Mizzou fan here

[U-Dub Gamecock]

Welcome to the board.... You will find that here, Starkville, Oxford and Baton Rouge, baseball is more popular than basketball....

Sure, if we were even worth mentioning in basketball, that might be different...but baseball has always been big here....

Best of luck to you guys....

[Spurticus]

Welcome to our board MizzouAstro. Please consider making yourself a
regular poster here. We love having rival fans stay with us and become
regular members here.

I think Missouri and Texas A&M came into the SEC with the right mindset.
I read where both ADs for each school have said that they plan on putting
a lot of priority into upgrading the facilities the next several seasons. SC
Joined the conference in 1991 and did not get into that mindset for almost
a decade. IMO, it is why this program suffered the way it did the first 10-12
years in all sports in this conference. Beginning in early 2000s, our ADs
decided to raise ticket prices for football, utilize the Conference income and
used that mainly to go find the best coaches and put the money back
into upgrading the athletic facilities. Since doing that, our Baseball team
has become a perennial contender for the National title, and our football
program, long time lower tier team in the SEC, started to compete for the
Eastern Conference title, and the past three seasons has ended the
year ranked in the top 20/10. .... You have to spend the money to make
the money and attract the best players.

As for Baseball, the Midwest has always developed some of the nations
best college and eventual pro players. Mizzou joining the SEC is only going
to make your program a much more desirable destination for those players
who don't go immediately into MLB, but decide to develop a few years at
the college level, and want to play for a team in the best College Baseball
conf. in the country. Mizzou's baseball program will get stronger fast. I'm
convinced of that.

Thanks for joining and adding your insight into Missouri's program. Looking
forward to your posts in the future. If you need any help around the site
please feel free to give me or any of the other mods a shout. ... as you've
already found out, there are also a lot of our fans eager to share their
help as well.

[Roosterboy]

Well, after game 1 I got a lot of respect for Mizzou.
As I thought, they got talent, they just don't have depth.

And looking at the numbers, I thought an error would change the game...and two did.

I got a feeling Mizzou is going to get back to being a tournament team in a few years if they can just improve talent depth on the team.

[USCBatgirl21]

MizzouAstro...

What's with the pep band at the ballpark??????

[COCKYTALKIN]

Welcome to the board!

I have no doubt Mizzou and A&M will do fine here.

As mentioned a couple of posts up, we were a few errors from losing the series.

[Metalrush24]

Originally Posted by USCBatgirl21

MizzouAstro...

What's with the pep band at the ballpark??????

I truly wish I could have seen that..

[Cocklover]

I thought I heard the pep band out there but was really hoping it was a recording...guess it wasn't...LOL

[USCBatgirl21]

In my best Jimmy Dugan....

"Is that a pep band? THERE'S NO PEP BAND IN BASEBALL!"

Photographic proof at another site, and I actually saw them on the video feed Saturday.

[GamecockMomSC]

Originally Posted by USCBatgirl21

In my best Jimmy Dugan....

"Is that a pep band? THERE'S NO PEP BAND IN BASEBALL!"

Photographic proof at another site, and I actually saw them on the video feed Saturday.

How did you see a band through the cage???

[USCBatgirl21]

Originally Posted by GamecockMomSC

How did you see a band through the cage???

Meh...one of the "crowd" shots.