For 27 years, the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament has visited the Hoover Met as an annual late spring vacation. For many, the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament in Hoover is a family reunion where friends and family enjoy food, fellowship, and baseball.

Despite the generational tradition that the SEC Baseball Tournament has become, some cover the sport that wants the Southeastern Conference to abandon ship and move the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament to an oversized, overrated Major League Ballpark with a retractable roof because some are tired of the rain delays that happen so often in baseball. For them, the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament is a trip where fun is strictly prohibited. Those people would rather sit in an empty stadium writing useless words and hosting pointless shows than experience SEC Tournament Baseball to the fullest. Those folks are the ones that have made a living trying to change every little thing about the conference they cover.

Outside of Omaha, there’s not a better college baseball postseason venue. Hoover is a place where many kids dream of playing once they get old enough to play for their favorite school. Those kids turn into adults, and then they bring their kids to the Hoover Met to relive generations of memories and happiness.

Here’s what people who want the change don’t realize, watching the Big 12 Conference Tournament in Arlington, Texas, is like watching paint dry. There’s no crowd energy, the attendance is awful, and the environment sucks. It’s everything that college baseball shouldn’t be. In no world should the Southeastern Conference follow in the footsteps of a failed conference with a terrible postseason tournament for their members. Also, when you’re watching the Big 12 Tournament or others, you don’t see the family aspects of kids playing in the grassy knoll chasing down foul balls, and celebrating when they finally catch one. There’s a reason why Texas and Oklahoma came to the Southeastern Conference, begging to be set free from the grips of the Big 12; why should our conference of power cater to the old ways of a failed system? That type of idiotic logic is dangerous for the sport of baseball.

Like Omaha with the College World Series, the city of Hoover has built around the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament and will continue to do so for generations of southern baseball fans.

You see, Southeastern Conference Baseball belongs in Hoover, Alabama. Traditions matter in the Southeastern Conference; if we were to honor our slogan of ” It Just Means More,” then keeping the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament in Hoover should be the only option. Southeastern Conference Baseball belongs at the Hoover Met. Uniquely simple, but sometimes simple is best.