The baseball is good again. Does that mean Omaha or bust?

Is a trip to the College World Series needed to validate what the Ducks have rebuilt?

EUGENE — Kevin Costner once had a catch here. 

OK, so it was technically over at the old Civic Stadium, but there the Hollywood star was in 2008 wearing Ducks gear and throwing the ball around with his son while waxing poetic about the future of Oregon baseball. The Ducks had just hired his friend, George Horton, to the richest contract in the Pac-10 and…