MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

[unofan]

Nothing special going on in SF through 7.2 innings.

 

[JF_Gophers]

Okay I’m starting to think the Twins aren’t going to turn things around and be any good.

So proud of you. 2 wins in a row as you say that!

 

[state of hockey]

So proud of you. 2 wins in a row as you say that!

Clearly should have done it earlier.

 

[French Rage]

Nothing special going on in SF through 7.2 innings.

Broken up at 8.2

 

[Spartanforlife4]

The Oregon-Oral Roberts series has had a couple good games. Game 1 ORU goes up 8-0 and Oregon chips away before walking it off in the 9th 9-8. In Game 2, Oregon goes up 7-4 in the 7th and ORU chips away and gets a walk-off ground rule double to win 8-7.

Also learning a lot about the hosting process when it comes to Supers. Tennessee and Southern Miss are both unseeded teams, but I figured there was still a 64 team S curve that decided who would host in that situation. Turns out that's not the case, at least not in this case because they were both the two seed in their respective regionals. Instead both teams submitted their bid and the NCAA decides who hosts, and they chose Southern Miss. Vols fans are not too happy about that. But just because USM hosts does not mean they get to be the home team. Instead, regardless of host, if there are two unseeded teams the home team is decided by coin flip, and Tennessee won that. So Southern Miss gets to host, but Tennessee technically has "home field advantage" if a Game 3 were to happen.

Related, Indiana State was a seeded team and was in line to host as they were facing unseeded TCU, but Terra Haute hosts the Indiana Special Olympics every year and did not have the room nor staff to be able to host, so they had to go on the road to Fort Worth. As a seeded team they got to be the home team without any coin flip, but they got swept 2-0 and were eliminated yesterday.

 

[SonofSouthie]

TCU is red hot. Won 11 straight, breezed through the Big12 tourney, swept 3rd seed Arkansas(2 games 32-9) in the regionals, and as mentioned previously swept 14 Indiana St in the super regionals.

 

[SJHovey]

TCU is red hot. Won 11 straight, breezed through the Big12 tourney, swept 3rd seed Arkansas(2 games 32-9) in the regionals, and as mentioned previously swept 14 Indiana St in the super regionals.

It's been an interesting tournament so far, but it sure seems like it's going to be difficult to top the Wake Forest pitching staff.

 

[SonofSouthie]

It's been an interesting tournament so far, but it sure seems like it's going to be difficult to top the Wake Forest pitching staff.

They lit up Alabama with 9 HR's on Sat.

 

[Kepler]

Pride rainbow hand fan tonight at Citi. Please do not interview Nimmo or the Latino players.

 

[Kepler]

Holy sh-t. The Yankees just put in a late inning defensive replacement in right named Oswaldo Cabrera, and he looks like he is wearing a young Joe DiMaggio mask. It is striking.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

The A’s have won seven in a row and are now only 23.5 games back.

But more importantly they’ve propelled themselves off of historic futility. Now on pace for 44 wins instead of 31 when the streak began.

 

[SonofSouthie]

Almost 28K fans showed up at the game last night for 'Reverse Boycott'.

 

[RaceBoarder]

The Reverse Boycott lacked the WOW factor that it needed sadly...

28K is three times their 2023 average, but it is also below the average attendance for 1/2 the league...

This is gonna be an ongoing mess for the next 5 years.

 

[aparch]

The Reverse Boycott lacked the WOW factor that it needed sadly...

28K is three times their 2023 average, but it is also below the average attendance for 1/2 the league...

This is gonna be an ongoing mess for the next 5 years.

I dunno. Having 28k people yell "Sell the Team" in unison causing the pitcher to think his pitchcom broke was a pretty powerful moment...

 

[dxmnkd316]

I dunno. Having 28k people yell "Sell the Team" in unison causing the pitcher to think his pitchcom broke was a pretty powerful moment...

Putting aside what played out after my analogy...

Seems like more of a "Let them eat cake" kind of moment. It's not going change the course of the team one picoarcsecond. They had 15+ years to build a not shithole stadium and actually attend games.

 

[SonofSouthie]

Omaha is set.

June 16 (all times ET):

• Game 1 | Oral Roberts vs. TCU, 2 p.m. | ESPN
• Game 2 | Virginia vs. Florida, 7 p.m. | ESPN

June 17 (all times ET):

• Game 3 | Wake Forest vs. Stanford, 2 p.m. | ESPN
• Game 4 | LSU vs. Tennessee, 7 p.m. | ESPN

Scroll down for the rest.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/...ns-college-world-series-scores-schedule-omaha

 

[SonofSouthie]

Real good games yesterday. Fla with a walk-off in the 9th. TCU with 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th to take a 5-3 lead, ORU with 4 in the top of the 9th, TCU strands 2 in the bottom of the 9th to end their 11 game streak.

 

[SJHovey]

And thus far Stanford is doing a great job of out pitching WF. But I’ll be honest, the only team that I’m aware of that was worse at base running than Stanford is my little league team when I was six.

 

[mookie1995]

Omaha is set.

June 16 (all times ET):

• Game 1 | Oral Roberts vs. TCU, 2 p.m. | ESPN
• Game 2 | Virginia vs. Florida, 7 p.m. | ESPN

June 17 (all times ET):

• Game 3 | Wake Forest vs. Stanford, 2 p.m. | ESPN
• Game 4 | LSU vs. Tennessee, 7 p.m. | ESPN

Scroll down for the rest.

https://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/...ns-college-world-series-scores-schedule-omaha

Mookie is heading to Omaha to golf in august

 

[SonofSouthie]

And thus far Stanford is doing a great job of out pitching WF. But I’ll be honest, the only team that I’m aware of that was worse at base running than Stanford is my little league team when I was six.

Then the rains came.