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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 18, 2020 12:11:39 GMT -8
Oh, about 14 seconds after the first raving, positive article comes out on the Beaver's fresh new stadium and it looks like for a second, just one tiny little millisecond the attention might be on Oregon State... Oregon will announce a multi-billion dollar sweeping stadium upgrade. Nothing pisses U of O off more than Oregon State stealing the spot light. Exactly how fast after OSU won a national championship in Baseball did the ducks relaunch baseball? They had a new stadium, team and stole a National Championship coach withing 3 years of OSU winning the first of back to back NCs... Seems like the video board in Reser too. I think it was the biggest and best for about 6 months. It was the biggest and the best in the Pac-12 in 2007. Since then, every team in the Pac-12 has installed a new video board with seven now larger than Reser Stadium's, including every team in the Northwest, USC, and both Arizona schools. The last time I checked, Rice-Eccles had the biggest board, and it is more than three times larger than Reser Stadium's board. The video board at Jordan-Hare Stadium is more than four times (and closer to five times) the size of the one at Reser Stadium. Oregon just announced that it is going to build a video board more than five times the size of the Reser Stadium's. The video board was great in 2007. And if we could have kept up that commitment to football, the program might be in a better place. Instead, BDC put up a big "Mission Accomplished" banner and did everything that he could to hamstring the program. At least, that is how I remember it.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 18, 2020 12:28:16 GMT -8
Oh, about 14 seconds after the first raving, positive article comes out on the Beaver's fresh new stadium and it looks like for a second, just one tiny little millisecond the attention might be on Oregon State... Oregon will announce a multi-billion dollar sweeping stadium upgrade. Nothing pisses U of O off more than Oregon State stealing the spot light. Exactly how fast after OSU won a national championship in Baseball did the ducks relaunch baseball? They had a new stadium, team and stole a National Championship coach withing 3 years of OSU winning the first of back to back NCs... And then Oregon State went to 3 more World Series, won another one, had a team with 3 1st round draft picks in 18, and a 1/1 in 19 - unless Sniky can give a pro club enough to draft an uck player 1/1/1 (doesn't exist now but they would find a way), and actually make a World Series and even win one, they can live with a perpetual baseball red a$$ and we will just bask in the rage of the machine. Oh, as for that Natty winning coach they stole...... Fun fact, Lebanon's own Dave Roberts (not the Dodgers' coach) was drafted 1/1 out of the University of Oregon in 1972. Roberts was the sixth baseball player drafted who played in the majors before playing in the minors. Not really ready for it, he was awful and would not get into form until the next year.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 18, 2020 13:05:47 GMT -8
Baseball might not be back, but Baseball11 is.
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Post by atownbeaver on May 18, 2020 13:08:37 GMT -8
Its a message board dude, we make cynical jokes all the time. It is literally why a message board exists. Oh those are jokes? Really? Must mean my post was equally so? Some people aren't funny?
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Post by mbabeav on May 18, 2020 13:12:15 GMT -8
And then Oregon State went to 3 more World Series, won another one, had a team with 3 1st round draft picks in 18, and a 1/1 in 19 - unless Sniky can give a pro club enough to draft an uck player 1/1/1 (doesn't exist now but they would find a way), and actually make a World Series and even win one, they can live with a perpetual baseball red a$$ and we will just bask in the rage of the machine. Oh, as for that Natty winning coach they stole...... Fun fact, Lebanon's own Dave Roberts (not the Dodgers' coach) was drafted 1/1 out of the University of Oregon in 1972. Roberts was the sixth baseball player drafted who played in the majors before playing in the minors. Not really ready for it, he was awful and would not get into form until the next year. Burned by my lack of local institutional memory, again, sigh.
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Post by mbabeav on May 18, 2020 13:32:07 GMT -8
Seems like the video board in Reser too. I think it was the biggest and best for about 6 months. It was the biggest and the best in the Pac-12 in 2007. Since then, every team in the Pac-12 has installed a new video board with seven now larger than Reser Stadium's, including every team in the Northwest, USC, and both Arizona schools. The last time I checked, Rice-Eccles had the biggest board, and it is more than three times larger than Reser Stadium's board. The video board at Jordan-Hare Stadium is more than four times (and closer to five times) the size of the one at Reser Stadium. Oregon just announced that it is going to build a video board more than five times the size of the Reser Stadium's. The video board was great in 2007. And if we could have kept up that commitment to football, the program might be in a better place. Instead, BDC put up a big "Mission Accomplished" banner and did everything that he could to hamstring the program. At least, that is how I remember it. I'll never forget the 2007 upgrades, because when they were installing the jumbotron, the electronics kept overheating. The easy and cheap solution? More fans. The electricians installing things ended up purchasing a bunch of large computer case fans from us. That board worked because of about $120 spent at our shop! Oh and I don't believe it was the AD that hamstrung finishing things. Seems to me there was this little financial crash in 2008 that sort of cut the legs out from under the fund raising for Phase III.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 18, 2020 15:31:12 GMT -8
Dave Roberts played at Corvallis High School, didn't he?
