re: WCWS Softball: LSU 2-UCLA 1 TIGERS WIN!!

yeah, we were "Given" a run

Nobody likes Patty Gasso

Need a walk and a grandslam here.

Jammed her. Wow.

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So any old school softball fans remember if there was any reason why Glenn Moore left LSU to coach at Baylor

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He did get a salary increase, and at the time Baylor had a beautiful new ballpark and LSU was still playing in the crappy old park.

The main reason Moore left was because he is a devout Christian and Baylor presented him an opportunity to express his faith at a Christian school.

Don't claim you "debunked" any major point I made in any post by "debunking" a small, minor point I may have made about slap hitters (slappers) being able to make it to 1st base in world record time or not. That does not constitute winning in baseball or softball (baseball). Runs do that. Not getting to first via slapping or otherwise...

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and there is a slapper for TAMU....hit it to the SS and easily outran the throw. I'll be damned. I thought I read here home to first speed did not matter necessarily?

That ball was not driven hard into dirt either. not over her head and not much airtime. She just outran it. well, well, well.

AND, the middle infielders WERE playing in front of the baseline as I have elaborated about in earlier posts as far as defensive positioning to help againt slappers. Guess what? she still outran the throw!

great job slapper! You just proved my arguments and points and debunked tasertiger's post about home to first speed.

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You sound sanctimonious. Wow. Nothing to concede here. This is not high school women's softball!!!

Slappers still have BA of .300 or less Div. 1 College major softball. Same as non "happy feet" hitters on average.

OBP. Mox nix. Runs (hitters producing runs, RBI, etc.) win games. Not OBP (remember LOB if no RBI). Still my opinion.

Did that TAMU extremely fast runner score? Nope. A&M got run-ruled by Florida in 5 innings 8-0. Seems the extremely fast slapper running to 1st did not matter in the overall scheme of things. Mox nix.

My major point (which you ignored) was "hitters", not "slappers", win games at major college softball level. Argument with that?

Florida does not have a single slap hitter in their lineup. I saw their game. Memory fuzzy - they hit 2 HR (maybe 3, I lost track). One was a 3 run HR. Those are called RBIs. Remember, runs win games.

Turning to LSU's game, both runs were totally scored with "hitters", not slap hitters. 1st inning Emily Griggs and then Savannah Jaquish with doubles. Then Quinn and Serrett with consecutive hits for the 2nd run.

Again, my major point is "hitters" win elite level college softball games. Not slappers. I can say this without getting into any elite college softball statistics - which I can, of course...

I honestly respect your many posts and contributions to this great board and softball team - I just don't like to see you state you debunked a minor point of any of my posts when you do not address any of the major points of my posts. I will concede to you that slappers (especially very fast major college level slappers) have a great advantage when slapping high bouncers or otherwise infield hits (even solidly hit opposite field outfield hits) when running to first base.

They (slappers or slap hitters) do not significantly contribute in a major (meaningful) way to winning any major (elite) level college softball (or higher) game. IMO. Argue with that? Happy to. Give me your statistics.

re: WCWS preview and predictions LSU softball

Back at you with and

I used o think like you but after watching my daughters and nieces play softball I can say that slap hitters have 1 job, to get on base

It wasn't skip it was Joe Dean.