Aggy Game Thread

[StarkVegasSteve]

The milkmen have already changed pitching plans and are going with Prager. Sounds like Early is trying to extend his HC career til tomorrow morning.

[confucius say]

They will need Prager to throw Wednesday and Sunday to have a chance.

[DawgFromOxford]

Anyone else having trouble streaming the game on ESPN? ESPN screen just keeps telling me the game hasn't started yet.

[bulldogcountry1]

Anyone else having trouble streaming the game on ESPN? ESPN screen just keeps telling me the game hasn't started yet.

Yes.

[HoopsDawg]

McPherson has some serious stuff. If he could add a change up in the offseason, look out.

[ZedFedder]

We have got to keep McPherson.

[DawgFromOxford]

Yes.

Finally pulled up.

[DawgFromOxford]

Glad to see Frei back in the lineup

[msstate7]

Why is our 2-hole hitter bunting in the 1st inning?

[msstate7]

I will never understand that philosophy. If your bottom of the order hitter is up, and you wanna bunt, go for it. This is your 2-hole hitter in a 0-0 game giving away the first out of the game.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Why is our 2-hole hitter bunting in the 1st inning?

He's done it the last 7-8 games when Frei gets on

[HoopsDawg]

I will never understand that philosophy. If your bottom of the order hitter is up, and you wanna bunt, go for it. This is your 2-hole hitter in a 0-0 game giving away the first out of the game.

Horrible. Clearly a Parker strategy. Lemonis never did it.

At least today, it's a big ballpark and the wind is blowing in.

[StarkVegasSteve]

And that is where this game will unravel.

[mparkerfd20]

Outfielder tripped over his own 2 feet. What a dumbass.

[mparkerfd20]

2 errors in row. Geesh!

[HoopsDawg]

And that is where this game will unravel.

Wow. Error in RF. Followed by an error at 2B.

[msstate7]

He's done it the last 7-8 games when Frei gets on

And it was dumb every time. If we don't trust him to hit, get a good hitter in the 2-hole.

aTm set up for a big inning now while we playing for 1 run with a freshman pitcher on the mound like he's gonna go complete game 1-0 win

[StarkVegasSteve]

Two errors in two batters.

[mparkerfd20]

We ain't winning shit in this tournament. Let's go home.

[Dawgology]

3 errors. That was a terrible angle. This is poorly coached outfielding

[Saltydog]

Damn Stallman. . . . . .

[DawgFromOxford]

Bad news bears striking early

[StarkVegasSteve]

Good to see our usual fielding showed up for postseason play.

Batter 1: Stallman trips

Batter 2: Ball goes under Sanders glove

Batter 3: Frei dives too early and too short

[SaintDawg]

Jesus guys… wake up and get in the game.

[mparkerfd20]

That's what happens when you have no true OFs. None. All playing out of position.

[StarkVegasSteve]

We ain't winning shit in this tournament. Let's go home.

We're not winning anything. PERIOD.

We're an average team. Nothing changed when we fired Lemonis except the competition took an extreme step down. Kentucky is ass, OM can't get out of their own way when they play us, and Mizzou is beyond ass.

This is the same team that we've had all season.

[Saltydog]

because he can't hit.......

[HoopsDawg]

Cormier questioning the pitch selection there. I agree.

[bulldogcountry1]

This is looking like a disaster in the making. This is where we see if Parker is different than Lemonis.

[Saltydog]

WTF McPherson.........We're toast.......

[bulldogcountry1]

Ump not giving the lower part of the zone.

[HoopsDawg]

This pitch calling. Wow.

[msstate7]

Playing for 1 run in the 1st inning was a bang up game plan, DA

[HoopsDawg]

This pitch calling. Wow.

3 straight sliders? Where was the fastball? Horrible Parker. He just hit it 400 feet foul.

He went changeup after 2 straight sliders. Throw the 98 FB.

[StateDawg44]

Yeeesh.

