re: I'm not as pessimistic as others, there are reasons why you wouldn't pitch Skenes today..

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OSU is a contact teams like TAMU meaning they will run his pitch count up.

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What does this even mean? They swing at the ball and put in play? News flash, everyone tries to do that

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While Skenes was amazing yesterday,

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really? He got hit harder than he has all year but as with baseball there were some amazing plays behind him which LSU hasn’t really flashed all year.
Floyd wouldn’t get all the swings and misses. That game was 2 plays from being a 1-2 run game and Skenes out in 6-7. That catch by Jobert was massive. That’s a run and more hitters are going to bat.

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In your own words, NOBODY can predict this.

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I also said I would take a shot -which was to explain the logic. Your logic is a belief

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I would have bet a few bucks that Floyd would have won as well. Floyd could have completed the game yesterday too.

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no way does that happen. More pressure on the defense because he doesn’t get the Ks and they would have scored more runs off of him. LSUs hitting was not “great” yesterday.

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everyone one of us would be lying if we didn’t admit we’d prefer Skenes today over Floyd.

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THIS ISNT ONLY ABOUT 1 game.

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All that matters is their option on what gives the best chance to win. frick results

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I am open minded to why CJJ started Skenes, but I would not have done it. You, however, are wrong when you imply that results matter in evaluating the decision. They do not. Results are not known when the decision is made, so they cannot be used in evaluating it.

An example: If I decide to bet everything I own that Tulane will win the CWS, that would be a stupid decision. If Tulane went on to win it, it would still have been a stupid decision. See?

Now, I’m not arguing against CJJ’s decision. After watching Tulane, and hearing CJJ’s explanation, his decision makes more sense. Skenes had his worst outing last week on 5 days rest, and CJJ did not want to put him back in that position for the Supers. Tulane is obviously a much improved team, and they could have beaten us - CJJ did not “waste” Skenes on Tulane. Also, CJJ didn’t say it, but OSU is low on pitching, and we should pound them today. Maybe Tulane in game one was our toughest challenge in this regional.

Two thoughts on the best and worst case scenarios. Pitching Floyd for a complete game win on Friday was the best case scenario possible, but I believe everyone would agree that was simply not going to happen. We probably would have won, but other arms would have been needed and we might have lost. Pitching Skenes on Friday avoided the worst case scenario, losing the first game and very likely not advancing out of the regional. I believe everyone would agree LSU winning Friday with Skenes was a lock. I believe Jay chose the lock after weighing the the percentages of how we might do against OSU’s or SH’s available pitchers vs how either of those teams might do against Floyd. Getting to 2-0 was the obvious goal and using Skenes and Floyd was the plan regardless of the order they were used. I also don’t buy the argument about Tulane’s overall record. They were coming in hot, winning their tournament, while we were limping into this regional. I’m sure NO ONE dreamed Tulane could win their tournament ahead of time. There was risk involved saving Skenes. We will NEVER know what would have happened had Jay saved him. To argue it is ridiculous.

Perfectly OK with Skenes pitching. To me, it’s saying ‘we’re done tinkering around and are planning to blow right through this regional’.

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It means they foul balls off and grind out hits to run the pitch count up. That is what it means.

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Oh, seems like you’d want you better pitcher going against the better hitting team.

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Which is why he wouldn’t have lasted no more than his usual 6 MAYBE.

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How many will Floyd last? I don’t understand how this is a hard concept to grasp lol. It why every 1 seed holds their ace for the second game.

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Definitely not every 1 seed does that

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If you have a true ace you do.

Do we know if LSU (if they win the regional) would automatically get a fri-Sum Super Regional schedule? Don't they give some Thurs -Sat Supers? What if they waited to pitch Skenes on Sat and we got a Thurs -Sat Super? Would Skenes be able to throw game 1 ?

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Even if we win, it wasn’t done my way!!!!”

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Did you doubt that LSU wouldn’t beat fricking Tulane with Skenes on the mound? You sound fricking INSANE!

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Maybe Tulane in game one was our toughest challenge in this regional.

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