re: Is it just me or does it seem like Stoney Brook has more TALENT?

Watching a replay and wondering, 1-9, wtf you people are talking about? Steroids? Their best hitter is a fairly skinny dude... only Carmona is a big guy, and he is normal.

You people sound like you haven't actually seen this team.

Bowtie in tha house.

Carmona is a beast. That guy is amazing at the plate. Switch hitter. Just drives the ball.

Yes. They do.

The MLB draft tells the tale as well.

I know I'm going to get ripped for this, but I don't care.

LSU fans should be kissing PM's feet for the job he's done with this team. We have 3-4 solid hitters and that's it. They've got 7-8.

They are light years ahead of us at the plate as well.

For those saying our bullpen is ahead of theirs:

Did they not score runs on our top two relievers, one of which was a towering HR?

Yes, yes they did.

If LSU makes it to Omaha with this lineup, PM and ALL of his assistants (yes Rantards, Javi included), should get raises.

PS - Before you idiots question my fandom, this ins't a knock on this team, at all. There are several other teams we have beaten with more talent this year as well: USC and UF, just to name two. Again, this is a comparison to SB.

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LSU fans should be kissing PM's feet for the job he's done with this team. We have 3-4 solid hitters and that's it. They've got 7-8.

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So we rip the lips off of the most successful Football coach in LSU History for winning without having a QB that can throw away trash, but give this guy a hug for not recruiting and developing one of the 3 basic fundamentals (hitting) of baseball?

Not me. Alan Dunn deserves the keys to the vault. The rest, including CPM should be put on probation......

I am confused. I thought overall talent includes pitching.

Stony Brook does not have near the amount of talent pitching wise LSU has.

So LSU has 4 legit hitters and they have what 7? The amount of pitching depth LSU has is far superior.

So Stony Brook's closer who is projected their best overall pitching talent sure did look like shite against LSU's non talented hitters. It sure helps playing against a bunch of yankee nobodies. Again I agree they are legit but it's easy to inflate numbers against nobody for the entire regular season.

We'll see who has more talent when this is all said and done on the field.

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PM has made ONE mistake in the past month or so that has stood out: Leaving Eades in too long last Sunday.

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I can name 3 in the last 1 1/2 games. Not bunting Katz on Sunday against Oregon St, replacing Fields (best bunter on team) with T Moore and asking him to bunt, then pulling that bonehead hit and run with a left handed batter leaving Foster dead in the crosshairs are 3 within 9 innings of each other.

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He can't help a freshmen can't lay down a bunt to save his life. I mean, if we got down a bunt we'd have been 2/3 with one out. Instead the guy whiffs.

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This is coaching. Bunting is one of the easiest baseball skills to learn. It is basically catching the ball, but with the bat in your hand. If you can catch a pitch thrown at you, you can usually bunt it if you are using the right technique.

Don't know what Manieri does, but I had coaches at much lower levels who started every spring training with bunting drills. Most players don't like bunting practice, so the motivation was no player could take batting practice until they successfully laid down 5 or more bunts in a row. Miss one, start over. Bunts had to be the location called.

Some coaches didn't do that and thought bunting practice wasn't as important as batting practice. They tended to be less successful because they also put less emphasis on other fundamentals, like situational awareness, base running, stance, footwork, etc.

When you see a team that can't bunt and makes boneheaded mistakes on the base paths, that is usually a sign of a coach who is not emphasizing those fundamentals, because those are skills that can be taught.