Hot Carl

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I was a little worried teams may not have noticed how good he was because he mostly hit.

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It was 2025, not 1975. :lol: And he played for LSU. If we all knew he was a freak athlete at that size, major league organizations were going to too.

I know it’s really early in Spring Training and he has no real shot of making the big club out of ST or likely any time this season, it says a lot about how they value him by just giving him the opportunity. They must really like him already.

Just a couple of thoughts:

1) I’m almost positive Yorke’s bat will continue to play in the SEC

2) I’m not so sure Carraway’s will. He has an awkward looking stance and approach that I’m afraid might have a hole in it that could get exposed against SEC pitching. Maybe not, but I think think he’s going to be kid of a streaky hitter either way. And if his defense at 3rd doesn’t/hasn’t improved greatly since the previous 2 seasons, he might wind up in a battle for a spot.

3) Because this lineup is very left-handed heavy, and I’m afraid could get somewhat exposed against good left-handed pitching. And when I say “exposed,” don’t freak out, I’m not saying it still won’t be good to really good. But Jake Brown has been our best hitter by far early on, and there’s gonna be a significant drop off with him against lefties. He may change his approach to go opposing field and put the bat on the ball, but his power numbers won’t be nearly the same. Which will affect the entire lineup and shrinken it against lefties. It’s pretty fricking long now, so even shorter, it will still be good, but just something to keep an eye on.

4) So it’s imperative that we find a couple of right-handed power bats that can DH against lefties and be dangerous when called upon to pinch hit late in close games. We’ve got a few candidates, so that’s good. I just hope they go out and win the jobs rather than get them by default. That’s been an issue with a couple of Jay’s teams, too including last year when he kept trying to force John Pearson into that role when it was clear he was still a year away.

5) I’m kind of obsessed with the length of lineups and you get long lineups by having studs in the middle and sliding really good guys down. Duh. But Arambedee being in the middle of this lineup helps allow for that. What happens when he has a day off? Is he going to DH? You’d prefer to give your catcher a complete day off when you do, and even DHing will have him on his feet at least some, especially if he gets some knocks and has to run the bases. Does he DH against righties? Cause then you’re likely having to sit Braun, which would shrink the lineup a bit.

So whenever Cade does get a rest day, it has to be against a right-handed starter. Can’t afford to have him not in the lineup and Brown facing a lefty in the same game. Just weakens the entire lineup by weakening the middle. And we still haven’t seen Yorke or Dardar hit against good lefties yet either.

And I just want to make it really clear that I’m not suggesting Jake Brown can’t hit lefties and can’t hit them well. I just think he’ll lose a good bit of power and be more of a leadoff or 2 or 5-hole type hitter with a little more swing and miss, not the most dangerous hitter on the team that you write in in the 3 or 4 spot with pen everyday, no matter who’s pitching.

Back to Cade, you’d love to just sit him mid week and save him for the weekends, but he is still only a 2nd year guy who still needs ABs to continue to develop.

Not being a Debbie Downer—this team is really, really good and can make another run at the CWS title. But there’s still some question marks, specifically how some of these guys handle quality left-handed SEC pitching. But if anybody can figure it out, it’s Jay.

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I agree with all of it except I believe we have to get rid of Ruiz. There's no reason to purposely have the right guard handicap us. A mid round pick would be fine. Almost anything would be better than him.

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Use one of our fourth rounders

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These posts are always funny to me. We are purposely handicapping our offense by playing Ruiz. Almost anything would be better than him. We could upgrade from him with a 4-round rookie.

While all of that may in fact be true, you also say “a mid round pick would be fine.” I’m assuming you mean to acquire in exchange for him. Like we’re secretly the only ones who know how bad he is because we watch all his games. No other team—especially ones who would trade for him—have access to his film, ratings, and wherever else teams use to evaluate players. With as bad as he sucks—combined with his contract—the only “mid-round pick” that would be part of a trade involving him is one of likely a couple that WE would have to include to get some team to take him.

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At this point anything is possible, but if this is the case.. Hypothetical here. How would they handle it? Would they just up and kidnap her and make sure she is never heard from again? Or would there be a message sent to Savannah. Something that would let her know what happened to her mother was a result of "messing with the wrong people"?

