Since shaving the beards...

[Todd4State]

there's too much excitement among Bulldog Brethren at this point. we've yet to prove we can score enough runs against top notch college pitching. we orgasm at the wrong points and don't suck in reality when it hits us in the face. we have a pitiful hitting / scoring approach.... we talk about our low hitting average and don't acknowledge it is coupled with a high strike out avg, no pop in the bat that produces doubles, triples or (GOD FORBID A HR), and then we put icing on the cake with piss poor base running, bunts in the wrong situations and leaving Hendo out of the line up..

we are ****ed. plain and simple. I told you dumb ****s after that miracle win agains ole miss we were ****ed and to keep your enthusiam curtailed..

maybe you will listen this time. we are ****ed .. however you want to blame it , fine. but this team ain't doing shit this year...

Ever since the infamous indoor practice, we have hit 8 extra base hits NOT INCLUDING what we did against Alcorn.

I don't get people wanting Henderson in the lineup and then bitching about the base running since he is one of our worst base runners? He got thrown out at third after his double. And then there is the sweet 1-2-3 double play he hit into with the bases loaded.

Give me Derrick Armstrong, CT, and Cody Brown.

[Todd4State]

He's not bitching about the Ws, he's saying let's not try to claim all this is due to a return of the hardass Cohen. There are ups and downs in baseball, that's just how it goes, we were down for a few weeks, but we've taken care of business against some weaker competition. Has little or nothing to do with facial hair and being a hardass, and most or everything to do with playing Alcorn and mizzou instead of lsu and ole miss. That's not bitching about the Ws, just making a realistic point instead of twisting shit to fit your narrative.

So, saying that we went 4-0 and are producing some runs is "twisting shit to fit a narrative"?

I have a feeling that if we beat Mizzou 16-0 you would still claim "meh, weak opponent". And speaking of twisting shit to fit a narrative, you might want to look at our record and schedule and compare it to Ole Miss and LSU including our conference records.

[engie]

As this place has grown, it's become hard as hell to wade through the dumbass bullshit to find decent discussions.

The funny thing is -- Many of you these people were saying the exact same thing at this point last year...

[dawgs]

So, saying that we went 4-0 and are producing some runs is "twisting shit to fit a narrative"?

I have a feeling that if we beat Mizzou 16-0 you would still claim "meh, weak opponent". And speaking of twisting shit to fit a narrative, you might want to look at our record and schedule and compare it to Ole Miss and LSU including our conference records.

Attributing a 4-0 run against mizzou and Alcorn to shaving the beards (aka the return of hardass Cohen) without considering the change in quality of opponents is at best ignoring pertinent facts so you can say it was all due to "shaving the beards" or whatever.

I'm glad we won, but declaring that what Cohen did after last weekend as the reason for it is a bit misleading. If in a month we've been on a big roll since last weekend, maybe you can call it a turning point. For now we beat inferior teams and it remains to be seen whether the chance in Cohen's handling of the team had anything to do with it.

[Intramural All-American]

Attributing a 4-0 run against mizzou and Alcorn to shaving the beards (aka the return of hardass Cohen) without considering the change in quality of opponents is at best ignoring pertinent facts so you can say it was all due to "shaving the beards" or whatever.

I'm glad we won, but declaring that what Cohen did after last weekend as the reason for it is a bit misleading. If in a month we've been on a big roll since last weekend, maybe you can call it a turning point. For now we beat inferior teams and it remains to be seen whether the chance in Cohen's handling of the team had anything to do with it.

And calling us a crap team when we are 2 games out of first place in the SEC is pretty retarded in itself. We haven't won pretty, but we have won. And guess what, we don't have to play LSU and Ole Miss again.

[dawgs]

And calling us a crap team when we are 2 games out of first place in the SEC is pretty retarded in itself. We haven't won pretty, but we have won. And guess what, we don't have to play LSU and Ole Miss again.

Who called us a crap team?

[Intramural All-American]

Bully13. And Maroons agreed with him. I thought you were the one who agreed with his points, but I was mistaken. My apologies for replying to you.

[Todd4State]

Attributing a 4-0 run against mizzou and Alcorn to shaving the beards (aka the return of hardass Cohen) without considering the change in quality of opponents is at best ignoring pertinent facts so you can say it was all due to "shaving the beards" or whatever.

I'm glad we won, but declaring that what Cohen did after last weekend as the reason for it is a bit misleading. If in a month we've been on a big roll since last weekend, maybe you can call it a turning point. For now we beat inferior teams and it remains to be seen whether the chance in Cohen's handling of the team had anything to do with it.

