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Say what you want about "March Madness is the best post-season tournament" or "Double elimination ruins things" or blah blah blah. Give me the NCAA Baseball Tournament any day. A quick review of 2023: LSU was the #1 team in the land for the first 11 weeks of the season and, as the post season was rapidly approaching, realized "Oh poo poo, this is a bad spot to be, we can't be #1". So over the last four weeks of the season they wisely made the decision to go 8-7 and drop to somewhere between 5 and 7 depending on which poll you look at. That opened the door for a new #1: Wake Forest. And by god they gave it a great effort. But The Curse of The #1 seed was too much to overcome as they lost in the college world series semifinals to LSU. (For those of you who dont remember The Curse: the last time the overall #1 seed won the NCAA Baseball Tournament was 1999's Miami Hurricanes, the first year of the current 64 team format.) The "stop playing baseball" gambit worked out for LSU: In one of the strangest World Series Finals I can remember, the Tigers defeated Florida 4-3 after 11 innings, got absolutly blasted to the tune of 24-4, and the in the winner takes all game turned around and gave it back to Florida 18-4. And so, while the #1 overall seed didn't win the tournament, it would be hard to argue against saying that the best team in college baseball took home the trophy. So, with that! Lets look ahead to the 2024 season. As a reminder, baseball doesn't have two major polls like football or basketball do. Rather, there's six kind of major ones: Baseball America, D1Baseball, Perfect Game, NCBWA, the USA Today Coaches Poll, and Collegiate Baseball. Collegiate Baseball got kind of.... wonky in the past couple of years. Of those six, I found three preseason polls (Perfect Game, D1, and Baseball America), so here is what a composite of those three looks like code:Opening day approaches! Stolen from a previous OP by elentar: The only really important resource is the scoreboard at D1Baseball, which is the most reliable one around. Oh and there's a lot of random games that pop up on the various ESPN and Fox regional feeds, though fewer than there used to be. Popete posted:If anyone is looking to get into following college baseball I highly recommend checking out Wheels Youtube Channel they do a great job editing games down to 10-15 minutes and they tend to feature exciting games.
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How long are natty hangovers supposed to last again? Surely this is the year MSU recovers. Excited to see what having Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC is like this year. As if it wasn't already hard enough to win on any given weekend. Excited to see some more Cags nukes. Excited to see if Wake's pitching is still ridiculous. Wouldn't be surprised to see LSU make another deep run. Despite losing Crews and Skenes they're still unbelievably stacked. And lastly, as always, praying for the Rebs' downfall
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It was me. I moved from Mississippi to North Carolina like a week after State won the Natty. I brought the mojo with me. I'm sorry.
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chaoslord posted:Arkansas at #2 is in an "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" type deal thank you i hadn't thought of that pop fly vs. oregon state in the past fifteen minutes Traitorous Leopard posted:Excited to see what having Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC is like this year. As if it wasn't already hard enough to win on any given weekend. Next season for those two. I have no clue how the SEC tournament is going to work, stick with 12 and bottom four don't make it? It's long enoug as is. I'd ask about the B1G and 18 but I don't think all members play and I'd imagine the SoCal schools will dominate it.
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Jan 30, 2024 01:33
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C. Everett Koop posted:thank you i hadn't thought of that pop fly vs. oregon state in the past fifteen minutes you're welcome friend  I'll probably do a season primer for the Hogs soon. I think we're technically 2 over the 40 man limit right now so I'm curious what that means, but we have like 10 freshman pitcher so if we have to tell two to grey shirt or whatever thats fine. I just figure we would have sent them off to JUCO after fall ball if we were gonna do that. College baseball is weird that way sometimes.
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Jan 30, 2024 15:31
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https://twitter.com/KendallRogers/status/1752418882080432485 God my naming of threads continues to be a death sentence
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feel bad for any college athlete going out like that but UNC will be fine, they always come up with arms. the ACC feels like it's getting back to its older meaner self this year, a gauntlet that just wears everyone out and then they all get beat by SEC teams in the postseason. probably some fun along the way though. NC State has a whole lot of new faces and they should hit plenty, just a matter of if the arms can keep the games close. Virginia lost some big names but has mostly reloaded, feels like they're past the program dip now.
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Jan 31, 2024 00:53
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This is pretty funny. So years ago this kid was on Jimmy Kimmel and other things because he was a 5 yr old that could hit 90mph fastballs https://youtu.be/gFOBa8lmn3o?si=qJt4Qb-4S8tTw6ch He’s probably gonna be Tennessee’s starting short stop (he’s a freshman so TBD) this season
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chaoslord posted:you're welcome friend I looked up the OSU pitcher who crushed the Hogs in Game 3 because I figured we made him some money that night. He's 24 and in high single A with the Rays and had a 1.5 WHIP last season. Turns out we did not make him any money that night.
