re: Should Mainieri Make Any Changes To The Program?

So you want to lose for the sake of being stubborn?


Are you legitimately retarded?

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So you want to lose for the sake of being stubborn?


Are you legitimately retarded?

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What the frick are you talking about?

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As we've seen recently the "adjust!" crowd will not be swayed ... by anything. Fortunately, it's so obvious to everyone else there's a problem that changes like the minor league ball are highly likely. Not sure how the "adjust!" crowd will rationalize the NCAA changing what they see as so perfect now, but they'll find a way.

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This asinine post of yours. People are saying adjust because they want to win. You seem content to just wait until the NCAA fixes the problem for you.

Unless there is a change in equipment(bats and balls)timely hitting will always win out(which we were not able to do in omaha this year). Ameritrade ballpark gives teams who excel at small ball an advantage.

I wish we would go to wood bats and the minor league baseball...

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See the thing with strikes is you get 3 of them

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Yes. And then you are out. Exactly the same as if you hit a long, 400 foot fly out (with the exception that the long fly out has the theoretical possibility of allowing a baserunner to tag up).

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And relying on homeruns to win ball games in ANY park in this day and age is foolish.

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Well, if LSU was "relying on homeruns to win ball games", then that you are absolutely wrong because it worked outstandingly well in every single ballpark we played in except one.

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But wake up and realize that it didn't keep us from winning.

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We lost by one run. We had at least 4 runs that should have been scored that weren't ENTIRELY because of the bat/ball/field combination. UCLA's pitcher gave up 5 or 6 400+ foot blasts; that's not even remotely an impressive pitching performance against any team. And yet, under these specific, unique and inexplicable set of conditions carefully crafted to produce exactly this result, it's a "masterful performance". Could we have done better and won? Of course. But that is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT to the fact we are pointing out: our performance -- exactly as we did -- was good enough to win in any set of circumstances that are not inexcusably unreasonable. If you play well enough to win a game played under any conditions not unfairly and deliberately contrived to make your performance unsuccessful, then that is not a problem with your performance. That is a problem with the sport, or (in this case) the system under which the sport is administered.

The fact we could have won does not change the fact that ridiculous overreactions and absurd field dimensions also contributed to our loss. And it doesn't make someone a "whiner" for pointing that out.

Teams should not have to "adjust" to almost exclusive hyper small ball at the CWS, anymore than the teams of the late 90s should've simply been told to adjust to pure gorilla ball. Particularly when teams could emphasize one, or the other, or a mix of both, during the regular season.

Objective people far more knowledgeable than you (like Peterson, Leggett, Shatel) appear to agree as they've all advocated changes to increase ball distance, and the NCAA is seriously considering those very changes. These people, and the NCAA, are not just yelling "adjust!", or "the conditions are the same for everyone!"

Of course I wanted LSU to win however they could, and they had their chances despite the bats and the park. But simply because a team could win in these conditions does not mean there is not a problem to fix, just as all teams could win in the gorilla ball days.

Oh, and frick you.

Please point me to the post where I said I wanted everything to say just like it is right now........ Don't worry I'll wait.

As a matter of fact I've stated at least twice that I hate what the CWS has become. That makes the third time. Could I make it any clearer for you?

My point is that y'all are either intentionally overlooking the number of runners we left on base or you're so god damn deluded that you absolutely have to blame the loss on someone else.

Those 4 runs are insignificant if we get just one gap shot with a runner on second. You know the kind of ball we've been playing all year. We put ourselves in position to win both of those games and we couldn't get it done and that has nothing to do with the bats, balls or fence.

I've done my fair share of bitching about the subject but what I will not do is blame LSU's 2&q on the those factors.

I'm not even really saying "adjust" we didn't need to adjust. We needed to play the game we've played all year. But we didn't and THAT'S why we lost.

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I'm not even really saying "adjust" we didn't need to adjust. We needed to play the game we've played all year. But we didn't and THAT'S why we lost.

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I disagree with this. Against UCLA, we would've been up 4-0 early in that game if it was played anywhere else. I think you're underestimating the mindset of these players. It's easy to say "just layoff the high stuff." But they didn't have to layoff those pitches all year long. And when Ibarra squared up the pitches he squared up in that game in the regular season, they left the yard. It's basic positive reinforcement. The habit isn't easy to break no matter how much they practiced it the week before the World Series.