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Chris Sciambra
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:03 pm
I'm am sure it's Germans, but it's OK, because you can't say enough of Sham-wow. I'll say it right now, I don't think he was seriously in PM's plans this year. Maybe senior bench leadership.
But year after year Sciambra kept coming back despite all kinds of setbacks (y'all know the story). So when he capped his career at LSU with that epic walkoff homer, well, I'd say that was the biggest single thrill for just about every Tiger fan this season. It will be remembered.
Then PM starts his matchup mind-machine and takes him out of the lineup. OK, it happens. But come on, the team is amped up, CS is amped up. He is a freaking senior who just saved your a$$ and this is the result. PS: this is not knocking DZ.
Here's the thing, sometimes you have to go with your gut and stop looking at the matchups (see Wholestaff vs TCU last night). College Baseball is a game of emotion, moreso than anything. If CS starts and gets a hit vs an on-paper bad matchup, then the whole team is lit up.
You can't have enough Chris Sciambra's on a team. I'm just glad we had one. Thanks Sham-wow!
But year after year Sciambra kept coming back despite all kinds of setbacks (y'all know the story). So when he capped his career at LSU with that epic walkoff homer, well, I'd say that was the biggest single thrill for just about every Tiger fan this season. It will be remembered.
Then PM starts his matchup mind-machine and takes him out of the lineup. OK, it happens. But come on, the team is amped up, CS is amped up. He is a freaking senior who just saved your a$$ and this is the result. PS: this is not knocking DZ.
Here's the thing, sometimes you have to go with your gut and stop looking at the matchups (see Wholestaff vs TCU last night). College Baseball is a game of emotion, moreso than anything. If CS starts and gets a hit vs an on-paper bad matchup, then the whole team is lit up.
You can't have enough Chris Sciambra's on a team. I'm just glad we had one. Thanks Sham-wow!
This post was edited on 6/19/15 at 4:11 pm
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Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:08 pm to MetTiger
I agree but it is spelled Sciambra
This post was edited on 6/19/15 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:09 pm to MetTiger
Yes
But Sciambra baw
But Sciambra baw
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:13 pm to MetTiger
Hopefully he spends the summer learning to hit curveballs.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:14 pm to The Pirate King
You are an idiot
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:18 pm to The Pirate King
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Hopefully he spends the summer learning to hit curveballs.
paying tribute to a senior who busted his arse for LSU, and you have to be the dickweed to bring him down.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:23 pm to MetTiger
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This post was edited on 6/19/15 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:24 pm to Stevo
Hats off to Sciambra and his lifelong walk off memory.... But if my memory serves me, Zardon had been shining when called upon.
No disrespect to CS, but IMO Zardon was a MUCH better option, regardless of matchup
No disrespect to CS, but IMO Zardon was a MUCH better option, regardless of matchup
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:26 pm to Lakeboy7
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I've been grinding LSU baseball since 1989 and he may be the best catcher we have had in that time frame, not always with the stick but the glove and arm.
Did you see that first throw out at second last night? That base was stolen and only a perfect throw gets him.
Ummmmmmmm
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:28 pm to Lakeboy7
You off homie
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:30 pm to Stevo
One of the best posts that I've seen on the Rant...I couldn't agree with you more! Thank you for that MetTiger! I appreciate this post so much.
LSU needs to find more Chris Sciambra's for the team...you can never have too many of them. A kid who grew up rooting for the tigers that wore the P&G with pride. Chris always did whatever it was to help the team win no matter what.
I couldn't have been happier for Chris when he hit the walkoff HR against UL!
Nobody represented LSU on the baseball team better than Chris Sciambra. He will be missed and I wish him nothing but the best in the future!
LSU needs to find more Chris Sciambra's for the team...you can never have too many of them. A kid who grew up rooting for the tigers that wore the P&G with pride. Chris always did whatever it was to help the team win no matter what.
I couldn't have been happier for Chris when he hit the walkoff HR against UL!
