College baseball is the best LFG

In 2011 I went to the CWS for my high school graduation present with my dad. He still says it was the best baseball experience he has had. Definitely reccomend going and just picking a team to root for when you get there. I got to see JBJ before my red sox drafted him, and many other future MLB players.

I was at the first game of the championship a few weeks ago or so. Everyone was drenched in beer after those 3 straight home runs by Ole Miss. My ears were hurting from all of the cheering. It was insane.

Thanks for making this video Mike. This video brought back great memories for me. I went to a small D3 college in New London Connecticut called Mitchell College, a school with only 600-700 students. During that time, I was the student manager of my school’s baseball team, where I got to experience great memories, high intensity games, and made great friends with teammates who I am still friends with to this day. On top of that, our team was incredibly successful with three conference championships, 3 NCAA bids, National rankings, and delivers joy and pride to our college and the town at large. This is why I have a huge love for college baseball.

The only College Baseball players I watch is Tommy White also known as Tommy Tanks he reminds me of Pete Alonso just slugging Homers! Also Love watching Ben Joyce who is the next Aroldis Chapman who THROWS 106 MPH!!!!

College baseball is very underrated I had a lot of fun watching my school play in the CWS this year. I also went to a game my freshman year and that was also one of the most underrated experiences I’ve had in college

Glad to see that Hawaii got some love at the end. I moved to Hawaii last year, and as COVID restrictions finally loosened last fall, I started going to all kinds of UH sporting events. With no professional teams here, the Rainbow Warriors are the team to cheer for. When I went to their first baseball game this season back in February, MLB was still mired in the lockout. I instantly fell in love with the scrappiness of that team, and it somehow made the pain of the lockout diminish a bit. Even though they lost, I didn't seem to care that it took four and a half hours to play nine innings because the crowd was in it the whole time. The next two games averaged four hours as well, and the crowd's enthusiasm never wavered. The intimate atmosphere got me hooked. (The view of Diamond Head beyond right-center is pretty good too.) They have a first year year coach in Rich Hill, who seems to have revitalized the fanbase and the team. This year they had their best conference record since moving to the Big West ten years ago, finishing in third place. Prior to this season, they only had one year with a winning record in the Big West. He's also the first person I've seen call for timeout to have a meeting with the runners and the batter, and he does it on a regular basis. I saw Vandy nearly throw a (seven inning) perfect game, and I saw Hawaii pitching shut down Brooks Lee, the #5 prospect in this year's draft, going 0-4 with 2 K's. Needless to say, they made me a fan this year, and I can't wait to see them make some noise in the next few years.

I love the cws, its also as close as you get in usa to the passion of koshien or tokyo big 6

I’ve been in the ECU Baseball jungle and it has some of the best fans in college baseball.

I want a new college baseball video game so bad

Congrats on the soon-to-be Masters! I work with Southern Miss Athletics and we enjoyed hosting FAU this year. Katrina and the team were great to work with that weekend. The only drawback was our 10:15 a.m. first pitch to get y’all back to Boca on Sunday. Best of luck in your future and SMTTT!

Thanks for giving my Rebs a shout out! I was lucky enough to watch them win it all in Omaha this summer, and it was truly amazing. College baseball really is a community-uniting program. It's a bit of a tired meme at this point, but I think it would've been cool to point out Tim Elko's performance in last year's playoffs on a torn ACL. You'll never ever see something like that in the pros.

I really don’t comment a lot, but you did a wonderful job of capturing what college baseball is and means to so many people. I am getting to live through college baseball right now And it’s something you can never describe, yet you did. Job well done

As a long-time college baseball advocate I truly appreciate this video. I had the opportunity to play for a year at the D3 level (I'm poor and didn't have too many college options, I had to go with the cheapest school and make it work). It was an incredible opportunity even for just a single year at that level. You did a great job presenting college baseball for all of its glory.

