re: Why are we playing 4 games every weekend?

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It’s not sustainable. All this does is wear the team down early

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it's baseball, man.

The only players even remotely susceptible to wearing down are pitchers. But it's college and they don't play an excessive number of games so they'll be fine. .

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Of course it’s not sustainable, which is why Jay does not try to sustain it. They play a lot of games early to get a lot of guys innings. Then they figure out their team and everyone’s roles right about the time they stop playing four games per week.

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It’s not sustainable. All this does is wear the team down early. If they make it to Omaha I doubt playing 5 games a week months ago will be beneficial by that point.

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Well, it’s a good thing that we won’t be doing this anymore after this week, isn’t it?

But that’s my point. It’s not sustainable. So why do it at all? This early marathon doesn’t benefit them way down the line at Omaha. Too far removed. It would make more sense later in the season. But out of the gate that can’t be Jay’s logic. Some posters are saying he’s emulating tournament play. It’s way too early for that. Makes more sense to say he wants to play as many games early on to figure out his teams strengths and weaknesses before SEC play. THAT makes way more sense.

You said it will wear down the team. Two extra games at the beginning of the season will not wear down the team.

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Maybe it was already discussed but seems like too many games with no rest in between

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It’s baseball, you’re not supposed to get tired

We've played about the same number of games as the rest of the top 25 teams. Most SEC coaches avoid having to have weeks with 2 midweek games in them once conference play starts. So they do it early in the season.

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We've played about the same number of games as the rest of the top 25 teams. Most SEC coaches avoid having to have weeks with 2 midweek games in them once conference play starts. So they do it early in the season.

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Yeah, the only thing we're doing differently than most is putting the extra game on a Monday rather than having a Tue/Wed mid week series against a team. The 4 days in a row helps simulate regionals a little bit and it pushes us to reach deeper into the pitching staff.

Stress tests now can reveal things that can be overcome. Rather do it early than late.

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It is more mental fatigue than physical. They have to show up at the ballpark to play 5 times a week, get prepared for 5 different starting pitchers, etc. And of course these guys are theoretically still students. So 5 games in a week can be draining mentally.

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baseball mentally draining??? Come on now.

Just at beginning of season. Go look at the schedule.