Let's review the start of my Monday morning column:
"No. 1 Oregon State, we're about to find out if you're all that."
Now we know. Boy, do we ever know.
Leave it to the Beavers to emphatically demonstrate why their 56-4 record isn't a typo, why they now have two 23-game win streaks in one season.
Nothing could save LSU - not eight pitchers, hundreds of rally beachballs or shortstop Kramer Robertson's shoe collection - from getting destroyed 13-1 in a second-round College World Series game Monday night in Omaha.
"We weren't very competitive," said subdued LSU coach Paul Mainieri, whose 49-18 team had its 17-game winning streak snapped to send the Tigers to a Wednesday's losers bracket game against Florida State.