We'll see if it's a turning point or not- but the fact of the matter is we played with a LOT more energy this weekend than we did the last two. "inferior" teams or not.

[engie]

We'll see if it's a turning point or not- but the fact of the matter is we played with a LOT more energy this weekend than we did the last two. "inferior" teams or not.

Such things can't be evaluated via reading box scores and becoming an instant expert**

We're one good week from being right back where we need to be. Yet we've got a "sky's falling" faction telling us why the last 4 didn't mean anything...

[dawgs]

Such things can't be evaluated via reading box scores and becoming an instant expert**

We're one good week from being right back where we need to be. Yet we've got a "sky's falling" faction telling us why the last 4 didn't mean anything...

No one said it didn't mean anything. Jesus Christ. All that was said is that it remains to be seen if the change in how Cohen is handling the team is making the difference or if it's because we played a weaker team. How is that diminishing our sweep? We swept the worst team in the conference like we were supposed to. I'll wait to see what we do the next few weekends before declaring us back on track.

[Political Hack]

Braves have Waffle House. State has clean shaved faces.

get over it.

[Quaoarsking]

We only need to go 7-5 over the last 12 to have Cohen's best conference record ever at MSU. With the remaining schedule, 7-5 would be a disappointment.

But no, we're horrible and probably won't make a Regional.**

[mic]

No one said it didn't mean anything. Jesus Christ. All that was said is that it remains to be seen if the change in how Cohen is handling the team is making the difference or if it's because we played a weaker team. How is that diminishing our sweep? We swept the worst team in the conference like we were supposed to. I'll wait to see what we do the next few weekends before declaring us back on track.

Its a baseball thing... And Cohen needed to get in some ass cause apparently none or few of the upper classmen were. Shaved beards and we are 4-0.. If Cohen said today u all can grow the beards back NO ONE would.. Some of you are probably the type that would tell a pitcher you have a no hitter thru 6 innings..
Just like the term slump buster.. Actually someone needs to find Wes and Detz and couple ASAP...
Some of you turned the shaved beards run into we played 2 teams (Alcorn and mizzu) that aren't good. Again it's baseball teams get hot . How many other teams on the SEC this year have gone on the road and gotten a sweep?? I bet not many. Everyone knows what this team is . But if a few guys start hitting and we find someone to step up on the Sunday spot we can make another long run..
So chill out and enjoy the past week and lets go 4-0 this week... And find something else some of you can bitch about..

[TheRef]

Braves have Waffle House. State has clean shaved faces.

get over it.

All Hail the Waffle House at the Ted!

[basedog]

Thank the good Lord for this past week, 4-0! I can't believe what some of the "armchair experts" spew on this board!

Opinions matter, but it's clearly who is stating them!

[Political Hack]

win. win. win. win. complain.

[BulldogBear]

But the message gets lost in him just being a straight dick to be a dick. He's incapable of having a discussion. He can cool off then when he's back can fit in (ie not just go straight to name calling and general douchbaggery) or go somewhere else.

I love this idiom. Our grandpas might've labeled it general nimcompoopery 50-60 years ago if they had had message boards to gripe/cheer about MSU sports!

For S&G, I found this definition:

douchebaggery
The greatest word of all time, simple yet pleasing in its onomatopoeic beauty. For one to commit douchebaggery, he/she is not limited to but may include some or perhaps all of the following behaviors:

- the wearing of flat-billed baseball caps backwards
- using an enormous amount of gel to spike the hair porcupine style
- wearing polo shirts or any other type of shirt with the collar popped, a disgusting gesture that should've died in the 1980s with parachute pants
- the sideways peace sign gesture
- overdone pursing of the lips
- too many visits to the tanning salon
- pointing at oneself, holding up beer cans, or making other obscenely immature gestures in solo or group photos
- following trends for the sake of fitting in (see "goatee")
- adding "The" or the suffix "-ster" to one's name, as in "The Rickster"

See Guido or perhaps frat boy for more. Essentially, "douchebaggery" is one of those things as easily understood by definition as it is by one's demonstrations of it.

[dawgs]

some of yall need to work on reading comprehension. that's all.

[Boodawg]

No one else in SEC has swept Mizzou at their place...

[dawgs]

no one is playing down the Ws. some of us are just playing down the correlation between hardass, no beards cohen and the Ws. that's all. nothing more.