re: College Baseball Opening Day!

Mizzou playing at warm weather Cal Poly lol

Vandy has already moved their time up to get some better weather.

Also I caught this little nugget that Vandy does when the weather is chilly to start the season.

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Vanderbilt has a promotion called "under 40 degrees and it's free" where they give out free hot chocolate if it's below 40. Here's how many home games have been below 40 at first pitch (box scores go back to 2017):

2023: 0
2022: 4
2021: 0
2020: 1
2019: 2
2018: 1
2017: 2

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Nice! It will be about the same tonight in Hogtown for the Gators....then it is going to rain all day Saturday.

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IF all 8 Baseball CWS teams are SEC teams, THAT would not be good for college baseball.

Is college baseball just dying out in the West? In the ACC? In the Big 12?

This would not be a good trend, IMO.

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I think the problem is more on the West Coast than anywhere. That was historically a very strong league, but when baseball became bigger everywhere else, things stayed the same out west. The SEC programs took off, ACC got better, and even schools in the Midwest invested in facilities and started taking the sport more seriously. The only West Coast school that did anything similar was Oregon, restarting their program and building a new facility from scratch. Everyone else out there has just kind of patched holes, for the most part.

I don't know what's going to happen to the Pac-12 schools with realignment. I can't imagine the LA schools, Washington, and Oregon having any enjoyment from playing Big 10 baseball. And Stanford and Cal seem almost certain to look for some other arrangement, rather than playing ACC baseball. They simply can't afford it, as the ACC money they get will be less than what the LA schools pull in the Big 10. I just have a hard time seeing those West Coast schools throwing so much travel money at non-revenue sports.

Per the guys at 11Point7,

Here are 10 things that are going to happen:

-ECU makes Omaha and Mr. Beast flies the whole city of Greenville, NC to the CWS and rents out the entire Omaha Zoo for everyone instead of a hotel. He also gives 11Point7 a briefcase with $100,000 cash.

-Nick Kurtz forced to change his name to Nicholas Kurtz after an announcer has a slip up.

-Tommy White gets off to a slow start, but it all turns around after he shows up to the field with a Ben McDonald square buzz cut. He then goes nuclear and wins the Golden Spikes.

-The city of Boston approves of a vote to let Northeastern host a regional at Fenway Park, and makes the last place Red Sox play at Northeastern's field.

-Brian Bohannon gets hired on for ESPN Squeeze Play with Mike Rooney and keeps making them switch to the Coastal Carolina regional because he has the over 19.5 runs in the Georgia Tech vs Dallas Baptist game

-Jac Caglianone comes out as right-hand dominant in a sad sit down interview with ESPN's Marty Smith. He appologizes to the world for pretending to be left-hand dominant.

-Oregon State reveals a 2025 and 2026 Pac 12 Championship banners their last home weekend series since they will be the only Pac 12 team those years.

-D1 Baseball starts drug testing Kendall Rogers for Diet Coke. He quits drinking them, and then he starts growing hair.

-Wright State makes the Stanford regional, and the local Democrats protest the game because they think their name is "Right State"

-Sydney Sweeney can't get her FLO Sports login to work, so she goes to Oregon State vs Arkansas game in person and watches Hagen Smith pitch. Smith pitches a complete game shutout and the game ends on foul pop up to Smith, and he tosses the ball to Sweeney. They start dating. Umpire Reggie Drummer is then assigned to all Friday Night Arkansas games. Smith has just as dominant of a year as Skenes. Arkansas wins College World Series and Hagen Smith becomes #1 overall pick in the MLB Draft.

Love all the graphics today

Not enough LSU fans in here, maybe this will get them going.

s/o to Heefner at Dallas Baptist, heck of a HC and has remained loyal to DP for years. Pretty rare.

Ags at 381. I’d like to think we’d crack the top 10 from ‘15-‘24.