Congrats to our Baseball team
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Messina is having one heck of a tournament
First home run that pitcher gave up this season. They have best staff in country. He has two 420 ft bombs today
Pitching starting to look like crap again. 2 men on for Arky. 6-5 one out in bottom of 9th
Great win over a Top 5 team in a pressure situation. That should seal the NCAA Tournament bid.
Our RPI is 19 so we were getting in. Projected as #3 seed but a deep run could maybe move us up to a #2. Possibly
Could be. We were seeded #10 in this tournament and if we had lost it might have kept us out. I doubt the selection committee wanted 10 SEC teams in the mix but maybe so.
Don't tell me you're a LOB guy?
It's called offense and player intuition. The LOB stat for the talking heads to fill time on the airwaves.
Lol. Would not have been a nail biter with just a third of those in.Don't tell me you're a LOB guy?
It's called offense and player intuition. The LOB stat for the talking heads to fill time on the airwaves.
Replying to myself. Watched recap. Third home run given up by their closer this year. I heard "first" during live broadcast. Need to clean out my ears. Either way, nice work by Messina.
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I was trying to find a clip of UF's coach Sullivan discussing this exact thing. He's regarded by most to be the best in College Baseball over the past 10-15 years. They were talking about his "secret recipe" of success and he basically stated that it's a function of recruiting the best players with good instincts and playing the odds through computer analysis. He said the idea of fancy small ball and things of that nature still occasionally have their place in the game. However, it's much more of function of the former in today's strategy.
The biggest difference between Kingston's and Ray's success lies in recruiting (vs. coaching). Ray was pulling in Top 5 classes and Kingston has been pulling in classes outside of the Top 20. Huge difference in talent -- especially depth wise. I believe this is why Kingston teams go hot and cold so consistently. Same with football really.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Kingston after this post season. Will making it to the Regionals only be enough to save his job? It probably shouldn't be. However, for the first time his upcoming recruiting class (85+% complete) is right around the Top 10 mark. That could be a major factor in his future at USC. Ray knows it's mostly a talent game too. Will he want to risk breaking up a very good recruiting class for the first time in a long time to turnover the staff? I'm not sure he will.
I still stick to the Omaha or fire him. But hey, lucky for him I am not making that decision!
Crazy thing is we win one more and we get a day off until the semi-finals start
This team has alot of incentive to do their best at Hoover. That's not regularly the case.
It's been a crazy tournament, has a higher seed won a game yet? That's baseball!
The ball seems to be flying out of Hoover a lot more this year!
The ball seems to be flying out of Hoover a lot more this year!
The first two games today are elimination games with 4 of the top 5 teams in the country per D1! Unbelievable tournament!
I would give him ONE MORE CHANCE, Omaha or FIRE HIM!! But I am not making that decision, I would have fired him last year..
Man, you got it all wrong. It's baseball, they should play the same every game. The better teams win every game. You must not know baseball. We left x number of men on base, so although the scoreboard says different, we lost this game. We suck. Our kids are losers and the coaches should have to find their own rides back to Cola. Nothing productive coming out of Hoover this week. You gotta listen to the experts. Baseball teams don't get hot or cold at different times of the season. Day 1 is the same as day 100. Get with the program and quit being a sunshine pumper.
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Found a way to lose. Pitching and defense let us down in the end. Couldn't keep a 3 run lead with 2 innings left.
Sad. Errors, sad way to lose. They had a bye day right at their fingertips. Oh well typical season.
He should get one NOW, they did finish in the TOP TEN in the conference and ALMOST beat LSU!! $$$$$$$ coming his way!!
Only guarantee this team will win is, the OTHER team doest show up and forfeits!!
Never seen a coach refuse to pinch hit with the game on the line, bottom of the ninth and your worst hitter up.
Kingston isn't qualified to coach T-Ball.
Kingston isn't qualified to coach T-Ball.
No lead is ever safe for this team
I'm not sure if was paying attention or his assistants weren't doing their jobs or what. What blew my mind more than anything else was the fact we had a pitcher throwing 71 mph pitches going up against a right handed batter (Braswell no less) knowing dang well there's a 90% chance he will pull it hard on the 3rd base side... and we decided it was a good idea in that situation to play our 3rd baseman 10 feet off the foul line. I mean how can you have a half dozen adults in the dugout supposedly in charge and no one notices that with the game on the line. Unreal.
True. I like Veach but the guy gets a little too animated sometimes. I like the passion and I know we badly wanted that win but sometimes it's good to go back to the dugout about your business. Save it for after a win. He got that 8th inning third strikeout and was screaming and making hand gestures. I knew that would fire LSU up. Oh well. The fielding let him down too. Kennedy mistimed that fly out to left. And First baseman should have had that grounder up the line under his glove but instead we give up two runs.
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