2024 college baseball/softball thread

Be sure and enjoy The Last Good Year.

 

I guess the SEC wants to make sure they can show off their new toys in Hoover, but single-elimination sucks for baseball. Or at least making it that way for the entire tournament. The oddball single-double-single format the SEC has been using is kind of fun. I'd have rather seen them find a way to expand that (maybe with a couple of extra or fewer byes) instead of a full-blown single-elimination format.

 

I didn’t know you could even get a show cause order longer than 10 years.

Ex-Bama coach sanctioned over betting scandal

Of course he and his buddy have a bit more to worry about than that.

 

Boy, that's some crazy bullshit. Apparently they want to make sure their best teams hardly ever win the damn thing.

I imagine you'll probably see most of your top seed teams throw their top pitchers in Game 1, but after that just bring in a conga line from the bullpen-- no point in burning up outs from top pitchers in a tournament that doesn't matter if you win, so I'd guess second round action will be pretty much a full fledged tank fest.

Of course the flip side will be the NCAA selection committee will give about absolutely zero weight to the conference tourney results in making their selections.

 

If I were the NCAA, I would ring up the head honchos of MLB, MiLB, NFHSA, and every other baseball organization in the world down to pee wee tee ball, and issue a joint statement:

You. Are. Banned. For. Life. No Reinstatement, No Appeal, No Return, Not Now, Not in 10 Years, Not Ever. Find Something Else To Do With Your Life. Go Away, Goodbye. Over and Out, Baseball.

PS: Hi Pete!!

 

I was this old when I found out there was wagering on college baseball.

 

What kind of fuckin fools would try to lay a $100,000 bet on a regular-season college baseball game, and NOT think it was gonna set off sirens all around the cyber world?

 

I never saw it on the books until last season. There's some money to be made in the midweek games. The odds are terrible, but the games are usually so lopsided that you can string together some ridiculous parlays.

 

Thought legendary FSU coach Mike Martin deserves mention here. Took over the Seminoles the year after I graduated from UF and made them a powerhouse for decades.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/sem...tin-dies-fsu-florida-state-baseball-dementia/

 

Great tributes pouring in. I enjoyed covering him.

Worth noting that FSU was already very good in baseball. Six CWS appearance and a runner-up in the 30ish years of the program that predated 11.

 

Nebraska softball sensation Jordy Bahl announces she'll miss the rest of the season with knee injury

 

The Wagner cousins, Luke and Cole, left Georgia in the offseason. In fact, Cole, the one-time LL World Series hero for Red Land (Pa.), planned on quitting baseball altogether before he rediscovered some love for the game and signed with Penn State.

Luke will be pitching for Purdue. Draftable repertoire, shaky command.