Game One

The College World Seies has had a best 2-out-of-3 championship series format since 2003. Here are the results year by year:

2003: Rice wins game 1, Stanford wins game 2, Rice wins game 3.

2004: Cal State Fullerton sweeps.

2005: Texas sweeps.

2006: North Carolina wins game 1, Oregon State wins games 2 and 3.

2007: Oregon State sweeps.

In other words, the winner of game one of the championship series has only failed to win the title once.

In other words Dawgs, get rested and ready to play tomorrow and hope tonights UNC-Fresno State matchup is a brawl, because that first game is ultra critical.

Who are we pulling for to win tonight? I would like to see UNC win, how about everyone else?

wlayton wrote:

Who are we pulling for to win tonight? I would like to see UNC win, how about everyone else?

I won't know who I'm pulling for tonight until about the 7th inning or so. I want whoever is most tired and beat up and burns the most pitching to win. One nice thing is the game doesn't start until 7pm, so if it's a night game that drags on and they celebrate afterward, it might tire them out and they'll have less time to recover than if it was a 2pm game where they could go to bed early tonight. I hope the rain comes again and they can't start until like 9. I'm hoping for a 15-12, 4+ hour affair where each team uses like 6 pitchers.

I will say that I do not look foward to the prospect of having to face Alex White in game 1, and that alone has me leaning slightly toward Fresno State.

The one thing we have going for us if we face North Carolina is that we have done spectacular against the ACC this season. We owned them during the regular season, and we eliminated or had a hand in eliminating 3 of the 5 ACC teams that made the post-season (Georgia Tech, NC State, Miami) and we beat the team that helped knock out FSU and Miami twice in a row.

Fresno State lost 29 games this year, but their record is as deceptive as ours is at this point. Plus, recent history favors the west coast team. The last team from east of the Mississippi to win the CWS besides Miami was us in 1990.

Both teams will be equally hungry for it, UNC having lost the championship the past two seasons to Oregon State, and Fresno State trying to complete their cinderella season. Either way, it's an uphill battle for the Dawgs.

So, pick your poison: risk losing to a west-coast non-BCS team named the Bulldogs, or risk the ACC winning their first title since 1955 at our expense (man, that's a sucky thought) and a team from a neighboring state getting regional bragging rights over us.

I'm rooting for UNC only because they had to play Friday night, so they will have to play at least 5 nights in a row, 6 if it goes all 3. They'll have to be tired. I'm hoping for an 18 inning 6 hour brutal game tonight.

GO DAWGS!!!

Fresno State has used up ALL of its pitching and had to play last night. I'm glad it's FSU; I don't want a UNC team that wants to make the third time the charm. I know that Fresno is the hot team right now, but I think we're hotter, and unlike those other Bulldogs we don't have a loss in this CWS. Fresno is worn down and beat up, and the only advantage to playing UNC would have been the fact that we've worn out the ACC this year. I like an all-Dog final, and regardless of who it is, right now I like our Dawgs over any other team in college sports.

GO DAWGS!!!

Have to agree with an all-Dog final. Fresno State has been a scrappy bunch, as have our Dawgs. From a baseball standpoint, I liked watching UNC play the game, really good baseball team. This should be an outstanding series for all of us to watch. Although I am a baseball purist (don't like metal bats) hoping to hear that \"ping\" often when UGA has the lumber . . . oops . . . metal in their hands. Go Dawgs.