The hitting was obviously awful, but the pitching wasn't good enough, either. McCord should be completely out of the rotation now, and the move to pull Mitchell backfired in a big way.
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The hitting was obviously awful, but the pitching wasn't good enough, either. McCord should be completely out of the rotation now, and the move to pull Mitchell backfired in a big way.
Wow. We just ****ing got our ass beat by Arkansas Pine Bluff. Just an all around awful performance. McCord pitches terribly. Mitchell and Fitts choke big time. And our offense played its worst game in a long time- we let a SWAC midweek staff strike us out 10+ times and left 11 men on base. What an embarrassment. Losing to a ****ing SWAC team is unacceptable under any circumstances. Period.
Imagine what's gonna happen when we face real pitching.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Well that stings a little. I sure was hoping for an undefeated pre-SEC season.
Oh please.Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
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Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
Our schedule has been bad. A loss like this is an absolute rpi killer
Bull-****ing-shit. Losing to a SWAC team isn't a "just baseball" moment. It is completely and totally unacceptable under any circumstances. These games matter- and we didn't play like it tonight. We got our asses beat.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
I'm not really disagreeing with you. For the team, you can't accept that, and it shouldn't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by messageboardsuperhero
But this kind of things happens in baseball much more often than in other sports.
If we sweep San Diego, our ranking won't fall much, if at all.
Don't disagree with anything. It's all because we were selfish.Quote:
Originally Posted by messageboardsuperhero
Name a worst one cause it ain't MaineQuote:
Originally Posted by preachermatt83
On thing's for sure, Cohen's post-game interview should be pretty entertaining.
Honestly, I think it will cost us a regional. I'm not being overly dramatic. It's THAT bad. It would be like us going 11-1 and losing to Jackson State in football and then still expecting to get into the bowl playoff.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
A loss to Maine in football by an SEC team will always be worse than any single baseball loss. It's far easier to lose any single baseball game than a football game to a team with tons less talent than you.Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
Lol love the meltdown by you ****ers. Jesus. Glad we only play 60 of these and no one goes undefeated.
Yeah, I just disagree there. If you go out and win 40 games, including 18+ in the SEC, you're going to host a regional.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
And I'm sorry, this just isn't the same as losing to a team like Jackson State in football.
It is about as bad a loss as you can have in college baseball, yes.
Out of all the stupid shit said in this thread, you win the prize!Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
Yep. It sucks and it shouldn't happen, but it did. But if this is our only preseason loss, it won't be a big deal. Still a really, really bad loss though.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Thanks! That's what I was going for. A SWAC school though? Come on really? SWAC???Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
And this is my point. As long as we don't go lose a series to San Diego plus WKU, or something like that, people will simply look back and go, 'Can you believe State lost to APB?' But that's all it will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
It's not like no matter what we do this year, people are going to say, 'They're not any good, look at this one game!'
Please tell me you didn't just explain it to him! This doesn't even rank in the top 5 and I haven't even looked back.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Tough opponent coming up for the weekend. Need to put this past us tonight
He wasn't joking. He actually believed that crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
How many games in a row would we have to win to equalize that hit in the RPI gut?
Maybe a bad analogy with the football thing, but this is an RPI killer. Especially with our SOS. The thing about playing SWAC teams is YOU CAN NOT LOSE TO THEM. By all means I hope I'm wrong, but losing to them is what kills you- not so much that you play them.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Sleepwalking on offense by an inexperienced lineup. Then the lefty who wasn't bad rammed it in us late. We will see if it's an anomaly or a wake up call.
Oh I know. I was saying if it took explanation then you were wasting your breath, that's allQuote:
Originally Posted by smootness
My guess is we have to win out in OOC games. Western Kentucky just got a hell of a lot more important, as did South Alabama and the Governor's Cup. We don't have much- if any margin for error.Quote:
Originally Posted by MabenMaroon
One loss like this is a hurdle. More than one is a habit. Not worried too much about not hosting. At least not yet. Better wake up for this weekend.
Yeah, it will hurt, but it can be overcome. If we sweep San Diego and WKU, I don't think our RPI will be hurt that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Actually we're pretty experienced. We just had our heads up our ass. We gave away too many at bats. Just like last year. Obviously, this was the worst we played this year, but the second worst was against Alabama A&M. We just don't respect teams out of the SWAC and it cost us- and it has almost cost us a couple of times before. We would have lost to Alcorn in 2013 had Renfroe not bailed us out.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
The thing that bothers me is that working the counts and stuff is great but when you have runners in scoring position you have to be looking for a pitch you can hit. We didn't have that attitude and got two strikes on us and struck out on a lot of balls out of the zone. We had some really terrible at bats those first 4 innings
How much would you hate showing up for practice with the Intense Bastard tomorrow and Thursday? I'd imagine it will be hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
1-4 w bases loaded. That 1 was a single RBI base knock. Gotta capitalize on those against these kinds of teams. Bases loaded w one out should be a 6 run inning
I really think it will be tough. Probably not impossible, I'm sure. Like I said there is little to no margin for error going forward in OOC play. Sweeping San Diego and Western Kentucky is going to be tough.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Actually, so far, our 2 toughest games of the year have been against SWAC schools. We could have easily lost the 2-1 game we played against AL A&M.
That's a pretty good summation. And another notch for the argument that we shouldn't even schedule these teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
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Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg
I'm probably going out and standing in this rain and then sitting in my refrigerator in hopes of catching the flu. Maybe that would get you out of practice.....
Step off the ledge everyone. We're 13-1.
Our final RPI will be the same losing this 1 game as it would if we'd been 12-1 through the first 13 and then won tonight. Obviously 13-1 would have been acceptable to everyone on this board if we'd known that before the season started.
Agreed. We just went from 13-0 to having a ton of pressure to basically win out going into SEC play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State