Getting some rest for regionals. Hopefully that does us some good and not the reverse.

[shoeless joe]

blue squeezed the zone big time there. guarantee those are strikes later in game

[SaintDawg]

Said it before and I’ll say it again… SEC tourney means dick. Take the 10-run rule today and go to the house. Parker just lost the HC job. If he ever had it.

[msstate7]

3 straight sliders? Where was the fastball? Horrible Parker. He just hit it 400 feet foul.

He went changeup after 2 straight sliders. Throw the 98 FB.

He's having a disaster game.

[Hypnodawg]

This is the smallest strike zone I've ever seen

[StarkVegasSteve]

Said it before and I’ll say it again… SEC tourney means dick. Take the 10-run rule today and go to the house. Parker just lost the HC job. If he ever had it.

Oh it means less than nothing. I do feel bad for our fans who continually go and have watched us get our teeth kicked in 2 out of the last 3 times we have made it.

[cheewgumm]

Fielding is to blame, not McPherson

[StarkVegasSteve]

He's having a disaster game.

Good to know now than starting him for an elimination game in a regional.

[msstate7]

Make a pitching change. Do all you can to try and win today... don't even worry about tomorrow

[StarkVegasSteve]

Fielding is to blame, not McPherson

Very true. He should have had two up and two down to start.

[msstate7]

Fielding is to blame, not McPherson

Errors happen, but you can't hit guys and give up a HR and rockets after them.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Make a pitching change. Do all you can to try and win today... don't even worry about tomorrow

Nah. Pack it in, take the run rule, and get back to Starkville. Just bullpen it. No need to risk a good arm getting hurt in a game you are not going to win.

[StateDawg44]

Fielding is to blame, not McPherson

While this is a true statement. They were seeing him pretty damn good.

[Saltydog]

All of this was avoidable if not for the bad defense.

[Cooterpoot]

Welcome to a 3 seed, we ain't in CoMo anymore

[msstate7]

McPherson should be used in the regional though. Forget trying to get a few innings... just send him out there for an inning firing his best fastballs.

[Santiago]

I get they hit off of him, but man, he had a tight strike zone and no defense.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Welcome to a 3 seed, we ain't in CoMo anymore

I mean does it really matter if we are a 2 or a 3?

[msstate7]

Nah. Pack it in, take the run rule, and get back to Starkville. Just bullpen it. No need to risk a good arm getting hurt in a game you are not going to win.

Committee is watching this game, so I don't think this is meaningless. We want a 2-seed, not 3

[DawgFromOxford]

If McPherson is truly a stud, he's going to come back and be lights out in the regional.

Y'all are playing checkers, coach JP is playing chess***

[HoopsDawg]

I get they hit off of him, but man, he had a tight strike zone and no defense.

He gave up 1 hit on a fastball. Horrible D and horrible pitch calling. He has to execute better, but damn.

[cheewgumm]

How about catch a routine ground ball and routine fly ball?

Not too much to ask

When you put people on it?s more pressure on the pitcher.

That inning totally on errors , imo.

[bulldogcountry1]

I bet TAM fans are worried about what we would have been worried about if we had not already fired Lemonis.

Let them make a run and squeak into a regional.

[msstate7]

Delete

[msstate7]

Radio says this aTm pitcher turned down a big contract bc he didn't wanna pitch for the angels. His stuff sucks... he screwed up

[StarkVegasSteve]

Committee is watching this game, so I don't think this is meaningless. We want a 2-seed, not 3

Why? It literally does not matter. We are going on the road regardless.

[Santiago]

He gave up 1 hit on a fastball. Horrible D and horrible pitch calling. He has to execute better, but damn.

hit a batter and gave up the HR.
But we should have been out of the inning before it.

[msstate7]

Why? It literally does not matter. We are going on the road regardless.

More likely to run into a real ace on a 2-seed

[Coursesuper]

Committee is watching this game, so I don't think this is meaningless. We want a 2-seed, not 3

It really doesn?t matter.

