Andy freaking Cannizaro

[MSUDC11]

https://twitter.com/hailstatebb/status/950849690785869824

Holy crap our coach is awesome. Can’t wait for this guy to win us our first national title.

 

[vhdawg]

Need to get Road Warrior Animal to make an appearance at SBW.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Okay, I think the shoulder pads are dumb....but they look a lot better than the ***** laden shoulder pads that UGA hands out for turnovers

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[karlchilders.sixpack]

Me TOO!

 

[BossDawg78]

Damn I love that dude. Talk about a hard-charger!

I'm on the fence about the shoulder pads though. I think they are slightly goofy, but eventually will be embraced once the season starts, and like AC said, the whole country will be talking about them.

 

[She Mate Me]

I don't get the shoulder pads either, but I'm not a 20 year old college athlete (and definitely was never close to being). If they like it I'm all for it. The guy can definitely motivate.

 

[josebrown]

Don’t worry about it! Embrace the theme! It’s what they got... those middle spikes are long as 17!! I hope no one slips and falls and lands sitting on them....

 

[PBRME]

Whaaaaaaaat a rush!

 

[Shmuley]

You’ll put your eye out!

 

[ronpolk]

Team looked really flat in that meeting**

 

[Dawgzilla]

Eh, I'll let them embrace it. I don't care if those pads are the opening feature for the World Series finals, I think they're kinda dumb. Those spikes are impressive, though!

 

[CochiseCowbell]

It seems a bit odd. However, I realize that I'm an old curmudgeon. The fact that a ball player in the meeting was wearing a flat billed cap, backwards, & not even wearing it backwards "correctly" bothered me more than the shoulder pads, lets me know I'm out of touch.

Just win fellas. I love Andy's energy.

 

[msu]

Were any of these kids alive when the road warriors haunted the ring? I am a fan but they were a while ago.

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

I think they're goofy as hell, but that's the direction college sports seems to be going these days.

Bottom line, though, as long as we win, it doesn't really matter.

 

[vhdawg]

Don’t worry about it! Embrace the theme! It’s what they got... those middle spikes are long as 17!! I hope no one slips and falls and lands sitting on them....

Those long spikes have been known to blind a man:

http://www.wwe.com/videos/the-road-warriors-blind-dusty-rhodes-nwa-worldwide-dec-3-1988

 

[1msucub]

It seems a bit odd. However, I realize that I'm an old curmudgeon. The fact that a ball player in the meeting was wearing a flat billed cap, backwards, & not even wearing it backwards "correctly" bothered me more than the shoulder pads, lets me know I'm out of touch.

Just win fellas. I love Andy's energy.

100% dead-on.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

A baseball season is a boring grind with crappy facilities almost everywhere you go, countless hours of rain delays, and midweek crowds even at home can be so small you can hear Becky in the grand stands chirping away on her cell when you are standing in center field. This is why my generation started the elaborate handshakes that we're so long and complicated the Illuminati blush at them. We were bored as hell on the bus rides and in the dugout and clubhouses.

It's easy to get juiced for a dozen football games in front of 65-100,000. It's not so easy in baseball. I don't know how many coaches around the country are manufacturing energy for their baseball team, but I imagine it's not many. I am glad ours is and I hope it escalates from here. I would like to see a robot Minotaur that shoots flames from his nostrils and rockets from his *** next season.

 

[The Peeper]

That's ridiculous looking, and not original at all, just dumb from every direction.

Can't wait for the first time TV cameras zoom into the dugout and somebody's sitting there w/ a batting helmet and shoulder pads on**

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

Okay, I think the shoulder pads are dumb....

Thanks for injecting negativity into a positive post. I don't think anyone really cares if you think it's dumb or not. It is not for you.

 

[aTotal360]

We're doomed...Legion of Doomed.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

That's ridiculous looking, and not original at all, just dumb from every direction.

Can't wait for the first time TV cameras zoom into the dugout and somebody's sitting there w/ a batting helmet and shoulder pads on**

You are right. It would be the first time baseball players looked ridiculous in the dugout.

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[AlSwearengen]

Something that you guys need to understand is that baseball players are on another planet. Don’t try to make sense of what they do. I won’t recount the things that I witnessed when I played juco years ago.

Just be glad we don’t have guys acting like they are giving blow jobs after a teammate hits a double like olemiss did three or four years ago.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

I won’t recount the things that I witnessed when I played juco years ago.

Just be glad we don’t have guys acting like they are giving blow jobs after a teammate hits a double like olemiss did three or four years ago.

Nailed it. I remember being made fun of for not shaving my arms.

 

[dannyripms]

Man a bunch of sour pusses. The road warrior pads are awesome. they are playing 20 straight away games and that's why he came up with that. These guys are going to cause a lot of havoc in the SEC this year. AC is the man....

