SoCal Media Day Friday & Baseball Coverage Suggestions

I think what you have been doing in the past is excellent. You are THE source for Bruin baseball for me. I follow you on twitter and appreciate the updates when you are at the gamnes. Otherwise the summaries weekly work quite well. Not much interested in preseason predictions as that typically has led to dissapointment. Thanks for all the work you put into it. I hope the amount of time you spend on it is enjoyable for you.

whether here or twitter will be read.

Thanks!

would be great but I’d be satisfied with regular tweets. I’d love to heard from the coaches. Preseason and season coverage will be great of course. Would also like to see more in-depth player profiles if possible. And maybe even coaches. Like, what did Vanderhook do for Cody Decker that eventually made him into the Minor League Hitter of the Year when his 2008 average was .218?!

and if anyone else has anything else, it would be much appreciated. I don’t have anything in mind to expand coverage, but this is an outstanding community with people who are far smarter than I am so if anyone has a suggestion on something that would be cool, I would definitely explore the possibility of it.

As for your comment movielover, it is noted. I understand that some people don’t have much interest in my posts and I’m fine with that. I do this as a fan because I have long been a fan and heard complaints for a while about the lack of coverage so I do my best to fill that gap. I hope I don’t come off as someone who posts everything I hear and see because I don’t. There is plenty that I keep to myself and I hope the players, coaches, administrators and fans don’t look at me as someone they can’t trust. Your point is noted though and it is something I try to be aware of. It is a very good point.

As I mentioned, I do this as a fan and just want to increase the exposure of a program that I love. For the most part, I try to do everything in the aim of bettering the program and don’t try to be a journalist always looking out for the next scoop. I don’t want to sugarcoat things when stuff goes bad either though so when things go wrong, I feel like I need to be honest about it. The only times I really push something that’s negative is something like the facility situation, which I’ve long made clear that I think it is a joke and my hope is that by pushing it and making people more aware of it, we can see some real change. That would help the program so it is why I push it.

Again, I’d like any other feedback so anyone else out there, please share.

How about a “College Baseball 101” post? Something that just explains the basic structure of the sport: how the schedule works, what the thresholds are to get into the tournament, how the tournament itself is seeded and played out.

I’ve long been a reader of your UCLA baseball posts, but I’ve always felt a bit befuddled because I don’t quite get how NCAA baseball operates. Like, I know how college hoops works: there’s a nonconference schedule, then the conference season, and if you’re a team like UCLA and have 20 or so wins you get into the tournament usually, and from there it’s simple.

I don’t have the same sense of the college baseball world. I’ll read that UCLA is, say, 16-9, and I won’t really have any sense of where that puts us in the grand scheme of things. Or I’ll hear about a team’s designated “Sunday Starter,” and I won’t get how exactly that’s significant.

Speaking for myself, I think something covering the basics would be great help in getting more out of your day-to-day coverage.