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NC State players showed lots of class yesterday in their loss!!! NCAA sucks!! They screwed these kids!!

Let's suppose NC State won last night. That would have eliminated Vandy. In that case would the winner of tonight's MSU vs Texas game be declared CWS Champ? The NCAA has outlived its usefulness and needs to go away.

Boy oh boy this sucks. Vandy should refuse. Push this thing back. The whole series is screwed. The game last night would not have been pushed into the rain had it not been for the NcS nonsense. Texas got extra rest. Then state had to pitch in a downpour. The whole thing is a travesty for kids at statistically zero risk of even symptoms.

ncaa has it for vandy...

superregional vs east carolina. pretty clear that there were two sets of strike zone standards...forced ecu batters to chase everything, and made ecu pitchers throw to a tight window...

There is a glaring irony of Vandy’s ties to Fauci and the role COVID has played to their advantage... no matter which side of the aisle you choose to sit.

It is a shame the NCAA won’t do right by these teams. I mean, what would they do if weather was inclement? Why cannot that same level of consideration and rescheduling be applied to this situation?

MSU and Texas should walk away today. Deprive the NCAA of valuable screen time.

What you mean they gotta play

Wont watch any more of this CWS. It’s a fraud and no true champion can be crowned. Even if Miss Stake wins out, the “National Championship” will be tarnished and nobody will take it seriously.

" MSU and Texas should walk away today. Deprive the NCAA of valuable screen time."

I agree 100%.
But it will not happen.

I'm an Ole Miss Alum that ... ( God forbid) ... has been pulling for Mississippi State.
I would support LSU, Bama, or any SEC team that made in into the CWS.

And the NCAA, NFL, MLB and others wonder why they are losing millions each year.

Look, you buncha junior, wad-shot lettuce-heads...that's the way it works when you wind up in a losers bracket. The whole idea is to make it extra tough on the ones who lose a game to come back. Always been this way. You trolls are from the 'everybody deserves a trophy' school of nonsense. When you lose a game, you're no longer 'equal'...so quit with the nonsense of 'put us all back equal' and let us try again.

Bring on the lawyers!!!

Bullshit. If NC State won last night, it would have an advantage it earned. Vandy gets a huge advantage given to it by the NCAA instead of earning it on the field of play.

@5:18p- Are you high? No one “lost”... and that’s just the first domino in this shit show.

ESPN rules the ncaa and thus the reason why the games are going as scheduled. They gotta keep the advertisers happy and the schedule intact. The only kink in their plan is when the weather doesn’t cooperate.

“Show me the money” is all that matters to both monopolies. They could care less about being fair to the student athletes and fans.

Vandy gets Leiter on 6 days rest and Rocker on 4 presuming a game three is necessary. Definite advantage.

None of you clowns probably spent anything to buy tickets and attend in person. NC State screwed itself by not getting vaccinations, so they are suffering the consequences. Why penalize everyone else, including the 10,000 plus MS State fans that have been and are still there?

@8:01p- You do realize the vaccine does NOT prevent you from getting COVID, right?

Science itself says the vaccine only potentially lessens the severity of symptoms.

Dumbasses everywhere need to get vaccinated

I would root for The Taliban if they were playing MSU.

Hmmm, 25,000 old fat boys sitting shoulder to shoulder in the stands. NCAA says, "Sounds great!"

Nine superbly conditioned young men standing 75 - 100 feet apart in the field. NCAA says, "we must stand for safety and welfare of the players."

@8:16 - You are another fool spouting idiocy. I guess you also believe the world is flat and the moon landing was staged in Hollywood.
While some people have vaccine failures and get a mild case of Covid, the vaccine DOES prevent Covid in 90% of people who are smart enough to get vaccinated. No vaccine is 100% effective, but anything over 75% is an effective vaccine,

Note 4 vaccinated players tested positive. Stop testing a symptomatic people. These kids are statistically safer without the genetic modification therapies.

Well, Talibanner, you just shot your wad. Blanks as usual. You butt-hurt Bears can't find your ass with both hands, much less your way to Omaha. Last time you went, you had to borrow the MSU bus since it knows the way.

June 26, 2021 at 8:49 PM

Your wrong Vanderbilt plays Mississippi State Monday 6 PM CST

Um, "surprise?" IIRC, the CWS rules weren't suddenly announced this morning. Or even yesterday morning.

