2023 CWS

[Turbine]

Baseball is not football . . . Football is one and done in one week . . . baseball generally gives you more chances but still in one week . . . QB depth is generally not a thing in one football game in one week . . . pitching depth is a thing . . . the next thing you will want to do is have CWS extend for a month so the Ace can pitch every game . . . Sorry, but that is just not baseball . . . LSU chose not to use any pitching up on Saturday and showed on Sunday they just had more than Florida . . .

Robichaux told me (when when I called into the Mr. Bitter show) that consistent intervals for pitchers were very inportant for consistency.

Your projected month long thought implant won't work.

Only the CWS insists on putting an inferior product out there for the three most important games of the season.

[CajunVic]

I bet he never told you he would not play in the CWS because the Championship three game series would follow the two 4 team bracket double elimination portion with only one days rest . . .

[Turbine]

I bet he never told you he would not play in the CWS because the Championship three game series would follow the two 4 team bracket double elimination portion with only one days rest . . .

Nope he never did.

Nice sidestep.

[R1Letterman]

Not sure what exactly is being debated here, but cws is certainly a watered down product. Since 2013 only twice has a team won the so called double elimination tournament with less than two losses. I would say college baseball in general is as well, they probably need to go to wooden bats(not that that matters to this point) But, At the end of the day a great college baseball teams gets what, about 7 or 8 pros maybe 2 or 3 big leaguers? Meanwhile every rookie ball and short A team has ALL pros. It's also hard to believe that many of these draft picks (or most players for that matter) that are allegedly Walkons or just partial scholarship are paying the difference.
Softball was growing faster at college level partially because (outside of Olympic years) it IS THE highest level of the sport

[R1Letterman]

Nope he never did.

Nice sidestep.

Unfortunately he also never kept his team off the field if the scoreboard had our wrong name

[Sonsissymia]

Not sure what exactly is being debated here, but cws is certainly a watered down product. Since 2013 only twice has a team won the so called double elimination tournament with less than two losses. I would say college baseball in general is as well, they probably need to go to wooden bats(not that that matters to this point) But, At the end of the day a great college baseball teams gets what, about 7 or 8 pros maybe 2 or 3 big leaguers? Meanwhile every rookie ball and short A team has ALL pros. It's also hard to believe that many of these draft picks (or most players for that matter) that are allegedly Walkons or just partial scholarship are paying the difference.
Softball was growing faster at college level partially because (outside of Olympic years) it IS THE highest level of the sport

I imagine they'll try to find ways to water it down a bit more in light of ratings records...

https://theathletic.com/4646267/2023...wership-espn/#

[CajunVic]

. . . be nice . . .

[Turbine]

I imagine they'll try to find ways to water it down a bit more in light of ratings records...

https://theathletic.com/4646267/2023...wership-espn/#

The games leading up to the 3 game finale were utterly fantastic.

Then they had everyone hooked.

[Turbine]

The same 14 people that I watched the CWS with would not have watched yesterday. almost everyone I know spent yesterday on the beach, on a boat, at a camp or swimming.

Granted the heat might have adversely affected CWS attendance.

Based on viewers, the rest of the world was watching TV.

Whether it's the fued or not, even Disney was hurting for outdoor types on the 4th.

https://www.thestreet.com/travel/dis...antis-to-blame

[CajunVic]

. . . when you go woke, you go broke . . .

[CrazyCajun]

Granted the heat might have adversely affected CWS attendance.

Based on viewers, the rest of the world was watching TV.

Whether it's the fued or not, even Disney was hurting for outdoor types on the 4th.

https://www.thestreet.com/travel/dis...antis-to-blame

The rest of the world doesn’t care about July 4th or the college World Series. You are under the assumption that the viewership numbers would he huge because of a bunch of people who don’t have anything to do, don’t normally watch college baseball would be at home watching tv. That’s ridiculous bc if you didn’t watch it before, it being the 4th of July won’t change that and you lose millions of viewers who don’t sit inside watching tv on the 4th of July. Also there is no guarantee of a championship game even being played on the 4th with best of 3 series.

[Turbine]

The rest of the world doesn’t care about July 4th or the college World Series. You are under the assumption that the viewership numbers would he huge because of a bunch of people who don’t have anything to do, don’t normally watch college baseball would be at home watching tv. That’s ridiculous bc if you didn’t watch it before, it being the 4th of July won’t change that and you lose millions of viewers who don’t sit inside watching tv on the 4th of July.

Right now it's off the beaten path.

Put the matchup when people are off and (no matter how many people go outside on the 4th) in a connected world the interest will grow annually, and make today's interest seem paltry.