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Yep, it was a total team loss tonight. Biggest lesson is that there is no excuse for scheduling this many SWAC games. Nothing good can come from scheduling a lot of games where there is nothing to gain and a lot to lose. This was our 4th SWAC game (would have been the 5th without a weather cancellation). Two is the absolute max we should be scheduling in that league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I agree. I would much rather have played Delta State because then we wouldn't have the RPI hit if we lose to them and by playing them we get to do the same things that we would normally do against a SWAC team.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
And I would only play Delta State twice.
What about Tulane, ull, la tech, etc? Why aren't we playing teams like this?
I don't know. Some have said we had a real scheduling problem when we pulled out of the tournament in Houston.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Quit with the speeeeeed shit Todd we need players that can HIT! Or woukd you have us teach Brandon Holloway how to bunt. "Speed" is way down the list on what hitters need and your continued insistence on either power or "speed" is pre-Vietnam baseball thinking.
Speed... Damn.
Heck Collins Smith Hump Rooker Rea hit 1-6. Then plug in your Gridleys Vickersons Robsons Hollands.
When I said this is the most unknown team we've had in recent memory.... Yeah. Can we hit great or suck, we still don't know.
Hold on. Is APB in the SWAC? Please tell me they're not.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
If you watched the game on SEC+ you may not believe they are in the SWAC, but they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg
It's fine to play teams like that too- but every team plays a few SWAC caliber teams. Those teams are a lot better than a SWAC team with the exception of maybe La Tech. La Tech wouldn't really help us out that much. The other two would be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
Go to bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smitty
Probably shouldn't do this- but I don't want either/or- I want BOTH power and speed. If that's pre-Viet Nam baseball thinking, speed wouldn't be one of the five tools that scouts look for.
Well, the NOLA Tournament folding hurt maybe more. But where the Houston Tournament comes in is that tournament is a lot more stable- and thus less likely to fold than a first year tournament.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
We replaced the Houston Tournament with San Diego- a typically solid mid major, as they may be this year. But when the NOLA Tournament folded about a year ago we had to scramble and we ended up with Alabama A&M and Marshall.
I think RF should be a platoon of Brown/Vickerson... Im just not nearly as high on Smith as some of you guys are. In all but 1 of his ab's this year he has looked completely lost. Cody Brown is a ball player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Well that's been brewing awhile. Hopefully you take a napQuote:
Originally Posted by Smitty
One of these days you might pick up some baseball knowledge in these threads and maybe become a baseball guy. I learn all the time from them....Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Smith just has to get healthy and get some at bats which is what he is doing now. If he can't make it back- we have options.Quote:
Originally Posted by preachermatt83
Being faster is preferable obviously but it's down the list on what a hitter needs to be successful. Your classification of "speed" guys is way off. I mean was CT a "speed" guy stealing 2-5 bases? It's a bad classification. If you want a couple guys with the ability to drag bunt or steal a base that's one thing, given that hopefully they can HIT good pitching as well.. But I don't want Brandon Holloway to put on the spikes just because he has speed.
You know baseball is a strange game, APB only made solid contact on one ball the entire 8th inning where they took the lead and it resulted in us ending their inning with the DP. Biggest issue from last night was Fitts coming in and hitting a guy and then walking a guy on 4 straight pitches. That is not what you want a see from a guy that wants the closer role. The 2 "hits" that Ross Mitchell gave up in that inning were just weak hit balls on the infield that went in the right places for them.
We will be lucky to hit 30 as a team. No way possible we hit 50Quote:
Originally Posted by MsStateBaseball
The bottom line is -- this game was a shitburger that we forgot how to hit in. Holder, Fitts is not. The amount of pitches we are taking and the amount of count working we are doing is making us timid at the plate. We didn't have very many good swings last night of note.
This is what many of us were complaining about in our scheduling model. Had this been to UAB or Memphis, it wouldn't be a big deal. But it was to Arkansas Pine Bluff at home -- and that loss is going to haunt our RPI all season. Scheduling doesn't matter -- until you lose a couple. We can't afford a single additional loss like this on the season if we are to be playing postseason baseball in Dudy Noble.
Cal State Fullerton lost to a SWAC team this year as well. Bad shitty game, but get over it.
That's why its asinine to schedule like we did this year. You play enough games against ANY kind of competition in baseball and eventually you are likely to drop one. You just need enough good wins to make up for it and outside of conference games we won't have many opportunities to get good wins. Let's just hope that AZ has a good year.Quote:
Originally Posted by engie