MSU vs USM Game 1 thread

[Todd4State]

Halter is really struggling both with bat and in field....

I'm not surprised. But I don't know that we have a better answer at second base defensively either. A lot of JUCO players take a little while to adjust to the SEC.

[Cooterpoot]

Could we say you're "melting" on basketball? We're solidly a tourney team, and if you have stopped blasting howland, you just stopped.

I haven?t posted about basketball in awhile, but if you do say that, you?d be proving my point wouldn?t you? Early season melting in a long schedule and all.
I mean, we’ve got people saying you shouldn’t swing early in the count, which is flat wrong. We’ve got someone questioning if our staff is in-fighting. Someone stating we don’t hit it we’ll next two games it’s a big deal. Baseball is a marathon season.

[msstate7]

I haven?t posted about basketball in awhile, but if you do say that, you?d be proving my point wouldn?t you? Early season melting in a long schedule and all.

I suppose so. For the record, I don't care who "melts" and what it's over. I haven't said anything good or bad about baseball yet. I usually wait till conference starts to cast my judgements on a team (football, basketball, and baseball).

[ZedFedder]

Halter opens up when he swings with his front foot. Think he would stay on balls a little better if he didn’t do that. I think he will be ok by the end of the year but right now he is struggling for sure.

[Cooterpoot]

I used to melt in baseball. But over the years you see the same thing, especially with hitters. People complaining about our “approach” don’t actually understand what approach is. There’s a little bit of a difference between approach and pitch selection. I went back and looked and we hit at least 8-10 balls that I’d say were stroked pretty well. A couple those leave the park on an average day. When you have 7 hits and another 8 or 10 balls hit well, not much you can do. But, we also chased some balls we shouldnt have (generally trying to pull them) and hit weak balls. We’ll handle those better later in the season. Hitters are generally a little pull heavy early in the season, especially against a soft tosser like yesterday.

[ShotgunDawg]

Halter opens up when he swings with his front foot. Think he would stay on balls a little better if he didn’t do that. I think he will be ok by the end of the year but right now he is struggling for sure.

He's adjusting. He won't be a good hitter but he's better than he has been so far

[ShotgunDawg]

Simmer down fellas.

We have a FANTASTIC baseball team that has the individual components to make a run in Omaha. This is a fantastic team.

I've been super impressed by Foxhall and his intent on pitching off the fastball and up in the zone.

The biggest weakness of this team is that we simply don't have a 1st round caliber hitter that can carry the team when we go through little slumps. Thus there will be little slumps like this.

As for 1st round caliber hitters in our division, here's how they break down by team:

Arkansas- 2
LSU - 1 maybe 2
A&M - 1
Auburn - 1
OM - 0
Alabama- 0
MSU - 0

[maroonmania]

I haven?t posted about basketball in awhile, but if you do say that, you?d be proving my point wouldn?t you? Early season melting in a long schedule and all.
I mean, we’ve got people saying you shouldn’t swing early in the count, which is flat wrong. We’ve got someone questioning if our staff is in-fighting. Someone stating we don’t hit it we’ll next two games it’s a big deal. Baseball is a marathon season.

This is absolutely melting over non-melting which is a new one for this board. When its considered melting that I said we will not be winning the next 2 games against a very solid USM team if our offense doesn't wake up then we have reached an all time low on what the threshold of melting is around here. Here is a news bulletin, if you don't score in any sport, you don't win. I really care much less about the loss than I do the struggles at the plate. And its the fact we've had 2 games in row of struggling at the plate when playing real competition with real pitching. YSU was nothing more than a tune up exhibition series.

[Cooterpoot]

We didn’t struggle at the plate yesterday. We K’d what? 4 times all day? Ashcraft threw it great and we didn’t hit him as well. But yesterday wasn’t struggling to hit the ball.

[KOdawg1]

We hit the ball well. Just right at people

[CadaverDawg]

The only melting going on is you melting about people melting.

Showing discontent and concern does not equal melting.

Exactly

[CadaverDawg]

This is absolutely melting over non-melting which is a new one for this board. When its considered melting that I said we will not be winning the next 2 games against a very solid USM team if our offense doesn't wake up then we have reached an all time low on what the threshold of melting is around here. Here is a news bulletin, if you don't score in any sport, you don't win. I really care much less about the loss than I do the struggles at the plate. And its the fact we've had 2 games in row of struggling at the plate when playing real competition with real pitching. YSU was nothing more than a tune up exhibition series.

This is the biggest problem with the board right now. It's not negative posters, it's sensitive cupcakes that want to call every single post a "melt". It has become contagious around here, and it's silly. The word "melt" has become way overused, and somebody saying "we won't win the next two with today's hitting" is not a "melt"...it's a statement within a discussion that happens to be true.

If all a poster has to say is "stop melting!1!!" from now on, maybe it's best that poster just not respond.

[CadaverDawg]

I think our hitting will come around. I'm way more pumped about the pitching than I am concerned about the hitting at this point. We know we have guys that can hit, bc most of the team returned and Gautreau did too...we just need to string a few hits together today and get that confidence going...we'll be fine. Just hate being in a slump against USM...they're eating this "4 straight" shit up, ha. But I'll take 6 straight losses to them if we end up in Omaha again

[PMDawg]

I don't think so because we only struck out 4 times in 10 innings and we're hitting the ball hard. I think it's more of an overaggressive approach issue and potentially a matter of some guys making some adjustments at the plate.

You should NEVER let a mediocre pitcher get into the 8th inning with a pitch count still in the 60s.

[Goldendawg]

This is the biggest problem with the board right now. It's not negative posters, it's sensitive cupcakes that want to call every single post a "melt". It has become contagious around here, and it's silly. The word "melt" has become way overused, and somebody saying "we won't win the next two with today's hitting" is not a "melt"...it's a statement within a discussion that happens to be true.

If all a poster has to say is "stop melting!1!!" from now on, maybe it's best that poster just not respond.

Overuse of the term "melting" on this board has now overtaken the most recently overused word in our society, that's "awesome". Never thought that could happen and "it is so awesome"!***

[Goldendawg]

Simmer down fellas.

We have a FANTASTIC baseball team that has the individual components to make a run in Omaha. This is a fantastic team.

I've been super impressed by Foxhall and his intent on pitching off the fastball and up in the zone.

The biggest weakness of this team is that we simply don't have a 1st round caliber hitter that can carry the team when we go through little slumps. Thus there will be little slumps like this.

As for 1st round caliber hitters in our division, here's how they break down by team:

Arkansas- 2
LSU - 1 maybe 2
A&M - 1
Auburn - 1
OM - 0
Alabama- 0
MSU - 0

Gun, does this mean this group of players knows how to compete and their parents will not have to be ashamed of the way that they raised them?***

[ShotgunDawg]

Gun, does this mean this group of players knows how to compete and their parents will not have to be ashamed of the way that they raised them?***

I call it like I see it. What happened in the CWS last year was egregious and, if it happened to an Alabama or UGA type QB, would have been significantly worse than anything that happened here.

You come to play at MSU because you want pressure and the chance to play at the highest level. That’s the expectation and you never question it if it happened to one of our football or basketball players. Those type of comments are made nightly about those players.