re: Some Virginia fans know little about LSU baseball

yeah but that 2003 team only made it to Omaha and didnt win it so even though the current FSU kids were 11 at the time we should punish them in the rankings.

UVA's schedule is crap:

Losses to East Caronlina and Wright State. Give me a break.

They are not the #1 team in the nation, but it's way too early for anyone to boast that yet.

Fri, Feb 19 East Carolina 2 11 at Greenville, N.C. 3 p.m. 6 - 2 (W)
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Sat, Feb 20 East Carolina 2 11 at Greenville, N.C. 2 p.m. 1 - 6 (L)
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Sun, Feb 21 East Carolina 2 11 at Greenville, N.C. 1 p.m. 14 - 11 (W)
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Wed, Feb 24 George Washington 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 2 p.m. 5 - 2 (W)
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Fri, Feb 26 Rhode Island 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 3 p.m. 13 - 0 (W)
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Sat, Feb 27 Rhode Island 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 1 p.m. 22 - 2 (W)
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Sun, Feb 28 Rhode Island 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 1 p.m. 8 - 5 (W)
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Tue, Mar 02 James Madison 1 - Charlottesville, Va. Postponed Postponed

Fri, Mar 05 Wright State 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 4 p.m. 1 - 2 (L)
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Sat, Mar 06 Dartmouth 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 3 p.m. 14 - 3 (W)
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Sun, Mar 07 Dartmouth 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 11:30 a.m. 11 - 5 (W)
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Sun, Mar 07 Wright State 1 - Charlottesville, Va. 3 p.m. 13 - 3 (W)
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the way you hear people talk you would think they played the yankees 11 times. i mean ecu is a respectable club but cmon they arent top tier.

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Or are you just new to this?

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seriously? 3rd time? you're easily my new favorite poster.

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seriously? 3rd time? you're easily my new favorite poster.

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may not be true, but usually people who act like he is are the type of fans that discovered college baseball 2 years ago during LSUs run.. again, it might not be the case with him.. he may be someone who watched all the national champion teams in the 90s, then came back to the bandwagon a couple of years ago..

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and u most definitely cannot find evidence that it doesnt help playing better competition.

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Again...in the world of debate...it is not up to me to disprove a "negative". It's up to you to prove that playing...what..ONE, TWO..how many? "so-called" tougher OOC series will make LSU a better SEC baseball team. You are the one who has to somehow give me some numbers...not the other way around. Ill be glad to admit...if over the 70+ years of SEC baseball, that playing tough OOC teams helps improve ones SEC record, that im wrong.

Now is it desirable as a fan to play better competition? Most assuredly. But there is ZERO evidence that it improves in-conference records.

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also, pretending that FSU isnt a legit baseball school, who is also stacked this year, just because they have not won a national title makes you seem like the uneducated one.. everyone is aware of their Omaha struggles.. only a pretty ignorant person would think that traits like that are passed along to new playe

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Im not pretending that FSU isnt a legit baseball school...im just not ready to jump on their bandwagon because they are putting up crazy early season numbers. Ive seen this act ALOT...and they need to prove me wrong. If they are impressive against UVA in a few weeks..then Ill say i was way off base..and that FSU is the SHIttt!

this isnt fricking mock trial man, we are talking baseball. Sports.


I dont have to prove anything to you. Ask any coach or anyone who follows sports, especially one like baseball where you play a large amount of games, what they think of the matter and they will ALL agree with me.


if LSU wanted to take BP for a whole weekend, they should just go out and let Beerbolm throw them BP because that's basically what it is playing William and Mary and Brown.


this isnt something you see in stats.

You see it when its crunch time, and Austin Nola or Tyler Hanover is at the plate late in the game against a good pitcher in a tight situation, and he's going to wish he had faced better live pitching when it essentially "didnt matter". Not the little 5'9" twirp that picked between Centenary and Loyola NOLA and can barely touch 80 MPH.

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I really think their ranking is based on the fact they return everyone from a CWS team...

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he specifically said it was because they have more impressive wins than lsu to this point. only problem is they also have a bad loss which lsu doesnt and if you're going by most impressive victories to this point both ucla and fsu are miles ahead of uva and neither of those team has a loss.

so basically he contradicts himself.

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if you're going by most impressive victories to this point both ucla and fsu are miles ahead of uva and neither of those team has a loss.

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If you're going by most impressive victories in OOC play this year..then ya...UVA doesnt have that. And he does contradict himself if that is solely what he is basing his ranking on. However, I would still rank UVA ahead of both those teams, and we will only know in June whether im right or not. In other words Im giving a team returning everyone from a year they made it to the CWS a little bit of a benefit of the doubt..that's all.