@8:49, rooting for a losing team seems to be a thing with y’all. I’m an MSU fan and what happened to NC State is borderline criminal. What happened to my body my choose. But hey, they stands are packed. Glad they are worried about Covid all the way around. Clarion Ledger headline tomorrow, “Vanderbilt signs 5 star pitcher from Wuhan Institute of Technology”. Everyone should be pulling for “Unlimited sScholarships University”

The ncaa, nfl, and the rotten rest - nothing but jackboots and propaganda. Cleanse yourself.

I distinctly remember Charles Barkley guaranteeing LeBron James would not be suspended by the NBA after attending a promotional event and violating the league’s health and safety protocols. Charles Barkley was correct. It all depends on who you are when NCAA wants to apply safety protocols on a team. NCAA wants Vandy to win the CWS so bad they’ll do anything to give them an advantage.

Vandy grad and baseball fan here. Yes, this sucks (spell in one way: N-C-A-A). But it’s NOT Vandy’s fault! No Vandy fan wants it this way, I assure you. But, the Commodores were’t eliminated; they have as much right to play as N.C. State does. The Wolfpack got screwed, no doubt, but it wasn’t the ‘Dores who did the screwing.

By the way, did I mention that Tim Corbin is the best baseball coach in America? Anchor Down!

The Coaches well knew the rules long before they showed up including that there would be Covid testing all season and for the CWS.

How stupid does a coach have to be to not know a positive test could screw his whole season and ruin it for the team?

Baseball is a TEAM sport. You play as a TEAM not as a prima donna unwilling to sacrifice your "druthers".

Number 1 ranked teams get an advantage in other sports as well. It's earned during the season.

The notion of "resting arms" didn't always exist when pitchers pitched back to back games and even two in the same day ( it was called a double header). LOOK IT UP!

Y'all miss hearing coaches complain that cancelled games hurt their teams this year and took away their "edge" during Covid?

I hope MSU's pitchers don't believe this crap or the likely myth that somehow they are better than pitchers of the past because their pitches can be clocked. Or that they can't do what other pitchers have done in baseball history...win without "resting" their arms.

The NC State coach should never coach again. He doesn't understand his job is also making sure the rules are followed and the team understands they can lose the season for violating the rules...not just teaching them to play baseball as he claimed.

Here's a concept: The time to bitch about a written rule is before it's enforced.

7:19- I believe any coach could do as good a job as Tim Corbin if they had unlimited scholarships like Vandy. I vital item you failed to mention.

There are a lot of uninformed comments in this blog.

All the teams (including NC State) knew the rules well in advance of the tournament: Vaccinate or be tested. It is not a stupid policy. Vaccination works.

NC State took a risk. Taking a risk has consequences. The NC State head coach (university and athletic department) assumed the risk. No vax means you will be tested. They rolled the dice and they lost.

The losers are NC State's fine team and the university. The secondary loser will be MSU.

8:04 did you smoke your breakfast?

8:04am is some of the most ignorant rambling I’ve seen in a while. It’s 8am, so not drunk posting, but their eagerness and willingness to bang out 8 paragraphs just to make sure everyone really knows their ignorance is baffling

8:16 I’ve seen that misinformation before. It is not true. While there may not be enough evidence yet to say with confidence vaccines prevent infection, the evidence is there and is growing to support it.

https://scienceblog.com/522486/do-covid-19-vaccines-prevent-infection-and-transmission/
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-05-06/covid-19-vaccines-prevent-coronavirus-infections-studies-say

8:01 is clearly uneducated on this.

First, if this was an issue, Vanderbilt should have taken quarantine steps, along time the umpires. In addition, everyone in that stadium should have been tested.

If I were NCST, I’d buy tickets to the remaining games and sit in the stands.

This entire situation was handled poorly.

This tournament is now a sham and not true winner can be crowned, regardless of who “wins”

As someone said, these players were in more risk TRAVELING to Omaha rather than getting th3 Wuhan Virus.

What a goddamn joke.

Hope Texas wins.

NC State players decided not to get vaccinated. They got COVID as a result. The result of that was having to forfeit. People on here howl about snowflakes and yet are acting like snowflakes.

Since NC State was eliminated based on 4 vaccinated players testing positive, ALL the players from ALL teams should've been tested. Based on what was done to NC State, if any player tested positive, then that team should be out, too. If every team had a positive player, then shut it down and go home.

I didn't say a word about the covid crap and NC State. They chose not to get vaccinated and that was the risk. However, several players were forced to sit out the Friday game and tested negative after the game.

