Yep that works for me too.
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I know it's not the sexy thing, but If i had to pick between having a slugging team or a pitching/defense team, I'll take the pitching/defense every time because that's what it takes to win consistently. Obviously you'd like both but take the pitching/defense every time. It all comes down to the arms.
Getting a better hitter in the 5 hole made a world of difference.
Last season we went 9-21. We got swept in 4 of our 10 SEC series. A sweep is a killer. You have to avoid sweeps.
Let's say a team wins 8 SEC series (2 games of 3), and is swept twice. Your final record is 16-14 (barely over .500) yet you won 8 of the 10 series that you played. That is the power of the sweep.
Yea, I actually like Lemonis and wish he would make it but right now I only give him about a 25% chance of making the NCAA tournament which is what he HAS to do. Last year our pitching and defense was our downfall, this year it appears its going to be our offense.
I think our downfall is going to be Lemonis's lack of attention to detail. You can't treat amateur baseball players that are 18-21 like MLB players.
That's what we had with Polk I and Cohen. And yeah I know we had some bad losses with Cohen but at least I knew he was probably running their ass Augie Garrido style letting them know that play wasn't acceptable. Lemonis will probably let them play at the beach tomorrow.
As I said, a weak non con schedule can only teach you bad things. Starting 3-4 showed us Lemo hasn't fixed a damned thing. It's been hidden by the recent run (that ended last night) so I let the optimists have a break from my negativity and hope I'm wrong.
We will see soon enough whether I'm right (that Lemo creates a soft, mentally weak team) or wrong (and we win 14+ SEC games and make the tourney). If you want me to "call my shot", I'd bet we get 11 wins
THANK YOU! we agree on something!
I HATE to see this "I'm so excited to make the tournament! That shows improvement! Great job Lemonis go team!" Type of comments. We are STATE BASEBALL, Lemo needs to show us he can get us back to our standard, not just "improve" from the massive hold he dug the program into. People are mentally lowering the bar like it's end of Polk 2 instead of post Natty.
This is why we should have fired him last year. If he makes the tournament, we won't fire him because he "showed improvement", yet if you look at the roster we will be a worse team next year. So compared to firing Lemo at the end of '23 and bringing in a real coach to rebuild, we will have 2 more wasted Lemo years before starting that process. It was a JoMo/Arnett situation- pull the plug for the betterment of the program.