The I-5 Corridor

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Oregon's progress deserves a tip of the cap
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Oregon's progress deserves a tip of the cap

Progress for the Ducks meant 15,000 fans at PK Park over the weekend and a whole lot more talking about baseball.

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Tyson Alger
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EUGENE — I don’t really care that Mark Wasikowski didn’t get Oregon to Omaha yesterday.

Would have been nice, no doubt. The last two weeks have been a treat. It’s June, 15,000 crammed into PK Park over the weekend and over the last day something new has unfolded on Oregon Twitter: an old-fashioned meltdown over pitching changes and baseball recruiting.

Wrote former Register-Guard scribe Steve Mims:

Oregon baseball “fans” who couldn’t have named an assistant coach or 3 players last week flying off the handle over Super Regionals are something else.

He’s not wrong, but let’s be careful not to gate keep. It’s been a decade since Oregon baseball mattered like this. The bandwagon — armchair quarterbacks included — is a sign of progress. And with Wasikowski’s Ducks, progress is allowed.

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