2023 CWS

[CajunVic]

the late start is because of the teams up north . . .

[CrazyCajun]

Poor Ohio state can’t compete in baseball with their 225 million dollar athletic budget bc it’s too cold? What a shame, sorry you gotta go out an earn a regional like the rest of of us and not pay to beat up on cupcakes at home for a month and get handed a host site

[Dad04]

The best baseball players are grown in southern and southwestern states. The best hockey players are grown in VERY cold weather states. Nothing will change that. Water seeks its own level.

[CrazyCajun]

The best baseball players are grown in southern and southwestern states. The best hockey players are grown in VERY cold weather states. Nothing will change that. Water seeks its own level.

exactly, moving the college season back a couple weeks wont all of a sudden produce a bunch of great baseball players in the north.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Poor Ohio state can’t compete in baseball with their 225 million dollar athletic budget bc it’s too cold? What a shame, sorry you gotta go out an earn a regional like the rest of of us and not pay to beat up on cupcakes at home for a month and get handed a host site

Ohio State could very easily secure both indoor practice and playing facilities. So being too cold isn’t their real problem.

[CajunVic]

. . . No one here has any clue what Ohio St. can and can’t do or what they are dealing with in this respect . . . this is like Dr. Fun saying he would not even venture to judge the job of Dr. Savoie because no body has any clue what factors he is dealing with on a day to day basis in running this university . . .

[Turbine]

. . . No one here has any clue what Ohio St. can and can’t do or what they are dealing with in this respect . . . this is like Dr. Fun saying he would not even venture to judge the job of Dr. Savoie because no body has any clue what factors he is dealing with on a day to day basis in running this university . . .

Weren't you saying you can accomplish anything with enough money and then turning it around to UL and saying "Where are you going to get the money"? "

[CajunVic]

Weren't you saying you can accomplish anything with enough money and then turning it around to UL and saying "Where are you going to get the money"? "

No, but nothing can be done without money. I see what you are doing but will not allow it . . .

[Dad04]

exactly, moving the college season back a couple weeks wont all of a sudden produce a bunch of great baseball players in the north.

Yeah prolly not.

[Turbine]

It would take decades to organically grow baseball up north.

Have to start younger.

If you were able to remove the "It's too cold" excuse, the pool of available athletes would grow.

A late April start (instead of March) for Little League and Babe Ruth League might help generate a potential pool of future collegiate baseball athletes.

It wouldn't happen overnight.

[CrazyCajun]

It would take decades to organically grow baseball up north.

Have to start younger.

If you were able to remove the "It's too cold" excuse, the pool of available athletes would grow.

A late April start (instead of March) for Little League and Babe Ruth League might help generate a potential pool of future collegiate baseball athletes.

It wouldn't happen overnight.

They still will never be able to play it year round like the kids in the south. There are also 17 MLB teams in the north/northeast as opposed to 5 in the south. College baseball will never be as good or popular up there as it is down here. Hockey is played indoors and will never be big in the south, nothing to do with weather.

[Turbine]

They still will never be able to play it year round like the kids in the south. There are also 17 MLB teams in the north/northeast as opposed to 5 in the south. College baseball will never be as good or popular up there as it is down here. Hockey is played indoors and will never be big in the south, nothing to do with weather.

I don't see youth on any diamond year round.

In the end you are right though, but not for the reasons given.

Up north youth skate outdoors, there is a hockey opportunity in every neighborhood. That is where the hockey foundation begins.

For baseball it's easy to say it's too cold to stand in one place and do nothing.

You would be wrong about hockey in the south if there were a rink in every small town.

Popularity comes down to opportunity.