Pitchers Dean Weaver, center, Nathan Moreau, left and Jason Leaver, right, look on in the top of the eigth inning as Fresno State beats Georgia 6-1 to win the College World Series national championship at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
If you fall in love with baseball, the game will break your heart every time.
Its the nature of the game. To be good or great, you succeed 3 or 4 times at bat out of 10. The other 6 or 7 times you strike out, ground out or fly out. Sometimes the ball takes a funny hop and you get a hit, other times you line it sharply at the third baseman. There's always a winner, there's always a loser. Rarely will the team you cover be the one who wins it all.
(And other times a center fielder will lose a bat have it fly right at you, forcing you to duck and hide behind $13,000 dollars of camera equipment and pray to god it doesn't hit you, because you're 900 miles from home and that's gonna hurt.)
Fresno State's Steve Susdorf jumps onto the dogpile as Fresno State beats Georgia 6-1 to win the College World Series national championship at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
Georgia did an admirable job this season. It was a dream come true to follow a team all season all the way to the College World Series. And i thank them for such a fun ride - i just wish it had a better ending for them.
Georgia first baseman Rich Poythress sits dejected in the dugout as Fresno State beats Georgia 6-1 to win the College World Series national championship at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
Why does this game break your heart? Because you'll be down to your last at bat, be down by 5 runs. Get the first two runners on and there's this glimmer of hope that one last rally is going to happen, that its not over yet. (That the ESPN camera guys wont storm the field quite yet and get in everyone's shots.) The batter keeps fouling off pitches and then a sharp grounder ends up 4-6-3 for a double-play and then everyone knows the season is over. There's one out left and there's no way you can score 5 to tie.
Fresno State right fielder Steve Detwiler celebrates his home run in the top of the sixth inning as Fresno State beats Georgia 6-1 to win the College World Series national championship at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
Being a Phillies fan for all my life, this game will always break your heart in the cruelest way possible. Doesn't make it any easier to watch.
Georgia players Stephen Dodson, Bryce Massanari, Nick Monthgomery, Trevor Holder, WIll Harvil and Lyle Allen watch as David Thoms (not pictured) hits into a double-play in the bottom of the ninth inning as Fresno State beats Georgia 6-1 to win the College World Series national championship at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
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