McNeese state baseball game

[preachermatt83]

Gary Henderson's job interview is going swimmingly. We started a damn guy with a 30 era.

That's was without a doubt the most unexplainable thing I've seen in a long time. It makes me not even want henderson as a pitching coach

[Dawg61]

Maybe if Cann hadn't been ***** whipped by a married woman living in Florida he would have spent the entire offseason getting this team ready to play ball. This team is a total shitshow and it's pretty much all on Cannizarro imo. What a disaster.

[msstate7]

Bench Belmont. Opens up a spot to put Allen who may be our best pure hitter. Then that opens the DH spot.

Use Jordan, Anderson, Macnamee, Vansau in the 2 OF spots and DH. One of the FR playing in one of those 4 spots at all times. See what shakes there. Hopefully it?s the 2 FR winning 2 of 3 spots and Mac and Vansau platoon.

Watch Westburg...if the OF/DH group above doesn?t produce move Allen to Lf, Stovall back to 2nd, and put Westburg at SS.

Mangum in CF, although it wouldn?t kill me to bench his ass at some point bc he gets himself out swinging at everything, Hatcher at 1b and Foscue at 3b should be everyday constants.

Let Gilbert and Skelton fight it out.

Oh and fire Poole as our ****ing 1b coach. He almost allowed Stovall to get back picked from CF on his single bc he didn?t say shit about the CF coming up and throwing behind him. If you?re gonna stand in the coaching box Tanner then ****ing do something while you?re there.

Time to go young already and it?s obvious.

Wanna bench Alexander (.233 ba, .343 obp, 8 k in 35 PAs) bc of avg and Ks, but play macnamee (.200 ba, .222 obp, 9 k in 26 PAs) and vansau (.222 ba, .300 obp, 9 k in 30 PAs). Lol @ benching mangum

[Cooterpoot]

Anderson and Westburg must really suck to not be able to play with what we’ve got out there. I can’t imagine they’re worse.

[I seen it dawg]

Wanna bench Alexander (.233 ba, .343 obp, 8 k in 35 PAs) bc of avg and Ks, but play macnamee (.200 ba, .222 obp, 9 k in 26 PAs) and vansau (.222 ba, .300 obp, 9 k in 30 PAs). Lol @ benching mangum

I want to bench Belmont bc he has proven he won’t hit. Vansau and Macnamee get a pass bc they hit at the end of last year so there is hope there. And even you arent stupid enough to think I meant bench Mangum permanently. Well then again...

[I seen it dawg]

Cole Gordon was the 1B coach the other night so its some kind of random deal

I know it is

[raymond21]

Believe it or not , doesn’t matter, but the ghosts of LFL will haunt this program as the goat did the Cubs

[msstate7]

I want to bench Belmont bc he has proven he won?t hit. Vansau and Macnamee get a pass bc they hit at the end of last year so there is hope there. And even you arent stupid enough to think I meant bench Mangum permanently. Well then again...

Alexander hit up until he got hit by pitch vs tenn last season. After that, nothing. Granted, that was sec play after his injury. Like I have said a few times, if Monday was an official game, Alexander is hitting .272 with an obp at .370, and tied for the team lead in doubles. Monday does not count for the stats, but it absolutely should count when contemplating benching a guy. If Alexander is not hitting after vandy series, bench him

[Coach34]

Alexander his .150 in SEC play last year. You can’t defend that

He isn’t hitting well enough now that we should waste every pre-conference AB on him but then throw the freshmen to the wolves of the SEC. Let them get some sweet stuff pre-conference to get their carrots wet before SEC play

[confucius say]

Thanks to a couple of you for reiterating exactly what i said...

Thanks for reiterating what I, and others, said 11 days ago with respect to our juniors and catcher spot when we were cautioned and told to pump the brakes.

[msstate7]

I think you guys are giving up on this team way too early. Our team is on mlb road trip to start this season. Mlb teams struggle on long trips... you know a bunch of college kids will too. I expect this team to play much better this weekend with the end to this trip in sight, and play pretty well next week at home

[basedog]

I want to bench Belmont bc he has proven he won’t hit. Vansau and Macnamee get a pass bc they hit at the end of last year so there is hope there. And even you arent stupid enough to think I meant bench Mangum permanently. Well then again...