[StarkVegasSteve]

More likely to run into a real ace on a 2-seed

And we would not with a 3 seed? We have an ace and we are going to be a 3 seed. So will a lot of other 3 seeds. Hell back in 16 we ran into Joey Luchessi and SEMO was a 4 seed

[StarkVegasSteve]

And honestly, it does not matter. We will go 1-2 and be eliminated in a regional

[Coursesuper]

And honestly, it does not matter. We will go 1-2 and be eliminated in a regional

The only important thing going on with our baseball team is the coaching search anyway. The timing is imperative for the hire. Need to try to have that wrapped up just after we exit the regional tournament. Then work on retaining the most important pieces and recruiting the rest.

[HoopsDawg]

I'm not too worried about seeding. Another good thing about being an SEC team is we will be in a regional with no other SEC teams.

[msstate7]

If we win, it's a good thing. If we get absolutely embarrassed, it's a good thing. Everything is a good thing here

[DawgFromOxford]

If we win, it's a good thing. If we get absolutely embarrassed, it's a good thing. Everything is a good thing here

This is how I see it. Playing with house money at this point

[Coursesuper]

If we win, it's a good thing. If we get absolutely embarrassed, it's a good thing. Everything is a good thing here

🤦*♂️

[HoopsDawg]

And honestly, it does not matter. We will go 1-2 and be eliminated in a regional

It's baseball. You never know. Pico could come back fresh against a 2 seed. And Siary could shove again against a 1 seed.

[Cooterpoot]

I mean does it really matter if we are a 2 or a 3?

Just location

[StarkVegasSteve]

If we win, it's a good thing. If we get absolutely embarrassed, it's a good thing. Everything is a good thing here

I actually think it is worse if we win honestly. We needed a game to get skunked to quiet the promote Parker crowd.

[HoopsDawg]

I actually think it is worse if we win honestly. We needed a game to get skunked to quiet the promote Parker crowd.

That was never going to happen. You are always going to have a vocal minority of the fanbase that is really dumb.

[Todd4State]

And honestly, it does not matter. We will go 1-2 and be eliminated in a regional


The only important thing going on with our baseball team is the coaching search anyway. The timing is imperative for the hire. Need to try to have that wrapped up just after we exit the regional tournament. Then work on retaining the most important pieces and recruiting the rest.

This.

[Todd4State]

That was never going to happen. You are always going to have a vocal minority of the fanbase that is really dumb.

That's true but the new coach needs as much support and buy in as possible. Even from the dumb fans.

[StarkVegasSteve]

That was never going to happen. You are always going to have a vocal minority of the fanbase that is really dumb.

Unfortunately there were also some dumbass boosters, the promote Arnett crowd, also wanting to give him the job. We needed a game like this

[cheewgumm]

The ump is also horrible

Not that it matters

[StarkVegasSteve]

The ump is also horrible

Not that it matters

Nope. They are barreling balls and we are making errors on the ones they happen to not barrel. Usual problems for us.

[bulldogcountry1]

Looks like hines will hit nothing but pop-ups the rest of the season.

[cheewgumm]

Nope. They are barreling balls and we are making errors on the ones they happen to not barrel. Usual problems for us.

Amen

[StarkVegasSteve]

Looks like hines will hit nothing but pop-ups the rest of the season.

So to the shock of ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, he is the same hitter. Eventually some will realize that Missouri could not beat some HS teams in this state and with how they pitched last weekend, they are some JV teams who would have dog walked them.

Just put last weekend out of your minds. Pretend that it did not happen.

[State82]

Looks like hines will hit nothing but pop-ups the rest of the season.
Which has 3 games left, max.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Which has 3 games left, max.

He will probably try to sue the NCAA for extra eligibility and some of the Madison Co boosters will pay him yet another 6 figure NIL deal he does not deserve.

