whats amazing about Smoke, in spite of his idiotic detractors, LSU has won its last 22 of 23 consecutive weekend series. good to see LSU jump all over Startup, ace reliever in the SEC who you will recall was practically unhittable in the CWS. He has CWS wins if I remember correctly. Let's see, Smoke pinch hits for Weaver with a freshman named Jordan Mayer, on the road in the 8th inning with 2 outs. Facing his first SEC action in his first at-bat, off the bench against their ace reliever down 2 runs. he gets down 2 strikes then crushes a ball in the corner to empty the bases and tie the game. No small feat. Has the makings of a great one it seems. LSU baseball is fantastic.
Someone asked where our inability to hit top pitchers caught up to us last year, I wasn't saying anything about where "real" teams make their mark. Thats the CWS obviously, where smoke has yet to make a mark. I'm sure he will, soon.
Since we made it to the CWS, that had no effect on anything. Therefore, your post...not you...is stupid.
Other then the fact that we lost the sec tourney, early, got completly dominated and embarressed by their pitching, and --threw away our super regional seed--. Good thing A&M upset rice, otherwise there would have been a good chance Rice's pitching would have dominated us in another away super. Yeah, remember that one? When we didnt score a run in the entire super? Does that count as "our inability to hit top pitchers catching up to us"?
While I don't know for sure that Rice would have done it to us 2 years in a row I was glad aTm beat Rice in their regional, that's for sure. The loss to UGA would have hurt us if Rice had won it.
Yeah, it was great to watch this team come from behind late in the game, never did they give up and always looked like they knew they would win. :thumb:
...Not to mention that grand slam that Paul Carey hit off Ben McDonald. :dis: :dis: Who the hell cares that we lost our Super Regional seed when we won the damn thing? What do you do, write this sh!t down so you can jump into a bash Smoke thread when the opportunity presents itself? Call yourself "TE -Baseball Edition". .
in his defense, its the mindset of many casual baseball fans. most only see it from one perspective and its not usually one fit for baseball. its win now and win always. while there is merit to losing many opening games of our series, there is no real weight to the claims that we cant hit top pitchers. no chance that each team's so-called ace had their best stuff when we faced them or that their 2nd/3rd starters weren't better on a given day. anyone who follows baseball on any level knows thats just not feasible. its more likely it became a pattern as things often do in this sport and then it became mental being everyone points it out to them. once a team begins to think and not react for whatever reason in any sport usually ends badly. this team showed, as stated above, that they had what it takes to believe and never give in. its a long season and it could be a one time thing yet often you see this characteristic early on and it continues. the team may build on this and have that special something to overcome all odds. something the NC bertman teams always seemed to have.
