Losing mid-week baseball games to "lesser" teams...

SUCKS but does anyone here remember a guy by the name of Skip Bertman who used to coach the baseball team? If you do, you probably also remember losing mid-week games to lesser opponents, I remember getting swept by ulala &/or tulane but by the middle of June, all of that was forgotten. You want to know why? Here it is: When you are a big time program like LSU (ut,usc,cal state, stanford, etc),you realize that at the end of the year, no one remembers that you lost a mid-week game to Nicholls, Southern, ulala,etc, why? Because the season for big time programs is played out on the weekends, in tournaments, & in Omaha. Those other teams, their seasons are played out on Wed nights againt teams like LSU. Nobody is that impressed with a sunbelt, northern league or whatever championship or a 3 game sweep of the University of Alabama Little Stone. Automatic bids aside, beating the LSU's, ut's,cal state's, etc is what gets those teams noticed by selection commitees.

Having said THAT, do I think we should lay down & forget about mid-week games? Hell no but as Coach Bertman used to say, mid-week games are live practice & are all about getting your team (pitchers,freshman, & those that will be called on when it is down to brass tacks) ready for weekends & tournaments. People used to panic because his teams lost mid-week games but nobody seemed to remember those games come May & June-in Omaha. There is no excuse for a team playing uninspired baseball, as we've seen on many of the weeknight games BUT....apparently it isn't affecting the way the team approaches SEC weekends-2 of 3 ain't bad every weekend in the SEC. So let's just swallow that pill that is lackluster performances in mid-week games, & focus on the REAL prize. As long as we keep pulling off 2 out of 3's on the weekend, I say congrats to Nicholls!

G E A U X T I G E R S!!!