2023 college baseball/softball thread

You might (emphasize might) hold Wake Forest to a respectable score with your ace, but the rest of the rotation is just chum in the water.

 

That Beaver jersey buried somewhere under the playing field is doing its voodoo magic.

 

Maybe the outfielders converging is a Pac-12 thing. Stanford had a play early in its game vs. Texas where that happened, and the ball was caught. Then it happened again in the ninth inning and the right fielder dropped it. Two runs scored and it opened the gate for Texas to put together a five-run inning that gave them a 7-5 win.

 

ESPN director, longtime staffer Brown dies at 42

 

Just sad to read something like that. If they were having trouble getting ahold of family, it was good they waited to say anything. Credit to both teams for giving ESPN the space to get something out. I would have put a statement out that didn't offer any details but acknowledged there was a legit reason for the game's delay but asking for space. However, that is me. ESPN had to do it their way.

 

Speaking of Wake and Alabama, if you're going to get KO'd in the Super Regional, might as well get smashed in the losing effort. Leave no doubt.

 

The way the NCAA determines the home teams for these super regionals is stupid. Coin flip to determine the home team for Games 1 and 2, and then another coin flip for Game 3. So you end up with a situation like in Hattiesburg, where Tennessee is the home team for Games 1 and 3.
The coin flip for the first two games makes sense, but the host school should be the home team for Game 3 as a reward. Especially when they're one of the national seeds.

 

fourth visible comment on their Twitter post press release

 

Dear God. This thing hit the building beyond the right field wall.

 

We are nine outs away from Oral Roberts being on the Jell-O shot tote board in Omaha.

 

This is amazing to me. I assumed the home team in games 1 and 3 was the team that committee had deemed to be higher seeded. In other words, I assumed the committee ranked all teams 1-64 in advance -- just as the basketball committees do. I was apparently really wrong.
Coin flips? For something as important as that?

 

That's a brilliant observation. I cannot officially "like" this because I cannot tolerate the notion of Trump University of Tulsa making it to Omaha. But bravo nonetheless.