College baseball is just different. Played at a D2 HBCU and our conference tournament had the most energy I ever played around

I love the attention you gave MLB Power Pros, I'd love to see an entire video about it. Also here's some ideas for videos (from previous comments) Zach Duke Jason Kendall Carlos Pena Francisco Rodriguez Jim Eisenreich Roy Oswalt Mark Prior Darin Erstad Kevin Millar Fred Lynn Kenny Lofton

I live in Omaha literally the best 2 weeks of the year. I love when old miss, miss st , lsu, Arkansas , and the old gamecocks came man those fans are so fun to be around best energy. After the games you know I had to chug some beers with them

This is a great ode to college baseball, thank you so much for this video For me personally, my local team is James Madison University. They have one of the best draft prospects in Chase DeLauter and during the summer of 2020, covid hit and their season (and every college teams season) was lost. He and his teammate Reifsnyder stayed around and played for our local league RCBL, and he put up a show. He had an OPS above 2 in that league. To have a guy that good, plus a teammate who was a swag spark plug, was great for our community during the difficult times. They continued to show that when college ball came back, even with DeLauter's untimely foot injury. I love that you hit on the community aspect of college ball, because any baseball fan realizes that impact. I think part of the way the game can grow is if college ball becomes more accessible, and I'm starting to see it happen slowly but surely. Bless you guys, and good luck in your next step Mike!

ECU is a different breed during playoffs, was at the 3rd Texas game, left at 8am, was there until about 12:00a.m which was still the 5th or 6th inning. Stayed out there in the pouring rain and 90+ heat for 16 hours... best time of my life

Went to the TCU’s both super regional games this past year and oh boy. The environment was absolutely insane despite it being pretty damn hot. Fans waiting for almost 3 hours for gates to open for the GA seats. I even went to games in the middle of the week against low tier teams and it was still an amazing environment. College baseball is so underrated and everyone should go to at least a game or as a bonus, go to a tournament game

I'm lucky enough to work for my university's baseball team's games and let me tell you it was the best job I've ever had. I essentially get paid to watch college ball. The fans I get to talk to are some of the nicest folks I've met, they all know so much and have been going to the games for decades. Ended up hosting a regional and being at those games was an amazing atmosphere that was arguably more electric than the MLB postseason games I've been to. Great video!

i was blessed enough to play juco ball in California and it was one of the best experiences in my life. its a totally different atmosphere and everyone wants to win every single inning. King of Juco said it best when he said its a band of brothers going to war. it was an amazing experience.

This applies to all levels of college baseball. Im currently in a juco and although the fans part isnt as nuts. The energy from the players going all out is the same. And the point about be with the guys since the first day of school is 100% true.

Went to Ole Miss and LOVED going to games during and after my time there. Atmosphere at Swayze field is off the charts! Plus, I went to many other games to watch my team and those atmospheres were amazing! Best live bang for your buck in sports!!

Going to Omaha for the CWS is a great experience. Would highly recommend going.

I got to watch Kramer Robertson in Omaha on tv. I got to watch him live and chat him up in person for the Memphis Redbirds. Damn shame he’s now a Met. Fico you got a good one.

MLB power pros was my favorite game on the wii back in the day I put countless hours into it, love the shoutout!!

I grew up on college baseball and to watch the Rebs go from the worst to the best in the whole country was inspiring honestly they played there hearts out and it paid off and I think they taught us all a lesson the dreams can come true

That old Carolina Clemson clip of Carolina tagging out the Clemson batter brought be back to the good ole days of 2010 11 and 12

College ball is wild. A few of us go to Creighton University games here in Omaha and it's just wonderful.

Iv never played baseball but living in Greenville NC my entire life, yea college baseball really brings the city together. (Similarly we had a team make the LLWS a couple years ago and that was all anyone could talk about, those kids were superstars)

I am a Maryland alum and for the first time this year, Maryland hosted an NCAA Regional. The first time EVER in over 100 years of the program's history. The Terps have turned the program around over the past 15 years, and when I tell you I haven't been to a more electric crowd in my life, a crowd of just 2,700 people, I'm not kidding. It was absolutely incredible

I live about 20 minutes from Hattiesburg and trust me, the baseball games are sold out every single night. The whole town loves USM baseball. But Hail State

I went to siu and while we aren’t a big d1 baseball school, we play in the mvc. We were able to throw of the university of Illinois baseball team because we as fans kept on chirping them so hard. Nothing beats the chirps that go on.

Hey thanks for telling me I could like college baseball and MLB! All at the same time no less. Truly mind blowing!

Boise State played baseball a total of 3 weeks and you had a small clip of them. So sad they dropped their program after a 30ish year hiatus. I went to the CWS this year for the first time. Wanted to go for the championship series no matter who was playing. I wore my Cal State Fullerton jersey and was pretty much surrounded by Ole Miss fans. It was a fun atmosphere. The year Fresno State won (2006), they were a 4-seed in their regional and probably only got in because they won their conference. You forgot another unlikely team to win the College World Series, Rice (2003).

