The Official #1 Tennessee vs #24 Alabama Weekend Series Thread (Friday 6:30PM EST SEC NET+) (Saturday 6PM EST SEC NET+) (Sunday 1PM EST SEC NET+)

[vol66]

Would have been yuck either way.

True.

 

[VolGee4]

I’m not going to lie. I don’t like this quote from Jared. Sounds like something the DeLucia kid from Ole Miss said and then proceeded to get curb stomped the next day. So, are we just admitting we weren’t mentally prepared for tonight? Alabama is ranked and is on an 8 game winning streak….

That quote is not even close to Delucia’s quote.

 

[Vtonerider]

You don’t even make sense at this point. Your boys on West End are batting .249 in SEC play and .232 in their only other P5 series; they’re not a good hitting team. Their stats are greatly inflated by their piss poor OOC schedule.

Uh, ok, well played, you win.

 

[BigALWiLson]

For all the doomsday people, I will say this: Mississippi State got double dipped in the SECT last year by a combined score of 25-3. Then they proceeded to win the NC. Baseball is a roller coaster of a sport and a single game or series in the middle of the season has no bearing on what the rest of the season will bring.

Agree we need our stuff together when tournament play starts. Win enough to host Super regionals. We have a very damn good baseball team and this team can win it all.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

I’m not going to lie. I don’t like this quote from Jared. Sounds like something the DeLucia kid from Ole Miss said and then proceeded to get curb stomped the next day. So, are we just admitting we weren’t mentally prepared for tonight? Alabama is ranked and is on an 8 game winning streak….

While it was fun to clown on Ole Miss, chalk it up more to emotion than anything. I doubt the boys weren’t ready for tonight, just mad at the loss.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

Lol…you do this in basketball too

Not sure what you mean, but last week, Missouri led in each game , Vols pulled it out but there is a chink in the armor, TN Tech beat them, now Bama doubled them up. Losing streaks tend to breed losing. I can tell the temperature in the room or on the field so to speak, sorry it deflates your bubble, long season for Vol baseball and the win streak was going to end, now the trick is to not allow the current losing streak stretch over a couple of weekends or weeks.

 

[Halph66]

To be fair, our bullpen has been great. Burns is the only one to have really struggled.

Burns is a phenomenal true freshman. I’ll give him a pass, for struggling a little in game 30 and 34 of a long season.
We do have a very strong pen as well.

 

[Incredible_duck]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

Yup. Save that quote after the series if you win it. Not now.

 

[2EastTnVols]

While it was fun to clown on Ole Miss, chalk it up more to emotion than anything. I doubt the boys weren’t ready for tonight, just mad at the loss.

I'm not sure these bulletin board quotes matter much in the outcome of games. We just need to hit the ball when we get folks on base. There was no way we were going to go undefeated in the league. Regroup and start a new winning streak tomorrow.

 

[SGMVols]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

Yeah, we don’t really have room to talk about opponent celebrations with some of the things we’ve done out there.

 

[Zvols]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

Bitter is good. Gotta feel the hurt and jealousy. Have to think this gets the team feeling right. The streak was not building the right morale. When the world is on your side, it’s hard to play out the Us vs World mantra.

 

[Volstylexx]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

Wonder if the team will join the Twitter space chat trending right now titled: "Friday night special!!! Alabama Baseball SPACE!!!" I guess we are their world series.

 

[BigALWiLson]

They just beat the best team in college baseball at home. They should celebrate. Regroup get your head right and win tomorrow and Sunday. That should be the focus and honestly I love this team but maybe they needed a real eye opener.

 

[AthensVol2007]

Uh, ok, well played, you win.

Yeah because you spout off about the stats with no stats. Nobody would agree that .249 in college is a good team batting average. They’re 54 pts lower in SEC play than their overall average, so again, WGAF, what they do against midweek teams in terms of boosting their overall average.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

I'm not sure these bulletin board quotes matter much in the outcome of games. We just need to hit the ball when we get folks on base. There was no way we were going to go undefeated in the league. Regroup and start a new winning streak tomorrow.

