Quote Originally Posted by CadaverDawg View Post
I have no problem with those 3 pitching....but it should have been a combo of Hump, Brown, & Houston before any of the others. Billingsley did have a good Wednesday, but he, Small, and Young should have never seen the mound until Brown, Houston, Hump, and Smith were all exhausted. Not in a 2-2 game, on the road, in the SEC, in a series clincher, with a potential national seed on the line. That's all I'm saying.

That being said, that coaching & mental midget disaster could have beaten us twice today....but we didn't let it. So as messagebiardsuperhero said, that was huge to bounce back and win game 3.
Hump was unavailable due to arm soreness. People are Will Jamesing/Trey Portering on that one. We didn't ask too much from the other guys other than strikes to one batter. Billingsley, Brown, Houston were exhausted. Hump was unavailable. And Blake Smith was the one that capped the shitshow. Was trying Small and Young questionable? Sure. Because it didn't work. You can say you knew it would fail on the front end -- and to be honest I didn't have a lot of confidence either -- but NONE of the guys you listed have been consistently decent relievers. We're still searching for that.

So, was Cohen an idiot in the Governor's Cup? Same types of pitching moves and decisions. With a bunch of unknown or shaky guys in high pressure situations. But the guys did their jobs in the game, get the first shut out in the 37 years of the series, and no one says a peep about the coaching decisions. It seems like it's only a conversation when it fails.