of the Chicago White Sox...isnt this the dude who played QB for Stanford and in the OF when we beat them in CWS? Yeah it has to be I remember his name and especially that grill they kept showing of him. And his dad. eyes still hurt. guess i need to find that pic to remind you all.
Mark Prior of the Chicago Cubs was one of the 2 Stanford All American pitchers in the final CWS game.
Nope, he was a trojan. You dont remember that 3 run homer Brad Hawpe hit off of him to tie the game and spark the tigers to a win in the CWS.
nah the 2 studs were justing wayne and jason young. he shoulda never pulled young....he was the ace and starter.
Interesting story... In 2000, I was working for LSU, and sat next to the Baseball SID for Stanford at the final... Around the 5th inning, he had already begun to write the skeleton of a "quick release" for the wires (AP)... It had begun with, "Behind the strong pitching performance from ______, the Stanford Cardinal won the national title, besting a determined LSU team by a final of___to___." There were some other trailings afterwards, but not wanting to appear snobbish, I didn't want to act as if I was trying to watch him while he worked... When LSU tied the game up on those taters, he got up and said, "I've got to get to the field, I want to be in the dugout for this one..." I agreed, and shook his hand and waited till he left...before deftly erasing his opening and retyping, "Tiger Bait" in its place before leaving to make my way down to the field myself... Man, those were some memories... I had done the math while in Omaha...LSU beat no less than 27 million dollars worth of Major League Drafted Pitching that summer, between the arms at the Sub- and the Super Regional (UCLA had a bigtime youngster that we lit up) and then in the CWS... Beau Hale, the UCLA kid, Mark Prior, those two crafty Stunford players...It was truly remarkable...
