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You can't really control all of the would have, could have, should have crap. What can be controlled is the managers making sound decisions to give you the best chance to win. But like I said, it's really the first glaring fck up Lemon has had. Better now than in June.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarketingBully
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Arky has 3 pitchers with ERA's under 2.5, Campbell and Cronin being 2 of them. Ginn, Plumlee, and the entire staff ready to go gives us a solid chance to win 2. I'm calling it 20% chance e get swept, 30% we win the series, 50% we take 1.
I agree. I just get really ****ing frustrated when guys making hundreds of thousands of dollars coaching baseball get outcoached by thousands of fans watching from their couch and getting paid nothing. Every State fan with eyes knew Self shouldn't have been out there....but our coaches didn't? In the grand scheme it's not a big loss, and I'm not really upset....I just tend to get frustrated with stupidity, and that was just a really dumb decision. Oh well, on to tomorrowQuote:
Originally Posted by HoopsDawg
Hey I know it looks like I’m defending Lemonis. Would I have had Self out there in the eighth? Hell no. I’m just trying in my mind to understand why a guy who basically pitches one pitch is out there with a one run deficit. I think I would have gone White in the eighth to face the righties and put Barlow in the ninth to face the lefties. This isn’t rocket science. You could of literally gone match ups for the eighth and ninth and you probably win the game. But the positive is we have all those guys fresh ready to go for the next two games****Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Two lead off walks and they both score. Plus Jake getting picked off cost us a run, maybe more.
They’re starting a true freshman tomorrow (not good) and a back up QB on Saturday. If Plumlee pitches like he had the last two weeks, we will take two.Quote:
Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us
Meanwhile, in a laugher game, Duplantis with 4 hits. Jake had one hit tonight.
Yeah, but the only one we have spent any time at #1 at recently has been football. We CAN do it in football, if our poor old whooped down MSU attitudes will let us. Those attitudes include the "we will never do it" and the "we could do it NOW if only we had the right coach" idiots. The truth is somewhere in between. It won't be easy, and it won't be a "hire the right guy" thing. What we HAVE to do isJeep the floor up, no matter WHO the coach is. You have to look at this over the long haul. Keeping the FLOOR up consistently is WAY more important than elevating the ceiling in one particular year.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Self if you look at his numbers has actually been pretty effective in short one inning sometimes even two inning stints. So, that at THAT point really wasn't that bad a move. But he's not Riley Self 2017 where he can go 3-5 IP. He's also much better against RH hitters. But we all know what the problem here was- he was overextended and he was left in to face a LH hitter while overextended.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarketingBully
Sometimes the only way to explain something is it was a bad move. A mistake.
And I'm not sure that this was about saving people. It was just a bad move.
Do you REALLY want to compare how many times our baseball team- currently ranked #2-3 has been ranked #1 in the country historically compared to football? MSU baseball has actually played for National Titles before. MSU football hasn't yet. That's why our fans care about baseball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
Anyone else think PM calls it quits after this year? They suck, and the future looks bleak, plus the new Aggie AD. He gone.
Yeah, he may get some encouragement to call it quits. I will not be surprised at all if he "retires" after this seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by Skydawg1
Your logic is plausible. However, I just don't think it happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skydawg1
He's two years off of a National Finals runner up and SEC Championship and he can play the injury card this year. He'll probably clean house with his assistants too.
Worst part, Mangum saw q total of 7 pitches tonight for the entire game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skydawg1
We shall see. I'll just sit back and enjoy the shadenfruade. (sp?) I know I should just enjoy the fact that my own damn school is in the thick of it, but I just love seeing those dipshits getting killed on Friday nights and midweeks. BwuuuahahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Absolutely! We got more national exposure from that one deal than we have from the entire baseball program in it's storied but flawed history. College baseball is a complete niche sport. If our fans care more for it than football, then that's why football is where it is. It explains a LOT. There is a reason ESPN gives more exposure during the regular season to softball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
We won't even get into Morgan William's shot to beat UCONN. That one single shot, in another toatal niche sport, has given more exposure to MSU nationally than the entire sum of our athletic program combined to date. Yeah, I totally agree, that sucks. That being said you can NOT ignore that perspective if you want to truely evaluate MSU athletics.
That is NOT "Poor Old MSU" by the way. It recognizes just how special that was, along with the highs for our baseball program, the Final Four in Men's basketball, and the SEC West title in football actually were. Eliminating "poor old MSU" first and foremost means recognizing where we are actually starting from and recognizing success measured against US. Until we do that we will never have success against the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
If you can't enjoy LSU losing to Southern you just can't get any pleasure out of life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skydawg1
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Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
Baseball is a niche sport but it has nothing to do with why our football team is where it is. ESPN gives as much exposure to college baseball as it does softball. If it doesn't- it's political. We can be good at both. Like a lot of SEC schools. No one outside of MSU people remember us being ranked number one anymore.
I don't think Jake getting picked off cost us a run. Everyone that followed him struck out.Quote:
Originally Posted by tcdog70
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Originally Posted by Lord McBuckethead
Is Mangum in a "slump?" What a slump is for him anyway. He usually gets multiple hits a game, but it doesn't seem like that's happening lately.
I think Jake is kinda feeling the pressure of breaking the record. I think once he gets that mark which should happen in the next week we will see him come alive. Also its baseball and he is still hitting right at .400Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
Nope Tanner singled through to right side.it would have been 1st and 3td with. 1out. Mac woold have scored him on ground out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
I'd be willing to bet you whatever you wanted that college baseball has WAY higher ratings than college softball. Look up ESPNs tv programming schedule including the SEC network and prove to me college softball gets more coverage than baseball does. I think you just dont like baseballQuote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
I've never seen Jake this impatient at the plate and that is saying something. He is literally swinging at anything and everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scared_Hitless
The hit he got was poorly hit too. Ball bounced 3 feet in front of home plate off the bat. He just hit it literally in the only spot the infield couldn't get it based on their positioning.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
He needs to see better and more pitches. His hitting the last week or so is why MLB teams are concerned about him going forward. He either hits 1 or 8 in the majors. If he can't show plate discipline and the ability to work counts, he's not gonna hit leadoff. So he hits in the 8 hole. You aren't spending a decent draft pick on an senior, undersized CF with no power and a quick bat trigger to hit in your 8 hole.