re: Does it make you feel any better to know

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How is the current college game dissimilar

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I should narrow my point down a bit in order to make it more valid. Let me say that the new field in Omaha for the College World Series brings elements to the game at that level that appear, to my eye, to be very different from professional baseball.

How? It's the "small ball" aspect of the new field. The trend in Major League Baseball is to build small bandboxes. So, what do they do in Omaha? They build the opposite of a bandbox.

So, it seems to me that the NCAA's baseball game at the highest level, is very much unlike what they play in MLB.

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Do these new college bats really perform like wooden bats? I did not know this. I thought that these new bats were a more "dead" than wooden bats.

If the new bats are very close to performing like wood (except for breaking), then, the NCAA is on the right track.

If what you say is true, then, I have to point to the size of the new Omaha stadium as the problem -- it is gigantic at a time when MLB is building band boxes.

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I have no problem with the bats performing like wooden bats. The problem is that the ball used by major league baseball is more tightly wound and thus travels further when struck by a wooden bat. The balls used in college baseball are not wound as tightly and when coupled with the dead bats, you have hits that would have been homeruns in MLB that are long flyballs in college baseball. That is the problem.