re: Your assessment of the coaching staff in Omaha?

You're making valid points, it's a shame many on here don't understand athletics enough to see your point.

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Pretty sure you mean Watson

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Yea you right

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Since there are no replay challenges this falls into subjective bullshite that has no onfield result

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I just simply don't subscribe to this theory....when a coach goes out onto the field and argues on my behalf that fires me up. Hell I thought I was safe and my coach did to so by God I was safe to hell with the ump.....I'm making up for it next time too.

Now maybe you're right and our team isn't wired that way....IMO that falls back to coaching too.

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Now I think you are just trolling.

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So you're saying "subjective bullshite" isn't caught in the umbrella of the intangibles that help teams win games.

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Pretty sure you mean Watson when the ball beat him to the bag and it took two different replay angles to see he was safe. Since there are no replay challenges this falls into subjective bull shite that has no onfield result, unless Maneri gets tossed.

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Since y'all keep looking for specifics. Let's break down that inning. In the first inning Oregon State gets the leadoff bunt hit. The leadoff batter reached second base when he was breaking for the bag on the pitch and a ground ball was hit to short. He was able to score on a base hit from second base.

LSU's first 4 hitters fail to reach base. As soon as we get our first base runner on base, Watson with 1 out in the second inning, Mainieri felt he had to show everyone that he too can call a hit and run and play aggressive baseball. Problem is we had Coomes at the plate, who is not a typical slap-type hitter, and all we ended up doing was taking our first mini-threat of a 1-0 game and waste it by forcing a hit and run and flying out to right field for out #2. Then, after the count runs to 1-2 on Josh Smith, Pat Casey in the Oregon State dugout was certain that LSU had to try and get Watson to second base, Mainieri puts on the steal for which Oregon State pitched out for and got the umpire call for the third out. Pat Casey pawning Paul Maineiri in the bottom of the 2nd.

I agree after the hit n run failed, everyone knew the steal was coming. Coomes has been hitting the ball pretty well recently so it wasn't a terrible call. I agree he isn't a slap hitter.

That's better than intangibles killed the threat.

Cudos for raising an actual material decision that can reasonably be questioned. I didn't care for the call to steal there either to be honest.

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My real with baseball is the whole slump mantra or not taking someone out of the game while they are slumping. I thought Kramer should have sat at the very least the last inning of the Oregon game. Give someone an inning and see what happens, maybe lets him see what everyone else is seeing.

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That's...not how statistics work. We have a whole lot of inputs informing our decision here.