Omaha Game Thread - MSU v Vandy

[lastmajordog]

Since Vandy has more scholarship players.....there should be an * by any championships....?

[HoopsDawg]

Huge fail by our staff

I said before the season we would learn a lot about Foxall by what he does with Cerantola. Maybe that's not fair. Maybe no one could have done better.

[R2Dawg]

Wish Macleod had had a blister pregame, we mighta won

Ifs and buts. Wonder what happens if we had started Fristoe? I think the last game or two was in Macs head too far. Fristoe has had time to recover mentally. Mac just hadn't.

[HoopsDawg]

Since Vandy has more scholarship players.....there should be an * by any championships....?

I guess we could hang a banner.

[R2Dawg]

Since Vandy has more scholarship players.....there should be an * by any championships....?

That Covid player is their MVP and was a walk on.

[maroonmania]

Wish Macleod had had a blister pregame, we mighta won

Sometimes, I wish a pitcher like Mac would just tell his coach that he has lost it for right now and that he should pitch someone else. You would think Lemo and Fox could see that but apparently not.

[ScoobaDawg]

Once again screw the ncaa. Leiter should have been burned Friday one way or another.
Oh and screw the ncaa and I'm sorry NC state too. They knew players were sick Monday per Kendalls story. They should have been disqualified then and Stanford would have moved on as undefeated and forced vandy to beat them twice.

We are setup fine though. If we had won Thursday. Bednar would have pitched tonight. Instead he pitches we'd hopefully.

[R2Dawg]

I guess we could hang a banner.

If we can win one, we'd have same number of CWS wins as Vandy so we'd be co champs right. Order the banner.

[ImissCityBagel]

Sometimes, I wish a pitcher like Mac would just tell his coach that he has lost it for right now and that he should pitch someone else. You would think Lemo and Fox could see that but apparently not.

I feel a little bad for him. He probably knew, but if he said anything they still would have trotted him out there.

[Bdawg]

The last pitch was above the catchers head.

Asswipe was ready to go home.

[Bothrops]

Since Vandy has more scholarship players.....there should be an * by any championships....?

They started one of their two aces and we couldn't, that's a huge advantage for game 1.

[R2Dawg]

Sometimes, I wish a pitcher like Mac would just tell his coach that he has lost it for right now and that he should pitch someone else. You would think Lemo and Fox could see that but apparently not.

Agree but Mac as a competitor always thinks he will get it back. He knew he was in a funk. Coaches should read it better and be prepared for quicker moves. Inexcusable.

[R2Dawg]

They started one of their two aces and we couldn't, that's a huge advantage for game 1.

That is bottom line. Mac tanking left us searching too. What is one of Vandy pitchers tanked, what would happen to them? no team can survive a top started tanking like Mac has at this stage.

[BeardoMSU]

Once again screw the ncaa. Leiter should have been burned Friday one way or another.
Oh and screw the ncaa and I'm sorry NC state too. They knew players were sick Monday per Kendalls story. They should have been disqualified then and Stanford would have moved on as undefeated and forced vandy to beat them twice.

We are setup fine though. If we had won Thursday. Bednar would have pitched tonight. Instead he pitches we'd hopefully.

Yep. Kendall's story does a great job of chronicling everything. If not for their glib ass coaches, we'd still probably be facing Vandy, but sans Leiter.

[HoopsDawg]

That is bottom line. Mac tanking left us searching too. What is one of Vandy pitchers tanked, what would happen to them? no team can survive a top started tanking like Mac has at this stage.

You adapt. You adjust. We have plenty of arms. Use an opener. Use the freshmen, Cade Smith who pitched great in the fall and had been pitching well lately.

[maroonmania]

Ifs and buts. Wonder what happens if we had started Fristoe? I think the last game or two was in Macs head too far. Fristoe has had time to recover mentally. Mac just hadn't.

What if we had started Cade Smith? Brandon Smith? Stone Simmons? KC Hunt? Fristoe? whoever? Could have started anyone else and had a better 1st inning. That we know for sure.

[BeardoMSU]

That is bottom line. Mac tanking left us searching too. What is one of Vandy pitchers tanked, what would happen to them? no team can survive a top started tanking like Mac has at this stage.

I truly believed Mac would find something and bounce back. Color me a dipshit.

I just don't know what tf happened to him. He was, at one point, a great pitcher for us, and one that all of us had confidence in. But holy hell, Omaha must be his kryptonite.

[maroonmania]

I truly believed Mac would find something and bounce back. Color me a dipshit.

I just don't know what tf happened to him. He was, at one point, a great pitcher for us, and one that all of us had confidence in. But holy hell, Omaha must be his kryptonite.

The only decent game he has pitched in the post-season was VCU. He looked like crap in the SEC tournament, against ND and UVA.

[RougeDawg]

What if we had started Cade Smith? Brandon Smith? Stone Simmons? KC Hunt? Fristoe? whoever? Could have started anyone else and had a better 1st inning. That we know for sure.

If Baseball ever had an abortion, it was the bottom of the 1st tonight. Not sure even the pedophile whistler himself could have imagined such a start in his mother's basement. That's about as bad of an inning you will see in a game of such magnitude. I could tell Mac didn't have it after the ump called that borderline pitch a ball to leadoff hitter. The wheels started spinning out of control after that.

[RougeDawg]

It all comes down to our offense, walks, and perfect fielding. We have to get it going tomorrow. I cannot stomach another heartbreaker like 13

Well take your pepto before the game. If we walk a small village in the first again, it's over.