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Jesus Christ, Chris. I’m just now reading this nonsense. Send her a message that she “messed with the wrong people” by doing a fricking interview? An interview that happened years after Prince Andrew had long since been disgraced? Why not go after the person that took the photographs of him with the said girl in question? Or, better yet, why not send a message to Andrew him fricking self, who was the real person that “messed” with wrong people? Oh that’s right, they did. And there were WAY more wrong people than just Virginia Giuffre, who, after initially denying having sex with Andrew back in 2011, had changed her tune not long thereafter, and there was filing in Florida against him and some other dudes regarding it in 2014. But he has a decades long history of associating with “wrong people.” Other women, tons of shady money people who funneled money to him, a Saudi Arabian arms dealer, a convicted Turkish gun smuggler, a Chinese spy, and the list goes on.

I’d read up on his Wikipedia page—he’s quite the piece of shite, and has been an embarrassment to the Royal family going back at least to 1978 where he had acquired the notorious nickname of “Randy Andy” due to “ before beginning his naval career in 1979 he "seemed to be in training as a professional playboy.” Still, the Queen stuck by him and, after officially holding the title of “His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew” since birth, she created him “Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh” on his wedding day in 1986. That marriage didn’t last long as they separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.

After a 22-year career in the Royal Navy, he served the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment from 2001 to 2011, but resigned following scrutiny of his expenses and associations with controversial figures. This was only the beginning of the honors he began to lose in disgrace. Virginia Guffrie had been speaking out against him and his association with her through Esptein since 2014–doing several interviews with various journalists before the Samantha Guthrie Nightline show in September of 2019–and Andrew ultimately settled a lawsuit with her in the U.S. in 2022.

That same year, Elizabeth II removed his military affiliations and patronages, and he ceased using the style "Royal Highness". And in 2025, Charles III removed Andrew's remaining royal styles and honours, and restricted his use of titles and peerages. He vacated Royal Lodge, part of the Crown Estate, and relocated to private accommodation on the Sandringham estate. And just this year, he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the first arrest of a senior member of the British royal family since the arrest of King Charles I in 1647.

He was later stripped of just about every title he ever had, had to wear civilian clothes to the Queen’s funeral, was accused by several more some of inappropriate sexual contact, called somebody the n-word with a hard “r,” lost his Royal family stipend and protection, his military honors, and can’t use “His Royal Highness,” “Prince,” or “Duke or Earl” of anything, making him simply Andrew Windsor. Oh, and he fricking has 50-60 teddy bears on his bed, having to be arranged just so, or he yells at the help.

But back to the Samantha Guthrie interview of Victoria Guffrie that some of you fricking imbeciles think was soooooo offensive and threatening that the royal family would kidnap and/or murder her 84-year-old mother to “send a message.” That happened in September of 2019. Just 2 months later in November, Andrew’s dumbass did his own interview with a woman named Emily Maitlis. Andrew that it went swimmingly. However, “ the interview received overwhelmingly negative reactions from the media and the public. It was described as a "car crash", "nuclear explosion level bad", and the worst public-relations crisis for the royal family since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.”

The Royal Family, specifically Charles and William, hate Andrew’s fricking guts and are hoping the world forgets his existence until the clock runs out on him and he dies. Not only would they never care enough to “send a message” to ANYBODY regarding him as “messing with the wrong people,” if they were going to it, Samantha Guthrie wouldn’t crack the top 100. The list would be ONE—it would begin and end with Andrew himself.

frick!!

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got absolutely killed last year against sec teams

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On April 15th of last year, Zac Cowan led the SEC in ERA at .47. SEC games only. He’d given up 1 ER in 19.1 innings pitched over 6 outings. 10 hits, 4 walks, 23 strikeouts. Faced 73 batters and given ZERO extra base hits. lol.

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There's more circumstantial evidence supporting an Epstein connection than there is any other theory.

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No, just frick no. There is no evidence supporting an Epstein connection, circumstantial or otherwise. At all. frick.

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A robbery-gone-wrong with a kidnapped grandma makes no sense, but a kidnapping for ransom with these people actually does.

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You have this arse-backwards. A robbery gone wrong with a “”kidnapped grandma” makes plenty of sense since the grandma was the only person in the house to witness it. She either died that night and they “kidnapped” her body or they didn’t find what they were looking for and the “kidnapping” was an impromptu change of plans to either try to get something after they’d already committed several felonies or they just wanted to get rid of the witness.

Y’all are way too hung up on the “grandma” part. They would have done the same thing if it was a 40-year-old woman living alone, assuming it wasn’t a random burglary, they thought there was something valuable in the house, and they knew only 1 person lived there who would likely be easily controlled with a firearm.

A kidnapping for ransom with “these people” is what makes no sense. If they were trying to get Samantha’s money or psychologically hurt or torture her, why not kidnap her children. She’s got 2, 11 and 9, I think.

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The truth of the matter is that Savannah Guthrie's husband is named in the Epstein files and worked for Bill Clinton.

