The NCAA would like reporters to enjoy the College World Series by ... not publicly enjoying it

Absolutely, under no circumstances, should you promote college baseball.

The College World Series starts on Friday, the yearly event in Omaha where you can watch college baseball players achieve their dreams and get their hearts broken every other second depending on where you look. It’s like March Madness, but at half-speed.

It’s much fun, but there are also a lot of games. So in the early stages of the tournament, it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the action without a little help from on-the-ground reporters or the good ol’ internet.

But because this is the NCAA is involved, nothing can be that simple. Based on a release tweeted out The Athletic’s Chantel Jennings, reporters and blogs are prevented from offering play-by-play or a “detailed description of the event.” So by all means, enjoy the product and help fans appreciate what’s happening — but not too much.

There was an earlier rumor that reporters were only allowed to tweet once an inning throughout the tournament, nothing more. That’s not true, but that people believed it immediately does prove once again that the NCAA’s continuous absurdity is practically a branding point by now.

Enjoy the baseball, but not too much. Help fans engage, but not more than our (impossible-to-100-percent-keep-track-of) coverage. Love us, but from a distance.

There’s a non-zero chance a reporter actually gets dinged from tweeting too much about college baseball at some point over the next few weeks. Because this is the NCAA, and not a single thing can ever be easy.