re: Is the 9th inning LSU's doom?

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You do realize teams have won the cws without a designated closer, right?

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of course they have, but both you and the OP are missing the forest for the trees a bit here. With regard to LSU's natl title hopes, the bullpen is the least of their wrries right now. Of much greater concern has to be the sudden AWOL-ness of our Friday guy and the (for all practical purposes) season-long absence of any semblance of a Sunday guy.

One of those can be worked around; both of them at the same time cannot.

Person's performance against UF was disappointing but not indicative of anything IMO. As for Stallings, I think PM wanted to give him just one last shot to confirm what he probably was already pretty sure of while it still didn't count for much. I still feel fine about Person and Bugg.

ETA: We have GOT to have the on-point Poche back. Simple as.