The last 2 weeks are a perfect microcosm of baseball

All this may be true, but the schedule is going to get much tougher in the 2nd half of the SEC season. I highly doubt we finish with a 10-5 record for the remaining games.

Oklahoma just beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa. And Texas is the best team in the SEC as of now.

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Last weekend, we got the timely hits while the opponent stranded a ton of runners.

This weekend, the opposite happened.

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That's baseball

And what's even crazier is that I think more highly of this team after being swept than I did last weekend after sweeping Oklahoma. We know the shitty defense won't last and we know the hitting slump won't last. There are too many hitters who we know are better than what they've been showing (Jones, Milam, Larson, Brown, Braswell, and so on).
I have no concerns about the offense, but we didn't know what to do about our relief pitching. We didn't know if we had more than 5 pitchers who could contribute on the weekends. Now that's changing. Against Oklahoma it seemed like we only swept because Kade went a CG and we were able to save Evans and Cowan for extended relief roles in games 2 and 3. That was a completely unsustainable model.

I'm expecting that the sweep will force Jay to let Cowan start. Previously we were winning so many games that there was no reason not to keep letting Shores pitch as much as possible to try to reach his ceiling. Now there's less margin for error for a top 8 seed and the emergence of other bullpen guys means we can win on Friday and Saturday without Cowan

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It is also a case of "enjoying negativism

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this is true. also I think fans feel sophisticated when they are critics. and also fans refuse to understand that the sport of baseball involves the best team losing a lot.

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All this may be true, but the schedule is going to get much tougher in the 2nd half of the SEC season.

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I still feel it will balance itself out. I expect we will hit better soon, but the pitching will revert back some.

OU and Auburn are good. Texas is great and we should have won that series, but learned a little about the team through that.

You also get some of those tougher games at home.

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All this may be true, but the schedule is going to get much tougher in the 2nd half of the SEC season. I highly doubt we finish with a 10-5 record for the remaining games.

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That’s why they needed to at least take one this weekend. The remaining SEC schedule is harder. 20 wins is a stretch now. I believe hosting a super regional will be difficult. Tennessee, Arkansas and a revitalized A&M gonna be tough.

Baseball is not for the faint of heart. It’s a brutal game. A high failure sport that requires a lot of mental toughness by individuals and teams.

Great post I agree. Also, even though this weekend sucked, it just highlights what a big deal it was that we swept OU and MSU who are both decent to good teams because it gave us some breathing room to have screwup. Need to refocus and go kick Bama’s arse.

That’s exactly why baseball is by far the most arse chapping sport to watch. Especially with LSU. Lucky phags can bloop a few singles in no mans land and beat a team that’s been smoking the ball most of the game but right at defenders.