OT: Lincoln East/ Carpetland

[Bugeaters1]

Lincoln East Beat Wyoming today to advance to the national championship in American legion baseball. By the way they beat Iowa yesterday.

 

[Bugeaters1]

East will play Texass @ 6 tomorrow night. The game will be on ESPNU.

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by Bugeaters1

[colhusker]

Go Spartans

[Huskerpapa]

Go rugs!

[hskr4life]

All this without their top 3 players (D1 recruits) I think I read.

 

Impressive run!

 

#BeatTexas

[BugeaterZ]

They have all their best pitchers, and those are three starters, but all are just starting their junior years, and while they are talented, not necessarily their three best players right now.

 

Springer and Evasco are a year older and more developed. And adding back Clementi after his 1st year of college is huge.

 

My son pitched against them last summer, and Springer was a beast then. I can't believe he doesn't have high major offers.

[Norm Peterson]

15 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Lincoln East Beat Wyoming today to advance to the national championship in American legion baseball. By the way they beat Iowa yesterday.

 

News about anything Nebraska beating anything Iowa is ALWAYS on-topic in my humble opinion.

[hhcmatt]

18 hours ago, Bugeaters1 said:

Lincoln East Beat Wyoming today to advance to the national championship in American legion baseball. By the way they beat Iowa yesterday.

 

 

This game also could have gone in the one hit wonder thread

[hskr4life]

What time is the game today?  ESPN 3?

[Bugeaters1]

1 hour ago, hskr4life said:

What time is the game today?  ESPN 3?

6 P.M. and it is on ESPNU.

[Bugeaters1]

After 2, Texas 1  East 0

[Bugeaters1]

East loses 1-0 to Texas.

[cipsucks]

Sucks they lost.  Loved the Cincinatti Reds helmets, hated the Blue helmets.  What's up with that?

[HB]

Disappointed in the outcome, but it was a good game.   We had our chances.  

[BugeaterZ]

1 minute ago, cipsucks said:

Sucks they lost.  Loved the Cincinatti Reds helmets, hated the Blue helmets.  What's up with that?

Players have to provide their own helmets and don't want to buy one for spring and one for summer

[cipsucks]

1 minute ago, BugeaterZ said:

Players have to provide their own helmets and don't want to buy one for spring and one for summer

Isn't there high school NIL money for that?

[BugeaterZ]

9 hours ago, cipsucks said:

Isn't there high school NIL money for that?

Even with the Carpetland sponsorship, families have to pay several hundred dollars just to be on the team. They also have to pay for bats and gloves and most of them pay for private pitching and/or hitting lessons because high school coaches spend minimal time coaching skills. East cuts 50+ kids every year, so that's what it takes to make the team.

 

I know all this because my son began at East and transferred to Northeast. 

 

The only high school kid I've ever heard of to get NIL in Lincoln is Malachi Coleman, so the answer is very likely no for these kids. Certainly it would be minimal at best for baseball players, and three of those boys in the lineup last night were playing only because of the three that chose the prospect showcase that made them ineligible. 

 

 

[colhusker]

Well Dadgumit.  Well done lads.

 

They did a bit better than we did when Jayschool and I played ball at East.  Although we did make it to state and should have won our first game. 

[Huskerpapa]

Pretty darn good performance given they were missing three really good players.

[Bugeaters1]

4 hours ago, BugeaterZ said:

Even with the Carpetland sponsorship, families have to pay several hundred dollars just to be on the team. They also have to pay for bats and gloves and most of them pay for private pitching and/or hitting lessons because high school coaches spend minimal time coaching skills. East cuts 50+ kids every year, so that's what it takes to make the team.

 

I know all this because my son began at East and transferred to Northeast. 

 

The only high school kid I've ever heard of to get NIL in Lincoln is Malachi Coleman, so the answer is very likely no for these kids. Certainly it would be minimal at best for baseball players, and three of those boys in the lineup last night were playing only because of the three that chose the prospect showcase that made them ineligible. 

 

 

I think Cip was joking, at least thats how I took it.

 

[atskooc]

14 hours ago, BugeaterZ said:

Even with the Carpetland sponsorship, families have to pay several hundred dollars just to be on the team. They also have to pay for bats and gloves and most of them pay for private pitching and/or hitting lessons because high school coaches spend minimal time coaching skills. East cuts 50+ kids every year, so that's what it takes to make the team.

 

I know all this because my son began at East and transferred to Northeast. 

 

The only high school kid I've ever heard of to get NIL in Lincoln is Malachi Coleman, so the answer is very likely no for these kids. Certainly it would be minimal at best for baseball players, and three of those boys in the lineup last night were playing only because of the three that chose the prospect showcase that made them ineligible. 

 

 

Go Rockets!