Pilkington starting tomorrow

[Intramural All-American]

Why didn't we just start Denver tonite?

Denver, Cole, and Billingsley are all interchangeable to me, so I would have been fine with that. My pick honestly would have been Plumlee coming in, but Cole pitched extremely well last outing, so he got the ball.

[BuckyIsAB****]

Starting Pilk against a 4-seed's #2 basically ends your chances of winning the Regional. It's a no-brainer to start Denver against UIC.

Totally disagree with this move. So what you win Game 2 but lose Game 3? You have accomplished nothing

You gotta win tomorrow to even make a game 3. Dont get why you wouldnt start him

[confucius say]

Why didn't we just start Denver tonite?

You want people to say bc he can't throw strikes? So you then say wth start him tomorrow? I see your point, but I would take the route that gives us the best chance to win 4 games in 3 days, and throwing pilk against uic ain't it. Personally, I'd throw JB tomorrow.

[CJDAWG85]

Nothing matters when you can't hit and only score 3 runs.

[Skydawg1]

Nothing matters when you can't hit and only score 3 runs.

I mean, what else can be said? Our offense has been dogshit lately.

[basedog]

The only reason we are better than UIC "today" is start Pilk which Cann will do.

Going into the South Alabama game thinking we were better is and was foolish, we have been in a tail spin after the Aggies weekend.

Today it's win at all cost, there is no tomorrow when you lose, saving any player for another day is foolish at this point.

Weather probably will play a big factor the rest of the regional for everyone.

I don't think we can score 5 or 6 runs, we just can't or don't clutch hit, I was afraid this was gonna happen.

Btw, our players look tired, which am sure they are from all the injuries that occurred.

[Ari Gold]

it doesn't matter... even if we save Pilk for game 5 still have to win 2 more after that. Plus we will be facing USA or USM no.3 and weekday guys anyway. McQ and Billingsly both pitch well then we can always bring Gordon back for the finals on Monday. What was his ****ing pitch count yesterday like 50?? So he has a lot left in the tank..
Have to score runs.. we score runs we will be fine.

[yjnkdawg]

Anything else would be dumb

Agree

[yjnkdawg]

Crap. This regional is now over.

The regional is over for us if we don't win today. Save Pilk and lose today. What have we accomplished?

[yjnkdawg]

Starting Pilk against a 4-seed's #2 basically ends your chances of winning the Regional. It's a no-brainer to start Denver against UIC.

Totally disagree with this move. So what you win Game 2 but lose Game 3? You have accomplished nothing

If we lose game 2 , then we don't have to worry about who is going to pitch game 3. I agree with Spider, that you have to play one game at a time..

[I seen it dawg]

I mean we can agree to disagree on tactics and merit. I'm just pointing out that your logic is flawed in that particular instance. We disagree about starting pilk tomorrow. I see your point, and I'm sure you see mine, we just disagree on this particular game. Your comment about saving him til game 5 is either trolling or not educated.

It's not flawed and there's no doubt it's not being uneducated

[I seen it dawg]

it doesn't matter... even if we save Pilk for game 5 still have to win 2 more after that. Plus we will be facing USA or USM no.3 and weekday guys anyway. McQ and Billingsly both pitch well then we can always bring Gordon back for the finals on Monday. What was his ****ing pitch count yesterday like 50?? So he has a lot left in the tank..
Have to score runs.. we score runs we will be fine.

Game 5 would be the winner take all after beating winners bracket team once. Our game 5 is the last game.

[Intramural All-American]

It's not flawed and there's no doubt it's not being uneducated

Then you just aren't smart. Simple as that. I could see someone making a case to save him til game 4. It's a weak case, but there is a little logic involved. But saying you should throw someone against USM in game 4 other than him literally makes 0 sense. I have faith that you are smarter than that and are just trolling at this point.

[BB30]

You throw Pilk it's an elimination game. You run your best out there and find a way to make the games after work. Looks real stupid it you go 2 and Q and never throw your ace. He should have thrown last night.

[NCDawg]

Bottom line is that it's tough to win a championship when you have only one pitcher you can count on. In addition, it's doubly hard when there are weak hitters in the lineup, and most of our hitters continue to choke when we have men in scoring position.

[I seen it dawg]

Then you just aren't smart. Simple as that. I could see someone making a case to save him til game 4. It's a weak case, but there is a little logic involved. But saying you should throw someone against USM in game 4 other than him literally makes 0 sense. I have faith that you are smarter than that and are just trolling at this point.

Im totally comfortable that you feel this way.

[CadaverDawg]

Well, there's no going back now, but it looks like every game will get bumped back, so we may have benefitted from pitching Pilk last night after all. USM and USA are not only sitting in the winners bracket, but they're in position to have their Aces available for a Championship game if rain pushes things back a day or two. Meanwhile, here we sit in the losers bracket, haven't used our Ace so his next action will be his only action, and the rain has moved in so there's no guarantees his only start won't get shortened due to rain. Just all around worst case scenario for this team.

I know we likely weren't winning this Regional anyway....but the way things sit right now, if we found a way to win this thing or even make it to the Championship round it would be an amazing feat

[I seen it dawg]

Gonna go ahead and get a shameless bump on this one...

[Dawg61]

Gonna go ahead and get a shameless bump on this one...

Billingsley Self game 1

Gordon Pilk game 2