2020 the baseball championship that never happened?

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Baseball Championships are more about who is hot vs. who is the best.

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Yes... but the odds of getting "hot" does seem to correlate closely to having good players, doesn't it?

Without SEC POY TA would we have won it all? Without MLB talent in Bednar and Sims would we have been "hot" enough to win?

Baseball has luck involved for sure, but recruiting and coaching affect the odds if that luck going your way

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Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer

You guys are going pop up crazy...

What makes you all think MSU was going to be the #1 seed in 2020 regionals? That year Vandy had the battleship roster Austin Martin, Rocker, Leiter, and company. Ole Miss had Hoglund and Booger. Louisville was preseason #1 with two number 1 picks and the #1 overall pick for 2021. Florida was #1 at last poll. Arkansas had a golden spikes guy to challenge Austin Martin. UGA was loaded too.

Plus MSU was ranked 12-to-15 when the last poll happened. So no worries about being the accursed #1 Seed. MSU was Heading to Regional Host, for sure. Perfect dark horse, with players that did win the championship in 2021.

MSU wins their regional to face #1 overall seed Ole Miss in Supers, then sweeps in two games. Shutout by MacLeod and a Gem by Bednar. Tanner Allen just plays as DH in the Regionals coming back from foot injury. The Coke Guy drinks Draino on live TV.

Then to Omaha with Vandy and Louisville with all the Gannett papers saying Vandy are the best and MSU only has 1000:1 odds. When MSU wins it all, Gannett Pravda runs the headlines, "2020 College Baseball ends Ole Miss on top of last Regular Season Poll, Omaha is just a prize for Hot, Streaky Teams"

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In the same thread, you have managed to argue that we would have likely won the 2020 championship and that we obviously were not the best team in 2020.

Impressive.

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Originally Posted by smootness

In the same thread, you have managed to argue that we would have likely won the 2020 championship and that we obviously were not the best team in 2020.

Impressive.

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"The baseball championship that never happened"

MSU had great teams that did not win it all and some greats that never made Omaha.

Just saying that players that Did win it all, were denied a chance by wacky "Thriller" novel political circumstances.

If we could have a picked a better year for global chaos, 2009 would have been better, that was a bad year.

Just like Pearl Harbor happened when MSU football was ascendant. Evil timing.

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Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer

"The baseball championship that never happened"

MSU had great teams that did not win it all and some greats that never made Omaha.

Just saying that players that Did win it all, were denied a chance by wacky "Thriller" novel political circumstances.

If we could have a picked a better year for global chaos, 2009 would have been better, that was a bad year.

Just like Pearl Harbor happened when MSU football was ascendant. Evil timing.

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Understood. It?s something of an interesting what if, although State is by no means in a position to claim that as a big loss for us specifically.

But saying Lemonis could be sitting on 2 titles? Please. Yeah, it?s possible. And extremely unlikely.