Awesome video, one quick note on Ole Miss tho: Ole Miss actually wasn’t the worst team to make it, they were the last at large bid and got slotted in as a 3 seed in their regional iirc. It’s more like an 11 or 12 seed winning March madness (which will also probably never happen because baseball is special and the Regional->Supers->CWS format is the best college tournament to exist fight me) but those regional 4 seeds that were small conference winners got absolutely mowed down this year for the most part Edit: just looked and the 16 4 seeds combined to go 4-32, with Air Force making a run to the regional finals with 2 of those wins, alongside Missouri State and Central Michigan each winning one game. Not exactly a shining record, but still had some teams make legitimate noise (Air Force almost won a regional with Texas in it and Central Michigan almost beat Florida…twice) with more still that took powerhouses to the wire in big games before falling to 0-2

Talking about the environment around college baseball. Charles Schwab Field holds about 25k people. For the finals, OU had about 2-3k fans in the stands. Ole Miss had the rest. I was not able to go, but my parents were able to go to the finals. I called them after the last out and I could barely hear them over the crowd going absolutely wild. They said it was that level for a half hour after the game ended.

I’m an Arkansas fan, so any college World Series topics hurt my soul. I’ll never get over that chance we had, but I hope we’ll get there this year. I’ll always love my hawgs. WOO PIG 🐗

As a USC and Ole Miss Fan boy I went to USC games and the crowds I’ve been with have been crazy I love College Ball..

Great video, definitely something I will be checking out. Can you touch on how to actually watch them though - are these games streamed on youtube for the most part?

this video really needs to blow up, this was such an awesome love letter to such a great sport to follow. I love Texas Tech baseball, I rather watch college ball is sweltering Texas heat than sit in the soulless globe life field

ECU has the best baseball fans! I live a hour away from Greenville, and I went to the game where that B.S. called happened when that walk off home run DIDN’T count. We were pissed, people booed till we couldn’t no more.

I started watching the regionals and super regionals to see how it is, and I enjoyed every minute of it!

I'm gonna give it a shot next season, look forward to watching college ball. Great video.

Totally agree- longtime fan (long suffering- Go Noles)---also hooked on womens softball- they both bring FUN home!!

NC State in the 2021 College World Series were some of my most exciting and frustrating moments watching sports.

As a Texas fan, getting to watch Ivan Melendez this year is an honor comparable to watching someone like Colt McCoy play football

Loved watching college baseball this season. Was very depressed tho when Rutgers didn’t make the field of 64 lol.

Thank you for this video perfectly explained and congratulations on your success

If you love baseball, not just mlb but the game itself, check out a local high school game. Cheap, fun baseball. And if you're fortunate enough to have a college or JUCO program in your area same deal. I just started going randomly 2 years ago. So much fun, and so cheap

So well done mate. I’m just going to have to start watching college baseball now.

I went to the first two days of games of the 2022 CWS. I love college baseball!

Early congrats on your masters man! I get my bachelors in December as well! Crazy world; keep up the good work and awesome videos bro

I love College Baseball and College Softball. So much passion for the game

The first college baseball game I ever watched was Kumar Rocker’s no-hitter vs Duke. Been a fan ever since

SRS great video! My Dad loves college baseball and this helped me understand why. You were wearing a Griffey jersey. Are ya from the NW?

I went to watch the division 2 college World Series to watch my cousin play and win it and it got me into baseball 😂started watching ball games, playing mlb the show, and learning about the major league stuff which is crazy considering I always found it to be boring when I played as a kid

You live in FL?! I live in Ft.Lauderdale. I played baseball at south plantation. That’s awesome!

As someone who lives in Knoxville, I can assure you that I know everything there is to know about College Baseball, and am pumped for next season.

I was at the game where Ole Miss hit back to back to back home runs. The crowd was going crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it

Oh man, there’s few things more exciting than the College World Series. The atmosphere in Omaha at that time is insane. I love the CWS.

Dude you should do a video on what happened to the replacement players who crossed the picket line during the strike in 1995. Couldn’t be part of the mlbpa, no pensions, etc. Its an interesting topic.

I’m from Omaha and 10/10 love going every year

Mississippi State had a rough year but I still watched almost every weekend

Wow I’m going to FAU too and I wanna do stats with baseball too!

