CJJ and Team observations, I'll keep it PG.

I don't know where to even start. I don't want to be banned for saying what I really want to say about my personal opinions about the coaches being from Cali and players not being representative of LSU, so I'll try my best to make sense. The team's chemistry is non existent. I've watched LSU baseball closely for many years. I, like many here, never miss a game. I've also been around baseball I guess you can say(grin) for 30 yrs or so and what I see is a lack of team cohesion and some selfishness going on here by all involved. This is not LSU South and LSU West. This is "LSU". Say what you want but the team feels it, the parents see it and the fans see it. First off, the chemistry of the players finishing last year should have been "held together" again this year hitting wise and on defense. It wasn't. Lineup tinkering and changes hasn't helped this team at all. It's all out of whack. When something works, you don't change it. This is not I, it's WE. Didn't you do your homework on last year's team? They should be improving not digressing.

This should be the line up and where cjj made a mistake coming in. Say what you will but this should have been fixed early on for "this year".

Crews rf
Morgan 1st
Doughty 3rd
Dugas lf
Berry dh(put him here)
Gio cf
Mcmanus c(we just weak here)
Thompson ss(we got nobody else)
Bianco 2b (Merrifield?)
Bianco did play majority last yr at 2nd and did fine on defense!

Say what you want but this is LSU first, not Zona. So many west coast coaches and players here taking presidence over what lsu had to build on from last year. Ill get downvoted but facts don't lie. I'm not about being woke. Yeah I said it. What we have witnessed this year is ridiculous. If this is a coach's way of feeling out his team then this is horrible. I wanna say I'm pulling for Johnson to be successful and the team to be successful but dam. I along with 1000s of others wanna see lsu shine. All the excuses people make about its the coaches first year this and that can suck a big fat one, there are no excuses for the kind output thus far. We look terrible even when we beat cupcakes. And we are 2-5 against teams we should have been playing all along. Atm hasn't played anyone either until I guess lsu, see their schedule. At least they have improved greatly with a even more depleted team than last year and we took 2 of 3 over there last year. Scholssnagle(sp)ran circles around jj so far the whole weekend.

So many make excuses. This team is very dysfunctional especially defensively as we all know. This isn't because we got a new coach, this is not being done correctly in practice period. So many mechanical flaws in our guys behind the plate( MIT down instead of up and not cradling balls in the dirt that get by, you know, "blocking" the baseball and not giving up a stupid run on a past ball or a old arse veteran pitcher throwing 4 balls straight with game on the line), infield miscues and poor reads in the outfield. Too many issues to name but I'll talk about 1 thing. Our approach at the plate. All lsu batters are taking that 1st pitch strike 99 percent of the time. I dont care if coach has them taking or not, yeah yeah we don't wanna run ourselves out of an "at bat" but when we do this, we are beat already at the plate. I'm not saying we cant be successful in an at bat after "strike 1" but when a pitcher knows he getting forst pitch strike 1 with no resistance from the batter, there is no respect there. The averages of hitters after strike 1 is less that 15/20 percent. A pitcher needs to know that at the beginning of an at bat, I cant just throw a pitch over the middle for a strike. As a batter, a pitcher has to respect me on all counts. Most pitchers never throw ball 1 against lsu on first pitch because they don't respect/fear us on that pitch because we just "take". How many times does an lsu player get a ball on first pitch? Hardly ever. That's because we don't make the opponent respect us on first pitch strikes. Skip Bertamn once told a bunch of coaches at a clinic a thousand years ago and everyone knows this. "In an at bat, you may only get 1 good pitch in that at bat if your lucky, don't miss it"....we miss it. I don't care of its coaching, we are not approaching the plate correctly as a whole season wise. I could talk about poor mechanics at catcher, infield, slow jumps in OF and improper reads on the base path but we all see the miscues. We can talk about that we were bad last yr or whatever but there is a noticeable digession here this year. Last year, this team played together and got better. This year is the same team and we are getting worse. No excuses can make this team better.

Team pitching...well I'll just say , we are a staff of "common pitchers". Batters are reading the ball(window release point) and the pitch count(mainly because we get behind in the count) to easily against this bunch. Our staff is too "hittable". No awkwardness anywhere if you can understand my point. We got one guy imo who has a legitimate next level(mlb potential)potential written all over him in the future and that's Taylor. We can't continue to run a "fb only" pitcher out there and a lefty out of shape pitcher who too has too many bb's, hbp's, can't field a bunt correctly, extremely slow on regular pfp because of physical reasons or gives up too many hits in the role he is used for. Why he continues to play seems like a selfish move to me. Then again maybe that's all we got? We can easily say certain players should not even be at a place like LSU but that's on jj and pm also. LSU should never be in a position where we have so many holes defensively in the field and at pitcher PERIOD.

The discipline on the field and off needs to be cleaned up. The appearance of the team needs to be cleaned up. Jmo. West coast(woke) approach? Not working. I only imagine what a coach like Auggie Garrido would have done if he saw this crap continuing to go on here. We need "strong leadership" by coaches and players, not this. Jmo.

Good luck and Go Tigers