2023 college baseball/softball thread

I always took the "P" out of PK when it was listed on a roster. You have kickers and punters, K and P. You don't have drop-kickers (DK) whom you have to differentiate from placekickers.

 

As a young kid, I would see a strong safety with an SS next to them in the starting lineup on the TV screen and wonder why a football team had a shortstop.

Of course, SS also refers to an evil group from the first half of the 20th century.

 

At one school I covered, the announcer would always read WR not as wide receiver, but wing right.

 

Shoutout to the University of Lynchburg for winning the DIII baseball title today over Johns Hopkins. Know a lot of people from that school (it will always be LC to me) and super pumped for them. Hornets got out of a bases-loaded jam in the 8th and closed it out with a K in the 9th. Really fun.

 

Get ready for a lot of Applebee's signs in Hattiesburg this weekend. Southern Miss and Tennessee haven't played each other in baseball since 1992 and their fans are going at it like hardcore SEC rivals in the middle of football season.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story...iesburg-ncaa-super-regional-2023/70299347007/]

The Hattiesburg Applebee's is getting some mileage out of it, too.

 

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2023/06/tc...ating-over-23000-to-indianas-special-olympics

Frogs fans restoring a little karma.

 

That's cool. The sort of thing real Christians do.

 

Base runner for Duke was diving back to first and took a throw from the catcher right in the mush. Oof.

 

Another angle showed it wasn't close to going out. The outfielder was still a full step in front of the wall, and it would've banged off the wall if he hadn't been there to catch it. Still some great drama, though. I loved the replay of the batter getting excited and taking his helmet off while running to first base, thinking he'd gotten the walk-0ff, and then ... nope.

 

Southern Miss vs. Tennessee tale of the tape.