Interesting Lineup today

[57stratdawg]

1) Heck - SS
2) Gridley - 2B
3) Humphrey - LF
4) Rooker - DH
5) Robson - CF
6) Spruill - 3B
7) Holland - 1B
8) Lovelady - C
9) Vickerson - RF

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I gave up trying to figure him out long ago

 

[msstate7]

Britton still hasn't started.

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Holland at 1B?!?! Is this for real?

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

why are you freaking out over it?

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Just seems a little perplexing. Maybe he's the backup and just want to give him some work. Just looks much more like a middle infielder to me.

 

[rugbdawg]

Cincy is horrible.

Might as well play around to give them a chance.

1) Heck - SS
2) Gridley - 2B
3) Humphrey - LF
4) Rooker - DH
5) Robson - CF
6) Spruill - 3B
7) Holland - 1B
8) Lovelady - C
9) Vickerson - RF

 

[KurtRambis4]

Fire cohens11!!!!!

*

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

nobody wants to fire Cohen. We just always seem to lose games early on to low RPI teams because we go farting around. And it can cost us a host site. This move isn't an exercise in finding the right lineup because we all know Wes Rea is our first baseman.

 

[msstate7]

nobody wants to fire Cohen. We just always seem to lose games early on to low RPI teams because we go farting around. And it can cost us a host site. This move isn't an exercise in finding the right lineup because we all know Wes Rea is our first baseman.

Rea got beaned 2 times yesterday. He's probably just sore

 

[KurtRambis4]

Where is Holland

deficient in his skills to not be able to play 1B?

So Wes should play every single game, every single inning, at 1B?

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

In thread O/U:

Will we see more starting lineups in February than uniform combinations?

 

[KurtRambis4]

Waddell now at first11!!1?? WtF is cohenZ

doinG?!??1 A pitcher?11!

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

5'11", 185 lbs. It's just not at all protypical size for an SEC first baseman. But there may be some logic. Holland may be our 2nd best option at 1B this season and we need to get him some work there in the event that Rea goes down. Looks like we are on cruise control today though, so no harm no foul.

 

[KurtRambis4]

So we should put

Zac Houston in, instead?

 

[msstate7]

Civildawg on ED posted this...

A friend just told me he (rea) had to have emergency surgery because of the spot he got hit yesterday. Haven't seen anyone mention it

Anyone know anything?

 

[512taylor]

nobody wants to fire Cohen. We just always seem to lose games early on to low RPI teams because we go farting around. And it can cost us a host site. This move isn't an exercise in finding the right lineup because we all know Wes Rea is our first baseman.

Suppose Rea gets hurt this season.
Don't you want someone ready step in?

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

I do. I just somewhat prefer we give him that experience when we're up by a few runs or in sure fire wins. It all worked out fine today though. I will concede that Cohen might have known how bad Cincinnati is, and that we had no risk of losing the game by experimenting. I'm just still scarred by how losing the series to Holy Cross cost us infinitely last year.

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Well that wouldn't be logical. Just because all SEC starting quarterbacks are > 5'10" doesn't imply that all people > 5'10" should be SEC quarterbacks.

 

[KurtRambis4]

You're making my argument for me

Just let Cohen worry about the lineup.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Two other sites ...

Rea got beaned 2 times yesterday. He's probably just sore

Reporting that Rea had emergency surgery yesterday on knee that was beaned.

Probably 'why' he didn't start at first.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Surely it was just bursitis. Swelled quickly so they drained. If he was beaned in the knee.

 

[KurtRambis4]

We lost to ULL

last year because they were a better team. Not because of where we played them.

 

[Shmuley]

Oh no, not Rusty!

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

If we were a host site, we wouldn't have been playing ULL.

 

[engie]

nobody wants to fire Cohen. We just always seem to lose games early on to low RPI teams because we go farting around. And it can cost us a host site. This move isn't an exercise in finding the right lineup because we all know Wes Rea is our first baseman.

Two full years ago, we went 21-0 against sub-50 RPI teams...

 

[engie]

If we were a host site, we wouldn't have been playing ULL.

If we had been good enough to be a host site last year, we would have been a host site. We lost 10 games last year worse than our worst loss of 2013. Surely you aren't implying that lineup tinkering is what lost us those games? We were not "one or two wins" away from hosting last year. Weren't even on the hosting bubble.

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

We were clearly one of the best 8 baseball teams in America that year. We were plenty good enough to fiddle around with lineups.

 

[dawgstudent]

His dad posted on facebook saying he had surgery.

"Wes is out of surgery and in recovery. Has some feeling and movement back in foot already. Will keep y'all posted. Many thanks to Dr. Rusty Linton. Left church for emergency procedure as pressure was building and muscle was not getting blood. Compartment syndrome is what it is called. Mississippi State is very fortunate to have this kind of responsive and compassionate doctors taking care of their athletes. Hail state and thank you all for the uplifting prayers"

 

[KurtRambis4]

Dude, we were

not a good enough team last year. Just cut your losses and say "look I didn't know what I was talking about. Never mind me questioning Cohen," and leave it at that. Cohen's lineup changes didn't cost us being in the CWS. Our team cost us being in the CWS.