That was definitely true back in the day. Even just a decade ago the West Coast teams were just much stronger on pitching and defense and all that while the Eastern teams tended to be mashers.
These days though it seems like the West Coast is not doing well in all major college sports not just baseball. I would hate to see it go the way of the Northeast.
Look I don't dispute that the SEC has done remarkable things in the NCAA Baseball tournament and the CWS. The top 8, hell even top 10, SEC teams should be in the tournament and the top 4 should probably all be basically guaranteed top 8 national seeds.
But it gets a little ridiculous when the entire bottom of the league are considered bubble teams and 6 of the 8 top 8 national seeds and half the hosts are all SEC. Come on. And the effect is that the other leagues basically get treated like crap and seem disrespected. And we spent years in one of those other leagues. The Big 12 was regularly a top 4 or 3 RPI league but we might as well have been hammered dog shit. It was quite frustrating.
Now granted I guess if they want to be treated differently they need to beat all the SEC teams...but does it even make sense? Why would ALL the SEC get credit because of the excellence of the two teams that made the finals? Somebody, a few of them even from other leagues, beat all those other SEC teams. I think if you are one of those SEC teams who made the finals then you deserve some deference. Sure. But Kentucky has never made the finals. Why would they get deference? Just because they played teams that had? I didn't notice Baylor getting a ton of hype just because they played us back when we were regular championship participants. Kentucky has won one CWS game EVER. Granted it was last year...but still.
Anyway glad to get the benefit of being the national #2 instead of the #2 at the Miami Regional for winning our conference.
I didn't see those. Also unless I am spending like $5 I have a hard time accepting the L5-L6-L7 seats.
Speaking of which, holy crap are the session 4 seats already crazy expensive.
Yeah...and frankly I am not really sure what will be left of those by tomorrow.
Frustrating. But I got two tickets in L2 for just the game on Friday but wow not cheap.
This whole ticket situation for this year leaves me less than gruntled.
That seems the opposite of "everybody gets a medal"
Auto bids only go to champions. People who finish #1 in their league. My only issue is the weirdness of having that be the tournament champion. That is weird in basketball and even weirder in baseball. But without that I guess the tournaments would be pointless...I mean even more than they already are.