re: Paul Mainieri media availability - Pre-P&G WS

Gio played an unbelievable center last night. Made two catches one over his head one to deep center at the wall. The other was to left center gap against the wall. Both hits I thought would be extra base hits that he robbed them of.

Saffard at 3rd made some really good plays as well. Had a lot of range and very strong arm.

Morgan at first was not throwing overhand. Everything was underhand, made several really good scoops but missed one toward the end when the game was tight, but it was a seemingly short armed throw.

The triple in the first inning was a liner right over the first base bag that rattled around the pitchers bench in right.

It sure felt good to be in the box and even better to hear a ball being hit.

I wanted to do a play by play yesterday but could not remember my login to use my phone. I know terrible excuse.

I was really surprised at how well Bianco played second. He missed a homer by just a couple feet when he hit the double off the wall scoring a couple runs.

I noticed the stockier players, seemed to have slimmed down and look to be in good shape.

I have no idea why they are not streaming the games or at least letting coaches committee like last night. It doesnt make much sense.

Bunch of walks by Floyd

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The triple in the first inning was a liner right over the first base bag that rattled around the pitchers bench in right.

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How’s he run?

Bianco hasn’t won the DH spot. Several competing for that spot. Sanford, Dugas, Drost and Bianco. Like you said depth is key this year. Wouldn’t surprise me to see competition for several positions go into the SEC part of the schedule.

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Gio played an unbelievable center last night. Made two catches one over his head one to deep center at the wall. The other was to left center gap against the wall. Both hits I thought would be extra base hits that he robbed them of.

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This is great to hear. Gio definitely has the speed to be a great CF; but just felt like he lacked some of the instincts and took some bad angles on balls last year when he was playing. If he improves both of those things, then I would say he will be robbing a whole lot of hitters this spring.

U talmbout... practice

Velo holding at 94-97 is all I need to see right now.

I'm still very annoyed that we aren't getting box scores.

We get a couple write ups with almost no detail of the games. Stats for maybe 5 players each game.

It's ridiculous. If I wanted to watch fricking Fairleigh Dickinson on ESPNs streaming site, I could. But I can't watch LSU. Half the SEC can put out box scores for their fall games, LSU can't? Mississippi State was streaming audio, LSU is doing jack shite.

If programs with a fraction of the resources ours has can figure out how to get their games streamed over the internet, our program can. Which means, at this point, they're intentionally not allowing for it to happen. Which is complete bullshite.

Here is what is known about the planned schedule, from Mainieri's press conference the other day, and other schools releasing schedules:

weekend 1 - Air Force, Army, Notre Dame round robin
Weekends 2-4 (I don't remember the order) - Illinois, UC Riverside, Oral Roberts

May 11th - Home vs Louisiana Tech

If the SEC goes with the normal 30 game schedule and allows for OOC games to be played (essentially, if next season looks normal), we will have all of the same opponents we were scheduled to have last season with the same home/away alignment. I don't know if the order in which we play them would remain the same.

ETA: I would guess that weekend 2 would be Illinois because they're scheduled to play at LaTech weekend 1. They probably have a midweek with someone else in Louisiana as well and are just making a weeklong trip out of it.