CWS Championship Series Set
After a fairly entertaining winner-take-all game last night, our championship series is set: #5 national seed Arkansas versus #3 national seed Oregon State. If you are wondering if this post is mainly to brag about getting the two teams in the Championship Series absolutely correct, you are right, it is. Considering I did not watch as much college baseball as some years, I am fairly impressed with myself. Granted, the road Oregon State took was unexpected, as they lost th
Omaha CWS predictions
The College World Series starts this afternoon, and if you are a college baseball fan, you have to hope the actual CWS is as good as the Super Regionals were. The Super Regionals seemed to reflect the wide open nature of college baseball this year. Even though Florida was #1 most of the year (and they are the defending champs), I truly think all 8 teams have a realistic chance of winning the title. That isn't true most years, but this year's Cinderella teams are Miss State
College World Series predictions
I know I am a little late to posting this since 4 games are in the books from yesterday (which makes it easier to predict now). Here are my picks to make the CWS right now: Washington, Vandy, UNC, Oregon State, Florida, Duke, Arkansas, and Tennessee Tech. I did not watch much college baseball this year so these are not very confident picks. As an FSU alum, I stopped watching early in the season after our All-American pitcher/1B Tyler Holton went down in the first series;
Taking another shot at this
So, I tried getting this going a few years ago to get my thoughts out in a space where my friends or whomever could see them without burning up Facebook or Twitter with lots of these posts for those who couldn't care less about sports. However, I ran into some tough personal circumstances that derailed my project. Even though things still aren't great on that front, I find writing about sports and talking/arguing about sports as a fun distraction (most of the time). As a r