The Road Back to Omaha - Step 1

[bulldogcountry1]

Baseball's Junction Boys.
Two things to add:
1. Does anyone remember the visiting coach cancelling a game due to cold weather after his team was dressed and in the dugout when Cohen was coach? Cohen raised all kinds of hell that it should have been a forfeit. Anyway, it rained the night before and maybe earlier in the day and it was about 39 degrees. The visiting team walks into their dugout and sees our non-pitchers practicing lead-offs and cross over steps down the LF line. When they would practice diving back to the bag, they were sloshing water up then would get up and do it again. The coach saw that and knew his ass was whipped and backed out of the game.
2. I went to a fall practice and saw Jake Mangum hauling ass full speed then laying out full horizontal on a sinking liner in the gap during BP. This wasn't freshman Jake Mangum trying to impress and break into the lineup. This was senior Jake Mangum showing what its about.

We need to get back to a version of that. I used to enjoy getting to the park early enough to watch us take IF/OF because we looked like a machine. Other teams would sit and watch from the dugout. Not anymore. The best example that I noticed starting this year was the pick-off base stealing warm-up exercise we do down the line. Before last season, it seemed like a matter of pride to be the first to "finish". Now? It's just a half-arsed jog at your own pace useless routine. There are numerous little things like that that should be glaring to anyone who has any sort of feel for the game.

Other teams don't watch us anymore. They aren't intimidated. Far from it.

Does Lemonis have it in him to fix it? I have my doubts. He's obviously felt pressure since midway through the season, and he really looks uncomfortable being the arse-chewer. I just don't see him completely changing his philosophy.

[TALL DAWG]

The road back to Omaha?

Who about we get back to Hoover first