Auburn’s Cade Belyeu’s mom passed away this morning after a five month battle with cancer.
Opening day was tonight Cade has gone 3 for 4 with a single, double, a HR, a sb and three runs scored.
Here is the HR he hit - x.com
Kid comes from a good family. His father and uncle were a few years behind me in High School. They were great baseball players
BatCats take down (soon to be former #1) aggy 3-2. #beardown
That it happened on the Astros home field is chef’s kiss. 
That punch out at the end was a thing of beauty by my alma mater, and the fact that it happened at The Juice Box (which it will always be to me), home of your hard-charging Houston Astros Baseball Club against aggy, made me even more happy.
BEAR DOWN.
Holy shit. Mississippi St had Rafael Palmeiro and Will Clark together for three years? They’re numbers 1 and 2 on the Mississippi St all-time HR list.
You didn’t know this?
They also had Bobby Thigpen and Jeff Brantley pitching for them.
“for whom the cowbell tolls” is a pretty great blog name
I must have known it at one time, because I clearly remember them being very good when Clark was there. But I guess the details have faded over time.
UT beat them and then lost to Miami in the final, iirc
Was that when they brought Swindell back on short rest?
Yep.
Will Clark signed with Arlington while Palmeiro was a FA with designs of staying there.
He was pissed at Clark.
Didn’t see this elsewhere, and I know it’s 2025, but Rice has fired head baseball coach Jose Cruz, Jr. It’s unusual to make a change mid season, but he has just been a disaster.
There’s a thread in the first section, but to the content, that’s surprising mid-season and all.
Did Berkman become the interim?
That’s very unusual. I wonder why Rice felt that they needed to pull the trigger right now.
Nevermind, I see their pitching coach, Parker Bangs is the interim. Also, researching Lance, I learned he had little success in his three year stint and stepped down last year. I saw him in the dugout when the Owls played the Aggies earlier, so I assume he is an assistant.
Yep, Berkman is a volunteer assistant at Rice now: