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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. Let's recap 2022: The Tennessee Volunteers, like the Arkansas Razorbacks the year before them, were more or less the consensus #1 team for the baseball for the majority of the season. Once we got to the end of March it was just a matter of when, not if, Tennessee would beat you. And, much like the Arkansas Razorbacks the year before them, they went on to Omaha and.... wait... ok, I have just been handed a note... oh, excuse me: they did not make it to Omaha (also like the Arkansas Razorbacks the year before). The Curse of the #1 Overall Seed continues, as it has been since 2018, the last time a #1 (Florida) made it to Omaha. And that's honestly the small #1 curse. The bigger 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. You would much rather be the overall #2 or #3, which both have three championships in that same time frame, or even the #5 (two championships) But do you remember who did win the national championship? The last team in the field, the Ole Miss Rebels. I did not think they deserved to be in the field as there were a couple of prominent snubs, NC State being perhaps the biggest. But... well... they made the most of their opportunity and won the whole dang thing. Mike Bianco went from "His seat is probably going to get hot in 2023" to "He probably cant ever be fired" in an amazing run through the tournament. They didn't lose a single game in their regional or super regional, which included a 22-6 win over Arizona and sweeping Southern Miss 10-0 and 5-0 in the supers. They played three games against Arkansas in Omaha, the first a blowout, the second a ridiculous collapse, and the third one of the best pitching duels I've ever seen in college baseball. Facing Oklahoma in the final, they took care of business 10-3 and 4-2, completing the dream season. So, with that! Lets look ahead to the 2023 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 toward the end of last year, so lets see how they hold up this year. Mostly because they're one of the only ones that has a preaseason poll up. code:I haven't looked at a lot of schedules yet but as an Arkansas fan I can tell you one thing: Mark your calendars for the weekend of Friday April 14 - Sunday April 16. The Tennessee Volunteers come to Fayetteville that weekend and I have to imagine it will be appointment viewing for fans of college baseball. The SEC sent out a schedule without this series on it and had to tell all the schools "Whoops, wrong schedule, our bad" and put out a revised schedule shortly after, I think in part to make sure this series happened. It should be a good one. 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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Really looking forward to baseball being back up here, gonna take in what games I can and might finally get to take my kid to her first game. Also I will try not to harp on this or even bring it up again but a Tommy White-fueled NC State getting hosed out of that NCAA berth the year after God and the NCAA hosed them out of the best chance they'll probably ever have at a national championship is pretty much just State athletics in a nutshell.
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elentar posted:Really looking forward to baseball being back up here, gonna take in what games I can and might finally get to take my kid to her first game. I don't blame you, I still talk about That Fly Ball from 2018 or Kopps giving up that home run and probably will until the day I die. We can be cursed programs together 
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Jan 18, 2023 23:16
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Been too busy to keep up w roster turnover in Gainesville but hoping to catch a game of the Georgia series while I’m down there. GO GATA elentar posted:Really looking forward to baseball being back up here, gonna take in what games I can and might finally get to take my kid to her first game. I’m still sad for you guys that White disappeared on y’all. Just a run of disappointment.
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Feb 3, 2023 20:25
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One more week fellas SEC implemented the 10 run mercy rule after 7 innings for this year, not sure if it was just announced or if I’m just hearing about it.
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Feb 7, 2023 00:56
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Joey Freshwater posted:One more week fellas New to me too, think it was announced today Kinda hate it with the exception of it being a travel day tbh but probably me being old man yelling at clouds
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Feb 7, 2023 03:15
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Someone went back and looked and in 90 years of LSU baseball it would have only affected one game, which is crazy.
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Feb 7, 2023 18:43
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Joey Freshwater posted:Someone went back and looked and in 90 years of LSU baseball it would have only affected one game, which is crazy. I watched LSU in the 90s, that cannot possibly be true….can it? I hate the rule because a) baseball is a 9 inning game and b) I’ve seen plenty of long-shot comebacks over the years. Seems lame.
