Wake Forest 2023 baseball season thread (Deacs end historic season with extra inning loss to LSU: Final record 54-12 and top 4 finish nationally)

[morrison2951]

Two nights of restless sleep for me.... sucks so hard that Wake lost the CWS in the W-S Supers the weekend before when an elephant pitcher, whose team was getting their brains beat in, threw a 96 mph fastball into Nick's ribs.

No way Nick hits 0.00 at the CWS otherwise and he had to miss the lsu rubber game entirely with the rib injury.

The sec blows.

 

[DeacWatcher]

Would be both cool and good for program to schedule an SEC team for a series before ACC play starts.

 

[ConnorEl]

Hundreds of Wake Forest baseball fans welcome team home from College World Series​

Lots of photos.

 

[80deacon]

I was there!

 

[BayouBengal]

Nah. We’ve watched this team all year, and understand the context of the quote. Team had a blast together and and loved playing with each other.

The context doesn't matter. It's completely fine to talk shit and be confident.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'd love to build a rivalry with LSU. Let's get it rolling Currie! The big question is would that mighty(just means more) football program agree to a few games with us. I'd go Away, away, home as a Wake fan. I'm just hard-pressed to see them make the trip to Winston even once.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

The context doesn't matter. It's completely fine to talk shit and be confident.

If anyone is Biff if this guy. Playing the long game. Not being an obvious troll. Making friends with us and explaining the rules of trash talk.

 

[Wakeforest22890]

The context doesn't matter. It's completely fine to talk shit and be confident.

I agree at large. I do think the context matters in general as far as criticizing someone for saying...well anything. To me there's a big difference between a player saying after a win, unprompted "who can beat us? It's impossible!" and someone saying that relative to a question about "what it's like playing on a team who has this much fun" and the player answering that as to their mindset.

 

[deacdixieboy]

I'd love to build a rivalry with LSU. Let's get it rolling Currie! The big question is would that mighty(just means more) football program agree to a few games with us. I'd go Away, away, home as a Wake fan. I'm just hard-pressed to see them make the trip to Winston even once.

I remember checking in like mid-April and they had only played like 9 away games and all were SEC.

 

[wfu22fan]

Damn proud of this team.
We can spend days agonizing over managerial decisions, ball park configurations, etc., but our fate in Omaha comes down to the simple fact that Wake simply did not hit the baseball. Plus, when they did make contact it usually resulted in fly outs or they failed to hit line drives or hard grounders in order to put pressure on the defense.
On to next year and count me in as a season ticket buyer!

WF hit the ball hard in the later innings several times.

 

[DeacInVermont]

The CWS has been so objectively good this year, I plan to watch the finals. I will be rooting hard against Florida because those turds shouldn't get to win it all by running through a bunch of homeschoolers. Also, I very much do not like anything about the University of Florida. I can't bring myself to pull for LSU, though. Maybe I'll just hate-watch.

 

[Wakeforest22890]

I'm definitely pulling for UF.

They have roughly even odds futures but UF is favored today.

 

[Deacfreak07]

I'm definitely pulling for UF.

They have roughly even odds futures but UF is favored today.

I’m pulling for a sinkhole to swallow the Chuck. It’s a win-win because they can build a better park in its place.

 

[morrison2951]

I’m pulling for a sinkhole to swallow the Chuck. It’s a win-win because they can build a better park in its place.

This.

Let's move the CWS every year to the Couch!

If we build it (25k seats) they will come!

The Chuck is the worst.

 

[WindyCityDeac]

The CWS has been so objectively good this year, I plan to watch the finals. I will be rooting hard against Florida because those turds shouldn't get to win it all by running through a bunch of homeschoolers. Also, I very much do not like anything about the University of Florida. I can't bring myself to pull for LSU, though. Maybe I'll just hate-watch.

Yeah. I can’t pull for an alumni base known for crocs, jorts and visors. The aesthetic doesn’t work with my brain

 

[morrison2951]

Still chapped that #1 Seed Wake didn't get the little league side of the CWS bracket and then having to face #5 seed lsu in a 3 game series and only once as the home team?!

Hmmmm......

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Been an exciting CWS for sure, but I don’t think I have the stomach for the final series.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Can def see an argument for re-seeding once you get to Omaha (I know there might be some discrepancies with days off, but tough, figure it out), and the higher seed always the home team until the best of three, when they can alternate.

 

[PhDeac]

Seems simple enough to give the home team higher seed the first time two teams play then give it to the lower seed the second time then the higher seed in game three.

Home/away against other opponents shouldn’t matter. Somehow they screw up home advantage, the simplest thing in playoff sports.

 

[myDeaconmyhand]

I get that all the ess-ee-see fans talk shit out our turf field and short corner dimensions, but the Omaha field sucked complete donkey penis. The infield was hard as fuck so ground balls were bouncing over infielders heads, the dimensions of the fence are stupidly long, and the stadium is situated directionally so that the sun is shining directly into players faces and they can’t even see the fucking ball for half the game. What a piss poor setup. What a great idea for building a baseball field, to maximize those 3 things that baseball fans love - strikeouts, lazy fly balls, and fielding errors.