re: Am I the only one that thinks college baseball ain't what it was!!

No, you are not the only one. College baseball is on a downward trend and the dead bats and balls are to blame. Some will argue that the pitching is better well its not.......when a pitcher makes a mistake now a days its usually a flyout to the warning track. Pitchers can make a lot more mistakes now a days then they could in the 90s.

I have a 14 year old son who plays a lot of travel ball. When they were 12 and 13 playing USSSA ball and allowed to use the -5 bats the games were a lot more exciting for the fans and players. Now at 14 they playing in Perfect Game tournaments and only allowed to use BBCOR bats and HRs have dropped way off while playing at the same ball parks. It definitely is a different game being played with the different bats and whomever thinks it makes the college game more realistic to the pro game is crazy because every pro team I watch has at least 8 hitters in the line up that can hit a long ball at any given time in the game while most college teams have maybe 4 or 5 in their line up that will hit 5 HRs for the entire season!!

High School teams don't even know what HRs are any more!!