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Hookem2147

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  1. Tennessee is in serious danger of dropping their 4th series in the last 5 weeks.
  2. In the rankings? Probably not. And that’s okay honestly. Get the #1 target off the back. Probably still the #1 overall seed in the tournament projections though.
  3. Georgia-Arkansas, Georgia-Texas, Texas-LSU, Texas-A&M, Tennessee-LSU, Ole Miss-Tennessee, Vandy-Georgia, Georgia-Auburn, Auburn-LSU Big time matchups all won by the home team. If you look at the heavyweight matchups this year, you have a huge advantage playing at home. Several of those were sweeps.
  4. We were blown out before we even had a chance to throw a punch on Thursday and Friday. We were outclassed in every sense of the word and I am highly skeptical a motivational pep talk earlier in the week or a hype video would have changed the outcome. It’s just really hard to win on the road in this league. Time to move on. We allowed ourselves a mulligan with how we played for 21 games up to this point.
  5. My hot take for the day is I really don’t think LSU is that good. I don’t see them as a slam dunk Omaha team some do.
  6. Maybe it’s the glass half full thinking but the swings have been much better today up and down the lineup.
  7. We have good arms but we don’t have premium stuff as a staff. We have 1 guy who throws harder than 93-94. Everybody else is getting by on pitch-ability and breaking balls. That doesn’t make hitters shake in their boots even if they are good pitchers.
  8. Burns should have never been allowed to start this inning. Really bad pitching management today with the best pitcher in the series fully rested and available.
  9. Just gonna let Volantis rot down there? Burns shouldn’t have started this inning and definitely shouldn’t have got another batter after 2 walks.
  10. It got to the point where it was hurting recruiting. It is still the most pitcher friendly park in the league by a mile.
  11. Their hitters are better. Really might be that simple.
  12. This is the best lineup we will see this year 1 through 9. As stated above you can’t expect a college pitching staff to go an entire season without walks becoming an issue at some point.
  13. For someone who throws 96 Burns just does not miss a ton of bats. The swings always seem comfortable.
  14. Not even the batter thought that was out
  15. Grubbs has no feel for his fastball today. All breaking balls
  16. Only need 17 today to match our 2021 Arlington record of 46 in a weekend
  17. Hard to believe he was seen as a huge draft risk 2 years ago out of HS.
  18. Gasparino and Borba will get the point. No reason to prolong punishment. Also, trotting out Duplantier and Winfield sounds not fun.
  19. I think an ideal scenario is Grubbs gets you into the 5th or beyond and Volantis takes it the rest of the way.
  20. They are great pitchers going in the top few rounds of the MLB draft in a few months going against a lineup that is missing several guys and has been in a funk that started before this weekend?
  21. Again, what do you want a team to do when they are getting their shit kicked in? Smile and jump around with a bunch of fake enthusiasm? Being “ramped up” and “locked in” means jackshit in a sport like baseball. We got our ass kicked because their best players have been superstars and ours haven’t. Being “locked in” doesn’t make it easier to hit 98 with a hammer curveball. If it did this sport would be a lot less complicated. I somewhat get where you are trying to go but the sport rarely works like that. Also, we have 19 SEC wins. We could lose every game the rest of the way and would still easily host. That is how much cushion we gave ourselves the first 3 months. Let’s just not use all that cushion.
  22. Schloss runs the offense on gameday. It is his philosophy ruling over everything. He wholeheartedly believes that most college pitchers can’t throw strikes consistently. Us being in the top 5 nationally in pitches per plate appearance is proof his philosophy has taken hold. Tulo is the one working with the players on mechanical adjustments day to day. Same setup he had with Earley last year. I think Schloss and Tulo are pretty aligned. If you remember that 2021 team we had where Tulo ran everything struck out a ton as well. Schloss has said openly that strikeouts don’t really bother him because his overall philosophy requires guys to be comfortable hitting with 2 strikes. I think a lot of what we are seeing are the same guys who struggled with swing and miss last year against Big 12 pitching (Gasparino, Flores, Borba, Farmer) still having a lot of the same issues against better pitching. Which makes sense. These guys are good coaches but they ain’t miracle workers.
  23. Schloss said from day 1 in fall ball that we had a good team but our best players were going to need to carry a heavy load and stay healthy because the depth wasn’t there. Our team leader at SS is hitting .180 in SEC play, our Friday night starter is out for the season, our best hitter hasn’t played in almost 2 months and our prized portal pickup in the outfield has been relegated to spot starts against Prairie View A&M. I think we all mentioned/feared getting out-talented at some point despite how well we’ve played for 3 months and it’s now staring us in the face. Have to respond.
  24. Nah. They’ll get the message. And it won’t be the reason we lose tonight.
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