re: Anyone take a guess how many home runs have been hit in CWS?

Through 9 games in TDA, one (1) HR - to reply to OP. That HR ball was absolutely crushed last night by the star Texas SS (I will attempt to spell his name - Hinojosa - whatever, the guy is a super star freshman) to short/medium left field - cleared fence by 30 - 50 feet, IMO.

No homers yet to RF line, power alleys (LF or RF) or dead center. Really?

Note where any outfield plays. Watch any game. Outfielders position themselves between 100 feet and 150 feet from the warning track ~ the wall. You serious, Clark?

Final score 1-0. Seriously? Pitchers that good? Nah. It's not pitchers or the "raised seams" of the baseball. Announcer Kyle was a tremendous pitcher. When a former star pitcher announcer starts to "side" with the batters, you know there's a big problem.

While the "toothpick" bats contribute to the lack of HR and other extra base hits problem, the real problem here is TDA (its orientation to prevailing winds and its overall design). I heard announcers say design and construction happened before "toothpick BB core bat change". Wow. SNAFU. IMO.

Note that all of these 8 CWS participants had absolutely no problem at all to hit homers in their regionals and super regionals. I saw as many of these games as were offered by the ESPN channels. I know what I saw.

Those baseball games were very entertaining. Pitching and hitting were balanced (hitting between 1/4 and 1/3 times at bat vs. good pitching). Many more extra base hits. Many more homers.

What changed? TDA, IMO. Now, TDA needs to change. Move the fences in. Now. TDA, NCAA, TDA/NCAA or others (mox nix to me) you determine how much. 15 feet? More? Don't wait for ? years' results of "non-raised seams baseballs". Kinda what I heard the NCAA BB Championship representative allude to. Do it now. Now...

CWS not enjoyable anymore.

I have played on fields like this. Except they had no warning tracks or walls. They were 600 feet cow pastures where the batter faced the prevailing 10 - 15 MPH winds routinely.

This is not baseball... May as well not have a warning track or a wall. Not to mention the constant wind blowing in at who knows (15 - 25 MPH). Witness the streaming flags. Of the 9 games (I watched them all), there was one game (forgot which one at this point) that the flags were somewhat limp and maybe blowing sideways only a little bit toward left field. Other than that, this TDA park is "where hard hit line drive long fly balls come to die". IMO.

I would love to be as proud of the TDA CWS as the former Rosenblatt CWS. TDA, NCAA, whoever's responsible and can change this - please help me.

Total fan...