The tradition continues

Bo knows baseball and Bo is from east of the Mississippi!

I’m sorry, it’s LSU east of the Mississippi?

I wonder why the huge imbalance. Is it because players from the east are more likely to get drafted out of high school, thus shrinking the overall pool of good players for college?

LSU is West of the Mississippi.

Actually, Baton Rouge is directly East of the Mississippi River.

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Vasco,

You can see LSU’s Alex Box Stadium from the Mississippi River Bridge.

See what happens when I make a post that doesn’t have a table or a graph or a chart or something? Wiseasses, that’s what happens. Here, allow me to define “west of the Mississippi” by state instead to clarify for some people.

CWS Championships by above regions

Green – 52
Red – 10

Your charts help me in ways you’ll never understand.

Since the vast majority of LA’s land area (and probably the majority of their in-state propects) is west of the Mississippi, and the campus & stadium are only an HGH-induced long fly ball away from the western bank, I LSU to the west is defensible.

Why not filter me out as well??? Better yet, can you analeyes based on the six flags of Texas?

It isn’t as much West versus East as Southwest US versus Southeast.

Took a quick glance at this year’s MLB draft and noted the selected US high school players. California produced 94 high school players selected in the draft, FL was second with 64, Texas third with 48, Ga. fourth with 28, and Az. fifth with 22.

To give you an idea oh how those 94 players from California compare that is more than from the NE and NW US combined. Pull out Florida and that is more than the rest of the Southeastern US. The only area the exceeds that number is the SW which just so happens to be home to UT and ASU.

I can’t say for sure that each of the preceding drafts matched those same numbers, but if I were a better man I would guess there would not be much variance over a long period of time.

With better recruiting efforts that will change over time.

More Jorts in the Southeast = skinned knees = rather play football or have a Mojito.

The Engineer in me appreciates your figures and charts. Feel free to continue graphically conveying information.

Quick, everybody pretend Virginia is west of the Mississippi. I don’t want to have to update my map.

The way Texas played last night, I’d say they belong in the red portion of your graph. Talk about an overrated team.

Even a Horn homer would agree that the wrong team won last night: we kicked y’all’s asses on the field and we actually played the better game. Is there a more undeserving and weenie way to win than the way y’all won?

People over here in Mississippi are speculating that some of your big wig donors must have gotten hold of the members of our bullpen and got them to throw the game in y’all’s favor. That’s the only reasonable conclusion we can come up with over here to explain the inexplicable disaster that happened last night.

The key to beating Texas: make Texas’s smurf ball team actually hit the ball and don’t give them a bunch of gimme walks. That and keep members of your team away from the grimy grips of the Texas big wig donors.

From what I could tell, the only way your sorry ass team is in the green is only if that signifies the green your big wig donors pay out for other teams to deliberately throw the game.

As much as I appreciate your chart, I don’t agree that Wyoming – the the only state in the union without high school baseball – is in the “Good at baseball” category when Florida is not.

College baseball unfortunately is clearly a hot weather sport and therefore a southern phenomenon.

The wounded remains of northern college baseball were dealt a death blow by title nine and her ugly sisters softball and women’s soccer. A pox be upon 5’-8″ × 5′-8" women throwing underhand

Nice to see you back, spread. Yep, we paid everyone off, it’s the only way we ever win anything.

Also, any team that hits a batter and walks three while tied in the ninth does not deserve to win, so you are wrong, the correct team won last night.

Hook ’em!

Spread Eagle is telling the truth. I did have to pay up the staggering sum of two transistor radios WITH earpieces to listen to the Brett Farve retirement press conferences in class, a box of moon pies, and 2 RC colas and a bag of peanuts to drop in them.

Damn near wiped me out with the way radio is going and all, but well worth the investment.

Dumb dang coon asses from the South. Everyone knows if you want to throw the ball straight you got to put sum possum fat on the ball first.

Spread’s just mad because we got all good mobile homes from FEMA.

“Also, any team that hits a batter and walks three while tied in the ninth does not deserve to win”

Does any of this mean that your team deserved to win? Both teams played so poorly that both of them deserved to lose. No one deserved to win that poor excuse for baseball displayed last night.

Congrats to your sorry, arrogant asses for the win, but is there anyone here who is foolish enough to believe that Texas is going to get very far in the tournament, given how weak and wimpy your hitting is? Not a very realistic scenario, in my book, without very generous big win donors.

Your smurf ball is the most unmanly way to win in baseball that has ever been invented. Here in Mississippi we still have a sense of traditional integrity: we would rather just lose like men than win in the sissy, girly way you guys do. Why don’t you guys just go ahead and put on the dresses when you guys go up to bat? It would be more fitting.

Stolen from Continental Op on ShaggyBevo:

“Don’t worry, Corky. Life goes on.”

IMO, it’s actually harder to play small ball than to swing away. So…we’re technically challenging ourselves more than a free-swinging team like LSU, USM, ASU. We depend more on our defense and pitching which have to be near perfect to win. Not that I like any of this, but it’s much harder when you’re giving up outs freely. Huckleberry’s statistical analysis proved that already guy. Read or GTFO.

