MC Matt

Founder of the fan website with scores for all Manheim Central Barons football games since 1925. Not affiliated with the Barons/MCSD.

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

If the allegations I've been hearing the last couple weeks are true, and it was one of my kids, I wouldn't be calling for resignations, I'd be pushing for jail time. This stuff needs to stop being swept under the rug.

[Jeff Reinhart LNP @JeffReinhart77]

Breaking ...

https://t.co/WDnlaeB6J3

[Gavin McHugh @gavinmchughh]

Update:

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Just form tackled a Conrad Weiser fan in the parking lot for using the word "bespoke."
#GoBarons #llfootball

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Behind enemy lines tonight for Manheim Township CV.

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Wild start to the season.

Manheim Central, Warwick, and Cocalico have a combined record of 7-8.

And Conrad Weiser, who was a combined 5-15 over the last two seasons, is 5-0.

[Marc Malkoskie @marcmalkoskie]

Southern Columbia blanks Loyalsock, 47-0.

Jim Roth becomes the first coach in Pennsylvania and just the fifth in the country to reach 500 career wins.

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Just met with James Varano, a former sports reporter for the Manheim Central Merchandiser, who generously donated 3 boxes of papers. I don't know how long it will take, but I hope to get all of his Baron football articles scanned and uploaded the website. Thank you, James!

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Very interesting 2024 schedule for the Barons, who have their first game with Dallastown since 1955, their first game against Conrad Weiser since the 2009 playoffs, and brand new matchups against:

West Philadelphia
Martin Luther King
Fleetwood

https://t.co/uEM3HEplP3

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

I thought rings of this quality were customarily reserved for state champions? But I guess this is a regular thing for the WPIAL? I never knew.

[NA Football T4L @nafootball_tfl]

The culmination of all the hard work put in by EVERYONE that is a part of our NA Football PROGRAM. A ring befitting our Back 2 Back WPIAL 6A Champions. #T4L

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

60% of the games played have created unique scores.

The top 5 most repeated scores are:

28-7 (10)
42-7 (9)
34-0 (9)
49-0 (8)
28-0 (7)

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Have you ever been suddenly struck by the terror of not knowing whether the Manheim Central Barons have ever had a final score of 42-17? If so, I have great news: A new Scorigami page! No more sleepless nights wondering about obscure scores.

https://t.co/6w5zoP7tLo

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

@BobGreenburg When I went to playoff games as a kid, people would hang huge Barons banners from overpasses on 283 heading up to Hershey. I don’t know that people are that invested anymore. Are they?

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

@BobGreenburg I also suspect it took a hit starting in the early 2000s from internet entertainment (video games, videos, chat/social media) making people lazy.

Also, in the early/mid 90s some communities treated football like a religion. I don’t know that it’s seen like that anymore.

[PA Football History @pa_fb_history]

Final overall season standings:

@mcbaronsmatt narrowly edges out @SLynn46!

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

@TheRealDCook @MikeONeill77 Do you think St. Joseph's Prep, Imhotep Charter, and Bishop McDevitt could do better than a .500 record without poaching 5+ D1 college recruits from other school's districts every year?

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

Instead, we got 3 blowouts by recruited teams outscoring the boundary schools 143-50 (with 26 of the 50 scored during 4th quarter garbage time).

2 mercy rule wins with Tep being 4 points away from making it 3.

This takes all enjoyment out of the games for me as a spectator.

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

These would have been much better state championship matchups than what we got:

6A: North Allegheny vs Central Bucks South or Nazareth

5A: Peters Township vs Strath Haven or Cocalico (moving D3 back to the east)

4A: McKeesport vs Selinsgrove, Dallas, or Manheim Central

[MC Matt @mcbaronsmatt]

@MikeONeill77 Yes, that's why SJP's recruiting is so impactful and unfair: population density.

North Allegheny is restricted to making a team using the pool of 55k people in their 46 sq mi boundary, whereas SJP is recruiting top players from the 6 million people in the Philly metro area.