re: Let's talk some SEC baseball right . . . Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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This.

I live baseball butI'd rather go watch a Barons game here in Bham - potential pros, wood bats, ect. It just has a better feel. I take a baseball trip once a year (went to Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis to see my Cards last year) and college baseball is so far down the chain of what real ball is, it is just kinda hard to watch for me and I think many people.

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Let me summarize the rest of this thread for you.

You don't care. Here is how everyone else who isn't a pathetic front-runner feels about your opinion.

SEC teams would beat many single A teams - AA and AAA may be another story. But it's not all about talent level, it's about excitement. I prefer CFB to the NFL, even though the NFL is obviously more talented. I prefer college ball to any other pro baseball, b/c it's that much more exciting.

Again, I understand the atmosphere at a Bama baseball game isn't worth much, so I can understand where you're coming from.

Bama logic: if we suck at a sport it's not important

I'd like to say you're welcome to the rest of the SEC on behalf of LSU. LSU's victory in 1997 destroyed any front-running potential Bama had. LSU kept them off the board so you don't have to put up with their insufferability.

Though they put up a bit more fight after that, they never made another title game and eventually withered and died.

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At least with college football you are watching future professional stars play for your favorite university. Nobody ever questioned whether or not Julio Jones, AJ Green, or Trent Richardson would go on to have good pro careers. You can't say the same for college baseball stars.

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First of, yes you can. I had no doubt in my mind that Lance Lynn would be a good MLB pitcher, for example.

Second, comparing the pro prospects of two completely different sports with two completely different league and draft structures is silly.

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I grew up a Cubs fan so I hate myself

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FIFY

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At least with college football you are watching future professional stars play for your favorite university. Nobody ever questioned whether or not Julio Jones, AJ Green, or Trent Richardson would go on to have good pro careers. You can't say the same for college baseball stars.

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Only 20% of your football team will ever play another game when they're done at Bama. I'd guess that that same stat is larger for our baseball roster.

And in any event, who cares? You only watch college players if it's obvious to you that they'll play pro ball? What kind of logic is that?

I enjoy LSU baseball for what it is. College baseball. Whether they will succeed in the pros or not doesn't affect that in the least.

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First of, yes you can. I had no doubt in my mind that Lance Lynn would be a good MLB pitcher, for example.

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Lynn? Wasn't he the pitcher who gave up back-to-back homeruns in the World Series a couple years back?

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Second, comparing the pro prospects of two completely different sports with two completely different league and draft structures is silly.

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And the organizational structure of the majors makes it hard for me to care about college ball. Most of the best players out of high school go into the league almost immediately unless they feel like they were drafted too low. Only then will you see a good baseball player actually enter the college ranks.

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A college baseball team that wins the national championship in Omaha would probably be swept by the worst A team in the minors. That's why I don't care.

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First of all, your beloved Crimson Tide football team would get skulldrug by the worst NFL team. Your coach is out of his league when trying to match wits with the coaches up there, and your players would get manhandled by the men in the NFL. Heck, they may even get flagged for holding.

Secondly, I think the winners in Omaha could match up favorably with a Single A ball club. Double AA would definitely be better than a college team, but at many levels of Single A ball are filled with high school drafted "projects" that are just learning how to play the game of baseball.

LSU, which got upset and didn't make it to Omaha, had a pitcher at the top of their rotation (Gausman) that is expected to be with the big boys in Baltimore by the end of this season. The top college programs do receive a few highly drafted players that turn down the pros right out of high school for the chance to play a couple of years in college. However, I'm pretty sure none of those players are calling Tuscaloosa their home. So I'll try to excuse your ignorance of good college baseball.