I can't wait for the season to start, this is the only Wolfpack team I can actually get excited about anymore.

1/22/2009 12:13:23 PM

Sad but true....I am excited as well. We lost a lot of guys going pro early but we return a solid roster.

Finished the season ranked 12th and IIRC this year's recruiting class was ranked pretty good.

1/22/2009 12:39:30 PM

2009 Wolfpack Baseball Schedule

Feb 20 Xavier vs. Santa Clara________Raleigh, N.C. 11:00 AM
Feb 20 Rhode Island________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Feb 21 Santa Clara vs. Rhode Island___Raleigh, N.C. 11:00 AM
Feb 21 Xavier_____________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Feb 22 Santa Clara_________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Feb 22 Rhode Island vs. Xavier_______Raleigh, N.C. 11:00 AM
Feb 24 High Point__________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Feb 25 Elon_______________________Elon, N.C. 4:00 PM
Feb 27-Mar 1 Hofstra_______________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 1:00 PM
Mar 02 NC A&T____________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Mar 04 Villanova___________________Miami Shores, FL 2:00 PM
Mar 06-08 Miami___________________Coral Gables, FL 7:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 1:00 PM
Mar 10 George Mason______________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM
Mar 13-15 Maryland________________Raleigh, N.C. 3:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 1:00 PM
Mar 17 NC Central__________________Durham, N.C. 6:00 PM
Mar 18 Elon_______________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Mar 20-22 Wake Forest_____________Winston Salem, N.C. 6:00 PM , 6:00PM, 1:00PM
Mar 24 UNC Greensboro_____________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Mar 25 Liberty_____________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Mar 27-29 Virginia Tech_____________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM, 2:00 PM, 1:30 PM
Apr 01 East Carolina________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Apr 03-05 Boston College____________Chestnut Hill, Mass. 2:30 PM, 1:30 PM, 1:00 PM
Apr 07 UNC Wilmington______________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Apr 10-12 Duke____________________Durham, N.C. 7:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 1:00 PM
Apr 14 Wofford____________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
Apr 15 East Carolina________________Greenville, N.C. 6:00 PM
Apr 17-19 Florida State______________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 1:00 PM
Apr 21 UNC Greensboro______________Greensboro, N.C. 6:00 PM
Apr 24-26 Virginia__________________Charlottesville, Va. 7:00 PM, 1:00 PM, 1:00 PM
May 01 Campbell___________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
May 02 Campbell___________________Buies Creek, N.C. 4:00 PM
May 03 NC Central__________________Raleigh, N.C. 2:00 PM
May 06 UNC Wilmington_____________Wilmington, N.C. 7:00 PM
May 08-10 North Carolina____________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 2:00 PM
May 12 Appalachian State___________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM
May 14-16 Clemson_________________Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 1:00 PM

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM. Reason : smaller]

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM. Reason : a]

1/22/2009 12:42:21 PM

Clemson, FSU, and UNC all in raleigh....nice.

1/22/2009 1:53:41 PM

^^Those first six games are part of a tournament we are hosting, we are only playing three of them (Xavier, Santa Clara, and Rhode Island once each)

1/22/2009 5:49:08 PM

What I like most about baseball season is there are so many games against local teams (High Point, A&T, Elon, NCCU, UNCG, ECU, Campbell, App). This creates a bigger crowd at the home games and makes it easier to travel for away games.

1/22/2009 5:51:40 PM

Eh, just copied and pasted from GoPack. Anxious to get this season started! We're flying under the radar being snubbed from the pointless preseason rankings. Here's to hosting another regional this year!

1/22/2009 6:01:09 PM

so is the seating for the games gonna be jacked up like it was last year?

1/22/2009 6:54:12 PM

probably my favorite sports memory of 2008 is of me and kevmcd86 parking in front of the stadium and putting lawn chairs on top of our cars to watch the regional

pretty good view and the drinking was fantastic

1/22/2009 7:03:57 PM

Same seating as last year is likely. Can't wait for Feb 20th. THE FLAG IS BACK

1/22/2009 8:44:42 PM

I'll be at the weekend series in Winston

I think the Deacons are playing at Ernie Shore now

1/22/2009 8:54:18 PM

So are they going to let crowds of 500 people sit where they want, or will the stands be on state of emergency lock down like last year?

1/22/2009 9:04:12 PM

As long as the hill remains open to students AND ONLY STUDENTS I don't care where everyone else has to sit

1/23/2009 11:09:48 AM

i made this thread the past 3 years and we did really well....


if we suck this year its bmazur's fault


Elliot Avent pulled in the #7 ranked recruiting class this year, NCSU's best ever.


Apr 21 UNC Greensboro______________Greensboro, N.C. 6:00 PM yessss!!!

[Edited on January 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM. Reason : HELL YEA!]

1/23/2009 2:42:30 PM

And if they do better this year than in previous years does that make me better than you?

1/23/2009 4:43:01 PM

22 days until first pitch of the season...I hope this month goes by quickly

1/29/2009 5:49:46 PM

How good are Xavier, Santa Clara, and Rhode Island at baseball?

I'm guessing not very and we should win.

1/29/2009 8:05:43 PM

Our game vs Santa Clara should be the best game of the weekend.

1/29/2009 9:42:42 PM

Quote :

"And if they do better this year than in previous years does that make me better than you?"

why, yes...yes it does!

so here's to you!

