The 2025 CWS continues today in Omaha at The Chuck, Saturday in the Park: Cinderella and the Big Boys
An overwhelming number of voters correctly picked both Coastal (88%) and Oregon State (77%) yesterday.
Please note that one of those numbers does not match what is listed under “Poll Results.” This is because some voters left their ballots blank for game 2 yesterday (which is entirely accepted in this country where all votes are secret and known only to the voter and DOGE and/or Elon University) and I had to pull out a pencil and paper and compute the results the old-fashioned way, by long division. I know this because I had a great 3rd great teacher, Mrs. Adams, who often told us she was related to Founding Father John Adams but none of us brats believed her, we just pretended to because we didn’t want a whuppin’ for sassin’ her, something teachers could, and often did, administer in those days WITHOUT A WITNESS! Today, teachers go to jail for doing that and lose their jobs. Such a soft generation we are rearing these days: spare the rod, spoil the child.
Much has been made by the media of how hard it is to lose game 1 of the CWS and still go on to win the title.
Actually, in the Modern Era (birthed 1999) it’s happen 3 times in just 17 years, almost 18% of the time, almost once every 5 years.
It first happened to and last happened to Oregon State, in 2006 and 2018, and also to USCjr in 2010.
It has now been 7 years since this last happened. IOW, it’s long overdue to occur this year.
So, take heart UL and AZ, it’s still possible to win the natty but, at least in UL’s case, I hope not. They LITERALLY STOLE OUR SPOT!
BTW, people are born, eras are birthed and have nothing to do with sex unless it was the Free Love Era of the 60’s when it was ALL about sexual liberation of the masses, mostly young people in college, which then filtered down to high school in the next Era. I have no idea how low it has filtered down to these days nor do I want to. I just want my grandchildren to grow up happy, healthy, and smarter than everybody else’s grandchildren.
Today we get to see several big games. First off, Cinderella takes the field against a school whose name is so long that they just use initials — The University of California at Los Angeles. Now you know why it’s known as UCLA.
Practically the entire country is pulling for the massive underdog and regional #4 seed Murray State Racers. No one wants to be seen pulling for UCLA to win other than the 3-400 people who regularly show up at a regular season game at their dinky stadium. When your competition for attention is the Los Angeles Dodgers you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.
Game 2 today is the one that “everybody has been waiting for” according to ESPN. Of course, they are just hyping it that way because they got lucky and it’s a night game and they know both Arkansas and LSU have millions of dirt poor fans living in double-wides who will steal their neighbors WiFi signal so they can watch the game on their 60 inch large screen super dooper TVs that cost more than their house did, maybe even their house and car both, and for which they had to sell their oldest son in order to afford. {In AR and LA this is, somehow, legal, as is eating roadkill in Tennessee.}
So, high drama, just like yesterday’s games which were both tied late and one was won with a walk-off hit.
Pitching was not bad, but clutch hitting was incredible.
The stars they do rise to the surface when the going gets tough on a cloudy night In Omaha where every single cloud holds the potential for a 30-minute lightening delay or, on occasion, a bunch of clouds make for a tornado. This actually happened in 2011 and I was there for it. The storm rolled in quite noticeably but fans were told nothing and left to fend for themselves. If I had known
@ChesterCopperpot1 at that time I certainly would have had him sue the NCAA, just like everybody else does these days.
Fortunately, unlike Nashville which is just now about 1/2 way through monsoon season, there is not a cloud in the sky today in Omaha and only slight chances of rain in the coming 10 days.
Next thing you know the Omaha Native American Tribe will discover that an ancient burial ground lies behind the infield at The Chuck and raise a stink about it. Pffft, my family has an ancient burial ground in my home town and nobody at all cares about it, especially not the dead people. The only thing that keeps anybody there is the Annual Pumpkin Festival and Antique Car Show Beauty Contest — last year’s winners were a 450 lb pumpkin named Fat Albert and a restored ‘56 Chevy named Blue Velvet.
