LSU=Champions

You know you don’t have to make a new thread every time a new thought goes through your head, right?

Matt Gaudet was the last true big bopper of the early Mainieri era before he shifted his recruitment of offensive players to those of a more diminutive stature. Now it was also a time of change to the BBCOR so, even as a Mainieri hater, the shift was necessary at that stage of college baseball. Whether Mainieri overcorrected later in his tenure is a different conversation, but I digress.

Gaudet was only up at the plate hacking for a long ball. He wasn’t interested in any other type of hit. It was either gonna be a HR, K, or GiDP. The lineup that year in 2010 mashed. Unfortunately the entire pitching staff was absolutely atrocious.

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Seriously doubt this is happening after watching them play UGA.

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I’m far from an optimist about this team that has flaws in every phase of the game, but the SEC is such a week to week league that it’s weakminded to believe LSU doesn’t have a shot (even against some of the better SEC teams) to win a home series. We won’t be favored to win final home series against UF but it certainly could happen.

For example, the same very flawed team LSU just won a road series against in Knoxville went on the road the following weekend and swept a Miss State team, who just finished back to back sweeps against Vandy and Ole Miss, teams LSU only won 2 of 6 against. Another example is after Florida got swept by Alabama then swept Arkansas, their two opponents just played a series against each other this past weekend, and Arkansas defied the transitive property by sweeping Alabama on the road. Makes little sense.

We can still beat good teams. I just doubt we can do it at the clip we need to in order to get to the 14-15 SEC win mark we need to overcome the atrocious RPI.

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I have no confidence in our ability to have a Tre Morgan/Wake Forest game type play to stay in a tight game.

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Well you should never have confidence of that, regardless of how good or bad this team is and every subsequent team will be, bc it was a once in a lifetime play.

WILLIAM SMMITT

Who really cares? This award is almost always split between 2 players every week.

Miss State has much better pitching than Tenn. Stats between both POTW are pretty damn similar. Seems justified. And, again, who cares?

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Why are you here?

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Tough to look away from dumpster fires like yourself. Keep it up.

It’s b/c of name brand and early season polls. One of the reasons why polls are so inherently flawed.

Given LSU is the road team this weekend, I’m gonna go with no.

This thread is the mirror image of a Facebook group of geriatrics in the fall posting into the void about what channel the LSU football game is on. Information is not difficult to find.

Despite the fact that I’m not convinced this team will make a 2024 type turnaround, some of these marginal, baby-step kind of improvements are encouraging on the small scale - and, looking macro, is an example of the reason why baseball is really the only sport you can have a full 180° turnaround midseason: 50+ regular season games over course of 4ish months allow for a lot of growth, or regression, or both. *itcouldhappen* *butprollywont*