...to Washington! 
(Its just a saying up there).
Just 5 years ago they were playing in a run-down ballpark with wooden bleachers for stands.
Really good game and so very happy for the players, coaching staff and program. They worked hard to get there.
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Cinderella team! Not on anyones radar, snuck into to the tournament with a great end of the season run. If they can get by Miss. State and go up against Oregon State, it will be an epic matchup. Being a UW grad, this a big surprise. Old field looked like an after thought, new stadium is one of the best settings on the West Coast on a sunny day.
That was an unbelievable game. Perfect game into the 7th, 9th inning come back by Fullerton -- going for their 19th CWS appearance (18 CWS appearances in the last 44 years!!!), while Washington was going for its 1st -- bottom of the 9th tie by UW, Fullerton goes ahead in the 10th, and then the UW walk-off. Wow! Congrats to UW!
Just, I was thinking of you and your son last night. But the flip side of the coin is imagine the emotional drain of thinking you’re done (fouled off two strikes with two outs three times), coming back, taking the lead, losing it, taking the lead again and losing it all in two innings.
At one point the announcer said you could hear the roar all the way to Newport Beach. At the end of the next inning you could hear a pin drop.
It was like the ski jumper going off the edge in Wide Sport of Sports promo.
Congrats to the Huskies! You know I was born in Seattle! Good to see them make the CWS. Now I am waiting for Tenn Tech and Duke to punch their tickets today. Tall order but it could happen.
Dang...partied too hard on Sat and couldn't stay up last night to watch...sounds like it was an epic win...congrats!
A copy from Wikipedia "Stephen Hawking's compilation of works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein is entitled On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, (Running Press 2002)... In 2017, Hawking stated: "Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before them, just as I did as a young PhD student in Cambridge, inspired by the work of Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein."
The same can be said about a baseball program. They are not built in a short period of time and they take successive and persistent achievement which is based on what has come before. You have much to be proud justbb.
There were two awesome games on at the same time. The Miss State-Vanderbilt game was just as wild. Multicast is a great feature.
Agreed, it would be hard to match the incredible drama of two deciding games to get to Omaha running parallel. I'm not sure I've ever seen a 9th inning like the one in Fullerton. They were down to their final strike multiple times, and the RF almost eliminated them on a great foul ball catch. Then to actually take the lead, then lose that for extra innings, take the lead again, and then completely collapse on defense and lose the game. It is not hard to imagine what the team and fans feel today in terms of a lost opportunity.
But good for Washington and the Pac 12. The conference has definitely gotten deeper in recent years and the Huskies rise is a part of the reason why a team like Arizona did not make it in (although no doubt they would have been better than some of the other at large teams). And Oregon State may be good enough to win it all.
And Congrats to Miss State for winning an amazing series with Vanderbilt. That series is why the NCAA tourney is so amazing for baseball. Two deserving teams but only one can go to Omaha. The drama was justified, especially after what that team went through.
CD - I don't think anyone on here has a better story about shoulders of giants than your son. 
But if UW can somehow win it all - perhaps we can share that honor.
