re: Rank the 6 LSU Championship Baseball teams

Posted by lesisbes

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Posted on 7/7/09 at 8:34 pm to WikiTiger

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Posted by Coastal Tiger

Along the vanishing Louisiana coast

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Posted on 7/7/09 at 8:39 pm to Rouge

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Rank the 6 LSU Championship Baseball teams
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+1 Rouge nailed it.

Posted by LSURulzSEC

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Posted on 7/7/09 at 9:10 pm to LSUbase13

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Posted by The Boat

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Posted on 7/7/09 at 9:13 pm to Coastal Tiger

quote:
Rank the 6 LSU Championship Baseball teams
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+1 Rouge nailed it.

No, there's no way 2000 was better than 2009.

Posted by Baloo

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Posted on 7/7/09 at 10:06 pm to The Boat

I think the 2000 team is getting overrated by how good the players turned out to be in the pros. 200 was the only time we won a title game that I felt we were large underdogs going into the game.

All title teams are great, almost by definition, but the 2000 was one of our weaker teams, but seems stronger given how they turned out as pros. Pro careers don't change how awesome Todd Walker was in college. I'm not sure our best team, but its a competition between the 1991, 1997, and 2009 teams. I'm partial to 97 myself

Posted by tigerjuice

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:59 am to Baloo

the 97 team was the best hands down. The 2000 team had a sweet infield. I can remember they looked so smooth turning the double play. With that I believe the 09 team was better than 00 b/c of Ranaudo and Coleman. The 00 team didn't have that.

Posted by TigerBoy85

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 6:34 am to Doc Fenton

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Posted by The Boat

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 6:40 am to tigerjuice

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The 2000 team had a sweet infield. I can remember they looked so smooth turning the double play.

Theriot was an error machine, though.

Posted by EZTIGER

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 10:14 am to LSUbase13

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I think '09 is definately a very close second.

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Posted by ProjectP2294

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 10:18 am to EZTIGER

I don't think the 2000 team was the best but the schedule they played was really tough. It was probably the best year for baseball around the state of Louisiana, ULL won over 50 games and made the CWS, Tulane was in the supers, McNeese won like 48 games or something ridiculous like that. We also played Houston, who had some studs that year and won close to 50 games as well.

Posted by LSUgrad88

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 10:39 am to EZTIGER

I don't disagree much with the listings on here, but I do think the 96 team isn't getting enough credit. Remember, when Warren Morris started, that team was 22-0. Take away any teams best, or close to best, player and they will lose a few more games. Having said that, I would put the 97 team at the top. Its not because I'm positive the 97 team was the best, but I do know I was never more confident of any LSU team than that one.

Posted by Godfather1

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 10:57 am to LSUbase13

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Posted by jonmaes

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:08 pm to Godfather1

were any of those other teams that won the CWS ranked preseason #1? the consistency of the 09 team is unreal. only 1 two game losing streak. i wonder if the other LSU teams could say that.

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Posted by Coastal Tiger

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:19 pm to jonmaes

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were any of those other teams that won the CWS ranked preseason #1?

I think the 97 team was preseason #1.

Posted by Geauxst

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Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:27 pm to jonmaes

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were any of those other teams that won the CWS ranked preseason #1? the consistency of the 09 team is unreal. only 1 two game losing streak. i wonder if the other LSU teams could say that.

I was listening to a radio interview with Todd Walker yesterday, and I thought he said that his 1993 team was ranked no. 1 pre-season.

I don't know the answer, but I wonder if any of the other championship teams, like the 2009 team, started the season no. 1, won the SEC regular season championship, won the SEC tournament championship, and won the CWS. That is quite an accomplishment.

Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 7/9/09 at 7:45 am to LSUbase13

1) '97
2) '09
3) '93
4) '91
5) '00
6) '96

That's just off the top of my head, without specifically recalling records or anything. That's just based on how strong I remember the team being heading into the Championship Game/Series. And they all came out pretty much the same in the Championship Game/Series except for '93 and '97.

Posted by Godfather1

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Posted on 7/9/09 at 7:51 am to King Joey

This whole excercise is like asking a parent to name his favorite child. You love them all equally.

Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 7/9/09 at 7:57 am to LSUgrad88

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I do think the 96 team isn't getting enough credit. Remember, when Warren Morris started, that team was 22-0. Take away any teams best, or close to best, player and they will lose a few more games.

I wasn't rating how good the team could have been, I was rating how good the team was. And the reality was that we were without Morris for much of the year, which made us a lot weaker than we would have otherwise been. Like others have said, all these teams were obviously great, so we're splitting hairs to begin with. Through nothing more than luck of the injury draw, '96 comes out last imo.