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re: Anyone take a guess how many home runs have been hit in CWS?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:02 am to Ralph_Wiggum
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:02 am to Ralph_Wiggum
They're not switching to wooden bats. Money drives everything. It would financially cripple more than half of DI baseball teams, much less the rest of smaller college teams (JC, NAIA, etc.)
This post was edited on 6/18/14 at 10:06 am
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:03 am to Ralph_Wiggum
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The big five conferences should switch to wood bats
So the big 5 conferences should play with wooden bats while everyone else in college plays with aluminum?
What happens when Stony Brook makes the college world series? Do they have to switch to wood for the college world series or do they get to continue using aluminum? Terrible argument.
Also, not even every school in the big 5 conferences would be able to afford using wooden bats.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:04 am to LSU=Champions
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Something tells me you don't follow college baseball very well.
Ralph is an admitted communist or marxist or socialist or Buddhist or something. Of course he doesn't follow baseball.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:05 am to Ralph_Wiggum
TD Ameritrage faces into the prevailing winds. Rosenblatt was @ 120 degress counter-clockwise with winds blowing out of left.
Wood bats have nothing to do with the current lack of HRs in Omaha. they built the park for a minor league team, not the CWS and that is the problem. Good grief.
Wood bats have nothing to do with the current lack of HRs in Omaha. they built the park for a minor league team, not the CWS and that is the problem. Good grief.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:05 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Seriously?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:06 am to Ralph_Wiggum
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Good baseball people can make the adjustments that come with different ballparks
You pretty much have no clue what you are talking about do you?
You don't just start making adjustments because you are in a different park. A hitter isn't going to take a different swing in Petco Park in San Diego which is a fricking grave yard vs. Wrigley Field on a day when the wind is blowing out. You don't just magically change your swing for a day.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:06 am to PurpleAndGold86
Ralph is a pretty good troll.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:07 am to LSU=Champions
Is he actually trolling though??
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:07 am to LSU=Champions
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Seriously?
Yes. He really riles up the poliboard. It's fun to watch.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:07 am to AstroTiger
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The colored seats. The zoo in right. The unique scoreboard. On top of a hill. The Blatt had an identity and provided for a great atmosphere and great venue for college baseball's biggest event. TDA is everything the opposite and completely sucks.
I have never been to either but my dad and I talked about this Sunday. It is very apparent, even on tv, that this new place just doesn't have the same mystique.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:07 am to CrippleCreek
Where do the Omaha Royals play?
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:09 am to GeauxxxTigers23
I think he's a lobbyist for Demarini.
This post was edited on 6/18/14 at 10:09 am
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:10 am to crazyLSUfan
The Omaha Royals are now known as the Omaha Storm Chasers and they play at Werner Park in Papillion Nebraska.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:15 am to LSU=Champions
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Same here. I feel really fortunate to have been at that entire CWS in Omaha (save for one game) in one of the last years at the Blatt. That place was special and because of them killing it off, the it will never be the same regardless of the bats situation.
Yep I was there the whole 2 weeks and I think I attended all but one game of the entire CWS. Even the locals aren't embracing the event like they used to. I don't remember talking to very many people there last year that liked the new setup.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:17 am to ccomeaux
quote:Link? I didn't know the Creighton Blue Jays went semi-pro.
they built the park for a minor league team, not the CWS and that is the problem.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:24 am to Ralph_Wiggum
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Baseball is not basketball and football. Each field has different dimensions and conditions.
I doubt you could find any MLB stadium, no matter how much of a pitchers park it is, where there are 11 straight games without a ball leaving the park.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:35 am to Ralph_Wiggum
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Good baseball people can make adjustments when necessary. Sure there is the home field advantage but if you're a good baseball coach and build a good baseball program you can make the adjustments to win the CWS at Omaha.
True baseball people can do that. People who play a game with aluminum bats in some nintendo version of baseball can't.
Pretty sure you are trolling at this point, or know literally nothing about college baseball.
Over the last three years, the NCAA average homeruns per game per team last season was 0.42, 0.48 and 0.52.
Over the last three years, the worst homerun hitting team in MLB has hit 0.59, 0.66 and 0.56.
So in any given baseball game, the worst homerun team in MLB is more likely to hit a homerun than an average college team.
NCAA has four teams(out of 298) averaging over 1 homerun per game. MLB has 10 (out of 30).
In CWS games at the new Omaha stadium, it's an average of .22 homeruns per game per team.
The weakest MLB team is more than twice as likely to hit a homerun in a game than a top 8 college baseball team is to hit one in Omaha.
This post was edited on 6/18/14 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:51 am to Mayhawman
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Link? I didn't know the Creighton Blue Jays went semi-pro.
The park was supposed to house the Omaha Storm Chasers in the beginning. Their owners were consulted in the planning stages but when certain aspects of the design went against wishes of the team, they decided to move to Werner Park. As a result, Ohama and TD Ameritrade Park have been making attempts to secure a different professional baseball team and have been hosting different entertainment events to help cover the bills.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:54 am to LSU=Champions
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Ralphy boy
Should stay on the PB.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 1:49 pm to Kcrad
I love baseball and I played it. Yes we used aluminum bats, but if you truly know baseball you shouldn't be complaining about the stadium and how the stadium is so different it's not fair because teams play a certain type of way all year and it's unfair to have them play a new way.
Baseball is baseball and a good baseball program with good coaches and players can make adjustments and play good defense, have smart base running and move the man over.
The game is played with the same rules from regular season to CWS. The purpose of the CWS is not to provide you with homeruns and the dimension of the park is not unfair to the teams and the players because they are forced to play a different way.
There is nothing unfair about the ballpark.
Baseball is baseball and a good baseball program with good coaches and players can make adjustments and play good defense, have smart base running and move the man over.
The game is played with the same rules from regular season to CWS. The purpose of the CWS is not to provide you with homeruns and the dimension of the park is not unfair to the teams and the players because they are forced to play a different way.
There is nothing unfair about the ballpark.
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