Metaloctopus

So many people in here saying Jones can't hit SEC pitching. If that were really the problem, I'd be much less concerned about his play. I could just chalk it up to him not being talented enough, and move on.

But this guy did a lot of work against the SEC a year ago, and hit a ton of home runs down the stretch, in SEC play, and in the regional. So there is no question in my mind he has the ability. The problem is his approach is really bad right now. He's over aggressive early in at bats, and then when it's time to protect the plate, he looks like he's hoping for a ball, rather than being ready to hit. And when he swings, he's constantly over-swinging, and tries too hard to hit everything the other way. It's great to be able to go the other way when they pitch you away, but he's taking balls that are in and trying to muscle it the other way, which usually ends in a pop out.

He's just all over the place, and never looks relaxed. last year, he looked relaxed and confident, and while he struck out plenty, he wasn't missing mistakes. Right now, he's missing the mistakes, as well as swinging at pitches out of the zone, or taking them down the middle because he's guessing wrong. It's mental, not physical with him. He just needs to somehow get his mind right, and be the guy he was a year ago. That's easier said than done.

It's not hard to live with some strikeouts, if you consistently do damage when you get good pitches to hit, which he has had plenty of those opportunities.

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No shite.

I’m wondering why people would still be dumb enough to believe this despite two baseball players in the sec with the same argument as Pavia being denied eligibility for this season.

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Well nothing final has been decided, and people are hearing rumors that the Pavia decision will become a permanent thing. You asked a question, and I tried to answer it for you. My fault for trying.

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I didn’t respond to the original post. My response was to a specific post taking a shot at LSU hitters for slumping while LSUS hitters haven’t. I guess you missed that.

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Everything is still relative. Those hitters aren't D1 talents (mostly, one would assume) and so it should be expected that they would struggle from time to time. The fact that they apparently haven't is impressive. People are frustrated with LSU's hitters right now, because they have been up and down all season. That doesn't mean they are stupid and don't realize what level of baseball we're talking about.

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You mean sort of like comparing LSUS hitters to LSU’s when they aren’t facing SEC competition? It’s not the same thing. LSU is routinely facing guys who will be in the MLB. So it’s silly to criticize them for hitting slumps and use LSUS to compare, no?

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This isn't a comparison to LSU's hitters facing SEC competition. It's a thread complimenting LSU-S for dominating at their own level of competition.

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Not really. Nobody at any level of baseball is that good. They just have a higher level of talent than everyone they have played. Is it impressive if a high school varsity team runs through a 10 year old travel ball league? Lmao.

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No, that wouldn't be impressive at all. Similarly, it wouldn't be impressive if a bunch if 10 year olds beat a bunch of crawling infants in a game of... Anything.

But playing in a league where people are actually in the same age group, and winning 51 in a row is very impressive. And how is it that you can say that nobody is that good, and that they just have more talent than everyone they've played, and not immediately notice that you refuted yourself? So they've been the more talented team 51 times in a row, but that's not really that good? Was LSU not the more talented team than Northwestern State? How'd that go? We're talking about baseball. There is more random nonsense that costs teams games in this sport, than in any other sport.

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yeah, it's a Texas thing only. ask around and expand your horizons

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Why would you make it sound like this is a me not expanding my horizons issue? I don't live in Texas, and I'm sure not going to drive to Texas to shop there, and as for asking around, I just read about them in this thread.

As for my pet peeve, someone already mentioned people not using their turn signals, and for me it's specifically when I'm to pull out of a driveway, and I'm waiting on this one car to pass, and that person waits til the last second to turn on their signal light, or doesn't use it at all, before turning. And by that time, more traffic is coming and I have to wait longer, when I could have pulled out of the driveway if the first car had just let me know they were turning.

People too often assume that it's only necessary to use their signal if they think they might be rear-ended by someone driving close behind them, and they don't think it's important to let everyone else know what they're doing, so those people aren't held hostage waiting to see what you're going to do.

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HEB does that to piss off the weirdos who grocery shop at 10pm. And to provide 14hrs of unfettered access to their goods for the normal people who shop at reasonable hours.

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What seems reasonable to you doesn't work for those who don't share your schedule. I don't know what "HEB" is, but there have been many times in the past when I worked nothing but double shifts, and I couldn't wait for an off day to get what I needed, so I had to to go in at Wal Mart at nearly midnight (back when it was still open 24 hours) after I got off work. And they were stocking by then, but they weren't in my way. If a store is blocking its aisles with inventory, that's not good service.

And I wasn't about to get up even earlier than I already had to, with as late as I was getting home, to go grocery shopping, when I could just stop by the store on my way back at night.

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Can we talk about the camera angle of this footage? Can we petition to get this angle as the standard for baseball viewing?

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This was the angle I grew up watching all the time. I don't know why we get so many off-centered views now.

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Why mess with the lineup at all? Ugh.

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Apparently guys needed a day off, even though an off day was already coming. And the other hitters must have been tired, because they looked to have taken the day off, as well.

Losing to a 4-25 team would not have been easy to swallow under any circumstances. But scoring 1 run in Coors Field to a 4-25 team, especially when you could have gotten to .500 for the first time, is really deflating. And they wasted Sale's best outing of the year, by far. Not the sort of way I wanted this team to enter a series against a Dodgers team that we are already terrible against.