(06-11-2017 11:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I hate it when the privileged elite beat up on the underdogs.

In a way, I hope the U. of L-S wins it all. All least their heads can't get anymore swollen.

Yes, except when it's us...

(06-12-2017 06:57 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(06-11-2017 11:05 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I hate it when the privileged elite beat up on the underdogs.

In a way, I hope the U. of L-S wins it all. All least their heads can't get anymore swollen.

Yes, except when it's us...

when did we become the privileged elite? I am talking about the big schools with the P5 money to burn. Winning or being favored doesn't make you P-E.

Think I'll pull for Fullerton or Wake (if they make it). I could tolerate Louisville winning as well.

No real Cinderellas this year...even CSF from small conference is making 18th or 19th trip to Omaha.

(06-12-2017 08:33 AM)grol Wrote:  No real Cinderellas this year...even CSF from small conference is making 18th or 19th trip to Omaha.

Just eight stepsisters in varying degrees of ugliness.

Walkoff two-run homer in B11 by Wake Forest evens up the Florida/Wake series, with the decider to be played this afternoon.

(06-12-2017 02:17 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  Walkoff two-run homer in B11 by Wake Forest evens up the Florida/Wake series, with the decider to be played this afternoon.

Wake is one team I could genuinely root for in Omaha...and, btw, the last ACC team to win the national championship way, way back when.

(06-12-2017 03:52 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 02:17 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  Walkoff two-run homer in B11 by Wake Forest evens up the Florida/Wake series, with the decider to be played this afternoon.

Wake is one team I could genuinely root for in Omaha...and, btw, the last ACC team to win the national championship way, way back when.

Virginia got the ACC off the schneid in 2015, but you're correct that Wake was the last team before UVa.

And Florida gets the final slot

(06-12-2017 08:40 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 08:33 AM)grol Wrote:  No real Cinderellas this year...even CSF from small conference is making 18th or 19th trip to Omaha.

Just eight stepsisters in varying degrees of ugliness.

I'll go with CSF for their (non-P5) brand of "not-as-privileged elite". At least they're "elite".

(06-13-2017 06:06 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 08:40 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 08:33 AM)grol Wrote:  No real Cinderellas this year...even CSF from small conference is making 18th or 19th trip to Omaha.

Just eight stepsisters in varying degrees of ugliness.

I'll go with CSF for their (non-P5) brand of "not-as-privileged elite". At least they're "elite".

They may be the least ugly stepsister. That I know nobody from CSF is a plus.

Nominally, for family reasons, I will be "for" A$M. But only when I am around family.

I had a friend in the Army from the LA area. He did not have much interest in baseball so I think he had no dog in the fight. He told me that CSF is the school where good players go if they are academically not quite good enough for the other schools in the area.

For me, I will be pulling for LSU (I'm from BR) or UF (I read on the board that in the early 90's UF championed Rice's admission to the SEC - I am grateful for that.)

Very little rain around the states...except in the Omaha area today.

Pulling for no one. Actually my feelings are along the line of Rhett Butler's final comments to Scarlett O'Hara.