Blake Cripps

Voice of @ESUSports, sports fan, nerd, and Jayhawk. So what else do you want to know?

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Not bad for a team with a high school field!

#KUBase

#RockChalk

[Kansas Baseball @KUBaseball]

HAWKS TO THE SUPERS!!!

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Well Cessna Stadium... It's been a love-hate relationship over the years... But enjoy your last few days of life. So long state track!

#KSHSAA

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@MountainDew Code Red Zero Sugar!

[KVOE @KVOEAM1400]

State track & field has been delayed to 6P.

https://t.co/4i2djsApeA

#KSHSAA

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

I don't think the @MLBPA will let this happen... BUT...

A salary cap might be exactly what baseball needs to grow.

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

Major League Baseball has made its cap proposal:
2027 cap: $245.3 million
Floor: $171.2 million

A 50-50 split in revenues.

More to come.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Great wrap to the season for @ESUHornetsTFXC!

#StingersUp

[KVOE @KVOEAM1400]

10 E-Staters Earn Track All-American Honors

https://t.co/MYkLbrnH0T

#StingersUp

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

And there it is... he was the best pitcher in the country!

#StingersUp

[KVOE @KVOEAM1400]

Deaver Named D2CCA Pitcher of the Year, Myers Also All-American

https://t.co/gtJRla5sW6

#StingersUp

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Bill82517076293

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Man this guy doesn't know ball.

#WatchUs
#FeartheWheat

[Faul Pinebaum @Bill82517076293]

@becripps Of course he wouldn't. Gene Stephenson isn't a school.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Corn4ever Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas League!

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Man, it's almost like cold-weather schools are at a disadvantage in diamond sports. CRAZY.

#RockChalk

[Pat Walker 🌨 @PatWalkerWX]

This glorified high school stadium doesn't even have grass! Don't get @PhilElsonPxP started.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Hey, another SEC fan who gets it.

No question... KU will have a tough assignment against Arkansas and everyone else in the regional.

[K🐗Money @K_Money4real]

I will give a tip of the cap to KU for doing the best they can in their first regional… it’s not their fault they drew one of the top 5 traveling fanbases in the sport.. I really don’t have beef with Kansas.. let’s flood every piece of leg space with red, call those hogs and play some ball🐗

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Corn4ever Yeah that's true A lot of those guys do play summer collegiate wood bat baseball... My first job was calling Mudcats games in the MINK League.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Hey... An SEC guy who gets it.

[SEC Baseball @SECbaseball]

This is very cool and something people should celebrate. Kansas hired a great coach, has a definite host resume, is tuning in as a fanbase that historically hasn’t, & is making the effort to upgrade its venue for its biggest game this century.

If you don’t like this you’re lame.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Corn4ever I would think D1 schools could afford it but I wonder if that's the justification for not doing it as you'd have a lot of guys that you'd have to house during the summer... But I would think most of those teams have summer programs for their players anyway...

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

Colder in Kansas than Arkansas? Man that's CRAZY.

I didn't know so many SEC fans were into turf management. A lot of them seem to have become experts since KU was awarded a regional this weekend and an SEC team happened to get assigned to it though.

[From 847 to 757 @living757not847]

@Bill82517076293 @becripps Avg winter temps in Lawrence in Feb and March 34-40. Avg in Fayetteville 49-51. So yes it gets colder in Kansas. Kansas averages 12-16 “ Fayetteville 6-8. So yah it’s more winter like there

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Bill82517076293 You're right... Gene Stephenson wouldn't know anything about being a cold-weather school in Kansas.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@CalTysonCEO @coach_jerryrush @BillDanceLives You're right, they should take advice from a guy with not his mug shot as his profile pic for advice. In fact Ohio St. should just give Nick Swisher's donation back! (That would be the donation in 2011 so Ohio State could upgrade to a turf field - their press release, not mine!).

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@lisancalgaib Wichita State one of only two cold-weather schools to win a national title! (Ohio State, 1947)

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@Corn4ever I would at least love to see baseball pushed back to March...

Heck DII baseball this year started in JANUARY... Insane.

[Blake Cripps @becripps]

@CalTysonCEO @coach_jerryrush @BillDanceLives Yes, turf is just for the poorer small schools including famously impoverished athletic departments like Ohio State and Michigan - just can't possibly afford a grass field.

Thank goodness for Fieldturf so the little guys can get by!