It’s Officially Dogpiling Season

    As the Foo Fighters would say, there goes my hero. On the last Saturday of the regular season for most conferences, today was full of heroes as games went down to the wire and regular season titles were up for grabs.

It Was a White-Knuckler Friday

Yep, Scott Sitz (right) was up to his old tricks again. The mustachioed one did a flying, back-handed shaving cream faceplant to FSU starter Luke Weaver, who responded with “It’s not like I threw a perfect game today or something.”

What a panic today was. In the 16 games featuring Top 25 teams, nine of them were either one-run games or went into extra innings.

Yep, it must be getting to crunch time in college baseball.

A Baldcast and A Whole Lotta Balderdash

Beyond the highly-informative and always-entertaining Baldcast, here’s what else went on in college baseball today… read on.

The Triumphant Return of Don Ho and his Tiny Bubbles on the college baseball landscape

The late, great Hawaiian legend Don Ho would like to sing Tiny Bubbles into your ears.

It’s Don Ho time. “Tiny bubbles” are floating around everywhere in college baseball at this time of year. It almost seems like with this new RPI formula and the rewarding of road wins, the teams “on the bubble” are more numerous (and more diversified) than ever.

What A Relief Tuesday

Kentucky reliever Trevor Gott gets some fives after securing the win over No. 15 Indiana tonight.

I couldn’t help but notice all the good relief stints that occurred in college baseball tonight, several of which were on the tube. And also several of which had big NCAA Tournament implications. So I hope you don’t mind that I did a little write-up and running commentary below.

20 Mondays – The 14 O’Clock P.M. Edition

Don’t let the zombied faces fool you, these guys will beat the hell out of your team. Gage Smith (in the Rollie Fingers ‘stache), Brandon Leibrandt and Scott Sitz ham it up for the camera in the final inning of the Monday win over N.C. State. Supreme Tomfoolery.

A good bud of mine, Mike Groce, who is a radio host in Phoenix who has me on his show from time to time during the baseball season, sent me a link to an article from the Denver Post regarding this writer’s assertion that Colorado and Colorado State need to bring back baseball to their respective athletic departments.

If you want to check it out, click here.

Vanderbilt, you had me at “I’ll be back.”

A Terminator rises from the ashes, goes on relentless hunt for Sarah Conner and the national title. It’s name: Vanderbilt.

Okay, since they don’t like a lot of fanfare or pomp and circumstance, here are the things I like about Vanderbilt, after seeing them complete their sweep of Kentucky with today’s 10-5 runaway win in Lexington.

Slapback Saturday

Avent’s Army was pounding the wall to help N.C. State get the final out vs. Florida State in Raleigh today. P.S.: It worked.

Lots of ebb and flow to this weekend’s action already, and it was certainly exemplified on Saturday.

A Perfect From-the-Couch Friday

Jason Hursh piled up the pitch count tonight, but was also my Billy Bad-Ass of the Day with his complete-game effort in Game One of the Bedlam Series.

Ya’ know, sometimes I think I go to too many games during the season.

Today was a perfect example. I mean, I realized that it’s good just to sit my ass on the couch and do nothing but watch college baseball. Yes, in other words, it’s a dream day for me.

The other part of it is that I got to see the entire game one of the Bedlam Series between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, one of my favorite rivalries in all of college sports. And tonight’s game certainly didn’t disappoint at all.

High & Inside: The Latest College Baseball Podcast.

Mike Rooney and I do the weekly thing and we think we got it nailed down pretty good once again. We recorded this on Thursday night and not our usual Wednesday night. Sorry ’bout that. But as usual, we hope you dig it. Let us know what you think, guys and dolls: