Bulldogs4 Posted Saturday at 04:10 AM Share Posted Saturday at 04:10 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Saturday at 12:04 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 12:04 PM (edited) 7 hours ago, Bulldogs4 said: 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. I don’t think this team’s postseason ceiling is any different than it’s always been, but if it you keep losing games the path is not going to look like what was expected. What seemed like a slam dunk Top 8 seed a couple of weeks ago could morph into a 2 seed in the Hattiesburg Regional if they’re not careful… Interesting spot the next two days. Tennessee used its two best arms in extended fashion to get that W, but State burned the Valincius bullet and still lost. There’s some pressure on Stone and Foster the next two days to say the least. Edited Saturday at 12:07 PM by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted Sunday at 02:35 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:35 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Sunday at 02:27 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 02:27 PM (edited) I don’t see this State team as particularly tough. I mean they haven’t shown it to this point at least, other than maybe the Friday game in Oxford. Sorry but tough teams don’t lose five league games in a row at home (and I won’t be shocked if today makes it six). Yesterday was the most discouraging loss in this stretch. All those losses where weird things kinda happened and it was easy to make excuses, and you follow that up yesterday with a loss that was never really close or interesting. I think they’ll figure it out eventually. But eventually may be too late for some of the bigger goals and expectations this team had. Which hotel in Tallahassee will all the State fans being staying at for that Regional this year? I don’t think this team knows how to win games that aren’t essentially blowouts. They either jump on teams early or they have little chance, so far at least. Edited Sunday at 02:35 PM by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrownInEtown Posted Sunday at 07:06 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:06 PM We gotta remember this teams still relatively young and have a lot of new faces. Things like this will happen, especially in baseball. 4/5 losses were very winnable too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Sunday at 10:08 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 10:08 PM (edited) 3 hours ago, DrownInEtown said: We gotta remember this teams still relatively young and have a lot of new faces. Things like this will happen, especially in baseball. 4/5 losses were very winnable too It’s a young-ish pitching staff but the lineup is not young at all. Other than Jacob Parker. Edited Sunday at 10:08 PM by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Sunday at 10:52 PM Author Share Posted Sunday at 10:52 PM State was 4 games ahead of OM in the SEC standings 14 days ago. Ole Miss now leads State by a game. What a dream two weeks for OM and a nightmare two weeks for State. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insideradvantage Posted Monday at 12:56 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:56 AM Ahh feels good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted Monday at 01:27 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:27 AM 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Monday at 03:20 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 03:20 AM 1 hour ago, Bulldogs4 said: 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. It is a bizarre twist that in the span of two weeks we now have Ole Miss in great shape to host and State and USM very much doing everything in their power to be sent on the road for the postseason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insideradvantage Posted Monday at 03:31 AM Share Posted Monday at 03:31 AM Man, those SEC standings are rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasbeen67 Posted Monday at 01:57 PM Share Posted Monday at 01:57 PM (edited) And this is why I can't commit as a baseball fan any more than I do. The game is just too fickle. I understand being young, lots of new players, but that's basically what it is for everybody now. All three teams may well still end with successful seasons, but the road to get there is hard to watch. All we have for now is the old saying, "you are what your record says you are". Edited Monday at 01:59 PM by hasbeen67 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Monday at 04:05 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 04:05 PM 12 hours ago, Insideradvantage said: Man, those SEC standings are rough. Truly weird that State has lost six in a row and is still only two games out of second. You never know what will happen in the postseason, but I can’t say it’s been an overly impressive SEC so far this year. If the season ended today the top two overall seeds in the NCAAT (probably by a comfortable margin) would be UCLA and Georgia Tech. The SEC is just a log jam of pretty good but clearly flawed teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted Monday at 09:05 PM Share Posted Monday at 09:05 PM this is what i envisioned when the SEC went to 16 teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasbeen67 Posted Tuesday at 02:01 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:01 PM Yes, the only positive over football, maybe, is you don't physically destroy each other in baseball. Maybe it makes you better by tournament time, but makes it harder to receive favorable seeding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted Tuesday at 06:29 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 06:29 PM (edited) State at Samford is a weird one to see on the schedule tonight but that suddenly feels like a pretty dang important game for State. Edited Tuesday at 06:29 PM by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted Tuesday at 09:11 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 09:11 PM just going thru the motions it seems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted yesterday at 03:34 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 03:34 AM (edited) OM continues to play really well. Smoked USM in Pearl tonight. Not really sure what to make of USM. Are they more the team we saw in non conference that looked like a Top 8 caliber team or are they more the team that’s largely underwhelming in the Sun Belt and the occasional midweek? Samford isn’t what they were a few years ago but good to see State have somewhat of a return to form. We will see if that translate to weekend success. Ole Miss at Tennessee a pretty huge series suddenly with both teams in a groove. Texas State is a good team coming to Hattiesburg this weekend. South Carolina is playing better since they fired Maineri but State has to go win that series and I’m not really interested in excuses otherwise. Go get it done. Edited yesterday at 03:35 AM by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Out of the "Big 3" sports, baseball is easily the most unpredictable sport. When a good team gets hot, they can quickly become a great team. When a great team goes cold, they can quickly become a good team. Baseball can be so streaky and turn the other direction at any point of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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