1/29/2009 10:07:04 PM

let me predict something, no Omaha, again.

and we called herb sendek the king of mediocrity

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 11:21 PM. Reason : ]

1/29/2009 11:20:28 PM

Quote :

"As long as the hill remains open to students AND ONLY STUDENTS I don't care where everyone else has to sit"

I wouldn't mind sitting behind home plate when 800 people are there and the stadium is less than half full.

1/29/2009 11:59:34 PM

^^Was that a serious post?

I hope you are just drunk.

1/30/2009 12:10:03 AM

I'm predicting us at least getting to a super-regional again, hopefully with better results. If we get home-field for that I see things going a lot better.

1/30/2009 1:41:23 AM

So I got a season ticket order form in the mail and 10, 11, and 12 are for students and general admission ($7). Reserved seats are also ($7). That's sort of wierd that they are the same price. I'm still not happy with the ticketing policy. I don't want to sit on the third baseline when 800 people show up for a Wednesday night cupcake game. I liked it when you could show them your ID and then sit where you want.

1/30/2009 12:29:05 PM

I just like giving the third baseman and shortstop hell. We hecklers were responsible for at least two different errors by SCar during the regional we hosted.

1/30/2009 2:35:15 PM

10 more days!!!!!!

2/9/2009 2:42:34 PM

so for the first few games (vs. Hofsta, NC A&T, High Point) it says we're playing here @ Raleigh but we're playing as the away team? i don't get it.

2/13/2009 2:15:50 PM

They messed up with the formatting of the schedule on gopack. We are the home team for those games.

2/13/2009 7:32:32 PM

So has anyone confirmed the student section seating yet?

Can we move to the seats or are we still stuck on the hill?

I'm excited.

2/15/2009 12:26:47 PM

^im sure we'll be relegated to the hill while the rest of the stadium is 1/16ths full......then around the 7th inning, the staff will do the "right" thing and allow us to sit in the 2 sections at the farthest end down the 3rd base line

2/15/2009 12:32:23 PM

Quote :

"so for the first few games (vs. Hofsta, NC A&T, High Point) it says we're playing here @ Raleigh but we're playing as the away team? i don't get it."

We're hosting a tournament, so we get to play as the "home" team and the "away" team. The only difference it makes is who goes int he top and bottom of the innings, we'll still have the home crowd.

2/15/2009 8:15:30 PM

^Those games are not the ones involved in the tournament. We play Rhode Island, Xavier, and Santa Clara in the opening weekend tournament. The games against Hofstra is a weekend series and the games against A&T and High Point are a Tue/Wed. They just messed up the formatting, that is it.

2/16/2009 10:52:15 AM

my brother works for South Carolina athletics and sent me this link

I figured this was the best place for pics of their new sweet stadium

http://southcarolina.rivals.com/photofeature.asp?SID=1017&fid=27019

2/17/2009 9:07:50 AM

Glad they got a new ballpark. I know the history of Sarge Frye, but it was becoming a dump. I thought their new ballpark was suppose to open last year. Their new ballpark rivals most minor league stadiums.

[Edited on February 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM. Reason : FEBRUARY 20th BABY!!!!]

2/17/2009 9:26:58 AM

Straight copy of Rosenblatt in Omaha. Smaller but at least the press box is a dead ringer.

[Edited on February 18, 2009 at 12:06 AM. Reason : : )]

2/18/2009 12:03:49 AM

2 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2/18/2009 2:24:33 AM

^^^yeah, i was about to say before i read your comment that most minor league ballteams don't have shit that nice. Especially that score board

2/18/2009 7:53:21 AM

Enough about SCar, get pumped for some Wolfpack baseball.

2/18/2009 8:22:41 AM

Season opens in less than 40 hours! Friday, 3:00 vs Rhode Island!!!

Quote :

"RALEIGH, N.C. — Dallas Poulk became NC State’s second preseason All-American for the 2009 season Monday when Baseball America named Poulk to its third-team All-America unit. Earlier, the National College Baseball Writers Association named lefthander Jimmy Gillheeney a second-team preseason All-American. Poulk, a junior second baseman from Fayetteville, N.C., was named a third-team All-American by BA in its annual preseason poll of major league scouting directors. The scouting directors are asked to make their selections based on performance, talent and professional potential. In the past, the preseason All-America team has been a predictor both of the first round of the draft and of team success. For example, members of the 2008 first team made up eight of the first 12 picks in the draft last June. In all, 15 of last year’s preseason All-Americans were drafted in the first round, and 11 of them played for teams that reached the College World Series. Poulk, a 2007 Freshman All-American by Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball, batted .286 as a sophomore in 2008. He hit 11 doubles and eight home runs, drove in 33 runs and scored 37. He stole six bases."

2/18/2009 11:50:26 PM

Less than 24 hours.

2/19/2009 5:28:12 PM

Jake Buchanan starting on the hill tomorrow afternoon.

2/19/2009 10:02:26 PM

15 hours! Who else will be at the game?

2/19/2009 11:41:14 PM

I'm there. Been looking forward to this for a long time. Can't wait to see some of these new guys.

2/19/2009 11:49:22 PM

i'll be there with atleast two friends....maybe a few more

2/19/2009 11:52:40 PM

12 hours!

2/20/2009 3:24:40 AM

The flag is ready for a day at the ballpark

2/20/2009 7:35:48 AM

I thought they stopped allowing flags and signs...too many people bitching about not beeing able to see.

2/20/2009 1:31:20 PM

Let's go Wolfpack!

2/20/2009 1:49:55 PM

headed out there in half an hour

2/20/2009 1:51:53 PM

set em up

2/20/2009 1:54:23 PM