Poll questions

Well it is that time again, more poll questions! Since I don’t want to talk about the Clemson game from last night I figure this is one way to get past it. Feel free to answer.

1.) Favorite breakfast food
2.) Chips and Salsa or Potato chips and French onion dip
3.) Favorite thing to grill
4.) Favorite fast food restaurant. (any jack in the box fans)
5.) Midday snack- Fruit, junk food or something else

Is he that good?

Clemson junior forward James Mays declared for the NBA draft but will not hire an agent so he could come back. Testing the waters they say...

If he doesn't hire an agent, Mays, who averaged 12.2 points and 5.4 rebounds per game last season, will have until June 18 to decide whether to withdraw his name from the draft and stay at Clemson.

An honorable mention for the All-Atlantic Coast Conference, Mays set single-season records for assists (95) and steals (69) by a frontcourt player for the Tigers (25-11).

Mays is the third Tigers player to declare early for the NBA draft, with Sharone Wright leaving after his junior season in 1994 and Will Solomon passing up on his senior season in 2001.

Is he really that good?

I feel this is a bad move but heck it is clemson and this means they could lose some talent and suffer next year so okay.

Keep Swinging Smoak and big game looms...

Justin Smoak currently has a hitting streak of 23 games. Wow!

Smoak, who's raised his average from .295 to .337 in the streak that includes nine multi-hit games, is now two games shy of the school record set in 1976 by catcher Greg Keatley.

He leads USC in homers (14) and RBI (50). He also has 34 walks to 25 strikeouts with an on-base percentage of .451. Not too shabby...

We here at LOHD hopes he keeps hitting especially tonight...USC faces Clemson again.

USC is ranked No. 5 in the coaches' poll, No. 9 by Baseball America and No. 10 by Collegiate Baseball. USC (32-10) won the first game of this year's series, 12-0, March 3 at Clemson and both games in Columbia, 3-2 and 4-2. Tigers recently lost to Elon...yes I said they lost to Elon...13-12.

Last time USC swept the series - in 2000 the Gamecocks won both games in a weather-shortened series, but in 1985 Carolina won all six games.

Oh the Drive...

Last night, we attended our first Drive game of the season. The Greenville Drive are our Class A Minor Legaue team here in Greenville and are part of the Boston Red Sox organization. Currently they are in their second season and have a 9-10 record this season. Gabe Kapler is the Manager this year which is interesting since he was a former player and has no coaching experience....he played for the Red Sox and was part of their Championship team.

There wasn't much to cheer about for Greenville Drive fans last night, as the Drive fell 8-0 to the Asheville Tourists. Josh Papelbon pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Drive, if that name sounds familiar it's because brother Jonathan is currently closing games for the Boston Red Sox. Josh Papelbon currently has 4 saves and a 2.89 ERA for the Drive.

What's most arresting about Josh is his sidearm delivery, in which the ball gets released from about an inch above the mound. "Submarine" pitchers like Papelbon have been around for years, the most famous being the late Dan Quisenberry of the Kansas City Royals.

news from outside of the football stadium

So there is a new bar opening behind Carolina Walk called the The Loose Caboose, it is suppose to open in late May or early June. They are going to have a front patio and back deck with plenty of HDTV's to watch the games on gameday as well as live music every saturday during the season. They are going to make a kiling.

Humane society is the devil

So the story goes like this, Bailey figured out how to get out of the fence yesterday. One of my neighbors said that Crazy Mary, mental patient that wonders the streets of rosewood had let bailey out of the fence. So any way somebody calls animal control to come pick bailey up because he is running the streets causing chaos. Which I find hard to believe since bailey pretty much sleeps 20 hours a day. So I go to the humane society, where they charged me 50 bucks to pick him up for some kind of boarding fee for 2 hours of being in a cage. Then they slap me with a 150 fine for letting my dog run free in the city limits. I asked them where they found him at, in my yard. The Columbia humane society is a piece of shit; I wouldn’t get a dog if you live in Richland County.

You have to have your dog registered with the city, which cost 10 bucks a year.
You have to have you dog tagged with microchip, which cost 20 bucks.
You have to have your dog neutered or spayed, if not fines of up to 250 dollars if caught by the humane society. (Unless you have a license to bread your dog)

I Plus the redneck women that work there were rude, fat and stupid. It took me almost an hour to pick up Bailey because they misplaced him in a one of the cages. I could hear him barking from a mile away.

Damn you Columbia humane society.

USC suffers a setback in the polls...

After losing two of three at Ole Miss this past weekend, the University of South Carolina fell from fourth to ninth in this week's Baseball America poll released Monday.

Vanderbilt (35-8) remains atop the poll, followed by a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference teams -- Florida State (37-6) and Virginia (34-9). Clemson University (26-13) is No. 19. Ole Miss (27-15) moved up one spot from 24th to 23rd.

USC (31-10) returns to action Tuesday, playing host to Davidson (17-24).

SOS is everywhere

As reported on the news, Kenny Chensey brought Steve up on stage to sing him Happy Birthday to him on Friday at the Colonial Center. After the song there was a mixture of yells and boo's. Spurrier grabs the microphone and says, "Clemson this is only the beginning."

You got to love Spurrier, and how in his short career at Carolina, he has grown to hate Clemson just like the rest of Gamecock nation.

You know there isn't a damn thing to do in your State

When you have over 92,000 at a spring game.

God lord Alabama

damn Nick Saten