Official Alabama at Tennessee Game 1 Thread - 6 PM

#110
#110
Freakin a vols in the slump for conference games, and the tide continue to be a bane.

Vols can play better than this but they won't be winning conference games if they give up 8 runs or more in most games.
 
#111
#111
Tn is 0-6 in conference Friday games and last batter throws his helmet after whiffing to end game. Time to start running until Vols learn to grow up. No longer playing youth ball. Embarrassing.
 
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#113
EKU57 said:
Tn is 0-6 in conference Friday games and last batter throws his helmet after whiffing to end game. Time to start running until Vols learn to grow up. No longer playing youth ball. Embarrassing.
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What do you mean by running you talking about the intensity of that for practices?

It's gone from sad to damn embarrassing for that Friday conference record.
 
#114
#114
Volsfaninva917 said:
66 any idea why this team seems to be mentally absent for the majority of the Friday night games? I understand that's when you see the best pitching and I also understand we are very young but man its gotta click one day this season right?
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I'm no baseball expert, let's just start with that. There are some guys around here that know pitching better than I do....

As a guy who has watched a lot of games...Andrew Lee was going to be the Friday night guy earlier in the season and the refrain you kept hearing was, "He pounds the zone". Well, that didn't really work out.

Nick Williams is a tough guy and when he can do his thing, he's really good imo. But...he's inconsistent.

This is what I mean...He started off in the first inning just fine, he looked like he had "IT"...and I was about to type that at that time in the game, BUT I didn't because I know he might come out looking completely different the next inning and it's been that way all year.

We have a mid week game where we give up no walks and then we turn around and look like a completely different team.

As to why it seems like a Friday thing...I'll look back...

Tonight we made some silly errors, you can't do that against a top 10 team and CDS has been saying it over and over, they can't keep waiting for the other team to give them something, especially when we give them the kind of gifts we did tonight.

We got into their bull pen pretty good, as always I'm optimistic.

What do you think it is?
 
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EKU57 said:
Tn is 0-6 in conference Friday games and last batter throws his helmet after whiffing to end game. Time to start running until Vols learn to grow up. No longer playing youth ball. Embarrassing.
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Running wouldn't solve the problem. This isn't football. Baseball guys are fragile mentally it seems like. Baseball requires focus more than anything else.
The Friday loss thing is now psychology unfortunately.

I'd pull a hat out of Joe Maddons book and bring in Domingo Ayala to help relieve Friday stress. He's Bella funny, and he's Dave's pal for the longest time.
 
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Burger said:
Running wouldn't solve the problem. This isn't football. Baseball guys are fragile mentally it seems like. Baseball requires focus more than anything else.
The Friday loss thing is now psychology unfortunately.

I'd pull a hat out of Joe Maddons book and bring in Domingo Ayala to help relieve Friday stress. He's Bella funny, and he's Dave's pal for the longest time.
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Agreed but run em until Ayala gets here.
 
#123
#123
After taking a look back I don't see any trend. Last week the series started on Thursday and Nick, our Friday guy just out pitched their Friday guy and we won.

Versus Vandy if you recall, Tyler Beede had been losing on Friday nights and their fans were as dumbfounded as some here seem to be. He out pitched us, the following players had no hits...Simcox, Price, Maggio, Houser and VJAX...we lost 6-4 and Taylor Smart had 4 RBI's....

Versus SC, Williams actually kept us even through 7 innings, but Bettencourt gave up a run in a 14 inning 3-2 loss and their relievers gave up none...I mean, that's not bad baseball and South Carolina was ranked where back then?

I could keep going, but I don't think there is going to be some common denominator that flips the switch for us or them...

I will say this...some of you former baseball players/coaches, interested in your thoughts...It seems like to me, the top of our order wastes the first at bat. Something about the approach, like they all wait for the first strike, very patient...I'm sure I'm not explaining it well...it just doesn't seem like we get real good at bats the first time through.
 
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#125
#125
vol66 said:
After taking a look back I don't see any trend. Last week the series started on Thursday and Nick, our Friday guy just out pitched their Friday guy and we won.

Versus Vandy if you recall, Tyler Beede had been losing on Friday nights and their fans were as dumbfounded as some here seem to be. He out pitched us, the following players had no hits...Simcox, Price, Maggio, Houser and VJAX...we lost 6-4 and Taylor Smart had 4 RBI's....

Versus SC, Williams actually kept us even through 7 innings, but Bettencourt gave up a run in a 14 inning 3-2 loss and their relievers gave up none...I mean, that's not bad baseball and South Carolina was ranked where back then?

I could keep going, but I don't think there is going to be some common denominator that flips the switch for us or them...

I will say this...some of you former baseball players/coaches, interested in your thoughts...It seems like to me, the top of our order wastes the first at bat. Something about the approach, like they all wait for the first strike, very patient...I'm sure I'm not explaining it well...it just doesn't seem like we get real good at bats the first time through.
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Or it's like there is some damn issue of can't prosper on Friday in the conference games.
Think of it as a baseball version of writers block.
 
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