Monday, June 04, 2007

The changed face of college baseball

There once was a time, years ago, when one could predict the winner of the college world series. The winner would most likely come out of this group: USC, Cal State Fullerton, Arizona State, Texas, LSU, Rice, Miami, and Stanford. Not any more. Regionals started today and several number one seeds lost. Let's see, San Diego lost, Arkansas lost, Florida State lost, and Texas is on the verge of losing, I think captain obvious would say that college baseball has achieved parity. However, winning regionals is one thing - let's see how the super regionals and CWS pans out. It takes a mature, experienced and, most of all, deep team to win it all. If Texas makes it out of the regionals, my money's on them. If not, I'd say Fullerton or Rice. I'd like for Vandy to win it all, because they are such a classy team and coach, but I don't think they are seasoned enough. It took LSU five CWS trips before they won it all.

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