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Michigan baseball should be applauded after yesterday's comeback
I have a friend who lives in Chicago and works part time for the Big Ten Network.
On a number of occasions, I've told her the station is useless from mid-April to mid-August and that to draw viewers in those months, BTN execs should take advantage of the conference's video library and just run "Greatest Games" on an endless loop for the four-plus months nothing's going on - and by nothing, I mean no football or basketball, since watching any other college sport is about as interesting as watching Dexter Manley try to read "The Cat in the Hat."
My opinion on that hasn't changed all that much, but yesterday's Michigan/Northwestern baseball game did a lot to alter my stance.
I never watch college baseball. But yesterday, in between taking care of some things around the house, I flipped on to BTN to see the Wolverines being trounced by the Wildcats, 14-0, going into the bottom half of the third inning. Even though I admittedly don't care about Big Ten baseball, being a Spartans, I got a kick out of what was going on.
"Man, they suck at EVERYTHING now," I said to myself, with a huge grin on my face. From what I heard, a win would keep Michigan in the race for the Big Ten title. But from the looks of it, a Wolverine comeback seemed as likely as Jessica Simpson gaining membership to Mensa.
But comeback they did. Michigan scored in all but two innings the remainder of the game, while its pitching staff held the Wildcats scoreless past the second.
Michigan senior catcher Chris Berset capped the comeback with a game-tying two-run shot in the ninth before Mike Dufek delivered a walk-off solo home run in the bottom half of the 10th in a 15-14 Wolverines win in Ann Arbor.
The win keeps the Wolverines (31-19, 12-9 Big Ten) in the Big Ten title hunt, one game behind first-place Minnesota. Michigan ends the season next weekend at Penn State. Odds look to be in the Wolverines favor, as the Nittany Lions sit in the basement in the conference standings.
So kudos to Michigan for not folding when they got down two touchdowns. Now if they only fought that hard on the football field...
On a number of occasions, I've told her the station is useless from mid-April to mid-August and that to draw viewers in those months, BTN execs should take advantage of the conference's video library and just run "Greatest Games" on an endless loop for the four-plus months nothing's going on - and by nothing, I mean no football or basketball, since watching any other college sport is about as interesting as watching Dexter Manley try to read "The Cat in the Hat."
My opinion on that hasn't changed all that much, but yesterday's Michigan/Northwestern baseball game did a lot to alter my stance.
I never watch college baseball. But yesterday, in between taking care of some things around the house, I flipped on to BTN to see the Wolverines being trounced by the Wildcats, 14-0, going into the bottom half of the third inning. Even though I admittedly don't care about Big Ten baseball, being a Spartans, I got a kick out of what was going on.
"Man, they suck at EVERYTHING now," I said to myself, with a huge grin on my face. From what I heard, a win would keep Michigan in the race for the Big Ten title. But from the looks of it, a Wolverine comeback seemed as likely as Jessica Simpson gaining membership to Mensa.
But comeback they did. Michigan scored in all but two innings the remainder of the game, while its pitching staff held the Wildcats scoreless past the second.
Michigan senior catcher Chris Berset capped the comeback with a game-tying two-run shot in the ninth before Mike Dufek delivered a walk-off solo home run in the bottom half of the 10th in a 15-14 Wolverines win in Ann Arbor.
The win keeps the Wolverines (31-19, 12-9 Big Ten) in the Big Ten title hunt, one game behind first-place Minnesota. Michigan ends the season next weekend at Penn State. Odds look to be in the Wolverines favor, as the Nittany Lions sit in the basement in the conference standings.
So kudos to Michigan for not folding when they got down two touchdowns. Now if they only fought that hard on the football field...
Labels: Baseball, Big Ten Network, Michigan, The Big Ten
posted by Jason Carmel Davis at
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