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Michigan's collapse last night was a shitshow but give them credit for forgetting about it and playing well tonight even without a regular starting pitcher.... They beat UCLA in the regular season, though it would be even better if LMU pulled off another upset and Michigan ends up playing at home.

Michigan-UCLA set for Friday and Saturday at 9 on espn2; Sunday the same, if necessary

Crazy how easy it is to watch this many games.  I remember a decade ago, when Michigan advanced out of the regionals by beating the overall #1 Vanderbilt (who had David Price, Mike Minor and Pedro Alvarez), it was a last minute pickup by the local community access channel of the Vanderbilt feed.  Now you can watch every game somewhere, and at this point you don't even need ESPN+.

I don't believe any of Michigan's Super Regional loss to Oregon State was televised in Ann Arbor.  UM screwed themselves out of getting to host that series, by starting renovation on their home stadium.  In fairness to them, to host, they not only had to win a regional with the overall #1 seed, but they needed neither #1 Virginia or #2 Rutgers to win the Charlottesville regional.  All of that happened, with #3 Oregon State winning, then getting to host a Super Regional, then winning the whole damn thing.  

Great win for Michigan last night, especially considering the UCLA pitcher hadn't lost in over a year. Considering the struggles of the pitchers other than the 3 starters, they used a second starter to close it, but he should still be able to start on Sunday if it comes to that.

Louisville is the first team to punch its ticket to Omaha.
Vanderbilt is in.
Texas Tech advances.
FSU in in.

Last weekend #50 FSU defeated #3 Georgia two straight in Athens, GA to make it to the Super Regional.

Today, 6/8/2019, #50 FSU downed  #16 LSU in FSU's opening Super Regional game.

This is Coach Mike Martin's 40th and final year as FSU head coach. FSU was on the bubble of not making the tournament this year. They have 20 freshman on the roster. Appears Mike Martin is developing talent to the very end of his career. This has been quite a late-season turn around.

Martin's teams made it into 40-straight NCAA tournaments. Mike Martin has had 16 FSU teams in the CWS. I think that is more than any other head coach, yet Martin's team has never won the CWS.

This is something they mentioned during the Michigan-UCLA game. Incredible. The broadcasters added that in 40 seasons, he's *never* won fewer than 40 wins per season. How is that even possible?

https://twitter.com/umichbaseball/status/1137946049383788549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1137946049383788549%7Ctwgr%5E393039363b74776565745f6d65646961&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmgoblog.com%2Fmgoboard%2Fteam-dog-pile

Michigan making the CWS and especially by defeating the #1 team is impressive. Indiana was the last Big Ten team to make the CWS, circa 2013. Michigan hasn't been in the CWS since 1984. The Big Ten, and especially Michigan, are taking a step toward baseball relevancy.

This would unquestionably go down as Michigan baseball's greatest ever season if they hadn't so spectacularly imploded in pursuit of the Big Ten regular season and tournament crowns (especially the reg season).

Even still, the regionals/super regionals were a blast and there's more to come. 1,000-ft view: Bakich has recruited like gangbusters. This won't be a one-off occurence.

I wouldn't go that far. They have 2 national championships, afterall (yes, I realize that was a different era when the tournament was geographically split, so beating present-day MAC / Horizon / MVC / Summit League teams to get to the CWS wasn't nearly as challenging, but even so....).

To be sure, Michigan should be nationally relevant in baseball, since the softball program has already proven it's possible to be nationally relevant in a similarly Southern/Western-dominated sport, and the baseball program is the best in the BigTen historically.