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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 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.

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.

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Posted by therick711

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Posted on 5/15/17 at 1:08 pm to ell_13

I agree with you, ell. When we were curbstomping the mid-week over half a decade, we didn't hear so much about the don't be afraid to lose. When Paul changed the Johnny Wholestaff approach this year, it was about preparing a starter for tournament play. When we got beat down in the mid-week, the first thing Paul did was 86 the starter grooming process and go back to Johnny Wholestaff.

The truth is Paul would like to win those games, too. We just haven't been great in the mid-week and it exposed our 2015 Arkansas-esque bullpen.

That said, hopefully we can keep up the hot play through TDA.

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