I wish I was kidding but that kid has ZERO pro future.

[CaptainObvious]

So to the shock of ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, he is the same hitter. Eventually some will realize that Missouri could not beat some HS teams in this state and with how they pitched last weekend, they are some JV teams who would have dog walked them.

Just put last weekend out of your minds. Pretend that it did not happen.

Hmm. The same Missouri team that made this A&M team look like they had quit just 2 weeks ago? Nope! A&M is not as good as what State puts on the field but they are still whipping that ass like State is a HS JV team! Dr. Jekyll meet Mr. Hyde!

[BuckyIsAB****]

Going to single elimination made this meaningless. If you do not have a day off there is no point in going. We will be much better next weekend

[StarkVegasSteve]

Hmm. The same Missouri team that made this A&M team look like they had quit just 2 weeks ago? Nope! A&M is not as good as what State puts on the field but they are still whipping that ass like State is a HS JV team! Dr. Jekyll meet Mr. Hyde!

A&M is just poorly coached. They actually have a ton of talent. Missouri is poorly coached and has zero talent. They also decided to rest their best pitchers last weekend which contributed to the ass kicking we gave them.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Going to single elimination made this meaningless. If you do not have a day off there is no point in going. We will be much better next weekend

I highly doubt it. We will still make errors, we will still leave the bases loaded multiple times, and Hines will still strike out and pop up a minimum of 8 times.

WE ARE THE SAME TEAM. A coaching change did nothing. We just started playing worse teams.

[BuckyIsAB****]

I highly doubt it. We will still make errors, we will still leave the bases loaded multiple times, and Hines will still strike out and pop up a minimum of 8 times.

WE ARE THE SAME TEAM. A coaching change did nothing. We just started playing worse teams.

I dont buy that. Im not saying we are going to Omaha but there is a difference and it needed to be done even if we lost out. You cant sit there and say that if Lemon is here we come back after losing to OM In the first game and clutching vs UK. No reason or evidence to support that

[StarkVegasSteve]

I dont buy that. Im not saying we are going to Omaha but there is a difference and it needed to be done even if we lost out. You cant sit there and say that if Lemon is here we come back after losing to OM In the first game and clutching vs UK. No reason or evidence to support that

Not saying that we did not need to make a change, one should have been made in 2022 IMO. And maybe for the Kentucky series you might be correct, but Ole Miss beat Ole Miss in game 3. They had first and third with no outs and just pissed the game away. I still think we find a way in with Lemonis, but glad we made the move so we would not have a decision to keep him that we would be contemplating right now.

[State82]

I wish I was kidding but that kid has ZERO pro future.

His only shot at playing what is technically professional baseball would be getting on with the Mississippi Mud Monsters.

[Dawgology]

I was just starting to half-way reinvest in a State sports team. Glad this happened to snap me out of it. On to vacations and time with family. Peace.

[Ranchdawg]

I just don’t understand how we can play so badly!

[DawgFromOxford]

I was just starting to half-way reinvest in a State sports team. Glad this happened to snap me out of it. On to vacations and time with family. Peace.

Yep. Helpful to reset expectations prior to the regional.

[mparkerfd20]

I highly doubt it. We will still make errors, we will still leave the bases loaded multiple times, and Hines will still strike out and pop up a minimum of 8 times.

WE ARE THE SAME TEAM. A coaching change did nothing. We just started playing worse teams.

Could not agree with you more. Winning feels great. However, winning blinds people to issues. The issues were still there. The teams we played were just garbage for the most part. We are significantly missing in talent in several areas. Changing coaches may have won us 2 or 3 more games than we would have otherwise, but the end result will be the same. It may have been the difference in getting into a regional vs. not, but that's as far as this team's talent will take it this year.

[DawgFromOxford]

Welp glad that's over with

[maroonmania]

So to the shock of ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, he is the same hitter. Eventually some will realize that Missouri could not beat some HS teams in this state and with how they pitched last weekend, they are some JV teams who would have dog walked them.

