Skinny's back Game Thread vs. Ok St

[bigbub50]

batting 7th. Lets go!!

[bigbub50]

Chance solo hr top of 1st

[bigbub50]

Hard contact against stone. 1-1 after 1.

[Saltydog]

Great AB by Hines. He actually made contact. That's a start.

[DEDawg]

Stone settled down a bit after shaky first inning. Good to see

[The Federalist Engineer]

What ever the MSU pass-ball record is, Highfill is going to smash that record.

[Coursesuper]

What ever the MSU pass-ball record is, Highfill is going to smash that record.

He definitely one just waiting to happen.

[maroonmania]

Put Ligon and Simmons both on the bench and find some starters that can throw a strike! Simmons opens the 3rd with back to back walks. Geez.

[Activated Alpha]

Without a shadow of a doubt, they would have called obstruction on us if we slid into the 2nd baseman

[EdwardDrayton]

1-2 pitch and he hangs it on a string. Sheesh.

[maroonmania]

Without a shadow of a doubt, they would have called obstruction on us if we slid into the 2nd baseman

Yep, not calling that now has cost us 2 runs with Simmons throwing middle of the plate pitches on back to back hitters with 2 strikes. Down 3-1 now.

[EdwardDrayton]

And the wheels are off.

[maroonmania]

And Simmons wild pitches in another run. This team sucks.

[BuckyIsAB****]

We arent just bad we really really suck

[maroonmania]

6-1 now. Screw it. I've got better things to do than watch this crap. Simmons should have never pitched to the last batter after giving up 3 runs already.

[BuckyIsAB****]

4 straight years of lowering the standards baby. Lemon forever

[parabrave]

Why do we have a 24 year old starting. Heck he would be in the mexican league by now in minor league.

[EdwardDrayton]

4 straight years of lowering the standards baby. Lemon forever

You're like the gopher that pops his head out of the hole in Caddyshack.

[RezDog7]

It must be cold in Houston

[EdwardDrayton]

Gonna take some work to reel this one back in. Let's get started and grind one or two this at bat.

[BuckyIsAB****]

You're like the gopher that pops his head out of the hole in Caddyshack.
And lemonis is like the Groundhog Day movie
Same shit for 4 years running. And y?all make
The same excuses

[parabrave]

Come on ump/ Let them have fun.

[EdwardDrayton]

There we go!! Grindin'!!

[EdwardDrayton]

Flip it baby!!!

[parabrave]

And the return of HH was brief.

[EdwardDrayton]

Hines. smh

[KOdawg1]

Now 0-4 vs teams worth a damn

[Cooterpoot]

All these lefty pull hitters getting schooled with that shift

[Coursesuper]

Hines. smh

Same old.

[Pancho]

just hit your spots and it works

[EdwardDrayton]

Same old.

Teams shove that shift in a players face and basically say you got nothing meat. As a player I would work tirelessly to be able to beat that 17er. Just hard to understand a player continuing to weakly play right into it. They become a eunuch.

[Cowbell]

Teams shove that shift in a players face and basically say you got nothing meat. As a player I would work tirelessly to be able to beat that 17er. Just hard to understand a player continuing to weakly play right into it. They become a eunuch.

we see it so much that as some point we have to look at how they are coached

[EdwardDrayton]

Alright. Davis holding the line. Let's go bats.

[parabrave]

So they can beat a shift and we can't?

[EdwardDrayton]

All gifts are kindly accepted.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Gonna look back and realize we wasted a lot of innings on lemon ball

[parabrave]

Well at least he didn't hit into the shift.

[StateDawg44]

Gonna look back and realize we wasted a lot of innings on lemon ball

Years worth!

[EdwardDrayton]

Gotta get it done when there's opportunity.

[StateDawg44]

Gotta get it done when there's opportunity.

A lemon coached team? Clutch?

[EdwardDrayton]

A lemon coached team? Clutch?

He's not the one standing at the plate.

[StateDawg44]

He's not the one standing at the plate.

How many clutch hitters did we have that he inherited?

How many have we had since?

[Activated Alpha]

If we lose this game, my expectations for this year will be lowered. Most likely another 2-3 seed at some other baseball stadium. Maybe a good team, but nothing screams to me as being a great team.

