Quote Originally Posted by mic View Post
NO ONE said we have turned the corner or that we have now emerged as the team to beat.
But the first post to this thread was YOU saying a bad Mizzu team.. Something negative..
No props for a good sweep. or way to nut up on Sunday and get the win. Or we hit the ball well..
Nothing positive from you.. until we all started showing you that it was a good 3 game sweep..
Quoting CDM.... "You need to clean things up a bit next time"...

A ton of people are insinuating this was a a sign we have turned things around. My first post was in response to another noting the 9-run average was inflated by the 16 versus Alcorn, to which I added, "and a bad Mizzou team".

Guess what...Mizzou is alone in last place in the SEC at 6-12, and are only 11-9 OOC. They ARE a bad baseball team.

I have repeatedly. specifically said I'm happy we got the sweep, but have cautioned against putting too much emphasis on this 4-game streak as it pertains to optimism going forward. On the heels of getting swept at LSu and losing 2 of 3 at home to Ole Miss, it is pretty silly to get overly-excited about a 4-game win streak over Alcorn and Mizzou x 3.

While I am glad we didn't fold versus those bad, if sometimes capable teams, I reserve the right to be cautiously optimistic, or even skeptical until I see us play well and beat teams like Ole Miss & Tamu. Those teams will be the first real test for us since the series loss to Ole Miss, IMO.

Yes, I enjoyed the sweep of Mizzou, but it really boils down to one extra win over what I am sure everyone here would have considered the bare minimum of acceptable, and we damn near lost that 1 extra game. Anything less than the Alcorn win plus 2 of 3 from Mizzou would have been terrible, so, as I see it, 2 of 3 was the bare minimum to remain a little hopeful, with the 3rd win a bit of icing on a decent, but not spectacular cake.

It needs to be followed now by a strong performance in the next 4 games to warrant more love than that, IMO.

That's not being negative, that's being real. And stop with the, "team-to-beat" bullshit. You know I never said that, not even close. You haven't showed me shit, other than you like to twist other's words and engage in hyperbole in a failed attempt to support a weak argument.