Official 2024 Nebraska Cardiac Beaver Slayers Baseball Thread (40-22)

[Herbie]

Sears did so well Friday just throw him again on short rest

 

[Goskers07]

Well, it was a fun season. See yall next year.

 

[Snockered69]

Well the positive. We went from going from preseason #5 ranking in the BIG to BIG champs and a 40 win season.

The bad: we just got ass raped by another gay team, fucking gaytors.

 

[MaxHuskers34]

I hate this little bit of hope they are giving us right now. Like why won’t they just die and get it over with

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

 

[Kaladin]

 

[Kaladin]

Good season. Won 40 games, won the Big 10 tourney, made a regional.

 

[PonyBoy]

A season to remember and build on.

Secure the roster, add from the portal and let's get after their ass in 2025!

 

[Dawgsauce]

Good season. Won 40 games, won the Big 10 tourney, made a regional.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

This will end up like 15-7

Close

😎

 

[...TrueColors...]

A season to remember and build on.

Secure the roster, add from the portal and let's get after their ass in 2025!

My thoughts exactly.

*Slight soap box rant moment* Stop reading here if you don’t care 😀😀

Culturally, even though soccer was my scholarship sport and the one I played post-college, I was raised on baseball and it just never leaves you. My high school is filled with great ball players from the 60s, 70s, and 80s with some names I’m sure some people who have been around would be familiar with. So I was lucky enough to play with a lot of their kids and family.

So I get a little heated over baseball both good and bad.

That being said, there have been a ton of moments that I’ve been disgusted with this program. I don’t think there is any reason Nebraska shouldn’t be good at baseball and I think the last two years have been inexcusable.

This year was not one of those years where I have been disgusted as a Nebraska baseball fan. I was very wrong about this team. With the amount of newcomers here and the loss of production I had in the back of my mind that Bolt needed a ton of things to go right that generally don’t. They proved me wrong.

Hopefully Bolt can pass the hat as successfully as it appears Hoiberg has.

We need some DUDES. Florida had them and we didn’t. If we can combine our toughness with some big time talent we’ll be playing in supers. No doubt.

 

[PonyBoy]

I don’t think there is any reason Nebraska shouldn’t be good at baseball and I think the last two years have been inexcusable.

First off, really good post.

Spoiler: boring response

For me, losing what they did from 2021 - the 2022 season shouldn't surprise anyone. The offense lost dudes that combined for over 3,500 college plate appearances. The pitching staff lost their Friday (all B1G) & Saturday guy plus their All American closer. Not to mention high leverage pen arm Wynne.

A program like Nebraska, or anyone in the B1G, can't lose that kind of production and not expect a big drop off. Especially in the 2nd year of a head coach.

Noticed what we've done since. Flipped the roster to become "older". We were young in 2022 and paid dearly. 2023 isn't acceptable to me but once every 8-10 years as programs much better than us, with way more talent, miss Regionals from time to time.

2025, Regionals. It has to happen. We've got some guys coming back, much more than in 2022, - and I pray we can keep Swanny - that got a taste of the post-season. The table is set for Bolt, and I hope 1890 comes thru...

 

[Snockered69]

Bolts gotta improve his overall managerial skills or it’ll be ground hog day every year I'm afraid.

We also reaffirmed Childress is who he is at this point in time. Great developer but always runs into a time of calling too many sliders and questionable bullpen usage (all of which were the same complaints fans had at A&M among other complaints).

Another positive to take from this season, is it all could be worse. We could have had a top 10 pick lose to K state, spent $3 million on NIL and achieved the same result.

PS: Thanks @Kaladin for maintaining the baseball thread and thanks @PonyBoy for the nuggs. As always GBR!

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Some people hate on our baseball team, but even our best football teams of all time never won 40 games in a season!

 

[Dawgsauce]

Alright fellas, after a butt clincher in Athens, the Dawgs are heading to a Super Regional. One half of the #CornDawgs still in it. Wear red, ok?

 

[Tyneb23]

Alright fellas, after a butt clincher in Athens, the Dawgs are heading to a Super Regional. One half of the #CornDawgs still in it. Wear red, ok?

 

[nscottie]

Florida giving Okie Lite a game

 

[...TrueColors...]

First off, really good post.

Spoiler: boring response

For me, losing what they did from 2021 - the 2022 season shouldn't surprise anyone. The offense lost dudes that combined for over 3,500 college plate appearances. The pitching staff lost their Friday (all B1G) & Saturday guy plus their All American closer. Not to mention high leverage pen arm Wynne.

A program like Nebraska, or anyone in the B1G, can't lose that kind of production and not expect a big drop off. Especially in the 2nd year of a head coach.

Noticed what we've done since. Flipped the roster to become "older". We were young in 2022 and paid dearly. 2023 isn't acceptable to me but once every 8-10 years as programs much better than us, with way more talent, miss Regionals from time to time.

2025, Regionals. It has to happen. We've got some guys coming back, much more than in 2022, - and I pray we can keep Swanny - that got a taste of the post-season. The table is set for Bolt, and I hope 1890 comes thru...

I could probably find more agreement than disagreement with what you’re saying here. I am truly uninterested in looking at some of the past. 2022 and 2023 results don’t matter to me at all anymore. I wanna know where we go from here.

The difference between us and Florida was clear as day. Sears battled them nobly, but dear lord we couldn’t miss a barrel. Even the out were loud! Then the next inning they go to the bullpen and their 5-6th best pen arm is 6ft6 240 with 96 EASY gas. It would have said much more about us beating them than it does us losing. Now that’s a program in a spot that we wanna be some day. So how do we get there?

I think it starts with NIL money for some proven guys and some facilities upgrades. The baseball team should never feel like a sport that we play on an “Oh, by the way” basis.

I wanna watch baseball on Super Regional weekend with a rooting interest.

Let’s see how Dannen and 1890 treat this. I think 1.5m would do us well.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

Alright fellas, after a butt clincher in Athens, the Dawgs are heading to a Super Regional. One half of the #CornDawgs still in it. Wear red, ok?

 

[...TrueColors...]

Alright fellas, after a butt clincher in Athens, the Dawgs are heading to a Super Regional. One half of the #CornDawgs still in it. Wear red, ok?

Go dawgs!

I was there in 2008 when Gordon Beckham was manning SS and Josh Fields was closing games.