Nobody represented LSU on the baseball team better than Chris Sciambra. He will be missed and I wish him nothing but the best in the future!
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:30 pm to ColeLSU
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You off homie
Long day man!
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:36 pm to WRedmondsStang
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No disrespect to CS, but IMO Zardon was a MUCH better option, regardless of matchup
was very happy for Danny that he rallied, but I think that Chris was usually the better option for us this year.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:39 pm to WRedmondsStang
If he was a MUCH better option, he would have been playing. Chris sat more than he played his Soph and Jr years, and he started this season on the bench, proof that he was far from a PM favorite. If Zardon was that MUCH better, he would have stayed in the lineup as a DH after shitting the bed as a fielder. He is not that MUCH better.
Chris ended up batting .307 playing in the best conference in America. He had clutch hits throughout this season and his career. Not bad for a preferred walk-on with a few limitations.
Chris ended up batting .307 playing in the best conference in America. He had clutch hits throughout this season and his career. Not bad for a preferred walk-on with a few limitations.
This post was edited on 6/19/15 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:42 pm to WRedmondsStang
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o disrespect to CS, but IMO Zardon was a MUCH better option, regardless of matchup
Then maybe Zardon should have been hitting for Chinea at 1B at crunch time. Let me remind you CC went 0-4 that game.
I agree DZ was a money hitter. I want to see him in the lineup next year. But PM should have benched CC for DZ instead of Sham. These are the little things that add up to not winning a CWS.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:43 pm to MetTiger
I, for one, think that "match up" stats are overrated. they determine the decision a coach makes and I sometime wonder if the coach just uses them to cover his arse if it doesn't work out.
emotion and heart are huge in baseball and the hot hand, while not seemingly a statistical category should override metrics. if a hitter is seeing the ball well, he'll see it out of a lefty's hand also (or vice versa)
emotion and heart are huge in baseball and the hot hand, while not seemingly a statistical category should override metrics. if a hitter is seeing the ball well, he'll see it out of a lefty's hand also (or vice versa)
Posted on 6/19/15 at 4:47 pm to MetTiger
Know the kid and he's a great example of never giving up ... embraced his role as "the bench guy" as he was called in the article in the program for one of the home series ... and he was ready when called upon.
I remember his sophomore year being in the grandstand at the Box ... 2 OLD ladies were dogging him BAD and I was like "you do realize he's coming back from a NECK INJURY, right"?
Anyway, I wish him as well as the other Tigers leaving all the best.
I remember his sophomore year being in the grandstand at the Box ... 2 OLD ladies were dogging him BAD and I was like "you do realize he's coming back from a NECK INJURY, right"?
Anyway, I wish him as well as the other Tigers leaving all the best.
Posted on 6/19/15 at 5:03 pm to LSU GrandDad
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I, for one, think that "match up" stats are overrated. they determine the decision a coach makes and I sometime wonder if the coach just uses them to cover his arse if it doesn't work out.
emotion and heart are huge in baseball and the hot hand, while not seemingly a statistical category should override metrics. if a hitter is seeing the ball well, he'll see it out of a lefty's hand also (or vice versa)
Right On! Look at it this way. The top 8 national seeds won the most/best games (a stat). To win that many games, you had to have great stats to score more runs that the other team (stats). SO the final two teams should be #1 and #2.
No. right now we have several non-national seeds in play. Stats are important to determine how good a player is when you recruit him. And maybe to play around with in the regular season. But when you have a hot hand, you leave him in, until he cools off (a lot).
CPM needs to stop using his MacBook Pro to determine lineups and pitching decisions, and start just coaching a team of inspired young men to go out and win.
I simply can't fathom what the team thought when CS wasn't in the starting lineup after the walkoff. If the team was going up to him saying, "sorry about that, man" or "that sucks" then that is not the best way to start a must win game. They are not freaking machines like the matchup computer.
That's why I just love the hell out of it when they pull that shift cr@p and the batter makes them pay. But the computer said.......
Posted on 6/19/15 at 8:32 pm to MetTiger
IWHI
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