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Regardless of how this game turns out, seeing Oak with some fire and protecting his player is the best thing that has happened. He let his guys know that he will go to bat for them.

BB/HBP’s will kill you. Yesterday we played with fire but got away with it. Today we got burned.

Well that did not last long. Got our work cut out for us now.

Which Charlie Foster shows up today? The Good version will give us an excellent chance to win. The bad version means we will have to score and score and score some more and that still may not be good enough. Plus we have got to play better defense. We will see. I like OM & USM to win today.

Man, Texas left the bases loaded four innings in a row. And only scored three runs out of all those opportunities. Tremendous win for State. Stone and Bauer were excellent today. Wyers with a huge three run homer with two outs to give us some cushion. Maybe Texas’ Sunday starter will be more human and we can scratch some runs and win the series.

Texas’ pitching was outstanding. We had several opportunities but just didn’t get the clutch hit and on the other hand Texas did get a couple of clutch at bats and hits and that was the difference. Their pitchers made zero mistakes. Even the ball Frei hit out was a quality pitch. Definitely need to win at least one this weekend. We will see how it goes tomorrow.

USM blows a 5-0 lead at Tulane. That one stings. Especially with them on the bubble to host. Needed that win. Southern definitely needs to sweep this weekend. State & Ole Miss need win one at the minimum and two wins would obviously make for a tremendous weekend.

Broadcast definitely improved throughout the evening. Big win for State 7-3. Dane Burns was impressive in the last two innings. Much needed after the abysmal 6th inning. Go Dawgs!

Huge game tonight for State-Ole Miss. Both pitching staffs are beleaguered after an exhausting weekend. Will be interesting to see each coach manages his respective staff. Obviously it will be Johnny Staff unless a younger seldom used pitcher pitches really well for 3-4-5 innings. It is always going to be a competitive game. Let’s Go Diamond Dawgs!!!

I remember that sweep very well from 1985. We also won the SECT in BTR that year with three straight wins. In those days, we played home - home against OM, Bama, Auburn and LSU. So you played 24 conference games and the two top teams from the East & West played for the Championship. Over Spring Break that year we went to Hawaii and played for a week. Returned home late on a Thursday. Promptly went to Auburn and got Swept by Bo Jackson and Co. And we lost two of three against LSU in BTR early in the season as well. Later in the season we caught fire and that sweep propelled us from six games down in the standings to finishing one game behind LSU in the regular season. All that to say that surprises me that it has been 41 years since we swept LSU in a baseball series. And we still lead the overall series by 25 games.

State does it again. Bauer with an excellent outing sans one pitch. And that dang Parker with a grand slam. I see shades of Clark/Palmeiro in that swing. A sweep today would be huge. But I know it is going to be another hard fought game. Ole Miss with a split sets up another big game today. And USM goes for the sweep today at USA. They have seemed to have righted ship recently and are playing good ball. Will be an excellent weekend if all three can finish today.

And Davis wears out. I fault the Coaching staff here. After the first base hit he should have been pulled. He pitched great but he was out of gas. 35-40 pitches is the max for him.

Baseball is very quirky. State-LSU is the biggest baseball rivalry in the SEC. So I fully expect to see LSU at its best this weekend. Forget the fact that they have been struggling. They will play hard and better against State. All that said, we have to got to rise up to the occasion and play better than them. Need two at the very least and as you said 83 a sweep is really the goal. Georgia @ Ole Miss has the makings of a good series. I know Georgia swept us but I think that weekend may be an outlier when we look back on the season. They are good but I like Ole Miss to win two of three. USM is at USA who is always good in baseball. If Southern can win 2 there that will be a good weekend.

Why pitch him again after he threw 43 pitches Friday night? Webb was awesome. Davis has good stuff but he is inconsistent. He was very lucky that he didn’t give up a three run HR in the eighth. And that it was only a single as well. Glad for the win and a much needed sweep. Still have a big mountain to climb though. USM with a big win and Ole Miss lost but still won the series. So overall a good weekend for all three teams.

I have zero confidence in Davis. We should be behind right now. Very fortunate that we are only tied 3-3 in the ninth inning.

State & USM desperately need sweeps today! Ole Miss is in good shape either way.

I know it is South Carolina but today’s win is the way we should win against a team like them. Really need a sweep tomorrow to offset the disaster of the last two weekends. At least a small part of it.

Agreed. Wins are always good. For State we just needed to win. Period. Now can we build on this. I have been of the mindset if we can just win one game then the pressure drops precipitously and we can just play baseball again. We will see what happens.

Ole Miss looks good (two weeks ago, Bianco was going to be run out of Oxford on a rail…oh wait there are no more tracks in Oxford) and now some Ole Miss fans are disgusted because the team is winning. Go figure. State OTOH has just … I am not sure what… During most of this six game losing streak, we have not necessarily played bad but we have not played winning baseball. We are not doing the little things that win baseball games. And give UGA & TN a ton of credit. They were both better than us across the board. USM is a puzzle as well. Not as bad as State but definitely struggling in the last month.

Continuing disappointment for State as we were manhandled tonight by Tennessee. Ole Miss with a blow out win over LSU and USM drops a decision at Lafayette. Ole Miss is playing well. State is terrible right now and USM is mediocre at best. Two of these teams need to right the ship. I do believe both will turn it around and in time will be playing better baseball. However it is apparent that State was never a top five team or even top ten team. Top 20-25 team, yes but I do think we were given the benefit of a really good new coach and an infusion of talent that made us appear better than we actually were. We certainly have the potential to be that good going forward but as of now we are not.

I am not that concerned. Certainly frustrating but the last four games have all been winnable. As I have mentioned baseball is so fickle. Tonight Bauer pitched pretty well in the eighth inning even though they scored runs off of him. The hit batsman was his only mistake and it was costly. We just need to win a game and kind of get the monkey off our backs.

State is in one of those funks that happen in baseball. Playing just well enough to lose by one run and playing just poorly enough to lose by one run. Plus just had some tough fortune tonight in the eighth inning. Defensively and offensively as well. Just got to play through it and we will be fine.

I seldom pull against a SEC team in any sport but today I was a UCLA fan (even though I did not watch it) when they played SCAR. And they did not just beat them, they just totally blew them out…LOL

This team is far from the best ever. We have lots good pieces but I think we got just a bit too comfortable and overconfident. And we were humbled for it. Coach was fussing at the team after the game Tuesday night about having a poor approach to the game. I kind of think he might have seen this coming. Lesson learned and I do think we will benefit from this later in the season. Quite frankly Georgia just played better than we did across all phases of the game each of the three games.

Glad to get this weekend over.