I only watch the college World Series and watching this year was amazing.

I’m so excited to be a part of college ball this next season, gonna be one hell of a ride

No chance we were at the same CWS game. Went to the most CWS games I have ever been to in a given year. It was a blast other than the blistering heat

I saw a college game as an exhibition between two HBCs at Fenway Park. One kid hit a homer over the green monster. Everyone on BOTH teams went nuts and were so excited for him. He'll tell his grandkids about that one. EDIT: I googled it. It was Christian Triplett in 2015. Apparently, he hit TWO homers over the monster. I only remember one. I guarantee he remembers both.

We need a college baseball video game

College baseball is so good last year my favorite team won it all and this year the team I hate so much won it all

Great stuff! For a real treat, check out Pete Incaviglia's college stats. They're truly insane!

not many of us fans, but college baseball rocks. Regular season thru postseason.

Yo Power Pros Success Mode slaps. You’re a real one for the shout out.

Cheers from the Dominican Republic... And Yes, I am crying.

The college world series might be the most fun event ever in sports

I’d like to be SRS’ official NC State correspondent for college baseball coverage. I’m already there for Inside Pack Sports.

The pace and atmosphere of college Baseball is such a breath of fresh air

I wish the games at UCLA were as exciting as the other states. I saw Trevor Bauer pitch while he was at UCLA and the game was so dull. After watching this I will definitely give college baseball another go.

Being from Omaha it is one of the best sporting events in the world and my favorite part of summer

True

Dang, now I’m disappointed I never got to watch a USM game while I lived in Hattiesburg.

That’s why I love college sports because it’s more passion like everyday is their last day

damn i live right by fau and i go to their games sometimes

baja blast killed me🤣🤣

That Georgia versus Georgia tech rivalry is something else

Yo I go to FAU too I'm a freshman I hope to see you at some games

Ive seen that trick play so many times, some of those guys in the clip looked like they were in they're late 30s early 40s lol and now you're telling me its a college game

Lmfao Tywone though. Congrats on your future Masters!

We need more College Baseball Videos

i need lsu baseball back already. next year we are running the sec

College ball is great one of the best things to watch on ESPN+

Watched it all covid and strike- it's fucking amazing and classic baseball

Do you know Daniel Tomasello?? I assumed he was the hungry walk on you were talking about

Now I’m debating going to collage just to play baseball

If you want a great atmosphere, you NEED to come to dudy noble

I think also you think about is College cheerleaders in college sports. Sports need side entertainment to keep folks alert.

This was a fantastic video. But let's make one thing clear: The Ole Miss Rebels were **not** the worst-ranked (64th) team in the NCAA tournament this year. Not even close. They weren't even the worst-ranked team in their own regional. They were a regional 3-seed in a 4-team regional in the opening weekend of the tournament. They were the last at-large team to make the tournament. Plenty of high-quality teams didn't get a bid. I'm dead certain that Rutgers and NC State would have put up a much better fight in regionals than Long Island did, even though Long Island dominated their conference's regular season and won their tournament. Every conference has a way to decide which team gets an automatic bid (almost always the conference tournament), and the remaining slots are decided at-large. This is exactly the same process as March Madness, where the "bubble" teams get 11 or 12 seeds. Not the 16 seeds. Bubble teams get regional 3 seeds, as several conference tournament champions are strong enough to have gotten an at-large bid, but most of them are not. That said, as a Maryland alum, I was fortunate to witness College Park hosting a regional for the very first time in their history. Maryland was a dormant program for a long time, but through excellent coaching and smart recruiting, they built a quality program and just had an incredible, record-smashing season. I've never seen our humble stadium so packed, so loud, so passionate. It was tons of fun and a sight to behold, even though we ran out of quality pitching in the bullpen and lost Game 7 against an incredibly disciplined and underseeded Connecticut team. The passion in our small stadium, from the fans and players alike, is unlike anything else in sports. It's not super commercialized like the pros, or college football and basketball. It's pure sport. The beauty of baseball. And everyone's giving their all for their team and their school. The parity is incredible. The moments, unforgettable. I love it.

Yo, stark raving sports, great topic. Atta boy throwing a spotlight on Omaha and college baseball. It needs to be better understood and better appreciated. Baseball is, after all, was, still is, and always will be the American pastime. Hey, I love football as much as the next guy and played football. But I also played baseball. I ran the football and managed my pitchers as their catcher. Yulla, do more good work SRS!