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Hookem2147

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  1. Respectfully, we are far enough into this thing where I don’t give a shit about hypothetical records with hypothetical coaches. They ain’t putting a banner up at the end of the season that says “performed better than they would have with Pierce” We've seen what this team is capable right now in the present and we need to get back to that.
  2. Not that anyone wants to hear it after a game like today but I have tough time seeing anyone else being the #1 overall seed when projections come out again this week. Only SEC team with 20 wins, top 3 RPI, 15 Q1 wins, 40 wins overall, etc. Arkansas could have maybe had an argument but dropped the series to LSU.
  3. I see 3 issues at hand offensively: 1) Injuries. This one is obvious. Not only is it just missing Belyeu, but Mendoza is playing hurt, Rodriguez is playing hurt, Williams keeps coming in and out of the lineup. 2) Our best players aren’t being our best players. Schloss himself said preseason that our top guys were going to have to carry us this year because the depth wasn’t where it needs to be 1 through 9. Flores is struggling badly. Gasparino is in a bad funk. Galvan has cooled of late. Winfield was benched a month into the season. 3) We have a few guys playing who are just not quite the quality of player you need to compete in the upper class of his league. We know who they are. A few of them could still be good players down the road but they are struggling to keep their head above water right now. Issues 1 and 2 could be fixed in the next few weeks. Issue 3 isn’t going away and could be what ultimately caps the ceiling. I will also say that the offense has struggled numbers wise for a while, the pitching was just bailing them out and we were winning the low scoring games. Now we aren’t.
  4. Winfield might be the worst defensive outfielder I’ve ever seen
  5. Schloss runs the offense. It is his philosophy.
  6. Gasparino has been playing hurt for about a month now. Hope it isn’t related to that.
  7. Oh hell yes please hold the school hostage again (Gavin Grahovac’s dad)
  8. He is a respected hitting coach and recruiter. This is literally just a repeat of the Rodney Terry/Mark Adams situations in a different sport. All 3 suck as head coaches but it doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be of value in different roles on a staff. And Sorrell and Grahovac can follow him if they want.
  9. So does Earley get the special assistant title when he is hired here or does he prefer a different title?
  10. Can’t wait for the part of the championship documentary when they show Galvan flipping over tables during this rain delay
  11. Wind blowing straight in again from CF. Not ideal conditions to try to snap out of an offensive funk.
  12. O/U 2.5 HBP by Harrison today
  13. I would normally agree with another short week and Thursday start at OU next week, he is probably done for the weekend. Plus he was apparently pitching through the Flu.
  14. I guess we have no choice but to give him a pass because of the lack of options we have but my fear is we have run Ruger into the ground asking him to do so many different things this year. If you start jerking around Volantis in different roles and asking him to be Superman you risk the same thing with him. Tricky situation but also shouldn’t overshadow the fact we have scored 3 or fewer runs in 5 of our last 7 SEC games.
  15. Can we get Jalin Flores from the Pierce era?
  16. Stewart was going to pinch hit for Rodriguez that inning. I fear Rodriguez re-aggravated the hand.
  17. Don’t see many Tommy Farmer types in SEC lineups outside of Missouri. Opposing hitters have looked way too comfortable the last 2 weeks.
  18. Flores and Gasparino are the two worst players on the team right now and that is a huge problem.
  19. Missouri going 0-30 is going to overshadow the fact that a South Carolina team that went to a regional last year and fired their coach is about to go 5-25.
  20. I was looking through Houston's roster earlier with the thought that Whitting is going to be fired in a couple of weeks, and maybe there are some guys who could be of interest in the portal, and man, that program is in a sad state. No underclassmen worth a damn and hitting .260 as a team. Not sure why Clay Van Hook left a head coaching job at UTA to be an assistant on that sinking ship.
  21. Is this referring to….Sydir Mitchell? (Could also just use this post as a placeholder when he is back in the portal in 7 months)
  22. Director of College Scouting for D1baseball had some draft notes and thoughts on some of our guys from the Arkansas series:
  23. Feels like the same thing happens in basketball every year too where a regular season win over a middle of the pack conference opponent in late February feels so much bigger than a victory against a similar opponent in the Bahamas in November. I guess human nature is to see games in May as more important than games in March, but they count the same in the standings.
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