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Feb 7, 2023 21:18
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It was some dude on Reddit so take it for what that’s worth
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https://twitter.com/kendallrogers/status/1623748178141929476?s=46&t=Ycmx199xnBuO5pkcslRclA Eff me. That’s two years in a row we have lost a starting pitcher just before the season starts to UCL and TJ. I was worried about this when “arm soreness” was said last week but… dang Edit: and not only a starter, two years in a row of losing our Friday guy. chaoslord fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Feb 9, 2023 19:38
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Well, misery loves company I guess, sorry LSU https://twitter.com/kendallrogers/status/1625265171345055745?s=46&t=dwpEPDTP3qGe5MkW0XzXQA
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Welcome to opening day  All of the Top 25 (from D1 baseball) are in action today, and there is a Top 15 matchup, #10 Vandy @ #15 TCU in Arlington at the College Baseball Showdown. LSU has a home series against a small school and Stanford is the biggest team to start the season with a true road game. Top 5: Western Michigan @ #1 LSU #2 Tennessee @ Arizona , MLB Desert Invitational #3 Stanford @ Cal State Fullerton Delaware @ #4 Ole Miss Seattle @ #5 Texas A&M For anyone deciding to pay for Flo Sports for the month, Mizzou vs #9 OK State is on right now. Play ball!
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Feb 17, 2023 18:18
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having a nice spring-like afternoon watching Virginia blow the doors off Navy
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elentar posted:having a nice spring-like afternoon watching Virginia blow the doors off Navy It’s cold as poo poo here but still loving some baseball I don’t have mlb network so hoping the streaming option on mlb.com is free for the Tennessee games
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Feb 18, 2023 00:08
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It’s dumb as hell that Maui Ahuna isn’t eligible yet. First transfer, came over in June of ‘22 and has already competed a semester of school. NCAA is worthless
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https://twitter.com/lvann_sports/status/1626732565267722240?s=46&t=ULJUoUTYzEn_CoGNNudPjg LSU is snakebit to start the season. Like, seems like it’ll be ok, but had to leave the game early and could be worse than they think. Hope it ends up being very minor like they think.
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Joey Freshwater posted:It’s dumb as hell that Maui Ahuna isn’t eligible yet. First transfer, came over in June of ‘22 and has already competed a semester of school. Yeah, like, I jokingly would say “well that helps Arkansas!!!” But it’s awful for the kid and also very stupid that this is still a thing in the transfer portal. Like if he has been at school for an entire semester how is there still a question about his eligibility.
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Feb 18, 2023 03:47
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Alright I’m about to go to bed for the night, upsets of the day (it’s literally day one so it’s kinda meaningless but also upsets are fun) #2 Tennessee 1, Arizona 3 #10 Vandy 4, #15 TCU 11 hardly an upset since two ranked teams but this was a really fun game Seton Hall 10, #12 UNC 8 #14 VaTech 2, Charleston 5 #13 Maryland 7, South Florida 8 Penn State 9, #22 Miami 5 Butt kicking of the day goes to #19 Virginia, beat Navy 24 to 5, looks like it was called after 7 innings Indiana State 2, Iowa 6 (11) and Central Michigan 5, Baylor 6 (10) gave the world some bonus baseball to counteract the short game. Fun first day, I’m happy baseball is back. Woo Pig
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Game was tough, ump was all over the place but they couldn’t really get the bats going anyway. I thought it was gonna be tough to replace all we lost, and two of those replacements didn’t get to play today. I’m not worried because as been mentioned it’s game one. I’m honestly surprised Arizona wasn’t ranked, they’ve got a good squad.
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Feb 18, 2023 07:45
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UF mercy-ruled CSU. Good start. Good on CofC for knocking off VT w a grand slam.
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https://twitter.com/sickoscommittee/status/1627082160418197506?s=46&t=Tkjg9V-BwyqVBjT8I60jiA https://twitter.com/11point7/status/1627087955407024134?s=46&t=Tkjg9V-BwyqVBjT8I60jiA College baseball is the best sport, y’all. Just wild what can happen on any day.
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chaoslord posted:https://twitter.com/11point7/status/1627087955407024134?s=46&t=Tkjg9V-BwyqVBjT8I60jiA This is why I have a problem with the mercy rule.
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Well this isn’t an ideal start
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LeeMajors posted:This is why I have a problem with the mercy rule. Yeah, it's absolutely bullshit.
