The Official FSU @ #1 Tennessee CWS Game 1 Thread (Fri. June 14) (7PM EST) (ESPN)

[Orange931]

Stark, CMo, Burke

And we need all 3 to reach home plate

 

[vol66]

Good play Blake!!!

 

[TheBigOne10]

Hate to say this because I'll get bashed but, we need Frank to retire.

Dude…..just leave

 

[Freak]

Hoping the Vols make good history instead of bad:

“Twelve teams in Men's College World Series history have gone on to win the national championship after dropping their first game in Omaha. The most recent example came in 2018, when Oregon State won six straight games to claim the title.

The group of 12 to escape the losers' bracket after Game 1 account for less than 17 percent of national champions.

In 2019, two first-round losers, Louisville and Texas Tech, advanced to the national semifinals before bowing out.

Here's the full list of national champions that lost their first game at the Men's College World Series.”

2018	Oregon State	L, North Carolina 8-6
2010	South Carolina	L, Oklahoma 4-3
2006	Oregon State	L, Miami (FL) 11-1
1998	Southern California	L, LSU 12-10
1980	Arizona	L, St. John's 6-1
1979	Cal State Fullerton	L, Mississippi State 6-1
1976	Arizona	L, Arizona State 7-6
1970	Southern California	L, Ohio 4-1
1969	Arizona State	L, Texas 4-0
1963	Southern California	L, Texas 8-3
1958	Southern California	L, Holy Cross 3-0
1950	Texas	L, Rutgers, 4-2

We already had the no.1 seed streak golfing against us.

 

[lilesrt]

for a team that doesn't walk batters much, we are loading them up tonight

We’re in Omaha.. boys are playing tight.

 

[SaintLouieVol]

Way too many walks.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Weirdly enough, as disappointed as I am, I have a sense of calm. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not a sense of not believing we couldn’t do it. Maybe the words will come to me at some point. Disappointed, let down, but it is what it is.

I think it’s just you know you we will be going home soon. Eliminated early as usual. It is what it is. Just like in football, hopefully next year is our year.

 

[TechnoVol]

Sad thing is he is probably our best fielder in the infield.

Disagree, that would be Burke.

 

[LieutenantNeyland]

I’m over at this game. Maybe we will be the 5th team to win out of the losers bracket and the first 1 seed in 20+ years

That’s a bridge too far for me.

 

[Score50]

Back to the Celtics game. This relentless negativity sucks at your very soul

I e already tired that but it hurts. We thought this was the year and again we get kicked in the teeth. Our coach, set the tone by going and pulling his starting pitcher after 8 pitches. Who friggin does that!!!! I just can’t believe the scared coach in me would do that to my team. It was 0-0 at that point. Can’t get over that. Just a bad bad beginning to a sucky game. Guess we should just say we are just happy to be here. Again again and again.

 

[BP4Prez]

Routine?! That ball was a howitzer

Exactly 108 mph off the bat and they had him shifted up the middle.

 

[87&91ALUM]

Whew….please score a bunch of runs and take the lead!

 

[Volstylexx]

Hate to say this because I'll get bashed but, we need Frank to retire.

And you deserve every bashing you are about to get.

 

[Zues1]

It's do or die time..Better rub that genie lamp

 

[BreatheUT]

for a team that doesn't walk batters much, we are loading them up tonight

We will look back as this being one of the stakes through the heart tonight.

 

[Woodrow Call]

Let's get some runs.

 

[LordVOLdemort]

That’s a bridge too far for me.

I’m a dreamer at heart

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Beam better come to play and not pitch like he has the past few outings, or else Omaha is another empty trip

 

[volplaya8]

Yep. But winning Game 1 for once sure would be nice. Not even asking to win the whole thing/ would just like to see us hit immediately dig a massive hole.

Yep because it hurts your chances of winning it all or even advancing to finals…shouldn’t hurt us winning a few going forward and making a final four etc,,,

 

[patrick]

We already had the no.1 seed streak golfing against us.

Like I said - let’s make good history and not bad.

Win it all out of the loser’s bracket!!!

 

[Score50]

Disagree, that would be Burke.

Wow that’s funny.

 

[TennesseeFan07]

Stark has to find a way to get on.

 

[BP4Prez]

Stark has to find a way to get on.

I’d hit peebles

 

[ArdentVol]

wasnt sure for a second that we had third out

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

6 outs to go