The Road To Omaha: CWS 2012

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I looked it up. The only team from the Northeast to ever actually win the College World Series was Holy Cross of Worcester, MA in 1952. Hey, it's been 60 years. Our region is due.

[seawolf17]

Up to 1986, the CWS actually held geographic regionals, so a team from the northeast HAD to make it, by default. Ever since they did away with geography, no northern teams had made it.

Until now.

[Ceetar]

you may enjoy this post on facebook.

Evidently no one in Omaha has ever heard of SUNY Stony Brook (who made it unexpectedly into the College World Series). Omahans are are rooting for them as the underdogs, or Cinderella story. Stony Brook T-shirts are suddenly a hot commodity in the midwest. Bizarre.

[Frayed Knot]

I've only been to Omaha once and it wasn't during CWS time (and it was really only to the airport before a quick trip across the river to my actual destination of Council Bluffs, Iowa). But, from what I've heard/read, the folks out there have a good time with it. Baseball's not exactly a foreign sport as they do have AAA ball (the Royals top farm team) but I think it's different when a national event comes to a small-ish town like that on an annual basis. The locals tend to embrace it and the travelers are reasonable enough in number that they don't overwhelm the area like they would for a BIG event like a Final Four and Bowl game or something. So things become a nice mix of rabid rooters and others just there to enjoy the tourney and something like folks choosing to 'adopt' a school like Stony Brook fits right in with the whole attitude.

[seawolf17]

Okay, THAT was ugly. We'll try again on Sunday.

[ashie62]

FSU Seminoles vs. Stony Brook Seawolves 5pm today.

[seawolf17]

Would have liked to pick up one win, but certainly nobody thought we'd get as far as we did. Helluva job, fellas.

[Vic Sage]

gosh darn it to heck... 2 shellackins' and our walkin' papers. Not the way a cinderelly team is so supposed to be treated!

[Frayed Knot]

The other unexpected team marches on as Kent State eliminated top-seeded Florida.
They now go on to face reigning champ South Carolina