Just gonna leave this here for any future comments there might be about beisbol this season.
I don't keep up with the rest of the league enough anymore to know what kind of slate we'll be playing through, but.....
Stony Brook has been on my mind. Some might recall they knocked LSU out of their own super-regional in 2012 after the most disastrous weather delay in program history. A thunderstorm that, imo, eventually snowballed into missing out on a CWS title the next year in 2013. You might ask how. After winning game 1 of the Super, LSU was rolling in game 2 when lightning postponed the game, eventually causing the rest of it to be made up the next morning prior to the regularly scheduled game 3 time (if necessary). The Tigers utterly lost their momentum and intensity, and derped away the remaining innings of game 2. They never recovered in Game 3 either, which I believe would never have happened if game 2 hadn't been interrupted. Fast forward a year later, the best overall LSU team I've ever seen goes to Omaha and gets eliminated in immediate fashion, 0-2. That team was amazing, but lacked the experience on the big stage they needed, and they'd have gotten it had they beaten Stony Brook the year prior. I have a lot to say about the state of cbb and what the smallball-loving a-holes did to the sport around that time, and how it affected those games, but the truth is in addition to all of that, LSU faltered just a little bit, at high-pressure times, and their lack of experience greatly contributed to their demise.
Exactly a year ago Stony Brook returned to LSU for a Friday game in an invitational format and handed us a 5-2 loss.
Bastards.
I don't understand the joke Longhorn fans have with Wofford, but Stuck Fony Brook, and with good reason.
Also, I've had PTSD ever since Florida beat us in the 2017 CWS Finals. Thing is, I actually did think Florida was the better team that year, and the "better team" won. But I let myself believe too much going into it because I let our own mythos get to me. LSU had never lost a CWS Final.....when we go all the way, we Geaux. LSU had also ended Oregon State's insane run, fighting out of the loser's bracket to beat the Beavers twice, which was unthinkable that year, to earn their spot. To boot, although I felt UF was better in a fresh, weekend format, the way the brackets had played out, Florida had exhausted some key arms and I felt pretty good about our matchup with them. I thought we should've been able to out-duel them on the mound considering the rotations each team had at that point (to be clear: I would not have favored LSU in a 3-game stretch where all weekend arms were starting fresh). I really thought we'd get our 7th title. When the Gators beat us, I was crushed. I lost all confidence. Two seasons ago, despite having the best cbb pitcher and one of the best cbb hitters I've ever seen, I didn't believe it until they did it, and even beating the Gators then, it didn't wipe away my disappointment from 2017.
Fuck Florida. Oh, wait, I guess those letters are still the same when swapped. Oh well.
Anyway, let's get this season over with so I can get on with seeing how Brian Kelly will derp away this year's football opening in spectacular fashion.
