Bat Sports: The 2025 college baseball/softball thread

[dixiehack]

Not only is Bucknell getting pantsed, it didn't even get to start in a warm weather location. Nothing sucks like blowout baseball where the temperature never breaks 50.

 

[dixiehack]

Good Gawd imagine being the SID who had to shine up this turd.

Rhode Island Out-Slugs Tribe in Series Finale - William & Mary Athletics

 

[Cosmo]

We had steady winds of 30+ mph through this part of Virginia yesterday, so that probably didn't help matters for the pitchers down in Williamsburg.

Re: That VT series. Hokies won the first Friday game and the Sunday game by a combined 46-1 but managed to lose the second game on Friday 8-6. I have no idea if Tech is any good, and we probably won't know until the end of the month when they get Indiana State, Kent State and ECU down in Greenville.

 

[Cosmo]

Also, just for ships and gigs, took a look at Stanford's baseball schedule. Cardinal have six weekend series on the East Coast, including one at BC. Woof.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Good Gawd imagine being the SID who had to shine up this turd.

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Rhode Island Out-Slugs Tribe in Series Finale - William & Mary Athletics

64 degrees and only 217 people showed up!?!

 

[dixiehack]

One of the bizarre/endearing things about college baseball is that the limits of midweek travel sometimes leads to big-time teams visiting schools they would never give the time of day in revenue sports.

Tonight's case in point is No. 8 Georgia. They have a home and home with Kennesaw State every year. But this year because their stadium is being redone, the Owls are playing this season at the Marietta campus, which used to be NAIA member Southern Polytechnic before the regents merged the schools together.

The first base bleachers barely extend past the near side of the dugout and from there it is a steeply sloped hill that is either brown grash or straight up dirt. The ESPN Plus announcers have no place to sit so they are calling the game from the booth at the football stadium about 10 miles away. The cameras have some kind of pack attached to them that gets the signal back to the basketball arena, which is where the production crew sits.

If there was a field big enough they'd have been better off playing at the complex for East Cobb Baseball, which is maybe the most prestigious travel ball organization. Then again it sometimes feels like this is the one somewhat popular college sport that hasn't been fed to the Borg.

 

[tapintoamerica]

But they try so hard ...

Players' Rights. We can't tell Players what they're gonna do. They have the Right to a full cost-of-attendance scholarship. And unlimited financial compensation. And unlimited Rights to transfer. Annual free agency. Now they have the Right to ignore the libruhl media.
Even in professional sports, there are guidelines. Apparently not at ATM. Let's see if the rest of the SEC follows.

Making Players do anything that might tend to make them unhappy is apparently forbidden.
ATM is doing this because they think it confers a recruiting advantage. Maybe they're right. They're still worthy of scorn.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Also, just for ships and gigs, took a look at Stanford's baseball schedule. Cardinal have six weekend series on the East Coast, including one at BC. Woof.

Absurd.
Of course, it'll take a decade or more before we know with published data if this sort of thing impacts graduation rates. By then, the SEC and Big Ten may have split off into their own entity.

 

[Batman]

One of the bizarre/endearing things about college baseball is that the limits of midweek travel sometimes leads to big-time teams visiting schools they would never give the time of day in revenue sports.

Tonight's case in point is No. 8 Georgia. They have a home and home with Kennesaw State every year. But this year because their stadium is being redone, the Owls are playing this season at the Marietta campus, which used to be NAIA member Southern Polytechnic before the regents merged the schools together.

The first base bleachers barely extend past the near side of the dugout and from there it is a steeply sloped hill that is either brown grash or straight up dirt. The ESPN Plus announcers have no place to sit so they are calling the game from the booth at the football stadium about 10 miles away. The cameras have some kind of pack attached to them that gets the signal back to the basketball arena, which is where the production crew sits.

If there was a field big enough they'd have been better off playing at the complex for East Cobb Baseball, which is maybe the most prestigious travel ball organization. Then again it sometimes feels like this is the one somewhat popular college sport that hasn't been fed to the Borg.

I always enjoy scrolling through ESPN+ this time of year to find an off-brand college baseball game, preferable somewhere in the Northeast between somebody like Long Island and Boston U. who couldn't give one ship about college baseball let alone two, just to see the field and the crowd. Some of them play at fields that don't look as nice as some high school fields I've been to and the crowds are freezing to death before April.
Then you flip over to an SEC game and see their pro quality stadiums with 9,000 or 10,000 people tuned in to every pitch. The difference is something to behold.

 

[Batman]

One of the bizarre/endearing things about college baseball is that the limits of midweek travel sometimes leads to big-time teams visiting schools they would never give the time of day in revenue sports.

Tonight's case in point is No. 8 Georgia. They have a home and home with Kennesaw State every year. But this year because their stadium is being redone, the Owls are playing this season at the Marietta campus, which used to be NAIA member Southern Polytechnic before the regents merged the schools together.

The first base bleachers barely extend past the near side of the dugout and from there it is a steeply sloped hill that is either brown grash or straight up dirt. The ESPN Plus announcers have no place to sit so they are calling the game from the booth at the football stadium about 10 miles away. The cameras have some kind of pack attached to them that gets the signal back to the basketball arena, which is where the production crew sits.

If there was a field big enough they'd have been better off playing at the complex for East Cobb Baseball, which is maybe the most prestigious travel ball organization. Then again it sometimes feels like this is the one somewhat popular college sport that hasn't been fed to the Borg.

And speaking of Georgia-Kennesaw State, this was the final out of the game.

 

[micropolitan guy]

64 degrees and only 217 people showed up!?!

It's W&M. Nobody goes to any athletic events there.

Winter baseball in Arizona is wonderful, four sunny, warm days at Surprise Stadium, just a great place, Free parking, excellent tailgating, and the four Beaver games were attended drew almost 14,000 total fans. The place was solid orange.

 

[Flip Wilson]

Gonzaga plays a three-day series at Baylor this weekend. The high temp on Friday in Waco is supposed to be 37. Sunday's weather will be nice, with a high of 61. Ain't no way I would go to Friday's game.