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Watching the CWS brings back memories of previous years. It’s why I posted about Tre Morgan.

Another player I thought of last night is Seth Beer. I remember it was a big coup for Clemson to snag him. He had an awesome college career. He went in the first round to the Astros. He tore it up in their minor league system. He was traded to the Dbacks in the Greinke trade. He was eventually called up but didn’t stick. He got injured and released. He’s now in his first year with the Pirates organization. He’s only 27. It’s not too late.

@adbono posted:

I appreciate the expanded coverage during the Regionals. But it certainly exposes that there are more games to cover than ESPN has good baseball play by play guys. Good grief! Now we have another reason to turn off the sound besides the Vandy whistler.

It takes sixteen teams of announcers. During the season several of these guys are doing secondary P5 games we’re not watching unless it’s your team.

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Remember in 2018 Pat Casey rode Oregon State, top prospect, freshman pitcher Kevin Abel like a mule to win the CWS?

He blew out his arm early the next season and missed all of the following season. After a decent redshirt soph year at age 22 he was drafted in the 7th round. At 25 he was just called up to AA. His control was the only question entering college. It’s been a serious problem in the minors post injury.

@adbono posted:

The ECU/Evansville game is a perfect illustration of why a team has to be really good at the C position to have an exceptional season.

LIU had a few strikes in that final inning collapse go the other way against UNC. We saw how that ended. Pitchers were missing spots pretty badly but I can't help but feel like they gave some away. Changes the whole dynamic - especially when those borderline strikes turn into lopsided counts really puts the pressure on

@PABaseball posted:

LIU had a few strikes in that final inning collapse go the other way against UNC. We saw how that ended. Pitchers were missing spots pretty badly but I can't help but feel like they gave some away. Changes the whole dynamic - especially when those borderline strikes turn into lopsided counts really puts the pressure on

This was son's team (he's redshirting after having TJ). Think LIU had a solid shot at winning the game, unfortunately brutal last inning. What was more interesting is a guy throwing 87-89 shut down UNC's offense for most of the game.

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One of the greatest catches you will see at any level of play by Cam Cannarella. If he doesn’t catch this it’s series over. He ran and leaped full speed into the wall, over the shoulder. There isn’t a warning track to know where he is. He actually didn’t catch the ball in his glove. It bounced off his glove and he clenched it to his chest.,

https://youtu.be/5OsWSk2ZetU?si=pL06dug9h3j-tUSJ

@TPM posted:

No he did not!

And that team that didn't deserve to get a bid...........

IS GOING TO OMAHA!

They are!

@anotherparent   I know I looked at the score and FL was up by 7 and I thought no way they are going to lose.... I went back to check and the game was tied and I thought "Oh schist I might have jinxed the team" Went back and saw they wone by 1. After watching a lot of regional college baseball I should have known better, but it worked out.

Crazy that only the ACC and SEC are represented at this years CWS.  Looking forward to it none the less.   You could argue there are no bona fide underdogs this year.

A couple observations from the regionals and super regionals games that I watched.

1) Glad to see Florida win over Clemson.  @TPM must have been torn up.   I was not impressed with Clemson's bush league first base running that ended up getting Crighton ejected.  Ridiculous.  Not clear on the Bakich/Leggett ejection, but I can only guess that something was said to the folks in blue that was not embraced.  That made a Florida fan out of me quickly.

2) The balls have to be juiced.  I saw some terrible swings go for HRs this year in regionals and super regionals.  Some almost looked like check swings.  There shouldn't be any cheap homers in Omaha.   That is a huge outfield.

As always, JMO.

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