Don’t rest on your laurels ……get ’er done!!!!

I actually caught Mike Neu before. Nasting curveball. Would close out games for the ’canes w/ Hells Bells intro music.

Graduate of Vintage High School in Napa (’98?).

I’m going to give him Esquer a pass on this one and give him another shake. I do feel, however, that the administration should have attempted to pursue some very big names from some very big programs this offseason and I hope they tried that before re-upping with Esquer.

Nothing would please me more than to be proven wrong about how bad an idea I think this is.

Definition of a contract year performance, amplified by the effects of a team with a “one more season” mentality.

And it’ll be nice to not have to hear conspiracy theories from the strongly pro-Esquer contingent for a little while.

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Three different organizations selected Esquer as the national coach of the year. He acknowledged he recently received feelers from other schools.

“There was some interest,” he said, “but my interest was in making it work here.”

Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said Esquer’s five-year deal served two purposes.

“It makes a statement about our baseball program and its stability,” Barbour said, “and it makes a statement about Dave’s leadership.”

Said Esquer: “That’s what I was looking for, (for Cal) to make a definitive and loud statement that we’re going to ride with Dave Esquer for a while here, and he’s going to get us through to this next level where we can secure this program forever.”