D1 Baseball Opening Week Chat

First, the bad news...this weekend's "Odds & Ends" post has been postponed until tomorrow. Hearbreaking, I know. So what's the good news? You are invited to join 49th State Hardball for our first ever live chat to celebrate D1 Baseball opening weekend!

D1 Opening Week Casual Chat - Fullscreen

Note: you don't have to register for this chat....there is a "guest" link above the login boxes. Click that, type in a name, and you're good to go!

College baseball in all its glorious forms is now in full swing, and we are hosting a casual live chat to follow our favorite ABL players, future and former, as well as any other favorite collegiate players and teams. It's just going to be a free-for-all, not a Q&A session, although in addition to yours truly we will likely have some prospect junkies & ABL folks in the room so feel free to ask away. All baseball fans are welcome, so go ahead and invite some friends.

The dicussion is meant to center around the ongoing games, so I've compiled the following list of games of interest. Obviously these aren't the only games going on, so if you've got another one you're watching, feel free to share. But the following is a list of games that fall within our timeframe, feature several Alaska League players, and have some sort of freely available nationwide broadcast (audio or TV).


Cal State Northridge vs. Southern - 5pm ET
Broadcast nationally on MLB Network

CS-Northridge Players:
C #31 Dominic Piazza (Bucs, 2010 Recruit)
P #33 Bryan Harper (Pilots, 2009)


Rice University at Stanford - 6pm ET
Rice Audio Feed

Rice Players:
P #30 Andrew Benak (Bucs, 2010 Recruit)
P #14 JT Chargois (Panners, 2010 Recruit)
P #13 Tony Cingrani (Panners, 2010 Recruit)
P/OF #25 Chase Mcdowell (Panners, 2010 Recruit)
P #7 Tyler Spurlin (Bucs, 2010 Recruit)

Stanford Players:
P/1B #27 Garrett Hughes (Panners, 2010 Recruit)
OF #24 Jake Stewart (Panners, 2010 Recruit)
1B #30 Jon Kaskow (Oilers, 2009)
OF #21 Kellen Kiilsgaard (Bucs, 2009)
P #36 Scott Snodgress (Oilers, 2009)
2B #2 Adam Gaylord (Panners, 2008)


UC Irvine at Loyola Marymount - 4pm ET
LMU Audio Feed

UC Irvine Players:
SS #32 DJ Crumlich (Panners, 2010 recruit)
P #21 Christian Bergman (Bucs, 2008/2009)
OF/IF #36 Ryan Fisher (Oilers, 2009)
P #13 Crosby Slaught (Oilers, 2009)
C #20 Francis Larson (Oilers, 2008) 
2B #27 Casey Stevenson (Panners, 2008)

Loyola Marymount Players:
P #34 Aaron Griffin (Bucs, 2010 recruit)
OF #28 Evan Simonitsch (Panners, 2009/2010 recruit)
P #12 Alex Gillingham (Panners, 2009)
IF #8 Jonathan Johnson (Miners, 2009)


San Francisco at Pacific - 6pm ET
USF Dons Audio Stream

USF Players:
P #34 Kelly Constantini (Bucs, 2010 recruit)
P #31 Bob Mott (Bucs, 2010 recruit) 

Pacific Players:
P #21 David Rowse (Miners, 2008)