Quotes and Notes

A few notes and quotes from the past few days:

■ Kyle Gibson has been listed on the Preseason Watch List for the 2009 Brooks Wallace Award, according to the College Baseball Foundation. The Wallace Award is presented annually to the nation’s top collegiate baseball player in conjunction with the College Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. CollegeBaseballBlog has the entire list of 64.

■ CollegeBaseball.Rivals.com is doing a series ranking the various D-I baseball programs in each state. I'm sure Kendall Rogers had to think long and hard how to rank MU, MSU, SEMO and SLU.

■ Aaron Crow was on the Wallace watch list a year ago. Now he just seems to be on a different kind of list for some Washington Nationals' fans, including the obviously objective fanatics at Nationals Inquisition:

Crasnick and a good majority of the media continue to blame Aaron Crow on the Nats when in fact it was Crow’s own arrogance, horrible agent, and the kid being a general f#*! up eating burgers and drinking beers in his off time that lead to him not being signed. No media outlet seems to want to report the other side of the story and instead follows the rest of the sheep in making the Nats out to be complete failures in this respect.

The blogger is obviously referring back to a Kansas City Star article back in October where the reporter met with Crow at Booches in Columbia, and Crow uttered the memorable line, "I'm not used to having to be anywhere."

Of course, if I was Aaron's age and forced to wait out a year to sign a multi-million dollar contract, I'd probably be doing the same thing he is: working out and hanging out.