It's not baseball season till tRant freaks out about a midweek game.

Paul sucks at managing pitching

It's not baseball season til people complain about people freaking out.

Positives, the ball is jumping off our bats. Top to bottom, this lineup can be dangerous. Also, nice to see Gilbert have a strong start (I would have liked to see him go one more, but I'm sure CPM had him on a pitch count).

Negatives, Reynolds and Norman are supposed to be reliable out of the bullpen and they struggled. Like most said, it's one bad outing in a midweek game. No reason to jump off the cliff just yet.

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not baseball season till tRant freaks out about a midweek game.

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Most complaining are doing so because this appears to be a fault of CPM. There's a difference between those random losses (that even great teams have) and those times when it feels like CPM is going to do his plan - "win/loss record be damned!"

Every year, every fricking year, it seems like we're competing for a regional or super regional against a team with a slightly better win/loss record than us. And why do those teams have better records? Because they try to win every game. The selection committee doesn't peruse through a teams entire season; they look at things like recent records, the "big games" and the win/loss record. And it always feels like LSU's record is a few games behind its ability... because of games like last night.

The same thing will happen once sec play starts. We'll drop a few games here and there - that should've been won - and half the Rant will say "this happens to every team," "it's baseball and these things happen," "it is only one game, y'all need to calm down," but at the end of the season we'll be only one or two games behind the team that wins the conference; proving that those games/losses do indeed count and losing them was a legitimate bitch.

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