When you don't win the championship when it's a tournament of attrition you are not the better team.
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Haha, good one. Yeah, let's agree to disagree. I know that Cohen and team's goal was to win it however when you don't show up mentally and you pitch your best starter before the championship series so he doesn't even pitch in the most important series of the year, you kind of don't put your best foot forward. I am sure if Cohen had to do it over again, odds are good he doesn't pitch Graveman against OSU that Friday.
It wasn't a tournament of attrition for UCLA. They had their two best starters lined up for the championship series. We didn't even though both teams went undefeated. The biggest mistake Cohen made IMO was starting Graveman on that Friday game against OSU. I am 100% positive if he had to do it over again, he would have started Graveman game 1 against UCLA.
If he hadn't started Graveman OSU would have beaten our ass.
We played the tournament exactly as it should have been played. If we had won Game 1 vs. UCLA, Graveman was going to start Game 2. The only reason he didn't at that point was just to give him more rest, because we'd have had to play a 3rd game (and start a 3rd pitcher) anyway. So it didn't matter.
You sound like a buffoon trying to make this argument. Just stop.
You're just being a dickhead. You know what he means. I don't agree with the other stuff he says, but the better team doesn't always win. That's the problem with college football especially in years like 2011, people were looking for the 'better' team instead of determining a champion on the field.
Don't worry though, we expect it from you. And thanks again for pointing out that the CWS isn't at Rosenblatt anymore. Big help.
Well we aren't talking about football either. And I'm being a dickhead because I'm right? I'll take it every day. I can't help it if you're wrong about most of the shit you post. Defend your own turf and let the other guy defend his. God knows you have your hands full.
It's not a given OSU would have beaten us in that Friday game if we didn't start Graveman just like it wasn't a given that UNC would have beaten UCLA if they didn't start Plantko that Friday either. The UCLA coach took a calculated risk and got away with it. We played it safe and paid for it in the end. I am not looking like a buffoon arguing this point because we lost the series and didn't even start our best starting pitcher. If you ask me, Cohen looks like the buffoon here.
You ain't right about shit, which is probably the reason you're getting all defensive and trying to deflect by being an even bigger dickhead.
Want to know why you're wrong? Oregon State was the #1 overall seed, thus they were the 'best' team throughout the whole regular season. But you play postseason tournaments to determine a champion, not to determine the best team. Therefore, Vanderbilt was not the best team. Champions aren't always the best. So your argument is worthless.
Want to know why I related it to football? Because Alabama was the 'best' team in 2011, although they shouldn't have been the champion. They lost to LSU in November on the field, they should have been eliminated as long as LSU stayed undefeated.
Get out your Webster's dictionary and learn the definition of 'better'.
Vanderbilt also got beat by Texas and had to play one more game and was gifted a 9 run inning by Virginia in Game 1. Had that not happened, they wouldn't have pitched their best pitcher and lost in two games as well. But in general when you are in the winner"a bracket, you try to save your best pitcher for game 1 of the championship series. Even John Savage, the UCLA coach, said that was a huge advantage they had from the first time they played in the championship series and he purposely used that strategy because he learned that from the first time they were in the series against USC. They didn't have it line up like that and lost it. So take it from the horses mouth or don't but it was a strategy by the winning coaching staff at UCLA.
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Well, people who believe OM's National Championships are legit have simply gone full potato.