Ray Kinsella

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Nola will not pitch twice this weekend under any circumstances.

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1000% agree.

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Pitch Bouman tomorrow!! Save Nola for the single elimination game Saturday.

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Although this isn't a bad suggestion, I'm pretty confident CPM will stick to the plan and pitch Nola tomorrow knowing a W cements a regional host and allows Nola extra rest in advance of a Sat. regional start.

We will piece the SEC tourney together as the NCAAs is much more important!

"HOOVER" is not written in giant letters in the LSU player lounge.

This thread provided great Monday morning comic relief.

Obviously Sunday starter is a problem (see Astro's stats) but I'm not giving up on Bouman and/or Bugg.

Sunday starting is a revolving door for many college teams (even quality teams).

Miss. State never really settled on a Sunday starter last year, just relied on their bullpen early and often. That seamed to work out pretty well for them in June.

It's all about winning weekend series. Trust CPM, he's good at this baseball coaching thing.

Hunt Palmer ?@HuntPalmerBBI
Just heard a "GET RID OF THE BATTIN' COACH!" from the 3rd base side.

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My only question in all this, which has remained unanswered, is that given we know CBS can and does dictate which games get played when and at what time (the Friday game was their deal from the get go) why on earth would they willingly give up the Friday game every other year so that A&M can play a game on Thanksgiving forcing CBS to lose the game? If CBS can be told to go piss up a rope in odd years, why can they be told the same in even?

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Not sure if answered but I'm going crazy reading this broken record question

Answer: CBS can chose which game(s) it wants on a given weekend but it cannot/will not broadcast a Thursday game regardless of Thanksgiving or not. Furthermore, CBS has ZERO say on SEC scheduling, it DID NOT "give up" a good game and LET the A&M/LSU game move to Thursday, it had absolutely no say in the matter. So why the move?

OBVIOUS: SEC Network and cash money

Yes, A&M wants the game on T-giving, but if you fools don't think the SEC wants this game on the SEC network you crazy. Nobody says it has to beat out an NFL game but it's still making more money by having one great SEC game on Thursday night.

We get two choices for return trip:

1) Play on T-giving at night in Tiger Stadium (at night but TD still implodes and breaks the internet)

2) Request it not played on T-giving and it's played based on normal TV requests (CBS vs ESPN)

I agree that Little Nicky gets his way with the Iron Bowl on Sat., but y'all just gonna have to deal with that cuz ain't no LSU AD gonna change the Bama love coming from Birmingham!

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Hellen Keller school for the blind conference

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LMAO! Congrats Red Stick on the post of the day!

Bregdaddy base hit!

I think the ??? was some sort of emoticon but nice.

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This discussion is a waste of time running around in circles.

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This, although y'all are arguing SOME valid points I think you both agree he has struggled to some degree against tougher schedule.

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all i said was he needs to bat 9th, but only if PM has someone in mind that he thinks will be suitable at 2.

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This is the real discussion point fellas. I've already said I don't like Raph or Ibarra here.

What about Sciambra in the 2 and Laird in the 9 hole?

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if you watched last nights game, we were crisp on defense, pitched well, and looked mentally sharp. Only thing was we didn't swing the bats as well as I would have liked. I say 2/3 only because Carolina is a good team, not because we're hitting any kind of wall.

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Agreed, all this "hitting a wall" talk has some validity but this team is different and I think we are about to be reminded of that!

2/3

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The 2 hole hitter doesnt have to bunt

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Not disagreeing with you here but he does if he plays for CPM!

I'm agains putting Rhymes in the 2 hole, rather him hitting with runners in scoring pos. And no chance in heck CPM puts Raph to 2 IMO.