re: Thoughts on why baseball seems to have slowed down

Posted by uftiger

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 4:48 pm to GA Tiger

Eades will be fine.

2/3 at least.

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Posted by HeauxBeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:32 pm to uftiger

LSU could get swept this weekend. They will be just as elite a team as they would were they to sweep. It's baseball

Posted by harry coleman beast

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:37 pm to uftiger

quote:
Eades will be fine.

Link?

Posted by redfish99

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:40 pm to GA Tiger

It's a game of percentages ,some days they fall for you, some days they don't. The great teams can affect the percentages in their favor by being relentless and over achieve. This team is very good but not great IMO . They will have to great to win all in Omaha ,they can be very good and get there.

Posted by tadelatt

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:43 pm to GA Tiger

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1) I told someone about a month ago I was concerned that we were peaking too early. You can't stay as hot as we were throughout the season.

CSB

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2) I kinda question if they got "up" for the Bama series.. so that could have contributed to last week.

They played about 4 games in three days with all the extra innings.

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3) I was at the Sunday game... they were sluggish.. but they basically played 2 games Saturday night.

You didn't have to be there to see sluggish. However, Katz is slumping and Jacoby is Jacoby. Eades is slumping and Glenn is Glenning.

I will take 8-2 over our last ten games as a slump

Posted by deuce985

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:43 pm to GA Tiger

1.)Laird

2.)Couple big defensive errors past few weeks

3.)Rhymes

4.)Katz is human again

Posted by HeauxBeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:45 pm to redfish99

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This team is very good but not great IMO

I respect your opinion but I couldn't disagree with you more. Their fielding is one of the best I've seen at LSU and their offensive lineup can strike from any batting order. The past few games, it was the bottom of the order that came through in clutch times. The meat of the order is gonna get their hits

Posted by AlwysATgr

Member since Apr 2008

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:50 pm to Topwater Trout

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I am glad we aren't playing great right now. We are still winning. It is almost impossible to go the entire season without a slump offensively (not that we are in a major slump). 2 weeks away from the box and still 4-2 is pretty good baseball.

My sentiments as well. I don't think we're playing all-around as well over the last two weeks as we were earlier. That's ok (for now).

What we need for the stretch run:
1) Eades to return to dominance
2) Katz, Rhymes, and Jones to pick it up a nitch at the plate.
3) Bregman to continue on

It does say a lot that we're continuing to win on the road when we're not playing our best.

Posted by HeauxBeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:50 pm to deuce985

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Couple big defensive errors past few weeks

A bit of an over exaggeration. It was only 1 game that cost them

Posted by LSU_idgaf

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:55 pm to HeauxBeaux

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A bit of an over exaggeration. It was only 1 game that cost them

Yeah one game we lost and the other we went 16 innings because of errors

Posted by HeauxBeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:57 pm to LSU_idgaf

Did it cost us the game?

Posted by TigerCub

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:18 pm to HeauxBeaux

By reading some people in this thread, you would think this team is fighting to just get into the SEC Tournament. I guess they expect to play like we did against Kentucky every weekend.

Posted by harry coleman beast

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:21 pm to TigerCub

I only have 2 concerns

1) ryan eades (can't get how last season ended out of my head)
2) katz at 2b (if you know me it should be obvious :|)

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Posted by aaronb023

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:38 pm to harry coleman beast

Katz looked fine at 2b last night

Posted by gumbeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:39 pm to GA Tiger

All teams will cycle during a long season.

Sure the Tigers were hot and have cooled down. But I think the cycle will work perfectly when this team gets hot again at the back of the season.

Posted by TigerCub

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:40 pm to harry coleman beast

I share some of your concerns about Eades. Saturday is a big start for him. I think Katz at 2B was more of a message to Jones to get his stuff together.

Posted by HeauxBeaux

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:40 pm to harry coleman beast

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ryan eades (can't get how last season ended out of my head)

yes, the last 2 games are cause for concern but hopefully it's just an aberration. The 3 games prior he was lights out and was actually pitching better than Nola

Posted by vjp819

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Posted on 4/25/13 at 6:45 pm to Tiger Nation 84

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I wouldbt say we are slumping by a ling shot as we may have cooled down a bit, expect us to raise the bar again very soon...

if you compare the way we've been playing for the past couple of weeks, as compared to games previous, I might agree that we're in kind of a slump. We're just good enough to get through it and still find ways to win. I hope this is the slump because every team goes through one, and we only have 15 games left to the regular season to get it out of the way.