Vandy goes down in extra innings, 4-3, and is out of the tournament without even getting out of regionals. Pretty ignominious finish to an otherwise glorious season – owned the SEC, rode the top of the rankings for months, but couldn’t win a regional playoff at home – against Michigan, of all teams. Sigh. What is it about the Wolverines that gives us so much trouble? (See the opening of Dudley Field in 1922 if you don’t believe me.)
Birmingham-born Californian, age fifty-two, cannot return to his native state…there are 651,972 reasons why