2024 college baseball/softball thread

They might have enough saved up from recent truncated basketball runs to swamp Omaha. But I’ll believe it when I see it. They never really have much of a turnout in Hoover. In fact, Tennessee is the probably the only SEC team in or potentially in that will bring a big travel party. They’ll really be leaning on the locals for attendance this year.

 

They should just play the CWS in Hoover. Big Omaha stadium doesn't do HR-happy Vols any favors.

 

With LSU out, the key could be which of the remaining teams Tigers fans heading to Omaha anyway will adopt.

 

After watching college regionals across the board I have a new appreciation for most MLB umpires. They do a far, far, far superior job on balls and strikes. A college ump's strike zone seems to vary from game-to-game, inning-to-inning and batter-to-batter.

No individual ump was Greg Street 2017 awful, but it seemed like pitches that were 1 or 2 balls off the plate were regularly called strikes.

 

What in the world of Little League was the pitcher doing on that wild pitch? How in the Super Regionals are you just standing there picking your nose and letting what becomes the winning run score from second because you couldn't be bothered to even move toward the plate?

 

Mike Martin (11) was awesome. I never knew his son. Since 11 has passed away and the school is currently committing treason and secession against the league, I shall not be rooting for them.

 

Remarkable. I think the third base coach was telling the runner to keep on going but didn’t want to go full windmill lest he alert the Beavers to their failure.
I also doubt the play mattered since Oregon State would not have scored again for another week.

 

One of my favorite geography quirks: Kentucky borders Missouri, which borders Nebraska.

 

The last athlete in the history of the Pac 12 ended the conference as follows:

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• PITCH
  1
  Strike Looking
  
  2
  Strike Swinging
  
  3
  Strike Looking

 

I thought the wp score was bizarre. I figured that kind of thing is drummed into pitchers in high school.

 

There are 21 states that are within two states Tennessee, including eight that border it.

 

No. We're not letting Nebraska in the SEC.