NCAA Baseball official 2013 tourney (1 Viewer)

[jon_mx]

Haven't closely followed college baseball before, but Indiana is starting to put together a good program and have a new stadium which is fun to watch games in. Finishing up the first round of regionals today. There have been some pretty good games inclining erasing a 4-1 deficit in the 9th to win on a walk off HR.

 

[Premier]

FSU advances, out scoring opponents 32-4 in 3 games.

Well on their way to their 22nd CWS choke.

 

[jon_mx]

Indiana advances and will play in the Florida State super Regional this weekend.

 

[ATC1]

IN - Johnathan Gray vs Arron Nola - game 1 of Baton Rouge Super regional.

 

[jon_mx]

NC State, Louisville, Virginia, Oaklahoma, and Kansas State are all moved through to the super regionals. Not sure what the setup is now.

 

[ATC1]

Super regionals best 2 out of 3 for the CWS.

#1 North Carolina vs South Carolina

#2 Vanderbilt vs Louisville

#3 Oregon State vs Kansas State

#4 LSU vs Oklahoma

#5 Cal State Fullerton vs UCLA

#6 Virgina vs Mississippi State

#7 Florida State University vs Indiana

Rice vs NC State

 

[ATC1]

What a game. Florida Atlantic hits a grand slam to go up by two in the top of the 9th. UNC pitches their ace after 1 day rest off 100 count outing. He has thrown 50 pitches here. UNC gets 2 in the bottom of the 9th. Extra innings...

 

[ATC1]

FAU scores 3 run HR in the top of the 12. But then they walk around two runs in the bottom of the inning. bases loaded 1 out 1 down and UNC gets a base hit. Guy on second thrown out at the plate. Bring on the 13th. 11-11... Wow.

 

[Hoos First]

1st base ump ready to go home. Wasnt close to a swing

 

[Premier]

@ldizzy23: #UNC starting pitcher leaves today after 237 pitches in 11.2 IP over last 8 days. @keithlaw

At first I thought the guy was being funny....but uh, no.

 

[Tiger Fan]

LSU is very deep.

 

[Premier]

Indiana's offense is relentless.

 

[Premier]

There is no bigger difference in talent level between college and the pros than in baseball. It's almost hard to watch this stuff sometimes, the quality is so poor.

 

[Premier]

FSU advances, out scoring opponents 32-4 in 3 games. Well on their way to their 22nd CWS choke.

little earlier than usual, but gone all the same.

 

[jon_mx]

Indiana makes the college World Series for first time in school history. Great job. Looks like the program is headed in the right direction although it is hard for the northern teams to be competitive

 

[ATC1]

There is no bigger difference in talent level between college and the pros than in baseball. It's almost hard to watch this stuff sometimes, the quality is so poor.

Most of the big time prospects gett drafted out of high school.

 

[TobiasFunke]

There is no bigger difference in talent level between college and the pros than in baseball. It's almost hard to watch this stuff sometimes, the quality is so poor.

Most of the big time prospects get drafted out of high school.

That's definitely part of it, but not entirely true. The majority of first rounders this year were college guys.

A couple other reasons: the talent gets spread across the country instead of in a couple powerhouse schools and conferences like in football/basketball, so it thins out quite a bit on every roster. Also basketball and football have lots of guys in the NFL/NBA who still have a lot to learn, and the quality suffers, as anyone who's watched an NFL or NBA team through the rebuilding process can tell you. Baseball doesn't have to do that because they can let players develop in the minors without losing years of control of the player, so the difference between the finished product and the young guys is even bigger.

 

[John555]

Hoosiers shut out Louisville for the second time this season. Kind of weird half inning which I think was the 5th, the ump was calling strikes on anything within a few feet of the plate and probably called 4 strikes on balls which were completely unhittable. Then he left the game between innings, but he did manage to kill an inning for the Hoosiers before he left.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Congrats Tim. I know you were behind them all the way.

 

[rodg12]

There is no bigger difference in talent level between college and the pros than in baseball. It's almost hard to watch this stuff sometimes, the quality is so poor.

Most of the big time prospects get drafted out of high school.

That's definitely part of it, but not entirely true. The majority of first rounders this year were college guys.

A couple other reasons: the talent gets spread across the country instead of in a couple powerhouse schools and conferences like in football/basketball, so it thins out quite a bit on every roster. Also basketball and football have lots of guys in the NFL/NBA who still have a lot to learn, and the quality suffers, as anyone who's watched an NFL or NBA team through the rebuilding process can tell you. Baseball doesn't have to do that because they can let players develop in the minors without losing years of control of the player, so the difference between the finished product and the young guys is even bigger.

The amount of international players in the MLB game has a definite effect too. 28% of the players in the MLB were born outside the US (the minors number is even higher...46%!). NFL has almost none. NBA has quite a few (21%), but I thinkg a significantly higher number of their international players went to college in the US than the MLBs did (Fab Melo, Steve Nash, Al Horford, Cory Joseph, Kris Joseph, Andrew Nicholson, Robert Sacre, Tristan Thompson, Ronny Turiaf, etc.).