re: Ain't no melt like an early season baseball melt

No doubt. My problem here (TD) is how polarizing it is. Tough to find understanding and good discussion when every other post is either someone saying everyone and everything is the worst to saying this is totally fine and we have zero to worry about because "that's just baseball", "but Florida is good" or "it's just March".

The funny thing is, as much as everyone is bitching about hitting right now, I'm actually much more worried about out pitching. We have very little consistency in the bullpen and Lange seems to be even more up and down than last year.

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My melt about Wade being hired? I think you need to check my post history cause you're 100% wrong on that one.

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ok dude

I don't think people are down on our guys. Yes you have the fan that rips kids but they're more rare. I think it's more about people losing their confidence in CPM, from his pitching moves to his late game decisions and lineup formation. That's what's got people melting early, we've seen a lot of this over and over.

Wow ok I'll go slow because it seems you need that. 2 days before the hire I gave my list, top 5 coaching candidates. I was asked why by Crean haters so I gave points and was attacked by some, not all, for that. The day before in a more tempered thread I stated that I thought Wade was a good coach and I didn't see any in game weaknesses but my concern was the unknown of his recruiting coupled with his short resume. The day he was hired I stated that I had no problem with it and now that he was the coach we needed to get behind him and support him 100%. Then right after the press conf I said it was the most impressive I've ever heard that he said word for word everything I wanted and felt a coach needed to see in our program and that I was in love with the hire at that point. So yes you're 100% wrong about my opinion of him and my so called "melt" which was actually as far from a melt as can be. I even ate crow for any cupcakes who thought I was dogging Wade just to ease the safe space crowds precious little minds.

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I don't think people are down on our guys. Yes you have the fan that rips kids but they're more rare. I think it's more about people losing their confidence in CPM, from his pitching moves to his late game decisions and lineup formation. That's what's got people melting early, we've seen a lot of this over and over.

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I think this is fair. I'm not in melt mode yet because we're only 5 games into SEC play, but I understand why many posters are.

CPM has been around a while now and little things like you listed seem to always catch up with us in the postseason.

I know Romero is hurt and this is a little dicey of a theory, but would he be hurt if hed've been in the lineup all year lol? To me this has been the biggest issue, the construction of the lineup. He's made some poor moves as we said earlier but if we had a consistent run producing lineup we may be able to mask some of those moves. The downside to that is sooner or later he will have to make those calls and over the past 6 years has made poor choices. I know 09 was his team but some of the guys weren't and that team was as close to the old days as we've had since, you almost couldn't lose. What he's done since is how he should be judged not by one special year. What do you think?

There should be a little more sense of urgency in college baseball, especially in SEC play.

This is not MLB, where you play 162 games.

I'm starting to like you ell

Madking, you are worthless we all saw what you posted pre Wade hire.

You should have always liked me, Adam.