I guess I missed the part where USM hit more home runs than Texas last night. Or doubles.

Big talk from fan who’s team had only two extra base hits on the night.

Spread Eagle is a Man’s man. He scratches his nuts in church and kisses the hood ornament on his truck every night before he goes to sleep.
He had a kid who was a sissy and that kid ain’t around no more. Spread Eagle is disgraced about falling into the wimpy losers bracket and having to take down that baby blue basketball school. He was sexually violated by a smurf as a young child and it has since shaped his viewpoints into all things smurf (bad) and all things non-smurf (good).

We are pleased to have Spread Eagle around and will miss his inevitable disappearance next week, a quick exit with integrity and manliness.

Spread Eagle (really, how unintentionally appropriate) brings up a good point. Is it big wig? Bigwig? Big Whig?

Ball 4 Eagle needs to be less focused on how we won and more on if they can get out of the loser’s bracket.

Eagle should focus on getting out of life’s losers’ bracket.

Sick burn.

Cannot get it over the plate

“…we would rather just lose like men…”

I guess you accomplished what you came for… congratulations then?

Loss like men? Ha!!! The entire fucking South is my bitch!

“it’s much harder when you’re giving up outs freely. Huckleberry’s statistical analysis proved that already guy. Read or GTFO.”

Leave it to an engineer to lose the forest for the trees. The main point is not so much that “it’s much harder”: it’s that it is damn near impossible to keep winning at all with the sissy, premeditated capitulation smurf ball you guys are forced to play cause y’all suck so much at the plate.

Face the facts, engineer geek boy, the only way you guys can keep on winning is if the other teams continue to give the game away with abnormal shitty play. You guys could not even play to the level of the lowest seeded team in the whole tournament and needed a series of gimmees just to eek out a last minute, gift from God win. Either Texas continues to get lucky gifts from the other team or Texas will soon GTFO of the CWS tournament. From what I have seen so far, your team just does not have enough talent to win in a legitimate and uncontestably manly fashion.

Huck, you maybe missing a color on your graph, if you want your graph to truly be a reflection of the real state of things in the collegiate baseball world. From the way Texas plays hardball, your state, Texas, ought to be awarded the special and unique color of pink, pink as in pink panties.

My God, I swear, watching your team bat is like watching women’s softball play when a good pitcher is on the mound. Your team has about the most unmanly batting lineup I have ever seen in the CWS and, I have to admit it, it totally sucks and sucks that we ended up losing and giving the game away to a bunch of undeserving sissies like yourselves.

The team that played better defense, had better pitching and hit the ball better won. End of story.

Oh and your “manly” team bunted more than Texas did last night.

Spread Eagle reminds me of Tim. A lot of hot air, peppered with ridiculous, unfounded insults, followed by blatant stupidity.

Is the manly team the one that needed two walks, an infield single, an error, a wild pitch, and a f-ing catcher’s interference to take the lead?

Speaking of tradition isn’t small ball how the game was played back during the War between the States? So technically, isn’t Texas’s the more tradition of styles?

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For me to get your comparison to women’s softball, I would have to actually watch a women’s game, which I have never, ever, done. How’s that for manly.

“Spread Eagle reminds me of Tim.”

What do you want to bet that SpreadEagle IS Tim?

We’re all assuming that SE is, um, “discussing” in good faith. My guess is he’s as connected to Southern Miss as Vladimir Putin is.

Spread Eagle = didn’t have the grades to get into Ole Miss.

You’re going to need to let that anger go, son. There are 5 or 6 kids every year who don’t have what it takes to get admitted to Mississippi’s finest.

And the reason the Phi Delts asked you to not come back was all of the talk about manly, sissies and style points made everyone, well, uncomfortable.

it’s tim

“it’s tim”

It has to be Tim. Someone needs to see if the ip address can be traced back to the electronics department in the Lubbock Wal-Mart.

What Spread Eagle said!

I mean how likely is it that:

1. There are actually USM baseball fans.
2. There are actually USM baseball fans with internet.
3. Said fans would choose BC to come flaunt their “manliness”. Hornfans, shaggybevo, and rival websites generally attract the shitbirds from opposing teams.

no way spread is real

no way spread is real

Correct.

Spread Eagle = Tiger Bashball = Shaggy Aggie.

Are you remotely surprised?

The last four teams standing are all in the green area. However, this is only the second time (2005) in the last 13 CWS that no California team is in the final four. 1996 was a weird year altogether as none of the last four teams that year were from west of the Mississippi. LSU was the westernmost team and they were joined by Clemson, Florida, and Miami.

The last time all of the final four teams were from the red region above? Never. 1996 was as close as it ever got. In 1953 Texas was joined by Boston College, Lafayette, and Michigan in the last four. In 1952 Missouri was joined by Holy Cross, Penn State, and Western Michigan.

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