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SEC is getting 11 games on ESPN2 and 9 on ESPNU this season (to go with the 74 SEC network) ESPN2 3/28 LSU @ Arkansas 4/4 Vandy @ LSU 4/13 Miss State @ Ole Miss 4/16 Texas Tech @ Arkansas (Non Con) 4/19 Florida @ Vandy 4/27 Florida @ Arkansas 5/2 Tennessee @ Florida 5/7 Louisville @ Vandy (Non Con) 5/12 Tennessee @ Vandy 5/16 Wild Card SEC Tournament matchup 5/26 SEC Tournament Final ESPNU 3/21 Miss State @ A&M 4/11 Kentucky @ Auburn 4/12 LSU @ Tennessee 4/17 Florida @ Vandy 4/23 Clemson @ Georgia (Non Con) 4/25 Alabama @ Ole Miss 5/1 Ole Miss @ Miss State 5/4 Texas A&M @ LSU 5/9 Georgia @ South Carolina Missouri the only one to not make either of these but theres always the chance they're in that opening round SEC matchup
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Double posting for this news https://x.com/kendallrogers/status/1753101942941765871?s=46&t=l3BNUY1tDwZOYN9ilB4yAg Edit: oh my god https://x.com/chrisvannini/status/1753104140467658982?s=46&t=l3BNUY1tDwZOYN9ilB4yAg chaoslord fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Feb 1, 2024 18:06
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I adore that story. Dropping $100K on college baseball and not even trying to be nonchalant about it.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:I adore that story. Dropping $100K on college baseball and not even trying to be nonchalant about it. Killing your career and getting a long show cause over sports betting. loving wild. He was a good coach too.
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Oh poo poo https://x.com/fsubaseball/status/1753135551379640422?s=46&t=l3BNUY1tDwZOYN9ilB4yAg
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C. Everett Koop posted:Next season for those two. I have no clue how the SEC tournament is going to work, stick with 12 and bottom four don't make it? It's long enoug as is. https://twitter.com/KendallRogers/status/1753142926874456549 Well that answers that.
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https://x.com/ben_upton5/status/1753604264826470597?s=46&t=l3BNUY1tDwZOYN9ilB4yAg Just science tbh
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don't you dare give me hope you son of a bitch that's the kind of poo poo that leads to natty champs mizzou
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C. Everett Koop posted:don't you dare give me hope you son of a bitch Putting my entire divorce equity payout on Missouri State to win it all https://x.com/chaseparham/status/1753906386990202880?s=46&t=l3BNUY1tDwZOYN9ilB4yAg 
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Opening day is a week away!!!!!!!!
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chaoslord posted:Double posting for this news This dude rules Just not at gambling
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This dude rules I think my favorite part is the guy just standing at the counter telling the book he had a sure thing and they wish they knew what he knew. Like…. When in the history of gambling has telling the gambling cops those things ever been a good idea???? ———— When I get home from Japan I will do a run through of the golden spikes preseason watch list, so that’ll be Monday or probably Tuesday
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chaoslord posted:Opening day is a week away!!!!!!!! I’m so damned excited to see Tony V’s handsome face a couple times a week 😍
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oh hey college baseball is back, walking over to the stadium in a little bit here for UVA vs. Hofstra
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was just watching Miss State's latest hype video. Do they really call Dudy Noble field "The Dude?" I lived there for nearly 10 years and never heard it called that.
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elentar posted:oh hey college baseball is back, walking over to the stadium in a little bit here for UVA vs. Hofstra Hofstra got off to a hot start and their starter shut UVA down through 5 but didn’t get past that, teams traded leads for a bit after. Got to get properly angry at a terrible bunt decision, erased by four passed balls in the 8th inning by the Hofstra catcher, and the lead held up. Pure chaos, great college game.
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WTF, did he sleep with everyone's girlfriend of the opposing team?
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caught the last game of the UVA-Hofstra series since i won't have both the time and money later this semester, pretty standard sloppy Sunday game, UVA won 11-9 and had to work for it the whole way. they have a freshman 1B this year named Henry Ford who looks like he's gonna be launching bombs for a few years here, hometown kid who has been basically committed to UVA since 7th or 8th grade after destroying Coach O'Connor's kid in Little League or Babe Ruth ball elsewhere didn't look like an absolute ton of upsets for a first week, though the mighty Camels of Campbell beat ranked UCSB (in a series for some reason played in Buies Creek rather than Santa Barbara)
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Hagen Smith in 3.0 IP has given up 2 hits and has recorded 9 strikeouts against Oregon State. He’s fixed I think.
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chaoslord posted:Hagen Smith in 3.0 IP has given up 2 hits and has recorded 9 strikeouts against Oregon State. He’s fixed I think. Something got into him for sure, holy smokes. Just tied the strikeout record.
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17K in 6IP (only 2K in the 6th). 15 on the slider. 78 pitches. Still pumping 96 on the fastball.
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late night baseball with NC State out in Hawaii this week, only the second inning. won a wild one last night 17-12, little slower start today so far. Virginia is down in Jacksonville at some random tournament, beat Wichita State in extras yesterday and spotted Iowa a 6-run lead today before coming back to take it. will see if the charmed life can continue against Auburn tomorrow. elentar fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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chaoslord posted:Hagen Smith in 3.0 IP has given up 2 hits and has recorded 9 strikeouts against Oregon State. He’s fixed I think. He had the first fifteen outs via K's and Arky still had to rally to win that game. They then lost to Okie Lite in 14. I'm trying to figure out how the season will fall apart this time . Pitcher injuries, dead bats, pop flies lost in the lights, moon's gravitational pull slightly shifts, Yellowstone erupts, every option is on the table.
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TCU undefeated so far. Weird wakeup sweep of FGCU to start (with some amazing bullpen clownball comebacks), midweek against Texas State, and now absolutely crushing UCLA with a run rule today. Frogs probably good?
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good lord https://twitter.com/aggiebaseball/status/1764345507076268416?s=46&t=2RtKUZF-7mtwaGnhOLp93A
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Oklahoma’s 71-game win streak in softball is in danger e: holy poo poo we tied it on the final out on an error e2:
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News: Clemson takes a H-N-H weekend series from South Carolina 2-0 (Friday night game got rained out in Columbia) with a pair of one run games. Views: Suck it Cocks.
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