So last night Staten Island's own, Kevin Krause and the Stony Brook Seawolves baseball team pulled off the quite the shocker. They defeated a national powerhouse LSU, on their own field, in the best of 3 Super Regionals, which is basically the equivalent of the Sweet 16.
If you watched the ending of game 1, then it made last night's result that more shocking. It doesn't take a baseball genius to know that when you're an underdog and you blow the game in the last inning it's absolutely demoralizing.
Relate that to anything. You think you have the beautiful girl in the bag only to see her leave with Johnny Juicebag right when you're about the close the deal. Or you get a phone call saying that your crappy blog is being bought for a cool mill only to find out it was your dick friend playing a prank.
For Stony Brook they had the busty blonde, the lusty brunette and the sexy red head on their fingertips but blew saves in three consecutive innings before LSU stole game 1.
As if that wasn't enough to gauge. Game 2 started immediately after and the Seawolves had to face stud pitcher Kevin Gausman (Baltimore Orioles 4th overall draft pick).
Amazingly, Stony Brook regrouped and beat the hard throwing righty in game 2 and last night closed the deal with a dominating performance in the deciding game 3.
Yes, Stony Brook was a 4 seed in their regional (equivalent of a 14-16 in basketball) but this team can play. They worked 1 seed Miami in the regional, beat Missouri State (led the NCAA in ERA) and beat UCF, a top 20 team, in the regional final.
Also this team had seven players drafted last week including one first rounder and another four on the second day. Overall they had two more players drafted than LSU.
Oh yeah, they were also 50-12. Yes five, zero. Every time I've said this to someone at the bar I get looked at like I have five heads. I don't care what fucking conference you play for. If you win 50 games, you need to be taken seriously. The team can play and don't be surprised if they make a little run in the 8 team, double elimination College World Series.
Root these guys on. Everyone hates when Staten Island gets a bad rap because of national attention, but this is the complete opposite. It would've been even better if Eddie, Rivera and St. John's could have joined the party, but they fell short in their super regional against Arizona.
Good luck to Kevin and the rest of the Seawolves in Omaha. WATCH THIS TEAM!!!
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