[EdwardDrayton]

How many clutch hitters did we have that he inherited?

How many have we had since?

This is a game thread. We're not here to debate Lemonis. What we have right now is still not fully known. It's early in the season. And this game is not over.

[HoopsDawg]

What is Parker doing?

[EdwardDrayton]

We ran out of pitching.

[StateDawg44]

If we lose this game, my expectations for this year will be lowered. Most likely another 2-3 seed at some other baseball stadium. Maybe a good team, but nothing screams to me as being a great team.

Dropping further and further down in the SEC pecking order each season.

[BuckyIsAB****]

If we lose this game, my expectations for this year will be lowered. Most likely another 2-3 seed at some other baseball stadium. Maybe a good team, but nothing screams to me as being a great team.

Standards baby. Selmon would just hire oklahomas hitting coach anyway

[msstate7]

Missouri state 3-6
Rice 2-7
Manhattan 4-7

All our losses are to teams with winning records. We may suck.

[HoopsDawg]

We ran out of pitching.

No we didn't

[Cooterpoot]

What we have right now is still not fully known. It's early in the season. And this game is not over.

Suck, we've got a suck ass baseball team

[BuckyIsAB****]

Missouri state 3-6
Rice 2-7
Manhattan 4-7

All our losses are to teams with winning records. We may suck.

The past 3 years we have sucked for 2 and been average for one.

[EdwardDrayton]

No we didn't

Fortenberry?

[HoopsDawg]

Fortenberry?

We had Hungate, Siary, Foster, Black etc. Didn't have to make that move. That's a simpleton left on left move.

[Todd4State]

Whatever Gautreau is coaching them to do the message isn't getting through.

[EdwardDrayton]

We had Hungate, Siary, Foster, Black etc. Didn't have to make that move. That's a simpleton left on left move.

Ah, yes. Not sure why Parker went that way. He must have felt they weren't available for some reason. Fortenberry's ERA has to be double digits? Was watching him through splayed fingers when he took the mound.

[StateDawg44]

Whatever Gautreau is coaching them to do the message isn't getting through.

Maybe he should bring the chest tap back for 2 strike situations.****

[EdwardDrayton]

Maybe he should bring the chest tap back for 2 strike situations.****

Oh Lord. That had gotten to where it grated on my last nerve.

[HoopsDawg]

Damn it. That's why you don't quit.

[EdwardDrayton]

Damn it. That's why you don't quit.

Yep. Just knew we could get to six. Parker gonna have some splainin' to do.

[EdwardDrayton]

These games have had a crazy hits to runs scored ratio.

[StateDawg44]

Oh Lord. That had gotten to where it grated on my last nerve.

Other teams have started doing it now too. I know I?ve seen UGA players doing it last year and this year.

[EdwardDrayton]

Other teams have started doing it now too. I know I?ve seen UGA players doing it last year and this year.

Guess Alford carried it with him. *****

[EdwardDrayton]

Two run game. We can still do this.

[EdwardDrayton]

I feel for Hines; he is completely lost at the plate.

[HoopsDawg]

These games have had a crazy hits to runs scored ratio.

Parker gets a lot of praise on this board but he cost us Troy and today just as much as anyone.

[EdwardDrayton]

Parker gets a lot of praise on this board but he cost us Troy and today just as much as anyone.

I certainly want to hear what he has to say. And let's keep in mind we lost 6-5 to Troy, 6-5 to Arizona and today we're down two runs. We are very competitive in these games. If not for Fortenberry, we likely are leading this one.

[Activated Alpha]

Yeah we suck

[msstate7]

I certainly want to hear what he has to say. And let's keep in mind we lost 6-5 to Troy, 6-5 to Arizona and today we're down two runs. We are very competitive in these games. If not for Fortenberry, we likely are leading this one.

We've played 4 teams with a winning record, and we've lost them all.

[StateDawg44]

We've played 4 teams with a winning record, and we've lost them all.

And none are even remotely ?elite?.

[EdwardDrayton]

We've played 4 teams with a winning record, and we've lost them all.

Now you know better than that 7. You're implying that is a predictor of future success. Baseball and the stock market don't work that way.

