pig Sties located throughout the neighborhood surrounding the stadium. They didn't mind; they felt right at home.
SEC Overall:
1. Vandy 12-2
2. Bama 11-4
2. Gators 11-4
4. Georgia 9-6
4. Auburn 9-6
SEC EAST:
1. Vandy 12-2
2. Florida 11-4
3. Dawgs 9-6
4. Mizzou 5-10
4. UTjr 5-10
6. 'Cocks 4-10
7. UKjr 3-12
SEC West:
1. Saban 11-4
2. Malzahn 9-6
2. ??? 9-6
4. Kiffin 8-7
5. Leach 7-8
5. Ogeron 7-8
7. Fisher 4-11
As of now, UK and Fisher will not be going to Hoover. (Fisher wasn't going anyway. But, UK still has hopes as they play UT in a couple of weeks.)
UTjr is only 2 games out of last place and many think they can pull off not going to Hoover again if they try harder. Vitello is doing everything he can to help in that regard.
Next up for the VandyBoys is a BIG trip to Oxford next weekend.
No word on when the Ole Miss players currently in jail will be released. Nikhazy, their ace pitcher, already under indictment for earlier offenses -- sexual assault, DUI -- has yet to post his $1 mill bail due to having violated judicial orders while awaiting his trials; but, his daddy knows the brother-in-law of the Judge who graduated from Ole Miss with his daddy's uncle so it likely won't be a problem for Mike Bianco, a man who can likely not handle any more problems than he already has what with his son, who plays for LSU, having been suspended by Paul Mainieri for "conduct unbecoming an LSU Tiger."
This, of course, could only be one of two things:
a. he got Paul's wife pregnant, or,
b. he got Paul's girlfriend pregnant.
If it is "a" then he'll likely play this weekend; if it is "b" he will likely be kicked off the team.
But, not to worry, the NCAA will then give Mike's son a "hardship waiver", clearly applicable to the situation, and he can immediately play for Ole Miss before they take on Florida so that's good for the Dores.
And, as Junior often says, "What's good for the Dores is good for the Bores" because Junior is about as boring as a guy can get after 28 days of Isolation.
To get to Nashville from Terre Haute the S'mores tried to charter a flight. But, the airport was closed. Their coach considered taking a Greyhound but the bus station was closed. As a last option he considered the team hitchhiking to the Ohio River and then catching a Riverboat down the Ohio and then the Cumberland Rivers to Nashville. But all the Riverboats were under quarantine. It was also a Casino so many of the players wouldn't have been old enough to get on board anyway..
At that point the ISU coach gave up and forfeited the game.
The Dores pick up their 30th win of the season against just 8 losses. They have won 9 of their last 10 and 19 of their last 21. Polls have yet to be released this week but we're thinking they might be as high as #2. Time will tell.
Fresh off a series sweep over the de-feathered/de-clawed/re-neutered Gamecocks in Nashville over the weekend
(only 2 games were played because of the entire Vandy campus being flooded due to the Monsoon rains on Sunday -- only The Hawk remained clear but there was no way to get to the field without beau coup canoes and, besides, Kumar never learned how to swim.)
There was a lot of rough action in the SEC over the weekend as well:
1. UT went to Alabama and Tony Vitello had to wrestle a rabid possum before game 2 could be played. The animal was packed up and shipped to his home in Knoxville to join the Black Bear in his backyard so that it, too, could play with his children. He once had 4 children; now it's down to 2.
[He had to wrestle it not because it ran run onto the field; Tony just wanted to wrestle somebody to show how Sicilian he is so the Bama AD suggested a rabid possum just to liven things up and entertain the crowd. Tony agreed on the condition the possum not be put to sleep afterwards and, instead, he could take it home to join the rest of the "zoo", an endearing name he calls his family and pets]
2. Georgia's entire outfield was attacked by swarming killer bees that had somehow escaped from the Auburn Team Bus. Fortunately, several subs were available to finish the game.
3. There was a brawl in Starkville after the 7th inning between State and Ole Miss players AND fans. After police sorted it out there were insufficient players left not taken to jail to complete the game. The SEC Office was, at first, flummoxed about what to do. After some money changed hands State was awarded the win because "their stadium is better than anybody else's and they only have 33 full baseball scholarships unlike Vandy which has unlimited full scholarhips."
SEC Commish Sankey approved the final decision. In related news, construction on Sankey's 4th Beach House starts next week in Panama City. Panama, not Florida; he already has a Beach House in PCB, Destin, and Saratoga.
4. Florida fans flooded the local hospital after 90% of them injured both rotator cuffs doing the Gator Chop after each Gator run scored as Florida swept Mizzou by a combined score of 38-4.
5. Paul Mainieri was ejected from Lexington Friday night. It had nothing to do with baseball. The Mayor asked him to leave. He and Alex Bregman had broken into the Kentucky Basketball Dorm to, as he explained to police, "just to look around for ideas." To keep from being hauled off to jail he agreed to return to Baton Rouge on his own recognizance. Alex was detained, however; the Mayor felt he had been insufficiently punished by MLB Commissioner Manford for Sign Stealing so he was doing what he could to remedy that. He's also a big Dodgers Fan due to hometown hero Walker Buehler being a Dodger.
6. Arkansas fans got out of control while celebrating their National Championship. Not of baseball, they've never won that; they were declared winners of the Best College Baseball Stadium competition. Fayetteville's local jail was not large enough to hold them all so many were detained in Pig Sties located throughout the neighborhood surrounding the stadium. They didn't mind; they felt right at home.
SEC Overall:
1. Vandy 12-2
2. Bama 11-4
2. Gators 11-4
4. Georgia 9-6
4. Auburn 9-6
SEC EAST:
1. Vandy 12-2
2. Florida 11-4
3. Dawgs 9-6
4. Mizzou 5-10
4. UTjr 5-10
6. 'Cocks 4-10
7. UKjr 3-12
SEC West:
1. Saban 11-4
2. Malzahn 9-6
2. ??? 9-6
4. Kiffin 8-7
5. Leach 7-8
5. Ogeron 7-8
7. Fisher 4-11
As of now, UK and Fisher will not be going to Hoover. (Fisher wasn't going anyway. But, UK still has hopes as they play UT in a couple of weeks.)
UTjr is only 2 games out of last place and many think they can pull off not going to Hoover again if they try harder. Vitello is doing everything he can to help in that regard.
Next up for the VandyBoys is a BIG trip to Oxford next weekend.
No word on when the Ole Miss players currently in jail will be released. Nikhazy, their ace pitcher, already under indictment for earlier offenses -- sexual assault, DUI -- has yet to post his $1 mill bail due to having violated judicial orders while awaiting his trials; but, his daddy knows the brother-in-law of the Judge who graduated from Ole Miss with his daddy's uncle so it likely won't be a problem for Mike Bianco, a man who can likely not handle any more problems than he already has what with his son, who plays for LSU, having been suspended by Paul Mainieri for "conduct unbecoming an LSU Tiger."
This, of course, could only be one of two things:
a. he got Paul's wife pregnant, or,
b. he got Paul's girlfriend pregnant.
If it is "a" then he'll likely play this weekend; if it is "b" he will likely be kicked off the team.
But, not to worry, the NCAA will then give Mike's son a "hardship waiver", clearly applicable to the situation, and he can immediately play for Ole Miss before they take on Florida so that's good for the Dores.
And, as Junior often says, "What's good for the Dores is good for the Bores" because Junior is about as boring as a guy can get after 28 days of Isolation.
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