re: Hilliard starting tomorrow per Wilson Alexander on Twitter.

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I’m acting like they are LSU baseball and not 4 seed Central Connecticut who will be ecstatic to walk away with a single win.

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That's your problem. You are blinded by the name on the jerseys and not being objective

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No. I’m acting like they are LSU baseball and not 4 seed Central Connecticut who will be ecstatic to walk away with a single win.

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LSU, who just lost their first regional game in almost 40 years lol

Yes, that team.

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How would a higher chance of losing today help? CCSU has shown to be capable hitters. We cannot frick around with them. We aren't good enough.

I would agree with you most years. This year's team simply isn't good enough for the mindset y'all have.

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I never said they were good enough to win the regional. Anyone who believed that is delusional.

However, this is still LSU baseball so they should be trying to win it regardless. I have no doubt the kids want to win it, it’s why they came here. Paul on the other hand? No, he’s making moves to appease his own ego.

That is why I’m disappointed.

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If the goal was saving pitching, Labas should have gone game 1 followed by JWS tonight. Then we'd have been in really good shape, right?

We're LSU, we can do that

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Dance around the question because you know starting Hilliard today means LSU is fricked for games 6 and 7.

I have a plan to get to game 7. You don't and you want to start guys like Coleman and Hellmers against Oregon or Gonzaga instead of Central Connecticut.

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If the goal was saving pitching, Labas should have gone game 1 followed by JWS tonight. Then we'd have been in really good shape, right?

We're LSU, we can do that

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That’s not what he asked you.

Alot of arms will need to contribute if we're going to win this regional, that's always been the case, no matter how you sequence them. I'm fine with Hilliard today - Gonzaga wasn't impressive offensively and they already burned their ace, so Labas (or whoever they choose) should be fine against them tomorrow. Oregon's pitching wasn't impressive, and they will have burned their top 2 starters after today. We just have to score runs - our pitchers have been doing their jobs.

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There are. You just can't figure that out because you think we are better than we are.

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Burning Hilliard today is not trying to win anything other than today’s game.

Hence the problem.

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I'm just using your logic of "we're LSU"

Don't get mad at me that it looks stupid.

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Wrong. I never insinuated LSU has good enough players to pull off what you’re suggesting.

I simply stated LSU is a program where it is unacceptable to go 1-2 in regionals.

Try again.

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To win the regional you have to win the game tomorrow

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I have always detested this logic. It sounds so smart and level-headed... Until one actually does five seconds worth of math.

The ol' "can't win 4 until you win 1" argument completely fails to recognize that 1 win is not more of an accomplishment than going 0-2. Either way, your season is done. So, with that in mind, you have to look ahead and try to save your better pitching if you have a weaker opponent. I hear that CCSU can hit. That's fine. Can they pitch? Not really. You should, at worst, be able to slug your way past that team, if you're any good. If you can't, you had no business even being there in the first place. But, by burning your best remaining pitcher now, you might win, but when the bats go cold, you're not going to have anyone to bail you out.

Now, we can hope for a "Cinderella" scenario where guys like Blake Money, Will Hellmers and Ty Floyd just come out of nowhere and pitch their best games of the season. And that is theoretically possible, and is going to HAVE to happen for LSU to have a chance. So I'm hoping that does happen. But it's not likely, and burning Hilliard on the 4 seed makes it even harder.