for the games?

Better be wearing our lightning suits.

Got an email from 12thMan that said game time changes due to weather would be posted on Twitter and Facebook

Here is the link:
Game times may be adjusted for weather. Stay up to date on the latest weather-related news for Texas A&M Baseball on Twitter by following @Aggie_Baseball or on Facebook at facebook.com/AggieBaseball.

Really need to start game 1 early and plan game 2 to start early - that allows more flexibility and no school right now anyway (right?). I'm not really sure why they haven't been able to do this all year when earlier weather has looked better than later weather.

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TV sets the start times these days.

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So, how are we going to manage weather delays? If we know ahead of time that a TV slot has a good chance of being a rain out, is there no way to be proactive about it? Are any plans in work?

With the weather we have been having though, I know there has to be a lot of concern and discussions about what to do. The TSU coach even remarked about the trouble just getting to CS.

But there really isn't comprehensive coverage for this weekend, is there? I thought it was more of a "whip around" combined with streaming approach. Given that, why should they care about a given game start time.

I understand what you're saying (and thank you for the answer!) - it just makes no sense if they are confident they're not going to show the game in that time slot anyway.

I think we'll be fine. I've been to most of our regionals the last 25 years and nearly every single one had delays. It's part of regional baseball. 5 hours or so to get in the early game to stay on schedule and then stay as late as you need to to finish the night game.

Care to comment why our AD did not go to bat for his employer this past weekend?

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Care to comment why our AD did not go to bat for his employer this past weekend?

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Because he wasn't in the room?

I kindof get that, but there were probably more games played mid-day last Friday (conference quarterfinal day) on ESPN than will be played all weekend, so I question the bandwidth concern. Plus, if the game is delayed 3-4 hours, the whole time slot thing is blown anyway, right?

The question is: why is later preferable to earlier if we have a 70 or 80% confidence that there will be lightning at game time?

I wish I could blue star that post 4-5 times.

Thanks Jason!

Reschedule Saturday and Sunday all you want. I will be pushing it to get out of work and to CS by 6 tomorrow.

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Care to comment why our AD did not go to bat for his employer this past weekend?

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Waiting...

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I think we'll be fine. I've been to most of our regionals the last 25 years and nearly every single one had delays. It's part of regional baseball. 5 hours or so to get in the early game to stay on schedule and then stay as late as you need to to finish the night game.

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There you have it folks!! Lol. Lots of us have been around a while and seen regionals. We've also just had a month of rain that nobody has ever seen. Not saying we won't get all games in before Monday but the past is pretty irrelevant in this situation.

Why don't we just cut them to 7 inning games to try to fit them in. Everyone would love that.

This question is for Jason (or anyone that knows).... any idea why NONE of the Aggie games got picked up by the SEC Network? I see that Arkansas, LSU, and Florida all got picked up today by the SEC Network...I would have guessed before the regionals were announced that at least one of the aggie games would have been broadcast on SEC Network..

i just looked at the sec network schedule for this weekend... they have NCAA regionals listed to be broadcast on Saturday at 12, 6, and 9.... and again on sunday at 1, 4, and 7..... however, what games will be televised IS NOT shown... any chance the ags get picked up for a saturday or sunday broadcast??

Also, it is interesting that the sec network is televising the arkansas game even though the game is in Stillwater, OK

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This question is for Jason (or anyone that knows).... any idea why NONE of the Aggie games got picked up by the SEC Network? I see that Arkansas, LSU, and Florida all got picked up today by the SEC Network...I would have guessed before the regionals were announced that at least one of the aggie games would have been broadcast on SEC Network..

i just looked at the sec network schedule for this weekend... they have NCAA regionals listed to be broadcast on Saturday at 12, 6, and 9.... and again on sunday at 1, 4, and 7..... however, what games will be televised IS NOT shown... any chance the ags get picked up for a saturday or sunday broadcast??

Also, it is interesting that the sec network is televising the arkansas game even though the game is in Stillwater, OK

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Well, they can't say who they are showing this weekend at those times because they don't know who will win and be in those slots. Also, Arkansas is the highest seed from the SEC playing right now, so there is no one else to show. ESPN has crews at every stadium. It doesn't matter that it's not at an SEC stadium. Any questions?

Well said. No grand conspiracy. Ags just didn't get selected. Today they're rolling with 2 national seeds, and the only SEC team playing at the noon time-slot.

It doesn't matter who wins friday, they can still announce what sec teams the sec network is going to show saturday (ie. - just because you lose friday doesn't mean you have to play early saturday, the order of the games could be dictated by tv...) Likewise, the sec network could have told A&M they wanted to broadcast today's game vs. TSU at 12 ct even though they were the 1 seed in the CS regional.....

Obviously the sunday games can't be announced because theoretically all the sec teams could be elminated by sunday (extremely unlikely)

Sooo.. i guess the takeaway is that 1) an Aggie game could be picked up for sec broadcast on saturday or sunday??? and 2) the game may not be in the 12 ct or 6 ct time slot?

Anyone seeing what is happening at DBU?

Team of backpack leaf blowers to dry out the field
Then they bring out a helicopter

And they they found fish. In the outfield.
Watching from the creek behind the field wasn't good enough, they were singing "Put me in Coach!"

Now the schedule shows that our games on sat and sun will be on sec network

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Now the schedule shows that our games on sat and sun will be on sec network

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My hotel in CS doesn't have SEC network.