Yup. Not sure why people think we were going to win every single game all the way to the national championship. Tomorrow is a new day and a new game. A lot can change.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Yeah, we don’t really have room to talk about opponent celebrations with some of the things we’ve done out there.

Yeah, Drew Gilbert has talked about stomping on throats post game and we do our fair share of hot dogging lol. I like it, but if you’re going to do all that you can’t sound bitter when the other team beats you and does it themselves.

We better back up this talk the rest of the weekend.

 

[cobbwebb0710]

Very impressive post game interview from Will Mabrey.
GBO!!

 

[wmcovol]

We’re coming across kind of bitter, tbh.

They’re Bamers. Just shut them up tomorrow

 

[VolGee4]

Not sure what you mean, but last week, Missouri led in each game , Vols pulled it out but there is a chink in the armor, TN Tech beat them, now Bama doubled them up. Losing streaks tend to breed losing. I can tell the temperature in the room or on the field so to speak, sorry it deflates your bubble, long season for Vol baseball and the win streak was going to end, now the trick is to not allow the current losing streak stretch over a couple of weekends or weeks.

We are 31-3…quit being miserable. Move on. We will win many more games. I don’t have a bubble. I’m a realist. We are good at baseball.

 

[minorvol]

For all the doomsday people, I will say this: Mississippi State got double dipped in the SECT last year by a combined score of 25-3. Then they proceeded to win the NC. Baseball is a roller coaster of a sport and a single game or series in the middle of the season has no bearing on what the rest of the season will bring.

Well said. I just want to win every game. But I’ll settle for wins against bama, jawja and floriduh.

 

[VolGee4]

Yeah, Drew Gilbert has talked about stomping on throats post game and we do our fair share of hot dogging lol. I like it, but if you’re going to do all that you can’t sound bitter when the other team beats you and does it themselves.

We better back up this talk the rest of the weekend.

After TT, I believe it was Lipscomb who said, “they deserve to celebrate. We do when we win.” You guys got get over what some of these kids say.

 

[Sam I Am]

Just got back from the game. Not our finest outing, but we are due for a few of those. Still 12-1, we're fine.

The concern: Last two outings the pitch calls for Burns baffles us ex-pros/critics in the stands. That what's we were talking about all night long.
Anderson has gone to calling, in my/our opinion, way too many sliders. The fastball has become a secondary pitch for Burns. That is confounding.
The other concern is that his velo on the fastball seems to be a couple mph down. He is getting into 3-2 counts a bunch more than the first six outings, and I think it is due to the high slider count which he does not throw as accurately. Anyway, no biggie. It's baseball. Ebbs and flows.
Hitting was not what we are used to, BUT, we had a near grand slam caught at the wall and another 2 RBI liner caught by a diving right fielder. Those both fall in and its a WHOLE different game. But they didn't. Welcome to baseball. See ya tomorrow night.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Gotta think the 37 breaks that went against us tonight would at least partially correct itself tomorrow. Need better approach at the plate and to not leave 18 runners on base tomorrow.

 

[VolGee4]

Just got back from the game. Not our finest outing, but we are due for a few of those. Still 12-1, we're fine.

The concern: Last two outings the pitch calls for Burns baffles us ex-pros/critics in the stands. That what's we were talking about all night long.
Anderson has gone to calling, in my/our opinion, way too many sliders. The fastball has become a secondary pitch for Burns. That is confounding.
The other concern is that his velo on the fastball seems to be a couple mph down. He is getting into 3-2 counts a bunch more than the first six outings, and I think it is due to the high slider count which he does not throw as accurately. Anyway, no biggie. It's baseball. Ebbs and flows.
Hitting was not what we are used to, BUT, we had a near grand slam caught at the wall and another 2 RBI liner caught by a diving right fielder. Those both fall in and its a WHOLE different game. But they didn't. Welcome to baseball. See ya tomorrow night.

If we field a ball cleanly and Luc gets a HR called, it’s a different game too.