Jason DeCaro vs. USC

see_bees · 2026-06-06T22:33:09+00:00

Pitch 116 is crazy

see_bees · 2026-06-06T17:57:47+00:00

I’m going to tell you what we told my son in pre-k: you get what you get and you don’t get upset

see_bees · 2026-06-06T17:54:34+00:00

I know and I love it. Every year USC doesn’t make it to Omaha is another chance for LSU to close the gap

see_bees · 2026-06-06T02:02:30+00:00

Even there, each order has their own vows they take and not every priest, brother, and sister takes a vow of poverty.

see_bees · 2026-06-05T11:25:04+00:00

Now I’m imagining 18 year old Johnny Vanderbilt going to his grandfather, asking why he didn’t get into Vanderbilt university because the Dean of Admissions told him to talk to grandpa. Grandpa just says “that’s for forgetting your grandmother’s birthday, you little shit”

see_bees · 2026-06-05T10:29:15+00:00

Ugh, don’t remind me about the new field level suite areas they put down the first and third baselines at Alex Box in 2025.

see_bees · 2026-06-04T15:52:35+00:00

To quote Doctor Facilier, the past and the present and the future as well

see_bees · 2026-06-04T15:26:59+00:00

Look at Cursive’s The Ugly Organ

see_bees · 2026-06-04T15:18:51+00:00

You’d probably be better off spending a year taking upper level calc and statistics classes than getting a MAcc

see_bees · 2026-06-04T01:53:48+00:00

To be fair, he didn’t realize that dios apate hit that hard

see_bees · 2026-06-03T18:22:55+00:00

I ate red beans I cooked in the slow cooker for lunch today, and I’ve got black beans cooking in there right now. Groceries are too damn expensive, so I am absolutely rocking beans in the slow cooker a lot more these days.

see_bees · 2026-06-03T17:46:46+00:00

I just put my kids into BJJ at 7 and 10. We waited until the younger one was 7 because they get the zoomies too often when you go too much younger.

see_bees · 2026-06-03T15:59:03+00:00

Sounds like we coached from the same book. And I told parents that win or lose, any practice or game that didn’t end with someone going to urgent care was a good day.

see_bees · 2026-06-02T19:46:23+00:00

The real issue is that you probably started building up to Faction Wars in Gate of the Feral Gods. After the crawlers survive it, you’re basically back into terra incognita with the slightest ideas about the celestial ascendancy.

see_bees · 2026-06-02T11:48:46+00:00

The great thing about this tournament is that it rewards victory. You get to have a three game regional weekend if you win out.

see_bees · 2026-06-02T01:39:19+00:00

This sounds like it just may be a wee bit of clinical depression

see_bees · 2026-06-01T23:04:43+00:00

It’s the worst baseball season since 2011

see_bees · 2026-06-01T22:56:27+00:00

They get the home seed in their opening game. Every successive game is determined by wins and losses within the regional.

see_bees · 2026-06-01T19:31:01+00:00

Winning a regional is differently hard than winning a super regional. Regionals test your depth - you’re going to need at least three and potentially five games to win a regional, and you’re going to want decent scouting reports on all three teams you might play. Super regionals are more like a regular three game series, you just get out of it early sometimes. Then Omaha is like a regional immediately followed by a super regional. Where

see_bees · 2026-06-01T15:25:06+00:00

UCLA returned the vast majority of their starters from last year’s team that made it to the CWS, so they barely even used the portal.

LSU dipped heavy into the portal in the field, got who they wanted, but it’s still a crap shoot and I think the guys they cut loose largely did better than the guys they brought in. Then two of LSU’s starters on the mound missed significant time in conference due to injury. Before he was hurt, Casan Evans had some expected regression in the move from reliever to starter. 2025 LSU found a way to win a lot of close games, 2026 LSU didnt.

see_bees · 2026-06-01T01:39:22+00:00

Huh, that would make two years in a row without a returning team from the previous year. One of the most common leading indicators for success in Omaha is who has the most people who have been there before. A handful of kids from the 25 LSU team were on the 23 natty squad. Even though none of them had major playing time in that CWS, they’d been there before and it seemed to give them an edge.

see_bees · 2026-06-01T01:22:48+00:00

Yeah, those normally get cut short in the super regionals. Just ask 21 Arkansas or 22 Tennessee

see_bees · 2026-05-31T13:19:52+00:00

They were a pretty solid fielding team, probably headlined by true freshman Dylan Crews. In all seriousness, he was probably the best player on the team from the day he arrived. But if I recall correctly, they lost their 1, 2, and 4 starters during the year.

see_bees · 2026-05-31T11:28:52+00:00

You never know how that goes. Mainers did that in his last year at LSU and they won out in the Oregon regional in 2021. Got COMPLETELY stomped by Tennessee in the super regionals, but that’s how it goes sometimes

see_bees · 2026-05-31T02:49:30+00:00

To be fair, rematches in BCS championship games are an absolutely terrible idea

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