OK baseball fans...

Congrats JustBB - Remember, pacing can help a lot.

Justbaseball -

Our congratulations to Erik! Awesome!

Justbb, congrats on Erik's terrific first outing. Wonderful way to start a college career. Stanford played and and pitched awfully well in all 3 games. Seems he should have gotten a consideration for a save since on Saturday, a Stanford reliever came in with the score 11-1, pitches 4 innings and gets a save. How does that happen when the game ends 12-1?

JustBB...great job to Erik...and dad for being able to pace without paceing out.

OK eveyone...thanks SOOOOO much for the kind words and thoughts. Our family truly appreciates the warmth of the posters here. You guys/ladies are one of the best support groups around! I think I've recovered from the extreme anxiety of the first weekend, so lets move on...

Now, hoping to be down in Fullerton this coming weekend. Besides 123KMom, HotCornerDad and us, who else is going to try to make it to that great rivalry series?

Got tickets for the game behind the First base dugout. Section E Row M seats 7-10. So the Stanford players can hear me better,

You will have a bigger problem if my wife hears you "better!"

Hotcornerdad - One other thing....I do like the Fullerton uniforms a lot. Check out the website of our 12U team for my younger son...team name "Rebels" but there's no mistaking who the uniforms were copied from.

www.rebelsbaseball.us

Just and HotCorner ...

I will be at the Saturday game for sure, and quite possibly the Sunday game, too. My connection is 123KMOM but I have (surprisingly, since I was a Highlandermom and competed against the Titans for 3 years) quite a few Titan friends as well. To stay neutral, I will most likely be wearing UCR colors .. blue and yellow/gold ...

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.

I will be listening to the Dirtbags games but will be tracking all of the others to see how the bets are going.

I'm trying not to show any favoritism here but wouldn't it be fun to see Bullwinkle with a new avatar each week?

Justbaseball, which is your kid on the Cardinal team don't want to heckle him just know who it is so I can enjoy watching him play. I don't care for hecklers that get mean.

Man, I love this game!

My wife is thrilled for the start of the season, she says "now you will stop being a grumpy old bear!"

HotCornerDad - You have a PM.

Anyone going to the Cal/LMU series this weekend, would you please send up a special prayer if #15 happens to head to the bullpen??? Unfortunately, I won't be able to be there and it is just killing me. Also cheer for #6 - his roomie, who has been starting at #6 since the beginning of the season.

Down here in Long Beach hoping the weather holds and we can get a DH in. What a beautiful park the Dirtbags have - I highly recommend going there hungry because the food rivals some major league parks I have attended. Great first game on Friday - sure hope the Bears keep their momentum going! Team looks focused, tight and together !

Good to see you there, Blue.

Way to beat the Dirtbags in first 2 games. I suspect the third one is cancelled ... will check later.

URKMB...

Congrats on the sweep over the Dirtbags. These last few games have been agonizing to listen to.

I hear there been another injury to the team and it's their closer. What else can go wrong???

Good thing we don't have an avatar bet going.

Great to see you and hubby at the game today, FutureBack Mom (you, too CatchMom )

LOL - DB2BMom. I sure know what you mean. BTW, Long Beach has a great setup there - even a tarp to cover the infield during the (several) rain delays today. All I can say is that there are a bunch of happy, tired young men on a bus right now heading north - about 4 hours later than they had anticipated, but I am sure they don't mind one bit!