Let me set the stage for what you’re about to witness.
Ben Mintz, AKA Bayou Ben, AKA Barstool Mintzy is the “King of College Baseball” at the Barstool headquarters. The man that Dave Portnoy (Barstool El Presidente) turns to for yearly advice on the happenings of the CWS, for fandom and gambling purposes.
This postseason…well…hasn’t gone well for Ol’ Mintzy.
Heading into the Super Regionals, Mintzy convinced everyone that Arkansas was the team to beat. After Dave Portnoy bought $300 worth of Razorbacks swag, the Wolfpack outran the Kopps and Arkansas was donzo.
He then picked Vanderbilt to win it all. (Technically, still TBD)
Then Mintzy picked Stanford to beat State…nope
Once again, he bet against State in the Vanderbilt game…whoops
But here is where we’ve arrived at the crucial moment of live social media perfection. As if the Gods of Baseball were drinking with the Gods of Humor, this happens. While talking about Leiter’s perfect game and how the next run would be the winner, we witness in real-time a man’s soul get sucked from his body. The look of disbelief as even he knows, he’s in the worst gambling streak of all-time. Enjoy.
Still in shock over this vid. Mintz has lost like 40 straight games. Vandy is his pick to win it all. Jack Leiter was throwing a perfect game. Mintzy basically says 1st run wins. Before he can finish sentence guy hits 700 ft bomb for only run of game pic.twitter.com/L6AQsXY09c
The NC State Baseball team is now 7-0 through two weeks of play, going 4-0 last week, defeating Coastal Carolina 16-4 on the road in a midweek game, and sweeping Belmont at home this past weekend (11-4, 7-0, 7-1).
The Wolfpack remain ranked 21st in the D1Baseball Top-25.
The Wolfpack moved up 11 spots to #19 in the Collegiate Baseball Poll, up 2 spots to #20 in the Coaches Poll, and up 1 spot to #24 in the Baseball America poll.
NC State will host Longwood today at 3pm in their next matchup.
But while I was over on Twitter, I saw a ton of comments on it, all of them NC State fans, and almost all of them critical of the new look.
Look, I don’t know what’s going on here. Maybe it’ll look a lot better once it’s done, or maybe the grass will match up a lot better when it greens up. But right now, it’s a little jarring. Here is how it used to look…
Again, I’m going to wait until it’s really done before I cast judgement, but I think the official tweet from the school marketing it and drawing attention to it, has people thinking it’s in it’s final form. And maybe it is. But I hope it’s not.
I remember this being shared a while back…
This shows grass in foul territory and dirt in the 1st/3rd baselines. So I’m not sure when this turf thing came along. And while we’re on the subject, aren’t we a turf management school? Shouldn’t we be turning up our noses at artificial turf?
Apparently, this is a thing now, where foul territories are artificial turf and fair territory is grass. Here is Mississippi State’s baseball field doing the same thing.
Can’t say I like it there either, honestly. It just seems like one of those fads. Remember when everyone was going crazy with field/court colors?
School with a grey field and school with a glow in the dark basketball court meet on blue turf. Winning coach gets dumped with French fries. College athletics at its absolute best. https://t.co/crEKoeLKbXpic.twitter.com/Bpeod50Sy4
Did anyone ever really like those? Do people like them now? Have they ever gotten a recruit to come to the school? Have they ever scared a recruit away?
I don’t know. You tell me. I’ll hold final judgment, but things NC State fans don’t seem like they’re going to follow along.