Sorry, but I'm gonna post this in every forum I can. As the Sun sets on FSU's 2023 baseball season today, every FSU fan, baseball fan, sports fan - should contemplate what has happened here. Most FSU fans are aware of it, but no one seems to be jacked about it since something bad has to happen to complete it. Maybe it's too soon, but IMO it is one of the biggest moments in sports history.
Yeah, we are a bad baseball team. I get it. Can't pitch, can't field, and can't hit when it counts. A series of unfortunate events has culminated in where we are now. It happens. It's happened, more than once, to every baseball team, hell, every existing team of any major sport, college or pro. Every one. Multiple times. Uh, wait a minute. . .
EXCEPT US. This season, FSU baseball will finish with a losing record for the first time. EVER. You read that right. EVER.
WOW, what a run. 75 years. That's seven five. Longer than almost all of us, even us geezers, have been alive.
Yeah, most other big schools have been playing baseball for at least 50 years before we were even co-ed, but we've been playing for 75 years now. And yeah, we're the school with the most CWS appearances without a title, and Americans are obsessed with only winning championships, but this is a streak of success that shouldn't be overlooked. Winning more games than you lose is harder than you think.
We've always won more than we lost. Always. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but FSU is the only school to do that, ever, and by a ridiculous margin, in any major sport, I think. I'm too lazy to look up everyone, but I couldn't find any school that has won for the most recent 75 years, let alone its first 75.
Yes, even if you start everyone in 1948 when we started, giving every school except us 50ish years of pre-season practice, no other D1 program has had winning seasons every year - except us. As that record unceremoniously comes to an end, let it sink in a little. Never, ever, will anyone see that again. Ever. In any sport.
Instead of lamenting a season we are entirely unfamiliar with experiencing, we should be celebrating a season we are literally entirely unfamiliar with experiencing. When the last pitch is thrown today, we should be sending all the major news outlets the news of this unprecedented and unrepeatable feat.
Yeah, but records are meant to be broken, right? Not this one. While football has a similar record of 40 consecutive non-losing seasons (ND's claim is fake), that one might be broken one day. This one won't. Not 75 years, and not your first 75 years. Even without verifying it, I'm as confident this will stand long after all of us are gone as any other record, anywhere.
I'm a lifelong FSU baseball fan, and I am as happy and as proud of them today as I have ever been.
Yeah, we are a bad baseball team. I get it. Can't pitch, can't field, and can't hit when it counts. A series of unfortunate events has culminated in where we are now. It happens. It's happened, more than once, to every baseball team, hell, every existing team of any major sport, college or pro. Every one. Multiple times. Uh, wait a minute. . .
EXCEPT US. This season, FSU baseball will finish with a losing record for the first time. EVER. You read that right. EVER.
WOW, what a run. 75 years. That's seven five. Longer than almost all of us, even us geezers, have been alive.
Yeah, most other big schools have been playing baseball for at least 50 years before we were even co-ed, but we've been playing for 75 years now. And yeah, we're the school with the most CWS appearances without a title, and Americans are obsessed with only winning championships, but this is a streak of success that shouldn't be overlooked. Winning more games than you lose is harder than you think.
We've always won more than we lost. Always. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but FSU is the only school to do that, ever, and by a ridiculous margin, in any major sport, I think. I'm too lazy to look up everyone, but I couldn't find any school that has won for the most recent 75 years, let alone its first 75.
Yes, even if you start everyone in 1948 when we started, giving every school except us 50ish years of pre-season practice, no other D1 program has had winning seasons every year - except us. As that record unceremoniously comes to an end, let it sink in a little. Never, ever, will anyone see that again. Ever. In any sport.
Instead of lamenting a season we are entirely unfamiliar with experiencing, we should be celebrating a season we are literally entirely unfamiliar with experiencing. When the last pitch is thrown today, we should be sending all the major news outlets the news of this unprecedented and unrepeatable feat.
Yeah, but records are meant to be broken, right? Not this one. While football has a similar record of 40 consecutive non-losing seasons (ND's claim is fake), that one might be broken one day. This one won't. Not 75 years, and not your first 75 years. Even without verifying it, I'm as confident this will stand long after all of us are gone as any other record, anywhere.
I'm a lifelong FSU baseball fan, and I am as happy and as proud of them today as I have ever been.
