Tastes like chicken

"Any time you play against Mizzou, you want to beat them — no doubt about that — and you want to beat them bad.”
- KU 2nd baseman Robby Price (kusports.com)

■ Border war baseball: Mizzou to face Kansas at Kauffman Stadium (Kansas City Star):

Missouri baseball coach Tim Jamieson spent a few minutes Monday checking out remaining schedules for all Big 12 teams, and he liked what he saw. Three
series for his club remain, and based on the latest polls, all are against teams unranked by Baseball America. The Tigers have played six conference series —
and in each case the opponent was ranked.

“Every team in this league is good,” Jamieson said. “But the timing is good for us right now.”

■ Team faces rival in Kauffman Stadium (Kansan.com):

The game is intensified because Kansas is playing Missouri. It’s a rivalry that the players relish, and the big stage at Kauffman highlights the rivalry even more.

“I think it just continues to make the rivalry more intense,” Price said. “Until you’ve actually experienced it, you have no idea what it’s like until you’ve been out on the field. I’ve never been a part of anything

■ Baseball roots run deep for Jayhawks (Kansan.com):

Jason Brunansky is one of three players who have close family connections to Major League Baseball. Brunansky is joined by junior relief pitcher Brett Bochy, whose father, Bruce Bochy, is the manager for the San Francisco Giants and senior catcher Buck Afenir, whose uncle, Troy Afenir, played professional baseball for Oakland Athletics for the majority of his short career.

■ Narodowski powers KU baseball (KUsports.com)

Before Tuesday’s game, the junior had no home runs in 149 at-bats. It had
been such a long drought that, for a few seconds, his Jayhawk teammates jokingly
“big-leagued” him: staying in the dugout after his home run instead of going out to congratulate him.

“I’ve always had a few home runs every year — five or six or seven at least,” Narodowski said. “It was just a slow year this year.”

■ Kansas Baseball Notes , 4/20 (RockChalkTalk.com)

Should you come out to the game? Of course. By baseball standards this rivalry is ancient. The two teams met for the first time on April 23, 1886. The game ended in a 6-6 tie, which sadly was the highlight of Kansas’ 0-3-1 season that year. KU responded to the humiliation of a winless season by putting together a juggernaut of a team two years later and the Jayhawks blew Baker away 25-13. Since that time the series has been dominated by KU 62-9-1 but Baker pulled a shocking 7-4 upset on April 8, 2003. That was the last time KU lost to a non- NCAA D-I opponent.
(Yes, this was written about KU's HUGE rival and their Tuesday night opponent, Baker University, an NAIA team. KU warmed up for MU by beating the mighty Wildcats 11-2)