Carter Aldrete, Hunter Bishop and Alec Marsh have heard it all over their first two years. The basic explantation that they are motivated by the haters, the doubters isn’t the extra fire the three use. Tweets, Facebook posts, radio, articles, none of it matters to them, nothing from it gets under their skin.
The 22-1 record Arizona State baseball holds, their junior seasons. They’re only trying to prove they can play to one group of people: themselves.
“There’s a lot of talk of what ASU baseball is and what it was or needs to be. I don’t think we’re trying to impress anyone else but ourselves,” Aldrete said.