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#77
#77
vol66 said:
I've been following Sam Houston State a bit, pretty interesting early on.
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Yes, they are. I'm going to try and get down to Minute Maid on Sunday and take in their game against TX.
 
#80
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vol66 said:
Campbell swept La Salle in their opening season series.

Mizzou, oof, not getting off to a good start.
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Several weeks before the SEC begins play and it appears there are some teams already that will seemingly struggle.
Georgia, Missouri Auburn, Alabama, and even Mississippi State.

So far, Vanderbilt has been the best team against the toughest competition.(that's why they have highest RPI in SEC) South Carolina may have the most talent though but have note been tested.

Vandy has the best series win against Long Beach on road. Tennessee's sweep against UNLV would be second.

The best win goes to Kentucky against Virginia in game #1

There have been some ugly losses:

Miss State lost 2 games to Holy Cross and 1 to W. CarolinaAlabama lost opener to St. Louis (not the Cardinals)
Auburn lost to Alabama State & ETSU
Kentucky lost to SC-Upstate and VMI (& not their stud pitcher)
Mizzou to McNeese State, Liberty (school not the concept) and lost today Campbell
Ole Miss to Ga. State


It's way to early to judge. What does not bode well for Miss. State is they usually jump out fast out of the gate and coast the rest of the season. If they are already struggling, what will it be like in May?

Kentucky is inconsistent to say the least. They can likely get their act together.

Missouri may have the harshest weather but they are losing to programs with similar handicaps. They're terrible.
 
#81
#81
fryeguy93 said:
Several weeks before the SEC begins play and it appears there are some teams already that will seemingly struggle.
Georgia, Missouri Auburn, Alabama, and even Mississippi State.

So far, Vanderbilt has been the best team against the toughest competition.(that's why they have highest RPI in SEC) South Carolina may have the most talent though but have note been tested.

Vandy has the best series win against Long Beach on road. Tennessee's sweep against UNLV would be second.

The best win goes to Kentucky against Virginia in game #1

There have been some ugly losses:

Miss State lost 2 games to Holy Cross and 1 to W. CarolinaAlabama lost opener to St. Louis (not the Cardinals)
Auburn lost to Alabama State & ETSU
Kentucky lost to SC-Upstate and VMI (& not their stud pitcher)
Mizzou to McNeese State, Liberty (school not the concept) and lost today Campbell
Ole Miss to Ga. State


It's way to early to judge. What does not bode well for Miss. State is they usually jump out fast out of the gate and coast the rest of the season. If they are already struggling, what will it be like in May?

Kentucky is inconsistent to say the least. They can likely get their act together.

Missouri may have the harshest weather but they are losing to programs with similar handicaps. They're terrible.
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Yeah, I think UK will get it straightened out, that Reed kid is on a freakin' tear.

Mizzou, UGA and Auburn...I don't think you just chalk them up to mid week games, early in the season, etc...

Bama and MSU, they'll probably work their way out.
 
#83
#83
UGA loses to Ga. State 3-2

Vandy loses 8-3 to Evansville

Ole Miss beats ULM 4-3
 
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#87
#87
BigOrange51 said:
Vanderbilt down 6-0 in the 2nd inning to Evansville.
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Evansville swept Lipscomb to open the season. Then was swept themselves at Mercer and then bet Vandy on way back home.

Evidently Mercer (9-0) would kill Vandy :ermm:

Three unbeaten teams (South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee) remain in SEC.

Vandy has lost 2 in a row. See what happens when I say something good about the Dores.

This may bode poorly for the Dores. Midweek losses like this may signal a pitching depth problem for tourney play. Especially if the team gets in a losers bracket.

Vanderbilt has 5 games in a row coming up that will be tough. Stanford (x3)- Tennessee Tech and MTSU.

BTW, Look at Stanford's schedule so far.

2/14 -2/16 Rice (LLW)
2/18 at San Jose St (W)
2/21- 2/23 at Texas (LLW)
2/25 San Francisco (W)
2/28-3/2 at Vanderbilt

That's tough to say the least
 
#89
#89
fryeguy93 said:
This may bode poorly for the Dores. Midweek losses like this may signal a pitching depth problem for tourney play. Especially if the team gets in a losers bracket.
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Oh crap. If Vanderbilt has pitching depth problems, I might as well quit at life. Oh this guy who blows mid 90's is having an off day? Well how about any of these 10 other guys who all throw mid 90's as well... yea lets pick one of them. It may be possible though that they have too much depth, and an overall lack of accountability.

Vandy's struggles on Tuesday were due to shockingly cold weather mixed with a very determined, well executed approach by the WKU pitching staff. Yesterday was just terrible across the board aside from a marvelous pitching performance by another frosh. Surprisingly, the young arms for Vandy have looked great while veterans have stumbled. I believe Vandy exited last weekend with the best ERA in the nation. That staff is elite and has disgusting depth. They will figure it out.

Having said all of that, I don't know if this Vanderbilt team has that "it" factor: an expectation and possibly more importantly the pressure to win. On a campus where no one is expected to win anything outside of women's bowling, the Vanderbilt baseball team has some of the best talent in the nation. It's not like being a freshman basketball player at UK and walking into Rupp and looking up at all the banners and seeing how little you really are. I think that's a pretty big deal and a possible handicap for Tim Corbin and his team.
 
