The Road to Omaha: NCAA Baseball Tournament Thread

Augieball.

 

Watching them several times during the season was MURDER for that very reason. It's smart, but old-time baseball. It's the type that drives a coach to drink if the team doesn't win when everything is going their way.

 

I do remember Ole Miss opening the new stadium. Of course they totally redid it for this season, on the same site, with a brick grandstand that's in the same architectural style as the nearby Ford Center for the Perfoming Arts, which is kinda cool. You hardly recognize the place, compared to before.

I wanna say it was called O-U Stadium in the beginning because city and maybe even county funds were used to build it. And I wouldn't be surprised if there was some revisionist history at work there, because I came up here from time to time in the late '80s.

What I do know is there are gonna be some tight people inside Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field/Bianco Batting Cages/Pete Boone Ticket Stands, ATMs, etc. ....and for the Rebels' sake, they need to be in places other than the Ole Miss dugout.

 

So what's this called? Not a great one but it looks like a dogpile to me.

I know lots of teams dogpile after winning the game to get to Omaha. But CWS superstition holds that those who dogpile at the supers don't win the CWS. In fact, players on several CWS teams I've covered specifically didn't dogpile after supers for that reason.

 

Hogpile.

 

Bravo, JD.

My man's got game.

 

Watching the UNC-ECU game, and there's one fan or player or whatever with a really annoying, high-pitched shrill of a voice. And the guys doing the game aren't that good, IMO, so the mute button is definitely getting a workout, at least as long as I watch this game.

 

At least the score isn't annoying, so far.

 

In my mind, a dog pile(or at least one that jinxes Omaha) happens immediately after the final out or winning run touches the plate. Arkansas didn't dogpile for at least 30-45 seconds until after the winning run had crossed the plate.

Ondeadline--no one cares about your baseball team! (Old cranky person on this board)

 

Superstition or not, with very few exceptions (Among this year's group it'd be North Carolina, since they've been there four or five years in a row) I don't have a problem with teams dogpiling after a super regional win. It's a hell of an accomplishment, and one most programs don't get to experience very often. Live it up, guys.

 

How often to players get hurt at the bottom of one of those piles? I'm sure it's happened and how stupid is that?

Simon: 7-0.

 

Or alumni of a university.

This was one of the things that drove me nuts when George Horton was coaching the Titans. An Augie disciple, Horton would lose games he had no business losing because the tightrope would wobble, something would happen, he couldn't adapt and voila -- the Titans would lose games they had no business losing.