So, ULL has turf on the WHOLE field! Gonna have to be on our toes in the field..

[CadaverDawg]

Didn't say he knew more about your team than you do, he knows more about your team than you know about ours. I guess we will see...maybe we won't, might not even get to that. We each have a game to take care of before that. I don't see why you are getting upset, I would think you would be happy about throwing one of the best pitchers in the country against us. When every one of your losses have come against righties, it's not idiotic to want to see a lefty.

And not only that, but if your boy, Birdman, knew ANYTHING about our team, he would know that Jacob Lindgren comes in right away if Fitts gets in trouble. Who is Jacob Lindgren? Oh, just a lefty that averages 2 K's per inning and is one of the best pitchers in the country...if not THE very best. So I feel pretty confident that I'm right and you/he is wrong

[RougeDawg]

Good grief, dude. You have some baseball knowledge yet manage to come off like King Douche. First, if you're going to be condescending toward someone not taking your word as gospel, you might start with spell check or just proofreading what you're typing. Some of it is literally incomprehensible.

Second, what you're suggesting is fairly absurd. You're saying that any coach who understands hitting mechanics can take virtually anyone (there are thousands upon thousands of above-average HS players) and make them major-league players. It's laughable on its face.

BTW, where do you coach, my man? Surely you're making 6 figures with your golden (yet somehow very basic) knowledge of swing mechanics.

I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.

What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.

I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.

This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.

[smootness]

I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.

What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.

I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.

This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.

Dang, I apologize. I had you pegged all wrong, I bow to your baseball genius. Anyone who claims they've sat in the stands and predicted pitches has proven to me they are the best hitting coach in the country.

Renfroe never played in the Cape, btw. He played on the same team two years in a row. The summer after barely playing for State as a freshman, he hit .305 with 8 HRs. He then returned to State and hit .252 with 4 HRs. Then he returned to the same summer league team and hit .366 with 16 HRs. He came back to State and was a significantly better hitter his junior year. Seems to me like he just matured, saw more pitching, and became a more refined player each year. Obviously he didn't learn those 2 or 3 basic principles that take you from being a no-name to a major-league player that first year for whatever reason, despite hitting really well in his summer league.

It's so weird that SEC schools don't hire these genius hitting instructors. Or I guess they do, since you absolutely would have considered Cohen among this group while he was at Northwestern State and Kentucky. Those teams hit the cover off the ball. Once he came to State, though, he lost all his basic knowledge of hitting. Yes, your scenario sounds plausible.

[I seen it dawg]

I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.

What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.

I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.

This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.

Please tell me you are kidding. This is so overboard it has to be a joke. Rave on catshit.

[smootness]

I just want to be on record, btw. If RougeDawg can take Robson, Vickerson, Bradford, Armstrong, Pirtle, Detz, Heck, and Henderson and turn them all into 15+ HR guys, please someone let Stricklin or Cohen know about this so he can be hired as hitting coach tomorrow.

Shoot, hire him as head coach, I don't care. If we can get that out of our lineup, we're clearly going to win it all year after year.

[I seen it dawg]

I just want to be on record, btw. If RougeDawg can take Robson, Vickerson, Bradford, Armstrong, Pirtle, Detz, Heck, and Henderson and turn them all into 15+ HR guys, please someone let Stricklin or Cohen know about this so he can be hired as hitting coach tomorrow.

Shoot, hire him as head coach, I don't care. If we can get that out of our lineup, we're clearly going to win it all year after year.

You would think that we could pay him whatever he wanted since we would win it all every year under his tutelage. Why aren't we putting a package together?

[Homedawg]

Dang, I apologize. I had you pegged all wrong, I bow to your baseball genius. Anyone who claims they've sat in the stands and predicted pitches has proven to me they are the best hitting coach in the country.

Renfroe never played in the Cape, btw. He played on the same team two years in a row. The summer after barely playing for State as a freshman, he hit .305 with 8 HRs. He then returned to State and hit .252 with 4 HRs. Then he returned to the same summer league team and hit .366 with 16 HRs. He came back to State and was a significantly better hitter his junior year. Seems to me like he just matured, saw more pitching, and became a more refined player each year. Obviously he didn't learn those 2 or 3 basic principles that take you from being a no-name to a major-league player that first year for whatever reason, despite hitting really well in his summer league.

It's so weird that SEC schools don't hire these genius hitting instructors. Or I guess they do, since you absolutely would have considered Cohen among this group while he was at Northwestern State and Kentucky. Those teams hit the cover off the ball. Once he came to State, though, he lost all his basic knowledge of hitting. Yes, your scenario sounds plausible.

Edited- wrong quote.

[Homedawg]

I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.

What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.

I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.

This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.

Sorry copied wrong post. This is bullshit. Award winning. Not yours smootness. My bad

[CadaverDawg]

I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.

What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.

I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.

This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.

Good grief, Rouge.

[smootness]

You would think that we could pay him whatever he wanted since we would win it all every year under his tutelage. Why aren't we putting a package together?

At the same time, we could also pay him whatever we wanted because he apparently isn't doing anything. He said I was partly right by saying he must be a coach making 6 figures; because instead of making 6 figures, he watches games in the park sometimes.