[Activated Alpha]

Now you know better than that 7. You're implying that is a predictor of future success. Baseball and the stock market don't work that way.

It can with predicting whether this team will be great down the road. Our great teams have won these games more times than lost in the past. Not saying this team will be bad this year, but only being able to beat the teams with losing record doesn't bode well for our success

[Coursesuper]

It is hard to beat a team when you run a lineup out there that only has 23 earned outs and 4 free ones in it.

[maroonmania]

This is the first loss of the year that is totally on Parker. And we hit well only after this game was pretty much out of reach. Seems we start off EVERY game slow in scoring. Every decent team we've played so far it's 3-0, 5-0, 5-1 or this one 9-2 before we get anything figured out at the plate. You aren't going to dig out of those kind of deficits very often against good teams.

[EdwardDrayton]

It is hard to beat a team when you run a lineup out there that only has 23 earned outs and 4 free ones in it.

It's a valid point Course but we did score runs. And scored them very efficiently. Given that and to your point, one or two more hits very well could have made the difference.

[msstate7]

Now you know better than that 7. You're implying that is a predictor of future success. Baseball and the stock market don't work that way.

I'm not predicting anything. I just stated a fact.

[Todd4State]

I certainly want to hear what he has to say. And let's keep in mind we lost 6-5 to Troy, 6-5 to Arizona and today we're down two runs. We are very competitive in these games. If not for Fortenberry, we likely are leading this one.

We have to actually settle in some roles and we have to rework our rotation. It's almost like we have too many guys and we can't get them all work.

Trimming the roster down probably will help with that some to be honest with you.

[EdwardDrayton]

I'm not predicting anything. I just stated a fact.

My bad. Read too much into it.

[EdwardDrayton]

We have to actually settle in some roles and we have to rework our rotation. It's almost like we have too many guys and we can't get them all work.

Trimming the roster down probably will help with that some to be honest with you.

I agree Todd. These games I think will show us how to refine things and make us better.

[maroonmania]

We have to actually settle in some roles and we have to rework our rotation. It's almost like we have too many guys and we can't get them all work.

Trimming the roster down probably will help with that some to be honest with you.

Ligon and Simmons both need to be taken out of the weekend rotation for the time being. Neither one has their command at a point to be SEC weekend starters.

[Coursesuper]

Ligon and Simmons both need to be taken out of the weekend rotation for the time being. Neither one has their command at a point to be SEC weekend starters.

There is no time being. The younger arms are where the talent is on the staff. That much is plain to see.

[maroonmania]

There is no time being. The younger arms are where the talent is on the staff. That much is plain to see.

Well, we've heard all this about Parker saying "if you don't throw strikes you don't pitch". We are about to find out. Ligon and Simmoms are killing us with their wildness. The big inning for OSU today was greatly aided by walks and wild pitches.
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[The Federalist Engineer]

Ligon and Simmons both need to be taken out of the weekend rotation for the time being. Neither one has their command at a point to be SEC weekend starters.

Need two opener type guys. Or communicate the pitching strategy to the staff that we are merely opening the game. Give me 6 outs, no need to Marshall pitches for future ABs. On Saturday and Sunday everyone is long relief. Even with McPherson, you saw Arizona start to time him on the 2nd cycle.

We might get lucky and find a Houston Harding this year. But right now, winning consistently on Saturday and Sunday will be knife fight.

[Todd4State]

Well, we've heard all this about Parker saying "if you don't throw strikes you don't pitch". We are about to find out. Ligon and Simmoms are killing us with their wildness. The big inning for OSU today was greatly aided by walks and wild pitches.
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I will be shocked if our rotation is the same next weekend.

I won't be completely shocked if we start two new starting pitchers although I suspect it will only be one.

[Todd4State]

Need two opener type guys. Or communicate the pitching strategy to the staff that we are merely opening the game. Give me 6 outs, no need to Marshall pitches for future ABs. On Saturday and Sunday everyone is long relief. Even with McPherson, you saw Arizona start to time him on the 2nd cycle.

We might get lucky and find a Houston Harding this year. But right now, winning consistently on Saturday and Sunday will be knife fight.

Yep. Cohen and Butch would have won this tournament with our pitchers.

Thing is we have plenty of arms to do this too.