You know how I feel about baseball.

Love it.

Nutty game. Sometimes too quirky for its own good.

But love it.

Way unpredictable. Too much stuff can and often does happen.

For the College World Series, for instance, the seeding is as insignificant as how much eye black each team wears (LSU’s budget there must be astronomical).

That said, even with most of college baseball’s blue bloods on hand in Omaha, LSU has as good of a chance as any of the teams headed there.

In fact, if LSU was in the other bracket, replacing one of Florida, Louisville, Texas A&M or TCU, I’d go ahead and at least pencil the Tigers into the championship round.

Even grouped with Oregon State, Cal Fullerton and Florida State, you have to like their chances.

Bringing a 16-game winning streak to Omaha is kind of tempting fate and the game’s law of averages, but it’s not a deal-killer.

But head coach Paul Mainieri was asked anyway if this was the best team he’s taken to Omaha since the 2009 national champions.

He hedged a bit.

“We’ve had some pretty good teams go up there,” he reminded. “But we didn’t get to come back with much. We like to think we’re just as good as anybody up there, but when you’re playing that caliber of competition, you’ve got to play your best.

“You’ve got to have a little bit of luck.”

Well, welcome to baseball.

But Mississippi State coach Andy Cannizaro, who as you probably know was at LSU as an assistant the previous two years, was a little more blunt after being swept in the super regional.

Cannizaro didn’t just tip his cap to the Tigers.

“The train is rolling,” he said. “I anticipate those guys are going to go to Omaha and win a national championship.”

He had his reasons.

“I think they have the most dynamic lineup in the country. Everybody is playing at a high level right now.”

He got specific.

“They have outstanding starting pitching. Their bullpen is outstanding, as well.”

He backed it up.

“One through nine in the lineup, they just put so much pressure on you. They don’t ever stop coming. It’s just one after the other.”

And he didn’t mind repeating himself.

“Like I said I think they are the best team in the country. I expect them to go to Omaha, win a national championship, do all the things they planned on doing this year.”

Well, OK.

There are a lot of metrics you can get bogged down with — and the seam-head nerds likely will.

But I just think this LSU team has that “it” factor, a combination of talent, experience, confidence, mostly chemistry and … well, “it.”

It also seems built for the current Omaha experience.

In this postseason, in particular, Mainieri seems to have gone slap-dab bunt-crazy whenever given half an excuse.

I long ago quit second-guessing him, but sometimes it seemed curious.

Maybe that was with an eye toward TD Ameritrade Park, which has been something of buzz-killer for the baseball national dynasty LSU built at beloved old and rustic Rosenblatt Stadium.

Fun fact: McNeese has won more games (3) at the flashily (too) modernistic new (awful) home of the College World Series than LSU has.

You didn’t miss anything.

The Cowboys haven’t yet been to the CWS, but they swept a three-game series against Omaha-based Creighton there late this spring.

That’s actually three times as many games as LSU has won there.

In the two previous trips since Rosenblatt was criminally demolished, the Tigers went 0-2 and 1-2.

This team may or may not win there, let alone get on a roll.

But it won’t have any excuses, won’t be able to blame it on TD AmeriCanyon.

Runs are at a premium. There’s not a bigger waste of time in baseball than sitting around that stadium — Rosenblatt was a ballpark — waiting on that three-run homer to save you.

LSU has Greg Deichmann’s 19 bombs, but the Tigers never have been long-ball dependent.

Their usual mode is stringing together singles and doubles with a batting order that, 1-9, doesn’t have many rest stops along the way.

It can occasionally go into a feeding frenzy. It’s the way you do it in that place.

They also run well — decent enough at stealing bases, but, more so, aggressively disruptive in taking extra bases and whatnot.

Defensively, they’re excellent all around — it IS the best defensive team since 2009.

They do all the usual things, but most importantly they have a 4-by-100 relay-team in the outfield to run down everything in the huge expanses of that canyon.

But you really have to like the way LSU’s pitching has evolved for this trip.

The starters were always fine.

It took a lot of trial and error and more than a few midweek games frittered away, but in the end Mainieri figured out who he could count on and a deep pitching staff emerged.

I’d count four in the bullpen — Zach Hess, Matt Beck, Caleb Gilbert, Hunter Newman — that you’d throw into any firestorm, two others in a pinch — Todd Peterson and Nick Bush.

No, it doesn’t guarantee anything. It’s still baseball.

But I expect a long stay this time.

Heading there tomorrow.

And I’ll send post cards every day.