The beef is with the NCAA for giving Vandy an unfair and unearned advantage.

The notion of "resting arms" didn't always exist when pitchers pitched back to back games and even two in the same day ( it was called a double header). LOOK IT UP!

They didn't have radar guns and videotapes back then either. Now we can see how a pitcher's velocity declines as the pitch count mounts and we can study how he loses control over his pitches as well.

As for your back in the day crap, how many pitchers' arms were ruined?

Hail State!

@9:17AM
Thank you. Can’t blame the NCAA. I don’t understand why NC State failed to get vaccinated.

There are a lot of uninformed comments in this blog.

Thanks for stopping by and depositing your own.

Let's see. Remember Charades? Reach into this hat and pull out a slip of paper. Each slip has a clue as to the expert you are. Take a slip and play the role here. Wait for your turn to roll around. Have fun.

You are suddenly a wind speed and velocity expert.

You coached T-Ball 2 years in a row and are in the bleachers in Omaha.

You are suddenly a covid risk expert.

You are suddenly a history bank of baseball information.

You are suddenly a supporter of imaginary underdogs.

You are suddenly an expert on Charles Barkley quotes.

You are suddenly an Ole Miss fan angry at the entire world.

You are suddenly without a point but want to make one anyway.

NC State was eliminated because vaccinated players tested positive? Can someone verify this?

Dear readers: per the internet, some of the positive tested NC State players got their jabs.

Who knew getting experimental treatment would fail to keep you from getting the wuhan flu.

Screw the NCAA and screw the Vandy Whistler!

We beat the Taliban two out of three back in April.

I am 7:19 (Vandy grad).

No denying this is a huge advantage for VU. No denying NCSU got screwed. I’m not going to point my fingers at the Wolfpack and blame them for what happened to them. I wish the game could have been put off to when they could play, but as we all suspect, TV probably effectively made that call

My point was, and is, that this is not Vandy’s fault or problem. Those kids have earned their right to play, just like NC State earned their right.
It’s a damn shame NC State has been robbed of their earnings, but, again, that takes nothing away from Vandy. They split two games; one 1-0 and the other 3-1. They are both fine, well-deserving baseball teams.

Heck, I’m a proud Commodore, but we won’t beat State anyway unless our bats somehow come alive.

Anchor Down!

7:19 (Vandy grad) here again:

No expert here, but the NCAA should allow for more full scholarships; period. But, the smaller, poorer schools (La. Tech? USM?) then would be at a disadvantage. Vandy has the largest endowment of any SEC school except maybe A&M. By far, actually. Basically, if you are a regular student and you want to attend VU, you can, if you qualify, of course (more rigorous than any SEC school). The NCAA allows aid to be “stacked” which means the competitive private schools, Vandy, Miami, Stanford, etc., do have a definite advantage with baseball players. Again, the NCAA should allow every school to award more full baseball scholarships, in my opinion.

But, look. If you have an elite baseball program like Vandy does, recruiting is much easier. It is always going to be a tough competitor in the SEC (alas, not football, though). Nashville is a thriving and exciting place, which easily outstrips any other SEC community. Vandy’s academic reputation is world-class. If you get a scholarship, why wouldn’t you want to go there? Especially with all the players they have in the big leagues?

Anyway, good luck to State, and Go ‘Dores!

Question... what is the most goofy collegiate fan phrases of the following three teams ?

Vandy: "Anchor Down!"

Mississippi State: "Hail State"

Southern Mississippi: "To the Top"

Per SaturdayDownSouth.com:

D1Baseball’s Aaron Fitt reported that

“two unvaccinated NC State players tested positive for COVID-19”

this week in Omaha. Per the guidelines, that prompted the NCAA to then test the entire Wolfpack roster, including the vaccinated players.

“Four NC State players then tested positive,”

and the NCAA made the no-contest ruling for Saturday’s game.


Is this true?
If so, I thought getting vaccination keeps you from getting Wuhan COVID-19???

June 27 at 9:15 (Sunday morning) starts his comment about someone being uneducated and ends his comment hoping Texas wins.

NC voluntarily created its own problem and is now paying the price. It's sad, but it's no one's fault but their own. Hopefully they will grow wiser with age.

@1:50. To the Top is the worst by far…..and I went there before they adopted that stupid slogan.

