Metaloctopus

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The signal for me is that losing two such highly rated guys shows just how loaded the roster in '27 will be.

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That is precisely what it tells me, as well.

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Expected, but also crazy that we lost 2 top 200 draft prospects in the month of July. Like project said, if they require everyone to go to college, it’s not going to be shooting fish in a barrel to land top talent like everyone thought. Baseball recruiting will change a ton with how competitive you will have to be to win recruitments.

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I don't personally get the impression that it will be harder. We lost two guys for the same reason: competition that they didn't want. We don't lose those guys if we didn't land so many others, so if they change the rule to require everyone to go to college, there will be a much larger pool to draw from, and guys like Konnor Griffin, who we've lost out on in the past, would end up here, as there is no way he wouldn't have immediately been a starter here. And if that means that some guys go elsewhere because of a logjam of talent, that's precisely the goal. Be "too talented" of a team. If we had lost these guys because they just lost all interest in the program, because they think LSU stinks, that would be an actual problem.

What the rule would really change is the overall depth of talent across college baseball, but I would expect that the top programs, like LSU, would continue to get the best of the best to commit, but actually get them to campus. As good as LSU has been (this year notwithstanding), if we always got the top 5 or so guys in each class to come to campus over the years, it would have been insane. Our top commits always seem to blow up minor league baseball, and pretty often the majors, as well.

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No disrespect to woods but how did he get drafted

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Because good prospects don't sign for 5K. So they drafted someone with a somewhat live arm and said "let's just see what happens". It's stupid, but it's the way the draft is with the slot bonus rules, and teams trying to save money to sign who they actually value.

Y'all are taking this way too seriously. He started a thread to let people know that they talked their crap and it backfired, and he wants to see who'll own up to it. Everything else is obvious sarcasm. It's dripping with it. He's making jokes, and everyone thinks he really expects a heartfelt apology and is deeply hurt.

People are so eager to be mad about something that they can't read the signs flashing in neon colors.

Two years in a row my Braves made me mad by picking an LSU pitching signee who I thought might make it to campus.

I know their tendencies, and when they made two underwhelming picks in the first round to save money, I started worrying that they'd be the team to overpay for Hirschkorn.

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Sherman tortured South Carolina, too. He left tens of thousands starving after looting and burning their homes. He was a butcher. A cruel bastard

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Yeah, northerners and self-hating southerners make this guy out to be some kind of hero, but what he did was horrific. Most people in the south had nothing to do with slavery, as a tiny fraction of them owned slaves, and they did not ask for a war. Yet, Sherman apparently decided, on his own, that he needed to punish as many people as he could. That he caused such needless pain on so many fellow Americans and was not punished for it is despicable.

Now all the hunting "experts" who were all overruling actual gun experts from the beginning, and telling us "I've never seen a bullet from that gun not have an exit wound" can sit down and shut up.

When will people learn that there are different types of bullets, and that just because you used something, doesn't mean everyone else does the same. This is the kind of ill-informed crap that leads to every dumb conspiracy theory.

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frick does Israel have to do with our Independence Day?

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Nothing. It wasn't meant to be about that. He was remembering an event that happens to share the same date, and as others have pointed out, this was 3 years ago. Was he forever disallowed from mentioning this? Does he talk about it every year?

Selective outrage. I wish the woke right would grow up and get over themselves.

I was concerned about that, I was concerned that she is pro DEI, and that she is as liberal of a so-called "republican" as I have ever seen.

That's why I voted for Fleming. But a bunch of people apparently listened to the blatant lies in Letlow's attack ads, along with Trump inexplicably endorsing, and voted for her.

I've heard some amazing excuses from Letlow voters, such as: "Fleming is too old".

Really? Trump is 80, but you're worried about a 75 year old man? So it's better to have a progressive than a guy who might retire soon? Fantastic.

Or the famous "he's a Washington insider". Letlow won the nomination because of insiders who cleared her path. Meanwhile, what did Fleming do in Washington, exactly, that we should be concerned about? No one has had a coherent reason for voting for Letlow that I have heard.

All these people have the same cop-out answers: "I'm not a nutritionist", "I'm not a physician", "I'm not a biologist".

And I'm not an ER doctor, but I know a bullet hole when I see one. You don't have to be an expert to understand the obvious.

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But how long will it take to educate them? The mid-terms are only 4 months away.

Sometimes lessons can only be learned the hard way.

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I've already addressed that in this thread. And nowhere did I say we'd fix the problems by midterms. I'm talking about the future of this country. We didn't get here overnight. We have to put in as much effort in teaching the current and next generations the dangers of communism as the progressives put in and indoctrinating people into thinking it is good for them.

Will some lessons be learned "the hard way"? Maybe, but doesn't seem like people have learned much from the history of communism. They convince themselves that somebody must have screwed up the plan, and now THEY are going to be the one's to get it right. If you don't want the cycle to keep repeating throughout the world, you have to do more than just sit back and watch it burn, and think that the problem will solve itself.