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Jesus Christ, you people. There were thousands of people named in the Epstein files. And what the frick does him working for Bill Clinton have to do with anything? Of all the people named in the files, they pick this dude? And their way of “getting him,” is to kidnap his 84-year-old mother-in-law and bring unnecessary attention to him? I’d think they’d prefer to NOT bring attention to him at all and try to sweep whatever involvement he had under the rug.

But you seem like a wackadoo conspiracy theorist who thinks the 80-year-old Clintons still have the juice to murder people. To what end would they want to frick with this particular dude, I don’t know. Again, it’s just brought more attention to him. But for the sake of argument, I’ll concede they do. Why not just fricking kill HIM to shut him up? Why frick around with his mother-in-law?

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She was also instrumental in ruining Prince Albert by interviewing the victims.

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lol. Oh no, a former reporter and current Today Show host and interviewer interviewed victims of Prince Albert. She wasn’t instrumental in ruining him, he did a fine job of doing that himself way before Samantha Guthrie entered the picture. And nobody gives a shite about him
anyway. The royal family doesn’t give a shite about him. He’s a huge embarrassment to them, and they stripped him of all his titles.

They wish he’d go away. They’d kill him way before they even contemplated doing anything to some American daytime talkshow host who interviewed some of his victims. She wasn’t the only one who interviewed those girls. And the most damning interview for him was the one he did himself where he looked like an absolute imbecile talking about how he was unable to sweat. They are not going to waste any resources and the potential of getting found out by kidnapping Samantha Guthrie’s fricking mom. They are just gong to continue to pretend he doesn’t exist until he dies, like they have been for years now.

Perhaps the Guthries are “connected.” But so are 1,000 other people related to the Epstein situation, and those people are MUCH, MUCH higher on the list of importance. And every single one of them want this to go away as quickly and quietly as possible. Kidnapping Samatha Guthrie’s mom just makes absolutely zero sense relative to anything Epstein related.

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Its much more difficult to go on CWS runs now compared to when USC did it.

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It’s much more difficult to go on CWS runs now than when Skip did it. It’s really fricking hard to win a NC. Really fricking hard. LSU fans perception of that has been completely warped due to Skip, Saban, the fact that we had 3 straight football HCs to win one (and 2 were Les Miles and Ed Orgeron), and now with Jay winning 2 out of 3.

There is so much luck that goes into every single NC. You can have the best players, the best coach, the best everything, and not even get to Omaha. The bigger the tournament, the more luck you need. And the OP is suggesting that Jay “should” win another 4 or 5 to tie or pass USC? Barring something unforeseen, he’ll probably be here another 15-20 years. And I’d be really surprised if he doesn’t win another couple. But there’s a better chance he doesn’t win another than there is he wins 5 more. And I also think these unrealistic expectations take away from the previous NC teams and just how hard it was for them to win it and how special every single NC team is.

How long is Murphy out? And who DHs without Ozuna and with Baldwin catching?

shite, who’s even on the roster. I checked out about 3 weeks into the season. And I suppose we’ll hear something in the spring, but man it’d be nice if Waldrup stepped up and cracked the rotation with Shwelly being out. How long do they let him toil around in AAA if he doesn’t make the big team before they just say “frick it” and move him to the pen. His stuff can play there.

And I get running it back. Duvall, Murphy, Olson, Ozzie, and even Ronnie (who they’d never trade now) have the lowest value of their careers right now. Hope the new blood at manager and staff can light a fire and bring out the best in them. May not work, but it’s our best chance by far. So much depends on Harris. Will the real one please stand up?

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Hearing lots of 20+ win predictions and I just feel like that's an insane expectation considering neither of the 23 or 25 teams could break 20 conference wins.

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Every season is different. We’re not playing the ‘23 or ‘25 SEC teams. We’re playing the ‘26 ones. And our pitching staff was more top heavy in those seasons, but I don’t remember a staff at LSU being this deep with guys with “stuff.” Hunt mentioned we have 11 guys that throw 95+. The bullpen is deep as frick. Lots of guys who can get high leverage outs.

There’s more than 1 way to skin a cat. The ‘23 and ‘25 teams were completely different. Both won the CWS. This ‘26 team is different that those 2. But should be good enough to at least make a run. Don’t really care what our SEC record is as long as it’s good enough to get a national seed.

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Are they saying the Guthries didn't pay?

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Pretty sure they are saying they haven’t paid…yet. But if the deadline is 5 pm, why would you pay before the last minute? What if they paid yesterday and caught them at 4 pm today? Probably be out whatever they paid. I don’t think this is very noteworthy at all.