For those of you out there who proclaim to be sports sickos like myself, there isn’t a better weekend all year than this one. NCAA Baseball regionals time. Imagine March Madness but on heavy drugs. Yes, that’s possible. Just like the basketball tournament, there are 64 teams, however, they are split up into pods of four and play double elimination. That means that there are well more than double the amount of games of March Madness. From noon to well past midnight, there is nonstop baseball action. The emotion is unbelievably high, and the action on the field is extremely entertaining. I think it’s one of the best sporting events out there.
Yet, Syracuse isn’t involved. The seemingly obvious answer to the question, “Why doesn’t Syracuse have a baseball team?” is, without a doubt, “SNOW!” There’s a pretty easy and simple response to that, though. There are about a million other baseball teams in the area that find a way to make it work. Of course, the Syracuse Mets have a stadium that is NCAA-ready. Most other college teams in the area have the sport. Le Moyne and Cornell both have Division I teams. Onondaga Community College fields a squad. So do SUNY Oswego, SUNY Cortland, and Hobart. Yet, the biggest, most impactful school in the area that would have the money to practice and maintain a field in the cold doesn’t have a team. Make it make sense!
Syracuse University fielded a team for the first 100 years of the school’s existence. The program even made it all the way to the College World Series! This school has a softball team and a student body that is very often walking around campus sporting a Yankees/Mets hat or Red Sox merch. It’s time to bring americas past time back to CNY.