@11:43am and 2:07pm - Vaccines do not place a magical force field around your body and reject all airborne pathogens. You can be infected with ANYTHING you’re vaccinated against. The vaccine simply trains your immune system to fight it off before it makes you ill. So yes, you can test positive for a Covid infection after being fully vaccinated. Doesn’t mean you’ll get sick or spread it though. The latest studies actually prove this. NC State coach knew the rules, took a risk, and it bit him in the ass.

Learn some basic human a&p before you flap your redneck guns. Probably didn’t make it through that class in high school I’m guessing.

“Talibanner” here… Why is it if a person doesn’t like MSU people ASSume you are an Ole Miss Fan? FN morons. There are other schools out there.

@11:41, yes that’s correct. Funny to see the knee jerk comments on here. All the positive tests were from vaccinated players. That’s what threw the coaches off was the “protocols” were to test only unvaccinated players until the morning before the game. For some reason, NCAA and local county health officials told NC State that their vaccinated players needed to be tested. County officials have come out and said they were only following NCAA’s lead on this. I put some weight into this info since the NC State athletic director released a letter to their boosters saying as much.

Narratives always fail...

@2:54, thank you so much for letting us all know how incredibly smart you are. Having you here teaching us all, and with such grace, really is a blessing to be cherished.

Quoting you: “you can test positive for a Covid infection after being fully vaccinated. Doesn’t mean you’ll get sick or spread it though. The latest studies actually prove this.”


2 Questions (if you will grace us with more of your incredible genius):

1. So, the vaccinated players “were not at risk” of “getting sick” or “spreading the virus” due to being around the non-vaccinated players?

2. Or, the vaccinated players “were at risk” of “getting sick” or “spreading the virus”
due to being around the non-vaccinated players?

“Talibanner” here… Why is it if a person doesn’t like MSU people ASSume you are an Ole Miss Fan? FN morons. There are other schools out there.

@4:50pm - 2:54pm here to spread some more knowledge to you plebs.

1) Correct

2) No

But you fail to understand the point. It’s not about how Covid affects the players. NCAA put rules and protocols in place far in advance of the CWS to protect the public at large from the gathering of many people from across the US. The NC State coach was aware of the rules and decided the freedom to choose was more important to him and his team than possibly being booted from the CWS. It’s as simple as that. You can bitch and moan all you want about how “the wuflu only kills old fat people, this is bs!” But it doesn’t change the facts: NCAA made the rules, coach decides the rules aren’t important, and coach (and team, fans, and MSU) pays. Kinda like life. Ignore the rules for “muh freedumbs” and let me know how that works out for you. We’re a civilized society with rules for a reason. We’re not a bunch of idiot sovereign citizens, stop acting like it.

If "the vaccine works", which it seems to, then what is the risk of letting Vandy's vaccinated players play on the field with NC State's uncertain status players?
ALso, the risk of a 20 year old male athlete in prime physical condition acquiring coronavirus and becoming seriously ill is so near zero as to be considered zero.
THe risk of players being out in an open field , many yards away from each other, in summer heat , giving a respiratory virus to each other , is also near zero, asymptotically so.
Fans sitting next to each other in stands are at much higher risk of being exposed to a virus than players on a huge baseball field .
Rules seem to be very selectively and capriciously applied these days.
There's your "science".

1:50 - None of the above. The goofiest is 'Who The Hell Are We?'

Biff, Bam, Rinny Tin Tin!
Old Myth Home Agin!

6:11- Please enlighten us and explain how LeBron James was no suspended by the NBA after attending a promotional event and violating health and safety protocols. The NCAA, like the NBA, are using their medical hires to pick and choose who they want to apply the rules to. Rules are good for thee but not for me. I guarantee you if NCAA had found Vandy in violation you would have never heard a peep.

I/4:50pm asked: “1. So, the vaccinated players “were not at risk” of “getting sick” or “spreading the virus” due to being around the non-vaccinated players?”

@6:11 (4:50pm) responded: “1) Correct”


@6:11 (4:50pm), thank you so much for your candid answer that vaccinated people can be around non-vaccinated with no risk of getting sick or spreading the virus.

Based on your wisdom, vaccinated people don’t have any reason at all to worry about being around the folks choosing not to be vaccinated.

FYI, you mistook me for someone that gives a s__t about the NCAA, or it’s ruling. Rest assured you would be hard pressed to find someone that cared less.


@9:10, according to 6:11 (4:50) the vaccine works; and, the NCAA rule is stupid (and an attempt to control people) since there’s no risk of a vaccinated person/player getting sick or spreading the virus when they are exposed to non-vaccinated persons/players.

