Switching to the major league ball is the overwhelmingly easy fix for the problem. You'd be looking at major expenses for Omaha to move the fences, and on all of the schools if you change the bats. The ball, on the other hand, is already in production. Its just a matter of one company making eliminating one method of making a ball, and increasing production a model it already makes.
It was the same way when we played them. Ibarra hit 2 that would have been out at any other park in the nation OR if we had the 2010 bats. Could not agree more!! It's so frustrating when UCLA goes up a run in the first inning and the first thought that goes through your head is UCLA will win 1-0.
I agree with everyone. Baseball went from scoring too many runs to not scoring hardly enough runs. They need to find that happy medium. I would just change the ball to MLB standards and that would increase scoring as well as prepare these college kids for what is to come from the MLB. MLB can't be pleased that there is a strikingly different baseball in which they have no idea whether the kid will still have his same good breaking stuff at the next level.
Did anyone else ever watch Scott Sitz pitch for Florida State? He throws these cartoonishly ridiculous breaking balls, and really nothing else. I mean, it looks like something from one of those old Bugs Bunny cartoons, and the pitches are literally unhittable. I'd like to see how he fares with an MLB ball. That sort of advantage towards the pitcher is just not equitable.
Yes and no. Yes the park was bigger before it was remodeled in 2002, but in the end it was the same dimensions that are at TDA currently. Changes in 2002: The foul lines went from 343 to 335, Power alleys actually grew from 370 to 375 and centerfield moved in from 420 to 408.
And the world series is over. Bottom first, 1st and 3rd no one out, UCLA batting. 0-0 score. Congrats Bruins for enlightening us with the most boring CWS ever in it's history.
If I'm not mistaken, the parks are aligned differently, right? The prevailing winds blow in at TDAm, and out at Rosenblatt.
