Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

As for the tournament as a whole, here are just some observations from the first two days. All the 1-seeds won on Friday, and all the winners’ bracket winners (what I think of as teams in the “catbird seat”*) are 1-seeds except:

1 Texas and BC are involved in a 2021-inning epic.
Virginia leads [...]

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As with yesterday I’m going to try to keep this short.

Hard to imagine today’s game could have gone better, really. Clearly we’re head and shoulders better than Indiana, and although I wish Big Ten baseball in general and IU specifically all the best, clearly the “right” team by a wide margin went home [...]

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If you didn’t stumble here by accident, you probably know that Vanderbilt baseball lost as a 3-seed to 2-seed Middle Tennessee State today in the Louisville Regional, 5-4. If I wait around until I can collect everything I have to say about today’s game I’ll never make a post, so I’ll just [...]

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This blog certainly isn’t dead — at least, I have no intent of end-of-lifing it — but I’ve felt hobbled for the past few months. Sometimes I feel passionate enough about a topic like Vanderbilt sports to write about it, and other times I just don’t. When I don’t, I [...]

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