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Friday I missed that #3 Stanford lost 8-1 to Fullerton on the road. Saturday upsets (again fairly meaningless this early, I am just posting to post) # 9 Oklahoma State 9, #10 Vandy 11 #2 Tennessee 3, Grand Canyon 4 # 8 Arkansas 6, #15 TCU 18 Saturday was a lot quieter, day two some teams figured it out. I am ready to super overreact to opening weekend though and proclaim TCU to be the #1 Team In The Country. They beat two SEC teams badly, how can anyone top that???? Games to watch today: Tournament type games UC San Diego vs #2 Tennessee #8 Arkansas vs #9 Oklahoma State Missouri vs #15 TCU Series split 1-1 #13 Maryland @ South Florida #14 Virginia Tech @ Charleston Penn State @ #22 Miami #3 Stanford @ Fullerton
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The real way to know college baseball is back: replies to d1 baseballs top 25 with people getting mad about changes after one week. https://twitter.com/kendallrogers/status/1627672572941815809?s=46&t=9XGXB1p_RKSPxT3CwNZqDg
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LeeMajors posted:This is why I have a problem with the mercy rule. Glad we could help lend credence to this sentiment lol. Despite blowing that wild lead, we looked fairly competent in games 1 and 3. Pitching will still be our biggest weakness this year, but it at least looks better than last year. We got some dudes that can RAKE this year too. Kellum Clark hit a 451’ homer yesterday
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https://twitter.com/hailstatebb/status/1627403876910641152?s=46&t=9XGXB1p_RKSPxT3CwNZqDg For those that didn’t see the Clark HR I know people love the crack of the bat, lord knows I do too, but what I also love is when an outfield just turns and watches and doesn’t even make a step to try to get the ball. Just “ah, eff”. Helpless feeling lol
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chaoslord posted:https://twitter.com/hailstatebb/status/1627403876910641152?s=46&t=9XGXB1p_RKSPxT3CwNZqDg It's a thing of beauty. He smoked some last year too but nothing like that to my recollection. Also as mentioned in the OP, Wheels rules and is doling out hours of free entertainment for college baseball fans. Currently running through this condensed version of the Texas tournament that had some fantastic games in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDr0X-AvDo
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chaoslord posted:The real way to know college baseball is back: replies to d1 baseballs top 25 with people getting mad about changes after one week. lol people big mad about Tennessee not falling very far. We fell in other rankings but he only dropped us one spot. He's giving us a lot of credit for having 2 (maybe 3) starters out. Rankings this early are complete guesswork but I do love seeing people get worked up over them. Reddit was melting down when this came out. They HATE Tennessee over there lol
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Joey Freshwater posted:https://twitter.com/bigdonkey47/status/1627828397672996869?s=46&t=Eo0gUMhF_W3r57M8pBhn_g I don’t even see anything that would qualify, but I guess it makes sense if you internalize Umpire = Cop.
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LeeMajors posted:I don’t even see anything that would qualify, but I guess it makes sense if you internalize Umpire = Cop. Replies say it was for the bat flip but that was the most half rear end bat flip ever. So yeah just a soft ump
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Joey Freshwater posted:lol people big mad about Tennessee not falling very far. We fell in other rankings but he only dropped us one spot. He's giving us a lot of credit for having 2 (maybe 3) starters out. Would I personally have dropped Tennessee a couple of more spots? Yeah, maybe a few more. But like you say, missing players, three games on the road, losses against borderline Top 25 teams… they shouldn’t be like #22 or unranked. And in the bigger picture, what’s the rush? The season has another 50 games to go, if Tenn shouldn’t be up there it’ll get made apparent, baseball doesn’t need to just move everyone 10 spots every week. Think it’s mostly football and basketball fans coming over and baseball is just a different beast. You don’t overreact to week one, you don’t overreact to Tuesday/Wednesday games, just let the season come to you. All that said, I am about to massively overreact to a Tuesday game, so I hope I remember my own thoughts in two hours https://twitter.com/choatemason/status/1628155387135561729?s=46&t=LR9cus6BEpiUqN5FjIFhdQ
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Hey at least y'all have it tied up now. We're down 7-0 to ULM. In the process of pumping the brakes as we speak
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Traitorous Leopard posted:Hey at least y'all have it tied up now. We're down 7-0 to ULM. In the process of pumping the brakes as we speak Yeah, we survived ours so a little easier to keep the calm demeanor up A third pitcher in the SEC West is likely done. Smart money seems to be on this being Hunter Elliot from Ole Miss https://twitter.com/kendallrogers/status/1628177412637749250?s=46&t=k2jlBgsjh0KcZS9HreFiyQ
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Alright well, we may not even make the tournament this year but by god we're gonna hit nukes https://twitter.com/HailStateBB/status/1628536173089132544?s=20 474'
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Traitorous Leopard posted:Alright well, we may not even make the tournament this year but by god we're gonna hit nukes Y'all's radio guy sounds quite a lot like a guy who does a lot of radio for A&M and it weirded me out at first that's a fuckin bomb tho
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Tennessee mercy ruled Alabama A&M for the second night in a row and scored 15 runs in the 5th inning, a program record
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