College baseball 2013!

[LBHalos17]

I'm a Long Beach State Dirtbags guy, but I thought it'd be better to have a thread going for ALL of college baseball.

I prefer the college game to MLB, mostly because of the relationships I have with the team from year to year.  Even when the Weav comes around, we end up talking more about the prospects for this years' Bags team.

 

Who are the teams/players everybody's following this season?

[Vernster52]

lolz @ LB St. included

[TeemuTrout]

Long Beach State all the way

[Broad Street]

My buddy is the starting shortstop at USC so I'm going to have to root for them. (Otherwise I'd say, Go Stanford)

[Lou]

Are we supposed to just vote for our favorite team?

[LBHalos17]

Are we supposed to just vote for our favorite team?

Yeah... I usually end-up going to more College games than Angels during the year.  I'm hoping we have some College baseball fans in here to point us toward players/teams to watch and other interesting stuff going on during the season.

I did the poll from the pre-season rankings... and had to add my Dirtbags 

 

The Bags are, however, off to a great start!  They had leads against #2/4 Vandy in all three games of the opening series, but only won one.  They should have swept two from #10 Arizona (went 1-1), and just swept Valpo this last weekend.  The hits are more plentiful than expected, and Josh Guerra hit a monster hr out of Blair Field last week! (An achievement on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon; he did it during a down-pour of rain on a Tuesday night!).

 

As far as I understand it, not much is expected from USC this year; the Bags will be visiting this tuesday (we might fire-up and make the trip).  UCLA looks to be the class of the West this year.

[Wallerrrr]

what is cal state san bernardino ranged this season?

[Lou]

in that case i better vote for the Bruins

 

however, i like either UNC and Arkansas to win it all

[LBHalos17]

what is cal state san bernardino ranged this season?

I believe they're ranked just below the Bags, somewhere between Montana Southern and Cal Tech....

[ELEVEN]

Saddens me to see what's become of SC baseball. I played Frosh ball there in 77. Was the premiere program in the US back then.

[LBHalos17]

Saddens me to see what's become of SC baseball. I played Frosh ball there in 77. Was the premiere program in the US back then.

Yep...  It's a football school; baseball is an after-thought.

btw..They beat LB St. 4-1 tonight in the only meeting of the season.

[Broad Street]

Yep... It's a football school; baseball is an after-thought.

btw..They beat LB St. 4-1 tonight in the only meeting of the season.

James Roberts with a hbp RBI. Kids a beast. I may or may not have a bias opinion haha

[Lou]

Yep...  It's a football school; baseball is an after-thought.

btw..They beat LB St. 4-1 tonight in the only meeting of the season.

 

Oh !!! You're talking about South Carolina.  

 

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Lou]

Yeah... I usually end-up going to more College games than Angels during the year.  I'm hoping we have some College baseball fans in here to point us toward players/teams to watch and other interesting stuff going on during the season.

I did the poll from the pre-season rankings... and had to add my Dirtbags 

 

The Bags are, however, off to a great start!  They had leads against #2/4 Vandy in all three games of the opening series, but only won one.  They should have swept two from #10 Arizona (went 1-1), and just swept Valpo this last weekend.  The hits are more plentiful than expected, and Josh Guerra hit a monster hr out of Blair Field last week! (An achievement on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon; he did it during a down-pour of rain on a Tuesday night!).

 

As far as I understand it, not much is expected from USC this year; the Bags will be visiting this tuesday (we might fire-up and make the trip).  UCLA looks to be the class of the West this year.

 

Not sure about that.  The West will be loaded.  Oregon St, Oregon, UofA, Stanford, UCI and CSJM are all good.

[HeavenlyHalos]

None of those options.

[LBHalos17]

Not sure about that.  The West will be loaded.  Oregon St, Oregon, UofA, Stanford, UCI and CSJM are all good.

The West will get shunned as always... The bubble teams will not have a chance.  NCAA usually stacks West regionals against our Conference winners too.  East Coast bias is alive and well.

[Tank]

and still no love for el camino.

 

sigh.

[Schildog]

fullerton is taking this shit down peeps. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Go Gators!

[stevestevens]

BYU, who is not good, just won @ LSU and lost the other game against LSU with an 9th inning meltdown....... so LSU does not get my vote.

[Vernster52]

The guys on State College

[LBHalos17]

So much for my perfect baseball weekend... I was hoping to be rolling into Tempe this weekend for some Halos games, and the Dirtbags series at ASU but NOOOO, my buddy dragged his feet, and we'll be out next weekend.

 

It's probly better this way, as ASU is ranked #24.  They are off probation, and off to a good start.

 

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1

[Vernster52]

UNLV's Hustlin' Rebels went into Palo Alto and swept Stanford this weekend.

[Lou]

Bruins beat southern cal 6-1

 

that makes it 5 straight vs trogans,  and 20 of 25

[LBHalos17]

Bruins beat southern cal 6-1

 

that makes it 5 straight vs trogans,  and 20 of 25

I'm still pretty high on the Bruins, though the only quality opponent they've won against so far is Baylor.  They were shut-out by #20 Oklahoma; hopefully that's a wake-up call.  Their offense didn't really impress when they visited Blair Field last week, but they still found a way to win.

 

Their schedule gets a lot tougher now... They will see Fullerton and Irvine, and visit ASU.