I would say Belmont is the most over rated SS we have had, he is the worse overall SS we have had in a long long time.

Remember ISID, Belmontmsstate7 is his daddy** and before long he would be nominating for Msu HOF.

[TNDawg35]

Belmont can’t hit... period... when you are 3-5 against a bunch of bush league teams, you make a damn change. For god sakes!!! We lost to mother****** Texas A&MCC and McNeese State!!

[I seen it dawg]

I’m not giving up on them. I think we will be fine. The biggest key is not whether or not Belmont hits his 240 it’s how is our band of TJs going to heal and progress to where there is some consistency when they pitch. That will tell the tale on our season.

[Dawgface]

We're 3-5. I'm guessing no longer top 25. Oh well......start over with a new coach next year. He will require 3 years to get his players in before he will be held accountable. At least we will have a pretty new ballpark to look at.

[confucius say]

I’m not giving up on them. I think we will be fine. The biggest key is not whether or not Belmont hits his 240 it’s how is our band of TJs going to heal and progress to where there is some consistency when they pitch. That will tell the tale on our season.

I agree with this. Bc offensively we will not be good.

But the problem is our pitching can?t just be good. It has to be dominant for us to compete for postseason.

[preachermatt83]

I think you guys are giving up on this team way too early. Our team is on mlb road trip to start this season. Mlb teams struggle on long trips... you know a bunch of college kids will too. I expect this team to play much better this weekend with the end to this trip in sight, and play pretty well next week at home

Lol, do u take meds for that Multiple Personality Disorder?

[msstate7]

Lol, do u take meds for that Multiple Personality Disorder?

What you mean? I have been very patient with this team. I knew replacing rooker was gonna be very tough, and this road trip to start the season is ridiculous. What did jim say, over 3000 miles of travel in this trip?

[Commercecomet24]

I’m not giving up on them. I think we will be fine. The biggest key is not whether or not Belmont hits his 240 it’s how is our band of TJs going to heal and progress to where there is some consistency when they pitch. That will tell the tale on our season.

Agreed. Spot on.

[Bigedawg]

What you mean? I have been very patient with this team. I knew replacing rooker was gonna be very tough, and this road trip to start the season is ridiculous. What did jim say, over 3000 miles of travel in this trip?

This team knew the entire preseason that they would face this road trip. To that end, all we heard is how hard they were training and creating a "Road Warrior" mentality. If this road trip has told us anything about the team, it is that they are not a mentally tough bunch. Lack of mental toughness is a recipe for disaster in the SEC. This is compounded by the fact that we are getting zero offense from our veteran players other than Mangum and Stovall. As for Mangum, he is what he is as the coaches like to say. He swings early in the count and lacks plate discipline. Same story as his first two years but I would most definitely take a few more just like him.

The pitching staff does not appear to be a strength as many anticipated. Pilk is a solid Friday night guy but his pitch count always gets elevated in the early innings thus preventing him from being the inning eater that we so desperately need. Self is the only guy out of the bullpen that you can really have total confidence in. Maybe Smith rounds into his form of two years ago. Gordon is Gordon. Flashes of brilliance followed by the inability to throw a strike. We need a big jump from two of the following 3: France, Small, James if we are going to scratch into a regional. Losing Price really, really hurts.

I feel good about the small sample size that we have seen from the young position players. If the season continues spiraling, I hope we see an influx of young players taking their lumps this season. We are almost to the point where we should know what we are getting with Mac, Vansua, Belmont, Poole, Skelton, etc. I don't feel like any of those 5 will hit over .250 in league play; so, we will continue to struggle offensively. I want to see more of Foscue, Anderson, Gilbert, Jordan, etc. Allen and Hatcher are already showing that they can swing it. The team has potential offensively but that potential lies solely in an influx of the young guys into the lineup.

Sorry for novel but feels good to get off of my chest!