You literally cannot help yourself.
And buddy you don't have the charisma or money to pull off saying "I'm not doing this" while literally doing the thing you're saying you ain't doing. Stop tryna be someone you ain't.
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What I am thinking when Parker stated he turned down second round money. His family wants him to attend college from what I have read. I believe him more so than what 34 has said. My point is so what? Let it ride and enjoy the moment instead of being "I told you guys so", Just saying.
I don't know this specific Parker family, but I know some of their cousins/aunts. I remember when the dad was in hs and got hurt and paralyzed playing football. He ended up going to law school and married his physical therapist. There are dentists, nurses, etc throughout the family. Education is obviously valued with the whole family.
edit to add: someone may come along and correct me on the wife being a physical therapist and that being how they met, but I'm pretty sure that is correct. It has been 20 years since I was in contact with the family members that I knew.
regardless, they are well regarded and we will be glad we have them.
Look you may not like Lee but stupid he is not. Is he an irritating narcist at times, absolutely! He has good insight most of the time and I actually enjoy most of what he writes it takes all sorts to make the world interesting. I believe this board would be boring without him. I truly believe he gets off watching you all go full retard when he posts what he does. If he didn't get too you, you would just ignore him, but you can't!
No potential 2nd round pick is getting drafted in the 19th and signing unless they take significantly less money than they could have.
There is a reason the DBacks waited until the 19th round to draft him.
My predictions:
1. Teel - CF (L)
2. Reese - 3B (L)
3. Sully - DH (R)
4. Frei - LF (S)
5. Bevis - 1B (R)
6. Milewski - C (R)
7. Nunnallee - RF (L)
8. Wyers - SS (R)
9. Woodson/James - 2B (R/R)
Bench bats: Parker, Mershon, Chance, Valincius, Sanders
Friday: Tomas Valincius
Saturday: McPherson
Friday: Kirk (the staff loves this guy)
Closer: Pitzer
Midweek: Ben Davis
Multi-inning fire hoses: Foster, Maddox Webb, Sweeney, Parker Rhodes, Duke Stone
Match up arms: Burns, Logar, Bauer (at least at first), Gleason, Booth, the other freshmen
No matter which way you dice it up and slice it, this roster is loaded. Omaha is the expectation. We should be preseason top 5 team and we ain't 2nd-5th....
(1) Frei is ok, hit 300 in the SEC, just so. But also a marginal defender. He is not a likely OF starter with this depth.
(2) Bevis is likely a PH in 2026. Plenty of big Athletes for 1B. HS like mine put big clumsy kids at 1B, so in college, you can expect many options. Valincius, Parker, Mershon, and maybe Frei will challenge for 1B. Bevis was not a starting 1B for Ball State.
(3) I hope Sully makes a jump in production from his good 2025 numbers
(4) I hope Milewski hits better than a 6 hole. We need him to mash.
1. When you've got Teel and Nunnallee as the other 2 OFers, you can afford to play Frei in LF. Could see him platoon with Chance or Valincius because he's elite from the left side. His bat is too good to keep out.
2. I'm willing to bet Bevis is more than a PH. He had some draft talk to him.
3. As long as Sully repeats his 25 numbers, we're good.
4. Being the 6 hole in this lineup ain't no joke. We're stacked.
His ?good 2025????
This is a stupid take. Sully had a GREAT 2025 season. He hit .345 with 15HRs and an OBP of 1.120! Not to mention his clutch and situational hitting were top tier. He was easily our 2nd best hitter behind Ace. We?ll be blessed if he can repeat those phenomenal numbers.
What's crazy about your lineup is the 8th hitter in yours is a guy that hit over .400 with 11 home runs in a mid major league. He probably would have been our number two hitter in 2025.
I know a lot of MSU fans say we should be number one and yes we probably should be. I bet the experts pick Texas or LSU number one though.
Yeah. Everyone says that they are very pro-education. I think if JoJo had slid in the draft he would have been at MSU as well.
And you know- the thing about it is if you are in their situation and trying to maximize money sending one to MLB first and then having the other go to college is the best way to do it. Because the Blue Jays with their draft allotment there is no way they could have given both players life changing money without wiping their whole allotment out.
But now if Jacob becomes a first round pick in three years there is a chance he could also be drafted in the first round and also get life changing money- and maybe that's the Blue Jays three years from now. Who knows?
That's a good point. But the thing is some of those players won't be starting for us next year most likely and so some of the starters are going to be lacking in SEC experience. It's feasible that our starting lineup may be all new players from the portal or freshmen...and Ace Reese and Noah. Ace and Noah Sullivan are really the only returners that have a spot locked down from last year.
So, really our SEC experience really depends on how the lineup shakes out. Because the other side of the coin is we could certainly start several returning players as well. Frei, Chance, Stallman, and really even Gatlin Sanders have a chance to play but they'll be facing a lot of competition as well. Also, our entire rotation got drafted again- thanks Justin Parker! That said, we do have some legit talent- most of our better talent happened to be freshmen so yes, we will improve on the mound most likely but still lacking some SEC experience overall.
Look up Sully and Chance as SEC only stats. Also compare first 30 games to second half.
People never forgot that Chance struggled early and never forgot Sully hitting 400 for so long. Sully became 315 down the stretch and Chance almost 400 later. Without Mizzou, Sully only hit 290 down the stretch. Sully also never played the field for MSU or Upstate, only DH.
Sully is a very good player, but 2025 was not a level season, especially down the stretch. That's my other level. He did hit 10 of 15 HR down the stretch, that was good.