 

[Dawgzilla]

MML. Dayum, folks have gotten touchy around here! Are we a pollyanna board now that doesn't allow any counter opinions? If no one cares if I think its dumb, then does anyone care if the OP likes it?

It's not like I'm calling for the team to dump the pads or lose my support or anything like that. I don't care what they choose as a motivational prop, its all just in fun. I just can't see getting fired up about spiked pads, and I'm not alone in that opinion as this thread shows. I also wasn't very impressed with Cannizaro's presentation. The players looked kinda bored.

 

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

Something that you guys need to understand is that baseball players are on another planet. Don’t try to make sense of what they do. I won’t recount the things that I witnessed when I played juco years ago.

Just be glad we don’t have guys acting like they are giving blow jobs after a teammate hits a double like olemiss did three or four years ago.

Exactly. Baseball players are cut from a different cloth.

 

[Dawgzilla]

A baseball season is a boring grind with crappy facilities almost everywhere you go, countless hours of rain delays, and midweek crowds even at home can be so small you can hear Becky in the grand stands chirping away on her cell when you are standing in center field. This is why my generation started the elaborate handshakes that we're so long and complicated the Illuminati blush at them. We were bored as hell on the bus rides and in the dugout and clubhouses.

It's easy to get juiced for a dozen football games in front of 65-100,000. It's not so easy in baseball. I don't know how many coaches around the country are manufacturing energy for their baseball team, but I imagine it's not many. I am glad ours is and I hope it escalates from here. I would like to see a robot Minotaur that shoots flames from his nostrils and rockets from his *** next season.

Now THAT I could get on board with. Where do I send my donation?

 

[engie]

I also wasn't very impressed with Cannizaro's presentation.

Yawns during Churchill, actually fell asleep to JFK, crushed candies through MLK, and went to the bathroom during Lincoln***

If you honestly watched that whole speech and didn't get fired up to the point of reconsidering what this team might be able to accomplish this season -- well -- remind me to be sure to either ignore you or pay attention for quote bumping purposes from now on.

- "That's what we did -- all the way to 40 wins and a Super Regional. We have a better team this year."
- "70 plus games this year we are going to be road warriors". To logically get to 70 you have to make runs in both Hoover and Omaha. We played 71 total in 2013 and 71 total in 1990. Those are the only two seasons we've ever gone north of 70 in our history.
- "and when we start kicking peoples' ***, guess what they(the whole country) are going to be talking about..."

 

[bsquared24]

just dumb from every direction.

These are 18-21 year olds who for some unknown reason generally seem to like wrestling, are going on a massive amount of road games this season, and AC is trying to give them a little something to talk of and have motivate to offset the grind. Not dumb at all.

I'm sure you aren't a fan of the beards, or the sledgehammer, or rally caps, or their dancing going in and out of the dugout. Baseball is best played when having fun and being loose.

 

[Jeffreauxdawg]

Now THAT I could get on board with. Where do I send my donation?

Now that I think about it, we should wait a couple of more years. Loafers will claim it was his idea and fundraising activities that paid for it. He will petition the NCAA to have it repurposed into an alligator and delivered to the Jortville.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Yawns during Churchill, actually fell asleep to JFK, crushed candies through MLK, and went to the bathroom during Lincoln***

If you honestly watched that whole speech and didn't get fired up to the point of reconsidering what this team might be able to accomplish this season -- well -- remind me to be sure to either ignore you or pay attention for quote bumping purposes from now on.

- "That's what we did -- all the way to 40 wins and a Super Regional. We have a better team this year."
- "70 plus games this year we are going to be road warriors". To logically get to 70 you have to make runs in both Hoover and Omaha. We played 71 total in 2013 and 71 total in 1990. Those are the only two seasons we've ever gone north of 70 in our history.
- "and when we start kicking peoples' ***, guess what they(the whole country) are going to be talking about..."

It wasn't the content so much as the presentation, but, honestly, a coach stating in preseason how good he believes the team is doesn't mean much to me.

You can feel free to ignore every post I make about college baseball, because I don't post about college baseball. This thread was as close as I get.

 

[thekimmer]

I absolutely love me some Andy Cannizaro. He is so energetic, dynamic, and fun. With that said however, I personally am not a fan of the pads prop. Other than being slightly cheesy (but hey if the teams likes em so be it), they are just not done very well. What I see is a set of douglas shoulder pads straight out of the football equipment room with a bunch of spikes stuck on em. At least spray paint the pads, preferably with team colors, and put a few MS logos and other school related decals on em.

Another thought is I would not be surprised if the road warriors thing is still under copyright.