**NOTE: Yes, in my hometown on the Plateau they really do name their pumpkins because there is nothing else to do on a weekend. The hard part is remembering all their names, similar to the trouble they have remembering all their 10 children’s names. Everybody everywhere names their cars, so that’s nothing out of the ordinary.
And speaking of names, my mountain grandma was so illiterate that when the baby she expected turned out to be both my dad and my uncle, she was unable to give them a middle name because she had to use up the only 2 names she had thought of to name each kid something different That, btw, doesn’t always happen in small towns — not the having twins part, the giving each of their many kids a different name part ala George Foreman, the only kind of grill most of them know how to operate without burning the house down.
Before proceeding on with the poll, I have a bone to pick with ESPN. All week long it’s been “CWS starts Friday at 2pm.” I dutifully turned on my TV at 2 pm and it was the 4th inning.
Boy was I mad.
When it comes to time zones, I am a bit of a snob. I think all TV viewing times should be CDT or CST (I always get them mixed up so I’ll list them both.)
In fact, I’ll kill two birds with one stone and further say I think the entire world should be on Central Time. This would greatly simplify things in an ever increasing complicated world we now live in….make that, complicated world in which we now live. Never end a sentence with a preposition I was taught at the school I went to.
I am tired of constantly having to climb a ladder and change all my wall clocks while risking my life. One thing we old people do is put a clock in every single room of the house, including bathrooms in order to track BMs for our doctor (why doctors are infatuated with BMs puzzles me but it’s my doctor so I always do what he says so I don’t die,) but mostly so the EMTs can record the correct time of death no matter which room of the house we plunge to our death while standing on a rickety old ladder we inherited from our great grandpa who hand made all his ladders with pegs. In reality, we don’t really care what time it is unless it’s our daily nap time; everything else just exists on its own without having to be monitored and the time recorded.
This would be, I believe, a minor inconvenience for the rest of the world but it solves the “it’s time to change the clocks again” chant all the TV news stations celebrate in order to gain more viewers anxious to find out when this change happens (we no longer have printed newspapers so there’s no where to look up this information for ourself.). LARGA VIDA A LOS BOOMERS, LA GENERACION MAS GRANDE, NO IMPORTA LO QUE DIGA TOM BROKAW!
[Surely you don’t need an interpreter to understand what that says.]
So, to summarize, do a big favor for all of mankind, and especially this kind man, and never change the clocks again and have everybody in the world use Central Time. Just those two things will allow me to die a happy man provided the GGILF at the nursing home don’t kill me first. A man only has so much stamina, ladies. And I am especially looking at you Blanche Devereaux.
I realize this means people in other parts of the world would have to adjust to this by changing their biological clocks. But they only have to DO THAT ONCE IN THEIR LIVES, and never for those not yet born, as opposed to every 4 or 8 months like EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD has to do now (and I’m not even counting all the times you have the change the clock’s batteries.) Although I’m not sure about communist countries, I think for those countries time stood still a long time ago.
Once people in Europe adjust to waking up at around noon and going to bed around 4 am it will become quite natural. Bodies adjust quickly and do not have to be adjusted every 4 to 8 months like EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD has to do now.
Businesses could be open from 2 pm to 10 pm and operate much like teenagers do today and then crash at the aforementioned 4 am before sleeping to noon the next day. [I freely admit we also did that as teenagers but there’s something about it that I now dislike, I just can’t put my finger on it. Oh, I remember — YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY ARE LAZY ASS KIDS! My parents said the same thing about me so it’s not a big deal; please don’t be offended any of you lazy ass kids out there…. not that any of you read anymore, you just look at TikTok and YouTube vids and you call it a day and go back to bed because you’re “tired.”
So that’s my two-pronged attack for fixing the “time problem” which Congress HAS NOT SOLVED IN 80 YEARS. Easy peasy.
But I digress. On with the poll. Vote early, vote often, but don’t give anybody standing in line an over-priced bottle of water, currently illegal in a majority of states including Tennessee.
