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Anyone been? As luck would have it, I will be driving past Omaha Sunday late afternoon. What are the odds of walk-up tickets?
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Go Anteaters!
Whammer! Bring 'em to the promised land!
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Anyone been? As luck would have it, I will be driving past Omaha Sunday late afternoon. What are the odds of walk-up tickets?
I've only been the first weekend. I'm guessing that tickets will be easy enough to find- especially if it is Rice vs a West coast school (neither is going to draw like a texas, LSU, Nebraska, wichita state type program).
The CWS is one of my favorite events ever attending in person, but I'd say the second weekend isn't as much fun as the first, if you don't have a dog in the hunt, b/c a lot of fans/people have left town.
Had a total blast going though- highly recomend it.
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Anyone been? As luck would have it, I will be driving past Omaha Sunday late afternoon. What are the odds of walk-up tickets?
twice as a player, never as a fan. gonna do that some day.
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twice as a player, never as a fan. gonna do that some day.
How did yall do the two years you went and what was the spectacle (or was it even a spectacle yet?) like as a player?
Would really love to hear your insigts on this.
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Anyone been? As luck would have it, I will be driving past Omaha Sunday late afternoon. What are the odds of walk-up tickets?
I've been once and had an absolute blast. The tickets were provided by a player's family, so I'm not sure about walk-up availability. The stands were full, however.
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My understanding is that the only "walk-up availability" is via outrageous scalper prices.
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My understanding is that the only "walk-up availability" is via outrageous scalper prices.
scalp prices were not outrageous when I went. $40 bucks got me two tickets about 7 rows up, right behind homeplate.
Less than you'd pay comparable for face at MMP.
More than face by about double. Not outrageous to my way of thinking.
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Best sporting event experience of my life. The first weekend is so great, because you have all eight teams' fans (plus fans from Nebraska, Texas and LSU, whether their teams are present or not) milling around, tailgating, and enjoying the revelry. There's just so much history and paegentry associated with the CWS that it's hard to not to be in awe of it when you're there.
Scalping wasn't bad, I didn't think.
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How did yall do the two years you went and what was the spectacle (or was it even a spectacle yet?) like as a player?
Would really love to hear your insigts on this.
it was a huge event for the town, but no TV yet so the rest of the country was not very involved. the citizens of Omaha treated us like major celebs. it was cool. i signed a jillion autographs, and there are many 50ish Nebraskans wondering today who the hell "Jimmy Raup" is.
two and barbecue one year
beat Arizona, then lost two straight the other year. don't remember which was which. the worst that year was losing the second game to St. John's, whose players were all blinking in the bright sunlight because they had not been outdoors much.
i never got in a game. my sophomore year against FSU, we lost in 12, and i pitched the last 5-6 in the BP. Falk told me more than once "if this guy gets on, you're in," but our starter kept wiggling out of trouble and went all 12.
the year i would have pitched a lot up there (1967), Tom Paciorek cruelly tore it from my grasp, leaving serious scars that are unhealed today.
Bill Little called our years "Tradition but no talent" in his book about UT baseball. that likely was true, but i played on three SWC champions. because the small schools would vote in a bloc, the SWC limited its baseball teams to 25 games and prohibited fall practice. as a result, the SWC rep was at a severe disadvantage in the CWS. it took UT and aTm threatening to leave the conference in baseball to force the SWC to drop those restrictions.
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Is anyone watching the Rice/UNC game? All I've got is GameTracker and through 2 innings it looks like Rice hasn't bothered to show up, yet.
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Is anyone watching the Rice/UNC game? All I've got is GameTracker and through 2 innings it looks like Rice hasn't bothered to show up, yet.
i'm watching. 3-0 Baby Blue
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and there are many 50ish Nebraskans wondering today who the hell "Jimmy Raup" is.
I wonder how much that "Jimmy Raup" sig is fetching on eBay.
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I wonder how much that "Jimmy Raup" sig is fetching on eBay.
my mother is trying to drive the price up.
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I wonder how much that "Jimmy Raup" sig is fetching on eBay.
I'd buy it, no matter the price.
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i'm watching. 3-0 Baby Blue
Is Rice doing as poorly as they "look". Lots of errors, hit batsmen and walks.
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Is Rice doing as poorly as they "look". Lots of errors, hit batsmen and walks.
dunno. just turned it on last inning.
go 'Eaters!
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it was a huge event for the town, but no TV yet so the rest of the country was not very involved. the citizens of Omaha treated us like major celebs. it was cool. i signed a jillion autographs, and there are many 50ish Nebraskans wondering today who the hell "Jimmy Raup" is.
two and barbecue one year
beat Arizona, then lost two straight the other year. don't remember which was which. the worst that year was losing the second game to St. John's, whose players were all blinking in the bright sunlight because they had not been outdoors much.
i never got in a game. my sophomore year against FSU, we lost in 12, and i pitched the last 5-6 in the BP. Falk told me more than once "if this guy gets on, you're in," but our starter kept wiggling out of trouble and went all 12.
the year i would have pitched a lot up there (1967), Tom Paciorek cruelly tore it from my grasp, leaving serious scars that are unhealed today.
Bill Little called our years "Tradition but no talent" in his book about UT baseball. that likely was true, but i played on three SWC champions. because the small schools would vote in a bloc, the SWC limited its baseball teams to 25 games and prohibited fall practice. as a result, the SWC rep was at a severe disadvantage in the CWS. it took UT and aTm threatening to leave the conference in baseball to force the SWC to drop those restrictions.
Thanks for sharing the stories.
I've been trying to get my buddy who coaches D1 to go. He is adamant that he ain't going until he's particpating.
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Thanks for sharing the stories.
I've been trying to get my buddy who coaches D1 to go. He is adamant that he ain't going until he's particpating.
he may wait a long time.
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he may wait a long time.
Considering that he is at a Colonial Athletic Association School- yes indeed. He's either got to get to a higher league/program or make that school an ass load better.
Said that he had 7 guys he signed that he was worried about getting drafted. Said to the best of his knowledge they'd never had a signee get drafted before, so he's upping the level of talent- but it is a process.
I hope he gets there. It will be about the happiest I've ever felt for another person in my life if so. Chasing your dream like that, being poor and working for no money, 70 or 80 hours a week for so long, moving to a billion different cities and places in the first 8 years of your professional life ain't easy. You've got to have some real belief in yourself to make it like that. I hope like heck he does.
One of the guys I worked with up in the Northwoods league made assistant at UCLA. I was hoping for him that they were gonna get in, but they got bounced in the supers I believe. That would have been cool.