running cws thread

Tech had a 5-4 lead with nobody on and two outs in the ninth

 

Tech's was in the ninth, not eighth.

And how bout those Heels?

 

They got some pitchers, that's for sure.

 

Do the Dogs have one more rally in them?

EDIT: pparently not.

Tech and UGA go 0-2 in CWS, and the Braves have dropped seven in a row.

Time to focus on football.

 

the focus is always on football...

interesting part, though, tech was the no. 8 national seed and they were the first team out (of eight) at omaha and uga was the no. 7 seed and the second team out

 

Ga. Tech, two and barbeque.

Clemson, buh-bye. No. 1 national seed wins one game.

Miami, buh-bye. Bats go dead after first game.

Another quality CWS showing by the always-overrated ACC. Four in, three gone. Maybe Carolina can finally win a title for the ACC.

Four teams left, two from the West Coast, where we all know they don't play good college baseball.

 

I blinked... did I miss the SEC's lone finalist out of the eight teams it sent to the tourney?

 

I certainly won't argue with you that the lower half of the SEC is always overrated, either, but still is annually rewarded with five or six regionals and super regionals even though no one except LSU has done much in Omaha.

 

So how many games did the SEC win in Omaha this year?
Oh, that's right. Zero.
And the ACC still has a team alive in North Carolina.
Miami wasn't supposed to make it to the CWS anyway.
And Cal State Fullerton is good... ask Clemson or Tech. But with three ACC teams in that side of the bracket, only one could make it to the championship series anyway.
Otherwise, carry on.

 

Where did you ever see that I promoted the SEC? The bottom half of the ACC is just as overrated as the ACC generally is. The ACC has won one NCAA baseball title in the past 49 years.

And as far as the ACC being eliminated because it beat up on each other:

Miami: 1-2 vs. non-ACC
Clemson: 0-1 vs. non-ACC
Ga. Tech: 0-1 vs. non-ACC
Carolina: 1-0 vs. non-ACC

That's 2-4 when playing out-of-conference, a .333 winning percentage.

 

Sorry to rally-kill this little internecine squabble between overrated East Coast baseball conferences, but I need to vent. The Titans are continuing to piss me off.

WTF is going on with that starting pitching? Roemer didn't get out of the fifth today -- six runs and 10 hits later.

Game Tracker and I are waiting for the obligatory rally now. It didn't happen until I was 2/3 of the way home last night and a buddy text-messaged me with the final score.

 

That first-game loss seeed to throw Fullerton off its game.

Oregon State vs. Rice on Thursday; Rice has the big edge in pitching but the Beavers seem to be on a roll, allowing only four runs in the last 27 innings in three elimination games.

Bush-league play by the Rice runner, steamrolling the OSU reliever. Should be ejected for the next game too, for a deliberate attempt to injure.

Carolina has to be happy that they get two days rest and OSU/Rice only gets one. The Heels are awfully good and have to like where they're sitting.

Very untraditional CWS, especially if Rice loses on Thursday. No cold-weather team has finished as high as third, which Oregon State is guaranteed of, in many, many years.