Below freezing wind chill but will be warmer than our basketball shooting at the hump
Baseball series this weekend ⚾
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Baseball should not be played until March 1.
Nonsense! I’m excited for something to take my mind off of our basketball teams. Hopefully they’ll be the sport to not disappoint this year.
I am hoping that some of this group of young guys like Foster, Burns, Grant, & Gleason are ready to give us some quality innings by mid-season.
I tend to agree. Weather issues can greatly impact the results of these early season games and if you lose to some of these dreadful teams because of playing in terrible weather you still have to wear those losses around your neck all year even into the NCAA tourney selections. We absolutely didn't host last year because of a few bad OOC losses some of which were played in nasty, cold weather.
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Weather forces schedule change for Mississippi State baseball on Opening Weekend
Forecasted weather on Saturday has a double-header on the menu for Mississippi State baseball vs. Manhattan on Opening Weekend.
Wiffle Ball in the Palmerio Center. This weekend has ruin a pitching arm written all over it.
I swear just about the coldest I have ever been was sitting on an outfield trailer at Dudy Noble in February.
^^^wasn’t at the ‘99 Cotton Bowl.
Shout out for 1991 Liberty & 1999 Independence Bowls too.
Kentucky in 93 or 94 at home was cold as 17
My Pappy always said the coldest place on earth was Dudy Noble Field in February. And he did his basic training in Colorado: Christmas 1942.
Back in my day we did not start until the last week in February and we often were on the road further South for that weekend.
They definitely compressed the season back in those days, regularly playing 5 games a week. Then you had the regionals where you'd play like 6 games in 3 days like a travel ball tournament.
Heck maybe we need to go back to that, seems like it's what people want.
Agree pat, 1991 Liberty Bowl by far is the coldest I have ever been at any MSU sporting event. The hi that day was 47 early in the afternoon, don't know what it was that night for the game but sitting up high in that open ended stadium with the wind was brutal. The cold was probably intensified by the fact that we got our azzez handed to us by a 3rd place WAC team that we outweighed at every position on the field. They weren't fast, flashy, or cocky. But they were total military though, they each had a job to do and executed flawlessly and just drove it down our throats .I had a 2.5 hr drive home after that and I was just getting warmed up when I got there.
Liberty Bowl Stadium is also the hottest I have ever been at an MSU sporting event. September 2, 2000 official hi was 101' . That's the game Jackie Wayne raised hell about (as he should have) because they had turned the A/C off in our dressing room. Concessions were out of water by halftime, out of ice shortly after. People were dropping all over the place.
For sure some of the coldest days are in the LFL on a Tuesday night mid week game w/ a slight drizzle temp in the 30s, wind out of the West and somebody like N AL beating us...................
We also finished the CWS in the first week of June. Making them stay until late June kinda sucks.
Poking around a little on Manhattan this afternoon wondering exactly where is was. Just north of the island near the Hudson if you are interested. Looks like they play in a minor league stadium a good haul even farther north across the Hudson.
Curious if this was a typical northern team early season "southern swing" so checked the following games and sure enough it is. Had to chuckle a little, after us they rumble down to Lorman and then up to Itta Bena before heading over the Charleston, SC. If nothing else, they're going to see a good bit of MS. What they leave thinking is anyone's guess. (feel free to leave your MS National Park recommendations here).
Poor guys think they're "coming south" and it looks 17ing miserable the whole time.
For some reason we played a home football game against Cal Poly Pomona back in the mid 70's and all I could think of back then is those guys will be getting on a plane at LAX, landing at GTR (probably MEM) and head to Starkville on what was then a 2 lane HWY 82. Similarly, the Jaspers will board at LGA and find themselves in Starkville, Lorman and Itta Bena MS. "Well this is certainly different".
Curious if this was a typical northern team early season "southern swing" so checked the following games and sure enough it is. Had to chuckle a little, after us they rumble down to Lorman and then up to Itta Bena before heading over the Charleston, SC. If nothing else, they're going to see a good bit of MS. What they leave thinking is anyone's guess. (feel free to leave your MS National Park recommendations here).
Poor guys think they're "coming south" and it looks 17ing miserable the whole time.
For some reason we played a home football game against Cal Poly Pomona back in the mid 70's and all I could think of back then is those guys will be getting on a plane at LAX, landing at GTR (probably MEM) and head to Starkville on what was then a 2 lane HWY 82. Similarly, the Jaspers will board at LGA and find themselves in Starkville, Lorman and Itta Bena MS. "Well this is certainly different".
Put me down for Arkansas ‘00 at Scott Field. The 31 degrees and sleeting in the first half wasn’t so bad. But the 33 degrees and raining in the 2nd half and overtime…..quite cold.
The drive home in 99 (the day after) was an adventure.
We were in a 3 car convoy and let the little rear wheel drive pickup lead the way for obvious reasons. He eventually saw a sign for a hotel and pulled off. He refused to move another inch. We all missed the next day at work.
We lost count on the number of cars in the median (mostly little *** rear wheel drive pickups).
No amount of whiskey could keep me warm at that game.
The game may have been slightly worse than the weather. Thank goodness for Byrdsong.
I was at the 1991 Liberty Bowl. Absolutely cold and miserable. Baseball can be brutally cold, too, but not as cold…AND, Air Force beat our azz.
My crown and coke in the stadium cup froze to my gloves. Took an Arky buddy to the game with me and we walked from the Grill to the game and back. Just miserable!!
Coldest game I remember, and I was at the Snow Bowl and Arkansas 2000, was egg bowl in Oxford, maybe 92 or so. We stopped to get gas in Okolona or Pontotoc on the way back to Meridian, it was so cold the gas pumps were messed up, took forever to get gas. I imagine that's what it's like in an ev these days.
ETA: now that I think about it I think that was Todd Jordan 100 tries from the 20 game.
ETA: now that I think about it I think that was Todd Jordan 100 tries from the 20 game.
1963 Liberty Bowl. It was still in Philadelphia back then. Jack Cristil got a cup of coffee and it froze in his cup before he could drink it. We won by the way and I think it against North Carolina State, but I don’t remember for sure about the opponent.
I was a teenager and I still remember seeing a man sitting alone in the rain at the upper deck at the end of the game. His kept banging his cowbell on the bleachers as we walked out