#90
#90
BigOrange51 said:
Oh crap. If Vanderbilt has pitching depth problems, I might as well quit at life. Oh this guy who blows mid 90's is having an off day? Well how about any of these 10 other guys who all throw mid 90's as well... yea lets pick one of them. It may be possible though that they have too much depth, and an overall lack of accountability.

Vandy's struggles on Tuesday were due to shockingly cold weather mixed with a very determined, well executed approach by the WKU pitching staff. Yesterday was just terrible across the board aside from a marvelous pitching performance by another frosh. Surprisingly, the young arms for Vandy have looked great while veterans have stumbled. I believe Vandy exited last weekend with the best ERA in the nation. That staff is elite and has disgusting depth. They will figure it out.

Having said all of that, I don't know if this Vanderbilt team has that "it" factor: an expectation and possibly more importantly the pressure to win. On a campus where no one is expected to win anything outside of women's bowling, the Vanderbilt baseball team has some of the best talent in the nation. It's not like being a freshman basketball player at UK and walking into Rupp and looking up at all the banners and seeing how little you really are. I think that's a pretty big deal and a possible handicap for Tim Corbin and his team.
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Vandy has elite talent. Vandy is loaded up Friday-Sunday with arguably (being polite), the best arms in the SEC. If they are the best in the SEC, then they are up with the very best in the country.

That said...

I loathe Vandy. I don't care if they lose on a winter Wednesday or in the regionals. When they lose it's a warm fuzzy feeling.

See the typical Vandy fan...is this:

This weekend, we play the Leland Stanford Junior College in three sporting matches of based ball. We're 7-0, they're 3-4. We're a prestigious University, they're a Junior College. Granted, for a Junior College, they attract a great deal of academic superstars (last I checked, Tobias Wolff was working there) and seem to produce every spy in the CIA, and quite a few who work for Fulcrum. Like few other Junior Colleges, they do grant 4-year degrees (only Greendale comes to mind as another), and unlike the 100% acceptance rate of most Junior Colleges, Stanford boasts a robust 5%, which is head and shoulders above even the most stringent of Air Conditioning Repair programs at other respected Junior Colleges.
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Baseball, Bourbon, and Bad Decisions II: And This Time, It

The fact the guy who wrote that is now 0-2 on this week's predictions is just a cherry on top.
 
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#93
#93
vol66 said:
Vandy has elite talent. Vandy is loaded up Friday-Sunday with arguably (being polite), the best arms in the SEC. If they are the best in the SEC, then they are up with the very best in the country.

That said...

I loathe Vandy. I don't care if they lose on a winter Wednesday or in the regionals. When they lose it's a warm fuzzy feeling.

See the typical Vandy fan...is this:



Baseball, Bourbon, and Bad Decisions II: And This Time, It

The fact the guy who wrote that is now 0-2 on this week's predictions is just a cherry on top.
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Haha. I just now sat down to actually read that, and what a read it was. How in the world do you come across crap like that?

I am all too familiar with the Vandy fan base, but I don't really understand fans confusing sports with a fan v. fan competition. I do absolutely agree that the Vanderbilt fan base is possibly the worst behaved in SEC baseball, which I always find to be ironic considering the class of the man at the helm of that program. That said, I support the players (of all teams), because I've been there. In the end this is just a game and it is not right to take anything involved in it too personally. Let the kids play. Let the idiots in the stands say what they want, but always make sure it always comes back to the kids. Without them its all just a color coordinated pi**ing contest.
 
#94
#94
BigOrange51 said:
Haha. I just now sat down to actually read that, and what a read it was. How in the world do you come across crap like that?

I am all too familiar with the Vandy fan base, but I don't really understand fans confusing sports with a fan v. fan competition. I do absolutely agree that the Vanderbilt fan base is possibly the worst behaved in SEC baseball, which I always find to be ironic considering the class of the man at the helm of that program. That said, I support the players (of all teams), because I've been there. In the end this is just a game and it is not right to take anything involved in it too personally. Let the kids play. Let the idiots in the stands say what they want, but always make sure it always comes back to the kids. Without them its all just a color coordinated pi**ing contest.
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lol, well, let's just say I'm kind of a scavenger of info. I do have a healthy respect for Corbin and the players.
 
#95
#95
ASU won tonight 9-6, they are now 4-4 with three games left to play this weekend.
 
#96
#96
fryeguy93 said:
So. Carolina is playing their typical stay at home schedule.as always, Cocks don't leave the state until SEC (2nd week vs UK) Why a top tier team is scared to leave the state every season is beyond me.
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They've won 2 national titles, a few SEC's and SEC east titles and set the record for consecutive NCAA tournament wins and consecutive College World Series wins using that formula. Is it really that much of a mystery? Baseball makes money at South Carolina. Why would they send the team away from home & more gate receipts to earn respect & attention they already have?
 
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#100
#100
Kendall Rogers ‏@KendallRogersPG · 52m
#gators are in trouble, IMO. @d1baseball: Illinois defeats Florida 5-1 at Florida Tournament; Florida 1-3, Illinois 4-0 at tourney
 
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