<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Definitely bigger than basketball, but not football or doing what it takes to win. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Keith Voigts<div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 31, 2022, at 4:19 PM, Larry Edwards <larryed6124@knology.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Not much interest indeed. Baseball is simply bigger in the South, maybe bigger than basketball.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>kvoigts@wisemanengine.com<br><b>To: </b>"herky" <herky@lists.herky.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, May 30, 2022 12:48:41 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Herky] Baseball<br></div><div><br><style><!--
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--></style></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060">Not much interest on Herky, but the baseball team has had a really nice season.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060">They played 4 “win or go home” games in three days in the Big Ten Tournament, and finally lost to Michigan. The winner was to go to the finals. The Hawks simply ran out of gas and pitchers. Brody Brecht was tried as a starter vs. Michigan because no one else was available. He was awful—gave up two or three walks and a hit in 1/3 of an inning. He throws really hard, but has less control than Iowa quarterbacks. Hopefully, he will find the magic in the upcoming years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060">Before the tournament, Iowa’s 33 wins couldn’t get them even one vote in the polls. Now even with 36 wins and a really good last several weeks, I doubt they will get in the NCAA. The B1G just doesn’t have enough prestige when compared to teams in the South and West. Too bad. Iowa has good enough pitching to beat a lot of good teams. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060">I suspect a B1G team needs to win 40 games to garner any consideration for post season play. That’s tough when they play only 50 or so games a year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#002060">Keith Voigts</span></p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Herky mailing list<br>Herky@lists.herky.net<br>http://lists.herky.net/listinfo.cgi/herky-herky.net<br></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Herky mailing list</span><br><span>Herky@lists.herky.net</span><br><span>http://lists.herky.net/listinfo.cgi/herky-herky.net</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>