Just put last weekend out of your minds. Pretend that it did not happen.

But didn't that crappy Missouri team just recently beat the crap out of the team currently beating the crap out of us?

[StarkVegasSteve]

But didn't that crappy Missouri team just recently beat the crap out of the team currently beating the crap out of us?

They did and then for one of the oddest reasons I have ever seen, decided to rest their best pitchers when they faced us. And for a team that has no talent to begin with that was a death sentence.

[confucius say]

It really doesn?t matter.

We've hosted supers as a 2

[Todd4State]

I dont buy that. Im not saying we are going to Omaha but there is a difference and it needed to be done even if we lost out. You cant sit there and say that if Lemon is here we come back after losing to OM In the first game and clutching vs UK. No reason or evidence to support that

This team is what it is.

Kentucky isn't very good and we had them in Starkville.

We beat Ole Miss regularly.

Mizzou sucks.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Welp glad that's over with

Agreed. Now onto the Regionals. If I had to guess we will be sent to an ACC school or be sent West. I think there is a small chance we end up in Ft Worth but we have been sent to an ACC regional all but 3 times this century if we did not host. I would look for that trend to continue.

[StarkVegasSteve]

We've hosted supers as a 2

That was also when you could bid on Supers. They did away with that process.

[maroonmania]

This team is what it is.

Kentucky isn't very good and we had them in Starkville.

We beat Ole Miss regularly.

Mizzou sucks.

I agree. I doubt we sweep KY without the coaching change but the rest of it would have likely gone as it went no matter who the coach. I will still be surprised if we make it out of a regional.

[maroonmania]

That was also when you could bid on Supers. They did away with that process.

How are Super locations decided these days if two 2 seeds are playing against each other?

[mparkerfd20]

The entire site field is seeded. The higher seeded site gets the Super in that case.

[StarkVegasSteve]

How are Super locations decided these days if two 2 seeds are playing against each other?

Generally it will go to the two seed that came out of the higher ranked regional. For example, if we are the 3 and we come out of the 14th ranked regional host site and the 3 opposite of us comes out of the number 3 ranked host site they will host. It would have worked to our advantage in 18 but the NCAA said our stadium was still a construction site so they gave it to Vandy.

[confucius say]

That was also when you could bid on Supers. They did away with that process.

Yea but that's irrelevant in the 2 vs 3 debate.
If we are a 2, we have a much better chance to host a super than if we are a 3.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Yea but that's irrelevant in the 2 vs 3 debate.
If we are a 2, we have a much better chance to host a super than if we are a 3.

We also will not be getting to a Super so it is irrelevant that way as well.

[DawgFromOxford]

Yea but that's irrelevant in the 2 vs 3 debate.
If we are a 2, we have a much better chance to host a super than if we are a 3.

Much better might be a stretch. We?d be a low 2 seed so the only chance of hosting is to have the opposite 3 or 4 seed advance out of their regional. Maybe there is another couple of 2 seeds ranked behind us as well. Or we?d be a high 3 seed in which case we would still need the 3 or 4 seed to advance out of the opposite regional.

Unless I?m completely misunderstanding how the hosting rankings work

[maroonmania]

Was this our first time to be shut out this season?

[EdwardDrayton]

No need to throw Pico they said. It'll be fine they said.

[StarkVegasSteve]

No need to throw Pico they said. It'll be fine they said.

I mean did you really want to win a meaningless game in a meaningless tournament and AGAIN move Pico up a day on short rest for a 9:30 AM game? That is asking for arm issues.

[Pancho]

Did he ask for the ball?

[maroonmania]

I mean did you really want to win a meaningless game in a meaningless tournament and AGAIN move Pico up a day on short rest for a 9:30 AM game? That is asking for arm issues.

And Pico would have lost as well. You cant win if you can't score.

[StarkVegasSteve]

And Pico would have lost as well. You cant win if you can't score.

