The official 2018 College World Series thread
 

Let's follow our teams here. I'll start off:



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Hail State!
Go Dogs!

Nice try, but seems to me that we're the only two here following the series, and every time I mention Oregon State University's mascot, the snide comments begin.

By the way, I recently learned that although they have no sports teams, M.I.T. has the same mascot. "Because we build things", according to a grad.

The official 2018 College World Series thread
 

My son and I will be watching though we have no dog in the fight.

Somewhat related- sons travel coach will be implementing the ‘r1 and r3 simultaneous steal on a lefty where r1 falls after a couple steps to keep pitcher distracted from the steal home’ play as applied by Fla recently.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ftw.usatoday.com/2018/06/florida-auburn-super-regional-college-baseball-steals-home-trick-fall-video/amp

My understanding is fla pulled the same stunt last year!


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Love college baseball. My Gamecocks are out, but I will still be watching.

Ummm you might want to put them away.....it’s kinda frowned upon these days.


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I think a tea from AR is involved.

How did Oregon State become a baseball power of note? Well, Casey is a good coach, but that's not all of it. In a super regional game, one of the announcers sort of covered it. Mentioned when he worked for Arizona, was trying to recruit Darwin Barney, and was told by Barney he was going to Oregon State...he then said, "But this is Arizona calling", and Barney responded "That's okay coach, but I'm going to Oregon State".

Long ago, early after the turn of the century, there was a NW area baseball workshop type event put on for high school players. A batch of the better players got together, all agreeing to go to Oregon State because "we might make the college world series if we do". Jacoby Ellsbury, Darwin Barney, and others. It was this group that gave the Beavers their 2006 College World Series championship. So really, it was a group of players themselves that vaulted the Beavers into national recognition.

Ellsbury was very instrumental in this. Half native American, he grew up in Madras, Oregon, lived on the warm springs Reservation. Definitely NOT from a monied family. Got a 2006 college world series win, and in 2007 got his first world series ring, playing for the red sox. After the 2013 Red Sox series ring, a free agent, went to the Yankees. Is now married to his college sweetheart, his big league time winding down. Gee, I understand living in NY is expensive. I hope he & his bride can afford it. ;)

Another funny aside...at that time, the University of Oregon Ducks had no baseball team, alumni Phil Knight of Nike putting his money into track and football. It really got to him that the Beavers got a national championship while the Ducks missed in football. So, Ducks baseball was born.

ISR-Based Probabilities for 2018 NCAA Tournament -- Before CWS

Reg Super Final Champ Team

100.0 100.0 37.3 20.5 Florida
100.0 100.0 27.6 12.3 Texas Tech
100.0 100.0 10.2 2.9 Texas
100.0 100.0 24.9 11.0 Arkansas
100.0 100.0 5.0 1.0 Washington
100.0 100.0 12.7 4.1 Mississippi State
100.0 100.0 62.0 40.4 Oregon State
100.0 100.0 20.2 7.8 North Carolina

(All Times EDT)
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Bracket 1

{3} Oregon State (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
{6} North Carolina (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
Mississippi State (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
Washington (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)

Saturday, June 16th (Saturday Scoreboard: ESPN)

Game 1: 3:00 PM - ESPN - {3} Oregon State vs. {6} North Carolina
Game 2: 8:00 PM - ESPN - Washington vs. Mississippi State

Monday, June 18th

Game 5: 2:00 PM - ESPN - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2
Game 6: 7:00 PM - ESPN - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2

Wednesday, June 20th

Game 9: 7:00 PM - ESPN - Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6

Friday, June 22nd

Game 11: 3:00 PM - ESPN - Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 6

Saturday, June 23rd (if necessary)

Rematch of Game 11 (ESPN, TBA)

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Bracket 2

{1} FLORIDA (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
{9} Texas Tech (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
{5} Arkansas (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)
{13} Texas (WN)(stats)(roster)(twitter)

Sunday, June 17th (Sunday Scoreboard: ESPN)

Game 3: 2:00 PM - ESPN - {5} Arkansas vs. {13} Texas
Game 4: 7:00 PM - ESPN2 - {1] FLORIDA vs. {9} Texas Tech

Tuesday, June 19th

Game 7: 2:00 PM - ESPN - Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4
Game 8: 7:00 PM - ESPN - Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4

Thursday, June 21st

Game 10: 8:00 PM - ESPNU - Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8

Friday, June 22nd

Game 12: 8:00 PM - ESPN - Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 8

Saturday, June 23rd (if necessary)

Rematch of Game 12 (ESPN, TBA)

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Championship Series

G1: Monday, June 25th, ESPN, 7:00 PM
G2: Tuesday, June 26th, ESPN, 7:00 PM
**G3: Wednesday, June 27th, ESPN, 7:00 PM**

Beavers down....6-1 middle of the third inning of game 1.

Now worries......got 'em right where they want 'em. ;)

Now 6-4. We have a ball game. Still, NC State one hell of a good team. Beavers could well go home after this matchup. This is what makes the College World Series so enjoyable...the "experts" are so often wrong.

I remember reading somewhere that baseball is the toughest game to make predictions of because of it's many variables.

Runner was OUT at third. Beavers got screwed! Now 8-4.

I agree..bad call. But those tend to even out. Congrats to the tarheels for a well deserved win. This game was the sloppiest I've seen this Beavers team play. Maybe the Omaha heat got to 'em? Whatever...the games go on.

I agree. Dude was out twice!
Next up my Mississippi State Bulldogs. Worse we can do tonight is set a date with some Beavers tomorrow.

Hail State!
Go Dogs!

You're a good sport, Paul. Was hoping the kid could get a single again when the bases were loaded. He never even swung the bat! My biggest pet peeve in batting is when a batter let's the first pitch go by and it goes right over the plate. It's a mind set on that first pitch big time. Especially in that situation. Good luck on Monday!

Hail State, you betcha! Should be a great game! SmileWavy

I attended Miss State for one year. Starkville Miss. didn't sell cold beer, but they did sell cold wine. Yep, drink the wine until the beer is cold. It was a very LONG year.

Stark Vegas!

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