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OMAHA, Neb. — With another wild win Saturday night, possibly topping the previous night's escapade, things started to take a turn for the better out here in Omaha. By a turn, I mean a complete 180-degree flip. Each day and each win seems like adding to destiny.

So we summed up the win again on the bus. Again, the ritual songs and chants echoed around us. For the past few trips, however, we have added a new song to the repertoire. And strangely, it has become a eerie foreshadow on the games at hand.

Michael Copeland, or perhaps better known as MC Chill, is our home public address announcer at Boshamer Stadium and our temporary home in Cary at the USA Training Complex. He announces who is up to bat, pitching changes, etc., to the crowd. And as his nickname White Chocolate indicates, he has a mad skill in a select art form: rapping.

Copeland made a rap song about Carolina baseball that has instantly become the go-to song on trips to and from Rosenblatt Stadium. The best part about the song is the reality that it has become.

For instance: "I get the job done like Maury Povich, and I hit home runs like Tim Federowicz."

Crazy, right? A Federowicz grand slam later gives us another night in Omaha.

Topping that line is the eerie bridge that is spoken: "Have you seen the forecast? It looks like a heavy thunderstorm, and it's coming straight out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina."

After three rain delays in the past three days with heavy lightning, we were all left scratching our heads on that line.

The ultimate Copeland lyric is with Chad Flack and his heroic feat Saturday night.

"I swing the lumber and make the bat go crack. Don't mess with me 'cause I'm bad as Chad Flack."

This is getting scary. Chad Flack just hit another home run for the ages in the win over the Bulldogs of Fresno State, an event that set us up for the win in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Another one: "I don't settle for no ground-rule doubles."

Neither did Flack — and as miraculously as we kept going, his rhymes somehow kept coming true. Before Sunday's game, we were hoping they would stay on that path all the way to the national championship.

Chase Jones, a Ragsdale alumnus, is the bullpen catcher for the UNC baseball team. He is giving News & Record readers an inside view of the College World Series.