[Cactus Jack]

Some updates from the rest of the week-- CWS was off to a great start but had quite the ugly incident during the Florida-Texas A&M game. In the 2nd Inning, two A&M fans were ejected after yelling at the Florida dugout. There was definitely a reaction from the Florida dugout (and once you hear the reason, you can probably understand why).

Before going into what happened, I'll say that I've visited a handful of SEC venues for both football and basketball games. I've visited four of the SEC West venues. Regardless of SEC division, Texas A&M has the most polite and well-behaved fans by far, and I've seen them in multiple down to the wire or OT games against Kentucky. Also, Texas A&M's coach also opened his post-game press conference by saying “I want to apologize on behalf of Texas A&M whatever happened over in the dugout. Whoever those two guys are, they don't represent what Texas A&M is all about. And whoever they are, don't come back. Let's not let those two guys back in the ballpark.”

All of that out of the way, if you are to believe police in the city of Omaha (which I haven't seen any media reports discounting), the subject of the taunts concerned the death of a child. Here's the statement from the Omaha Police Officers Association: "Heckling an opposing baseball team about the tragic death of their batboy is beyond unacceptable,” the post read. “Glad our officers and security threw this duo out of Charles Schwab Field. You’re no longer welcome in this city and should be banned for life from future College World Series #cws.”

Overall, just a terrible situation for Florida's program to be on the receiving end of those types of taunts and for a Texas A&M fan base that prides itself on being hospitable.


The game itself was delayed and didn't finish until after 1 am CT. That could be a bit of an advantage for Kentucky in that they got a few extra hours of rest and recovery while their opponents were in the midst of a game; I know plenty here aren't as big as I am on how much of an advantage that is.