College Baseball Regionals and World Series

[Epschtein]

goddamn! is this miami v arizona game ever going to end?! they took an hour to play one inning!

looks like they will be going to a third game tomorrow, that kid that started the game for miami had some nasty action on his pitches.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

http://www.boothtownterriers.co.uk/images/tumbleweeds01.jpg


aluminum bat, average talent

I have never watched a college baseball game and don't plan on it

[Towelie]

I was at the game last night, and christ it was long.

Always fun to go to watch the U (my alumni) and there were some flat out bombs

Yonder Alonso is just a flat out monster.

Stood on line after the game to get seats for tonight, and hopefully I'll actually be able to take some pictures

[led37zep]

Next year Oregon finally gets baseball up and running. I'll pay attention then.


GO DUCKS!

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[Snoogans]

PING PING PING PING PING AWFUL

Use wood bats

[Towelie]

Eventually they will phase out wood bats, but right now there are way to many sponsorships involved to get rid of them.

But the atmosphere is always really fun at Miami, the fans are really into the games

And the team is just flat out ridiculous, eight guys drafted including three in the first round

[Epschtein]

that picture just reminded me, i was at ikea today and they must have been turning away any broads that werent hot and wearing sundresses at the door.

i was walking into shit left and right for two hours!

aaaaand its game-time!

why do they use aluminum bats in college anyway?

[Bossanova]

why do they use aluminum bats in college anyway?

I heard a few reasons when i was at school. Its a hell of a lot cheaper to buy 25 Aluminum bats a year and maybe lose 1 or 2 than 200 plus woods because they will break. Also the ball does come off quicker but it stings less if you are hit by a batted ball. I also believe that college wants people to watch and aluminums allow better contact and more chance for run production.

[MagillaGorillaz]

I was at the game last night, and christ it was long.

Always fun to go to watch the U (my alumni) and there were some flat out bombs

Yonder Alonso is just a flat out monster.

Stood on line after the game to get seats for tonight, and hopefully I'll actually be able to take some pictures

Towelie, U M is my school too. I was going to school there when Pat Burell was on the team. We used to see A Rod at games, before he was A Rod. You would also see Bob Greise at a couple of games. It was always a great way to spend a Friday night or Saturday afternoon sitting on the right feild bleachers.
One day I'll go to Omaha and see them in the CWS.

[Epschtein]

miami had a test there, just saw rice made it thru in a close one.

im focused on the nba tonight so i havent seen much, it was 4-2 miami last score i saw, i love an upset but glad for you guys that they won.

[Towelie]

Woot!

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[Towelie]

Man UC-Irvine really blew it. Can't believe LSU.

Arizona State, what a disappointment. Pat Murphy is a dope. Starting a kid on 2 days rest after he threw 120 pitches

[Fezticle98]

A couple of Canes fans, ehh?

FSU alumni checking in here. The real FSU...not Fresneck. All the Noles fans are just waiting on the collapse. But we were expecting it during the regional or super regional...so I feel good about the CWS. Great to be back after 9 years in the desert.

[Towelie]

FSU Baseball fans are awesome.

What other school sings "O Canada" in the middle of the their games for really no good reason

The Animals sure are crazy

[Towelie]

Gotta love those classy LSU fans :wallbash::wallbash:

http://friendsoftheprogram.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/lsu-fans.jpg

I'd still say the series would be a sweep

[Towelie]

Rough start for FSU

Can't win many games when you give up 11 runs in the top of the 9th

[SinA]

alright! the dawgs tied it up while i switched over to golf (it was worth it to see tiger woods make a 50 foot put)

[Towelie]

LSU pulls another miracle out

Good lord what a disaster that inning was for Rice

[Fezticle98]

Well, that was a short visit for FSU.

Good luck to UNC and Miami in their elimination games. It would be nice to see an ACC team win it, even if it was Miami. :dry:

[Epschtein]

heeeeeere comes fresno state!

hell of a game tonight, long way from over...

i dont really follow college baseball except for the playoffs - how surprising is it that an unranked team is in the finals? happen often?

[ralphbxny]

Fresno State and UGA looks like a sunday softball game!

[K.C.]

heeeeeere comes fresno state!

hell of a game tonight, long way from over...

i dont really follow college baseball except for the playoffs - how surprising is it that an unranked team is in the finals? happen often?

How the fuck is this game only in the 4th?????

[JimBeam]

I'm hoping that tonight's game is a lot closer because I wanna see that UGA closer.

That hippe's got some good stuff.

There's no way colleges will ever go away from aluminum bats because it would make the disparity between programs that much bigger.

Per a previous post wood bats would break too often and would cost way too much for each program.

LSU, Miami, Texas an all of those schools could buy a million wooden bats but do you think smaller schools could do that ?

Not a chance.

They did a lot to limit the effects of the old aluminum bats ( late 90's era ) and run production was actually down for a while but I believe there was a stat at the start of the CWS, or maybe towards the end of the Super Regionals, that showed the runs back up for this year.

Parity is tough in college baseball because pitching is key and great pitchers are usually going to bigger programs. The thing that does help the smaller schools is the limited number of scholarships but it's still a big divide.

This final is interesting in that it's between an unseeded team ( Fresno St ) and the lowest ranked National seed ( UGA ).

Again the ACC shows it can't win big by having 3 of the 8 teams and none in the finals.

Actually I think the SEC had 4 teams in back in maybe 1998 or 1999 and they didn't win either so it's not a guarantee.

[Epschtein]

that game was completely unexpected tonight, detwiler single-handedly wins it for fresno and georgia struggles to score a single run? wow.

lowest seed to ever win a college championship in any sport i believe they said. good stuff.