But 6:11 (4:50) contradicts her/him/itself when stating the “NCAA put rules and protocols in place far in advance of the CWS to protect the public at large from the gathering of many people from across the US.”

Since, according to the infinite wisdom of 6:11 (4:50), THERE IS NO RISK!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You can't fix stupid. You can't vaccinate it either.

That 2:54 sho be needing some home training.

@6:49am - You would be right, except for the fact that anti-science “muh freedumbs” folks like yourself continue to go unvaccinated and allow the continued spread and mutation of the virus. Because of that, at some point the vaccinated will no longer have protection because the virus was allowed to spread and mutate amongst our low IQ population.

But I reckon with your logic, we should just all forgo the vaccine and “let God sort em out.” The hell with hundreds of years of scientific and technological advances. All those old, sick, feeble, people were gonna die at some point anyway. Who cares.

You're a day late and a dollar short with your fearmongering 8:56. The Delta variant of your "dooms day" virus is already here. It didn't start with any of us, as you so ignorantly put it, "muh freedom" lovers. The vaccine doesn't stop someone from getting the original "dooms day" virus, what makes your fearmongering ass think it will stop the Delta variant? You're blowing the trumpet in support of mighty medicine when they haven't found a cure for the "common cold". You're probably one of the same nut jobs that goes around calling those that question the origin of this virus "conspiracy theorist". You just keep believing and following like a good little useful idiot, and I'll keep questioning everything the "LYING" SOB's say. I won't knowingly be anyone's guinea pig.

I just reread your post, and I would like to apologize. The key to harmony is understanding, and I believe I, now, understand your fear. You said "the virus was allowed to spread and mutate amongst our low IQ population". I suppose you fall in that demographic. You poor thing, bless your heart.

30 years or more ago, the players on the other teams would have taken a stand and refused to play. In today's age, winning at all costs is more important.

@8:56, can you read? @6:11/2:54 is the one saying “the vaccinated players “were not at risk” of “getting sick” or “spreading the virus” due to being around the non-vaccinated players.”


@9:53, great points…but, now that leftist liberal icon John Stewart is on board with where the Wuhan virus came from, sheep like @8:56 will have to find some new opinions to repeat; in order to keep from disrespecting one of their messiahs.

Stewart, along with leftist Democrat tool Bill Maher are trying to reel in the fools that fell for the scams; before the indoctrination sets in too deep and can’t be undone.

@9:53am - Reading comprehension is key. No one said the Delta variant began here (no one knows though, it could have). And you’re right, the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from being infected by the virus. BUT IT KEEPS YOU FROM SPREADING IT AND GETTING SICK (at least at this point, if it keeps mutating in the unvaccinated, then who knows). Sorry for yelling, but there’s an important distinction between getting infected and it ending there vs getting infected, sick, and infecting others. Currently, the vaccine STOPS THE VIRUS FROM SPREADING, effectively ending the transmission chain. I don’t give a shit if it was a minor cold for you when you got it. The hundreds of people you unknowingly infected may have had different results. There’s a reason the term “public health” exists. If you could think past your own nose you might could grasp the concept. Go get vaccinated please. Your god emperor and taturd got vaccinated, isn’t that enough for you?

I am not capable of thinking past my nose. My brain is above and behind my nose, where is yours? Maybe that explains what your problem is. About that reading comprehension thing, I'm sure you wrote, and I quote, "because the virus was allowed to spread and mutate amongst our low IQ population". That is word for word what you wrote. Are you sure you're alright? Have you been abusing your medications, again? Do the orderlies know you have outside the building internet access? I know you believe the men in white coats are gods and have all the answers. You're in good company, they believe that, too. Bless your heart, we'll be praying for you.

Well, I think State gave themselves a huge advantage when they threw the SEC tournament to rest arms for the Regional. You didn't here any bitching about an unfair advantage from their SEC mates or the Regional opponents. Kind of poetic justice IMO.

1:13 That's why Ole Miss lost in the Super Regional. They didn't throw the SEC tournament like those low lifes in maroon. Rest their arms. That's it.
Yeah that's It!! By Damn!

Follow the money of Rocker and Leiter's "agents" !!! This was a payoff to give these two future MLB ers at least 2 days to 3 days ....no 4 days rest !!! Follow the money and remember the KARMA !! GO DAWGS.

Omapuppies back in kennel lol go ‘dores!

Well, the previous comment didn’t age well.