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re: Will Reese - needs more innings
Posted on 5/15/17 at 11:48 am to LSU1SLU
Posted on 5/15/17 at 11:48 am to LSU1SLU
quote:On his post-game radio show Saturday after the Auburn 9-1 game, Bill Franques asked Mainieri about the upcoming Northwestern game...who's pitching, any special plans, etc., and Mainieri said when he arrived at LSU Skip Bertman gave him some advice about mid-week games.
Proof CM doesn't care too much about mid week.
He said Bertman told him, "Don't be afraid to lose a mid-week game if it helps the team prepare for winning later is the season."
What Skip meant was use the mid-week games to learn who can be counted on and who can't when crunch time comes in important games.
I'd never heard that story and it told me two things: 1) Mainieri wants to win mid-week games but he wants to learn who he can depend on more, and, 2) He's been taking some heat about the 6 mid-week losses so used his post-game interview to explain his philosophy about mid-week games.
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Posted on 5/15/17 at 12:29 pm to LSURussian
quote:I heard them replay this on the radio this morning and it made me chuckle. He knows why he said it. Say something in Skip's name and the heat wears off.
He said Bertman told him, "Don't be afraid to lose a mid-week game if it helps the team prepare for winning later is the season."
What Skip meant was use the mid-week games to learn who can be counted on and who can't when crunch time comes in important games.
The truth is that about half of our midweek losses were due to "seeing what you got" (UNO game 1, McNeese at least) and the other half our normal starters shite the bed. And I don't have a problem with those games we lose because we're seeing that Strall can't handle serious innings, Hess is a legit starter, etc. But the USA loss,for example, while not on PM imo, had nothing to do with "helping us prepare to win later in the season" and a couple of the other losses were just head-scratchers both in terms of coaching and execution.
This post was edited on 5/15/17 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/16/17 at 12:20 am to LSURussian
But Skip never intended for CPM to lose 6 mid-week games in one year. He meant one or two per year at the most.
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