After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska and skinning his knees on the concrete walkways of Rosenblatt Stadium, Eric has had college baseball in his veins for as long as he can remember. When the College World Series was going on each June, his parents would drop him and his friends off at the stadium in the morning and pick them up after the last game that night. Poor parenting? Sure. But it also fueled his fever for the sport that much more.
Eschewing the normal journalistic road to sports writing, Eric has been an advertising copywriter for years. He admits that creative background has added to his unconventional approach to sports writing and is a main contributor to his unique style.
Eric’s “addiction” to college baseball writing began back in the late 90s, when he became one of the original national writers for the sport. In the years that followed, he has covered college baseball for such media outlets as USA Today, CSTV, CBS Sportsline, CBS College Sports, College Baseball Insider and his current gig with College Baseball Today.
Living in Southern California with his wife Mandy, Eric sits in one of the hotbeds of college baseball. When he’s not covering a game or writing about the sport, he enjoys surfing, snow skiing, playing hockey and rough-housing with his black lab “T.O.” Eric was also 7th runner-up in “The Most Interesting Man In the World” competition held by Dos Equis in 2009.
Lazy days of summer? Ole Nat King Cole was certainly right about that.
Ever notice that after the June Classic closes its doors, you tend to move a little bit slower? The days seem longer. Daily chores take forever to complete. Southern drawls get even more drawn out. Even the second hand on a clock seems like it’s stuck in syrup.
Truth be told, I’m still on that lazy streak that has invaded my life since I left the lights of Rosenblatt in my rear-view mirror, but I’m sure you guys understand. So despite this slight delay, I’d like to take a quick look back at some of the things that made the 2010 college baseball season so cool to me.
I’m hoping this season was a good one for you too. My guess is that you have your own 50 reasons you could give as to why 2010 was a worthy season. In fact, feel free to add your own in the comment section below if you’re so inclined. But for now, here are the 50 reasons I thought the 2010 season was so cool…
Okay, this one’s pretty self-explanatory. The new stadium is on the way and everybody has had their tributes to Rosenblatt over the past week or two. So why not join the hit-parade on that, right? I thought I’d go ahead and add my ten favorite moments that I have experienced first-hand inside the Mecca of College Baseball. So here you go. Enjoy.
A hateful, repugnant waste of six and a half minutes.
For the last time this season, I brought my bald pate to another Baldcast for you guys. Hope you dug these video ventures during the 2010 season. I tried to make them somewhat palatable, touching on interesting topics when I could, adding a little bit of music for you to check out and also doing them from different locales.
And if you’re wondering about the music bed for this week’s Baldcast. I know it’s a tad on the melancholy side, but it’s Frank Sinatra’s “There used to be a ballpark.” Sort of a little tribute/remembrance of Rosenblatt.
Flying is way overrated.

My 1,567-mile journey from Smogland to "somewhere in middle America" started with this entry on my navigation system.
So I’ve decided to follow the lead of my good bud, Kirk Kenney, the San Diego college baseball writer who has been a scribe for Baseball America and the Sporting News in recent years. He has also made the drive to Omaha for the CWS from LoCal a number of times. With the airfares being horrendous and the Omaha rental car dealers raping you for $800+ for two weeks use of a rent-a-lemon, I decided this was the year I was going to actually make the “Road to Omaha” a reality.
But before I get to that, lemme say a few words about the shocking, head-slapping results from today’s Super Regional Game 3’s.
Now that Miami has beaten Texas A&M and completes the 16-team field for the Super Regionals, we can take a quick look back at the 30 things we learned from this past weekend.
Capitol One's floating blimp was a great, well-loved addition to Gametracker this weekend. Dontcha think?
Hey guys and dolls. Fell asleep at my computer last night. Sorry. Went ahead and finished this up in the morning and decided to combine my report from Fullerton and the Doctor’s report from Myrtle Beach.

Coastal Carolina dogpiles after the win over College of Charleston. Note that Scott Woodward (#10) is smart enough not to get tangled up in that human pretzel machine.
Hope you dig it. And again, mea culpa on the tardiness. Good thing nobody can fire me for it.
A hateful, repugnant waste of eight minutes.
Now a couple of notes as an addition to the Baldcast.
Okay stitch-heads, now that the field of 64 has been announced, lets get the red pen out and have at it with the NCAA selection committee’s decision-making process and what we think about it.
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Overall grade for the selection committee: C+
Continuing my column from last night…
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WHAT I SAW AT REESE SMITH FIELD.
The Garrett Wittels’ Tour de Force.
Day One of Tournament Week is in the books… well, except for the Sun Belt. Which, last I heard was still going strong in the 8th inning at 2:15am. I know, I know, usually I’m awake at that time. But I’m still dealing with jet lag, so I had to bail early. But not before I saw some huge moments in this epic first day of action.

Florida Atlantic's Mike Albaladejo gets some serious hang time as he flies into the arms of his teammates after hitting his 3-run homer in the 13th inning.
From Garrett Wittels extending his hit streak to 49 games, to Chris Sale’s double-digit victims at the A-Sun Tournament, to FAU’s shocking jog-off home run win over WKU, this was a wild day in Mid-Tennessee. Nationally, some teams really crapped the rug on their at-large chances, while others took the opportunity to build their resumes. And did I hear right?…. the head coaches for Miami and Florida State actually shook hands after the game? Holy crap! Hmmm, where do we start here?
Bay State Pete says:
I'll second that notion. Eric, there are a lot more Northern fans than even you