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Post by qbeaver on May 18, 2020 15:41:58 GMT -8
Dave Roberts was an Albany guy.
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Post by atownbeaver on May 18, 2020 16:00:39 GMT -8
Dave Roberts was an Albany guy. Nah man. Born in Lebanon, but he graduated from Corvallis High School.
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Post by ochobeavo on May 18, 2020 16:14:36 GMT -8
Yes Roberts went to CHS...
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Post by RenoBeaver on May 18, 2020 18:35:46 GMT -8
And then Oregon State went to 3 more World Series, won another one, had a team with 3 1st round draft picks in 18, and a 1/1 in 19 - unless Sniky can give a pro club enough to draft an uck player 1/1/1 (doesn't exist now but they would find a way), and actually make a World Series and even win one, they can live with a perpetual baseball red a$$ and we will just bask in the rage of the machine. Oh, as for that Natty winning coach they stole...... Fun fact, Lebanon's own Dave Roberts (not the Dodgers' coach) was drafted 1/1 out of the University of Oregon in 1972. Roberts was the sixth baseball player drafted who played in the majors before playing in the minors. Not really ready for it, he was awful and would not get into form until the next year. Wilky, Wilky, wilky. Lebanon? Dave Roberts graduated from Corvallis High School. I know this because my pops was his baseball coach! His younger brother Dan, also a phenomenal baseball player, was teammates with Mike Riley and Gary Beck, and that team won the 71 State Championship. Also on that team, Donnie Reynolds, who played football [RB) and baseball at Oregon, and like Dave Roberts, played in the majors for the Padres, and at that time was roommate with a scrawny shortstop named Ozzie. While his little brother..well, we know how that turned out. Edit. So as not to dis the other two younger Reynolds bros, both phenomenal athletes in their own right...one played football and graduated from Stanford and is a well known sports agent, and the other a Corvallis living legend (T you owe me a beer next time I see ya). Arguably the most well known and beloved family to come from Corvallis.
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Post by beav74 on May 18, 2020 21:16:58 GMT -8
The Roberts family moved from Pleasant Hill, Oregon as Wayne Roberts opened up the Gay Parfet Restaurant in Corvallis. I graduated with Dave from Corvallis High. Dave was the first player chosen in the 1972 MLB draft out of the uo.
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Post by RenoBeaver on May 19, 2020 5:45:19 GMT -8
The Roberts family moved from Pleasant Hill, Oregon as Wayne Roberts opened up the Gay Parfet Restaurant in Corvallis. I graduated with Dave from Corvallis High. Dave was the first player chosen in the 1972 MLB draft out of the uo. That's something I did not know, thx for throwing that out there, I must have ate at that place 100 times when I was a little kid, had no idea the Robert's family owned it, or I was told and just forgot. But just reading it I can visualize the whole restaurant.
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Post by qbeaver on May 19, 2020 13:50:24 GMT -8
Pleasant Hill...that is the home of one of the greatest athletes in Oregon high school history...Russ Francis. They were in our league in high school...The Billies.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 19, 2020 13:52:25 GMT -8
Fun fact, Lebanon's own Dave Roberts (not the Dodgers' coach) was drafted 1/1 out of the University of Oregon in 1972. Roberts was the sixth baseball player drafted who played in the majors before playing in the minors. Not really ready for it, he was awful and would not get into form until the next year. Wilky, Wilky, wilky. Lebanon? Dave Roberts graduated from Corvallis High School. I know this because my pops was his baseball coach! His younger brother Dan, also a phenomenal baseball player, was teammates with Mike Riley and Gary Beck, and that team won the 71 State Championship. Also on that team, Donnie Reynolds, who played football [RB) and baseball at Oregon, and like Dave Roberts, played in the majors for the Padres, and at that time was roommate with a scrawny shortstop named Ozzie. While his little brother..well, we know how that turned out. Edit. So as not to dis the other two younger Reynolds bros, both phenomenal athletes in their own right...one played football and graduated from Stanford and is a well known sports agent, and the other a Corvallis living legend (T you owe me a beer next time I see ya). Arguably the most well known and beloved family to come from Corvallis. Dave Roberts was born in Lebanon a couple of months before my dad. I know that the Roberts family was down in Pleasant Hill for a spell, and I know that Roberts wound up at Corvallis High, but I do not think that it was a long time before he graduated from there.
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