I do think they need to stop scheduling two games during the week when they're in the middle of SEC play. This week was very similar to the weeks we played Kansas and Auburn. It's ok to work the boys during "preseason" play, but the SEC is just so damn tough that any effects from mental or physical fatigue is amplified that much more. Oh, and Florida beat Arky, so LSU didn't lose any further ground today. Yes, we do have Florida at their place next week, but then we close out with Vanderbilt and Miss St. at home and Kentucky on the road. Arky has Auburn at home next week with South Carolina at home and Ole Miss and Vandy on the road. There's still quite a bit of baseball left to play, and if we can get AR back on track as the Friday starter, we should be ok.
Oh, I know, but they should have moved it to the week between Vandy and Kentucky when there is no midweek game or just cancelled it altogether.
i think games should be played, if at all possible. if that was the only time the two teams could agree on, so be it.
OK guys....most of you know that I never come here to "gloat" or rub it in. LSU is still the same quality team that came in to Oxford highly ranked. Sometimes, things just don't go your way. Our best pitcher against your best, just didn't happen. Both were at their worse. Do you agree? I think a lot of it had to do with the weather. Sometimes the wind blew to left, then right, then dead center. Just up to luck at times. I was surprised that OM hit your other pitchers as well as they did. If we are betting on which team will be in the final CWS___________my money is on the TIGERS OF LSU.
thanks col reb. you are correct. nothing went right for us this weekend. and hats off to an ole miss team that played some good baseball. and the rebs have a great centerfielder. he made one of the more awsome catches ive seen in a while, and he's pretty damned good with a bat. hopefully, things will get better again for us.
i agree with you that we shouldn't play two midweek games in a week -- especially not with road series. that's a lot of baseball to handle while concentrating on school, then add in the travel time if it's a road game, and you can see how it's not a good idea. but that's what happens when they try to condense the season and push for a later starting time. really, to be fair about the proposed stellar-pitching matchup and the idea that both pitchers were terrible, i just have to quell that right away. ranaudo was just awful, take away the homers that he gave up and it still wasn't good. he wasn't pitching smart like he usually does. pomeranz, while not having his best stuff, was still very good. he was missing his location but he was pitching the correct pitches. sometimes ranaudo would make me stop and question why in the hell he was trying to throw a fastball inside to a slugger -- numerous times -- when he wasn't even getting the call! he wasn't just missing his locations, he was trying to force pitches to jam hitters instead of going with whatever was working for him (like his offspeed breaking stuff was.) you can't do that to an SEC team with the wind blowing out like it was. i'm willing to bet a million dollars that's what grewe was telling him on the mound, but it was too late. other than that, saturday just wasn't LSU's day, and to make matters worse, we had a DH. it was a series on the road, in a hostile environment (really, it was. i haven't seen or heard the box that jacked up in a very, very long time, it reminded me of how the old box used to explode during regional and super regional play,) and ole miss seemed to catch every break. with their place rocking like it was, and a little home-cooking, well you get what you saw this weekend: three extremely close games with the nod going to the home team. i agree with your last statement, though. if LSU can play as terrible as they did this weekend and still come that close to beating a legitimate top-fifteen team that played a bit out of their @sses all weekend, well i guess i can accept it. :redface:
