[New Baseball Stadium]

So do I understand correctly that you have to have 3000 for a regional? So why would be build 200 short of that?

I'm willing to bet it will be expandable. For example, N.C. State hosted a regional at Doak Field last season. Doak has a listed capacity of 2,500 but is expandable to 3,000.

I would see U.N.T. doing something similar in the event that the team plays well enough to even consider hosting a Regional/Super Regional.

But that's all in the future. I'm just giddy about the prospect of having a team and a stadium, period!

-- Stephen

[Inoke Ngalo Euless Trinity]

I got to call two of his games last season as the color man. That kid is all over the place. He would be an excellent pickup for the Mean Green.

And yes, he's Tongan. If only Coach McCarney would get me to have a word with Ngalo and Coach Lineweaver . . .

-- Stephen

[Sweet t-shirt]

If I was a young, smaller t-shirt . . . that would be the t-shirt I'd wanna be when I grow up . . .

[Educate your self on the sport before it comes to Denton]

+1 -- I consider him "The Standard" on college baseball. The guy is awesome.

-- Franchise

[Is this really going to happen?]

Good Lord, I can't wait!

[Is this really going to happen?]

I'm sure you read that I stated the mid-week games are a great glance at the future of a program, and that we can expect to see local teams for those games. My point was that you aren't exactly going to see Matt Purke, ca. 2010, pitching on a Tuesday night. It's more likely to be a rotation of freshman getting in 2-3 innings apiece or a Matt Purke ca. 2011 rehabbing an injury.

Agreed. My intent was to piggy-back on what you were saying. Sorry if my text got in the way of my message.

In fact, I was really just trying to shoehorn in an Emmitt Smith reference.

And yes, your Purke illustration is an excellent example.

-- The Franchise

[Is this really going to happen?]

Hi everyone,

I've "lurked" for a couple of days but found this to be the perfect opportunity to chime in.

I just have to say that this stuff is making me uuber-excited.

I'm a new student at UNT (seriously, this is my first semester) and have been hoping for a while that the Mean Green would restart the baseball program. The fact that this is coming true has me seriously giddy.

I used to be a sportswriter following another nearby university and followed their baseball team a lot. I grew to LOVE college baseball. To find out The Mean Green aim to join those ranks makes me proud. I can't wait for opening day.

For those that love baseball but aren't familiar with the college game, you're in for a treat. As oldguystudent alluded to, it doesn't get much better than a Friday night or Saturday matinee college baseball game. On opening night, I will for sure be at KRAM1 ballpark. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

But don't "poo poo" the mid-week games entirely. Those are still going to be the one/two game sets (sometimes home and home on back-to-back nights) with some really good local programs (DBU, TCU, Oklahoma, even UTA is decent).

This is excellent news.

-- The Franchise