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Playing Football in Baseball Stadiums is Awesome

May 26, 2016 by Bayou Irish

Debate This is a recurring series on Her Loyal Sons in which two writers take opposing sides on a hot topic. Yesterday, you learned why playing football in a stadium designed for baseball is "dumb." Today, you learn why it's awesome. Many moons ago (these moons) (not that moons) (bless his heart), I wrote about the subway and the importance to the University of Notre Dame of its formative footballing years and how they helped build a national brand out of the little school on the shores of ...

Rocket Men: Notre Dame Baseball’s Best Start Ever?

March 2, 2015 by Bayou Irish

Appropriately lost in the wash of reportage springing from the passage of Fr. Ted is the fact that Notre Dame baseball is off to its best start since 2004. At 10-1 with a bullet, Coach Mik Aoki's Irish are three more wins from besting 2004's 12-1 start. If the weekend series' performance in the Mercer Baseball Classic is any indication, this may be the club to do it. Good teams find a way to win games and better teams win games, and tournaments, on walk-off wild-pitches. That is what the ...

Irish Baseball: Opening Weekend and What’s to Come

February 17, 2014 by Bayou Irish

http://youtu.be/ReuOZ7SjOqM Baseball is tradition-rich and quirky and democratic. No other sport encourages to keep your own score and expects you not to jinx the perfect game going on in front of you. It's one in which fans collect cards and obsess over trivia like no other. It's a game of poetry and literature and, as you can see, music. http://youtu.be/bE1dz6_u2JI But for Irish fans, baseball is a game that tends to fall into the gaps in our calendars and consciences, between the ...

Another March Disappointment: Irish Blown Out By Cyclones

March 25, 2013 by Ryan Ritter

Last week, I was definitely worried about Notre Dame facing off against Iowa State. I didn't like the matchup. I picked against the Irish in every bracket I entered. I went into Friday night expecting the worst. What happened was beyond anything I could've possibly imagined. ...

We’re Talkin’ (Irish) Baseball

February 25, 2013 by Bayou Irish

At a time when personalized technologies like the iPhone and Hulu have eroded the natural ebb and flow of time and season, sport provides most of the few remaining way-points on the calendar. With our smart phones and tablets, we can time-shift “must see t.v.” to fit our individual schedules, rendering the start time of a particular game less meaningful than ever before. The release of the House of Cards remake on Netflix this month is perhaps the first step in the permanent decoupling of serial ...