Correct. Because we also made 3-4 errors.

[EdwardDrayton]

Yeah that'll all make us feel better. *****

[EdwardDrayton]

Make the announcement so we can clear the rest of this cut rate staff out now.

[Dawgology]

And Pico would have lost as well. You cant win if you can't score.

Well…they can’t field balls well either.

[parabrave]

His only shot at playing what is technically professional baseball would be getting on with the Mississippi Mud Monsters.

Nope he will make AA and then if he doesn't change his approach at the plate thats as far as he will go. The guy who set the minor league HR record is now a pitching coach in the minors.

[The Federalist Engineer]

The entire site field is seeded. The higher seeded site gets the Super in that case.

In NCAA college baseball's super regional round, the team with the higher national seed typically hosts the best-of-three series against the other team. If both teams are regional seeds but not national seeds, the higher regional seed hosts. If both are equal seeds, they will bid for hosting rights based on criteria like facility quality and revenue potential.

The crazy issue was Arkansas hosting National seed Missouri State because a minor league team owns the MOState stadium. The minor league team in question seem like ass holes for not working out a DH of College and Minor games. Would have a bumper weekend of concessions, parking passes, and hotels.

[Todd4State]

In NCAA college baseball's super regional round, the team with the higher national seed typically hosts the best-of-three series against the other team. If both teams are regional seeds but not national seeds, the higher regional seed hosts. If both are equal seeds, they will bid for hosting rights based on criteria like facility quality and revenue potential.

The crazy issue was Arkansas hosting National seed Missouri State because a minor league team owns the MOState stadium. The minor league team in question seem like ass holes for not working out a DH of College and Minor games. Would have a bumper weekend of concessions, parking passes, and hotels.

That would be the owners of the St Louis Cardinals so yes, I can confirm that they are indeed assholes.

[Todd4State]

And Pico would have lost as well. You cant win if you can't score.

Pico on short rest would have produced the same result as today.

[EdwardDrayton]

Pico on short rest would have produced the same result as today.

Conjecture he stated as though factual.

[Todd4State]

Conjecture he stated as though factual.

I mean- I'm basing it off of his previous outings on short rest. I know we had to push a start back one weekend when we had a Thursday game because his bullpen looked bad that week. We all know he has had Tommy John surgery in the past as well.

Not to mention the fact that we scored zero runs today.

I wouldn't be surprised if Pico throws really well in his next start in the regionals with extended rest.

[Pancho]

At this point just hope for 1 win at a regional. We aren't going to out pitch anyone so lots of crooked numbers on the board is the only way.

[tcdog70]

Pico on short rest would have produced the same result as today.

what difference we didn't score. if you don't cross the plate -pitching don't mean shit

[Coach34]

Resting Pico de Gallo and Scary is best for us heading into next weekend. I expect good outings from both

[basedog]

Resting Pico de Gallo and Scary is best for us heading into next weekend. I expect good outings from both

I will predict this, IF we win the first two games we win the regional.........Gulp, let's hope the bucket doesn't reappear.

[Todd4State]

I will predict this, IF we win the first two games we win the regional.........Gulp, let's hope the bucket doesn't reappear.

Pico on extended rest is certainly capable of outdueling a mid major ace or taking on a 2 seed ace.

Siary has been our best starter lately. Maybe he beats a #1 ace?

Probably won't happen but I think we're capable.

[basedog]

Pico on extended rest is certainly capable of outdueling a mid major ace or taking on a 2 seed ace.

Siary has been our best starter lately. Maybe he beats a #1 ace?

Probably won't happen but I think we're capable.

I don't think we will win a regional either, just wishing, I like everyone, just ready to get our new HC.

[Pancho]

The refreshing aura of Lemo being gone has worn off as have the emotions. Now we see if Parker and the guys can buckle down and play determined ball. This bunch could get hot and challenge to win a regional or go 2 and Q.