Up to #5 in Baseball America

[57stratdawg]

Not bad. We should be 5-10 on everything today.

 

[coach66]

Let's take care of business from here on out. We have got to score and score

Often on Sunday's and midweek. Reminds me of 1985 team, can't remember the pitchers name but he had a terrible era but went damn near undefeated as the Sunday pitcher on that team. We have a ways to go.

 

[57stratdawg]

We gotta have a couple upperclassmen P step up. D Brown, Houston, Tatum, etc.

 

[patdog]

Wow. Sure didn't expect to move up after the week we had. Especially not anywhere near that far.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

That seems unrealistically high to me.

Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but even with one of the best aces in the country and a very good Saturday starter, our pitching isn't deep enough to keep from falling apart on Sundays, and midweek is a gamble. And we have about as many losses as anyone in the top 25, much less the top 5.

 

[Shmuley]

Unexpectedly good news. Time for another female to get manpunched.

 

[8dog]

I think baseball america has gone a little senile. They had us hosting last week with an rpi around 30. And didnt have s carolina hosting.

Sc, florida, and tamu look like strong host contenders even this early. Not a lot of room for error for us.

 

[thekimmer]

Now you've got me racking my brain....

Often on Sunday's and midweek. Reminds me of 1985 team, can't remember the pitchers name but he had a terrible era but went damn near undefeated as the Sunday pitcher on that team. We have a ways to go.

Brantley, Thigpen and Morgan got so much pub the rest of the 85 pitching staff tends get overshadowed. Was the third starter Intorcia? I also remember Will McRaney being on that team but I don't think he played much on weekends until the next year. Remember those were the days of 7 inning double headers on Saturday so really didn't have to use the pen that much aside from Thigpen coming in out of RF. Whomever the 3rd starter was he must have pitched in our second CWS game vs Arky because we all remember so well Morgan pitching in the 3rd game vs Texas.

 

[DerHntr]

Unexpectedly good news. Time for another female to get manpunched.

But when I saw the video I actually expected it to be worse.**

 

[patdog]

#3 starter was Steve King. McRaney was a relief pitcher on that team.

In the CWS, Morgan shut down Okie St. in game 1, Brantley won game 2, then Morgan was pitching well against Texas in game 3 before he got hit on the leg with the line drive. Polk left him in for an inning or two and he gave up a bunch of bloop hits, then Polk put King in the game. Not sure who pitched game 4, then Brantley went in game 5. Polk had overpitched Brantley so much during the season that he was pitching on fumes the whole CWS.

 

[coach66]

Was it Mundie or something like that, may not have been 1985 but another very

Good hitting squad.

 

[hatfieldms]

That video was actually good for us

****

 

[57stratdawg]

Yeah. The race is likely for the #4 and #5 hosts spots in the conference. MSU, Vandy, OM, Bama, and LSU look to be the front runners.

OM is in Starkville & LSU is at Auburn. A lot of pressure on those two clubs this weekend to at least hold serve.

 

[patdog]

I think Mundie was 81 or so.

 

[MSUDC11]

I personally think we should be in the 11-14 range. We're good, but I'm not sure just yet if we are Top 10 good.

The Vandy series win was outstanding. Beating Oregon and Georgia at home was necessary, but not really an incredible accomplishment. Sunday pitching still scares me, and you can't expect to us to go undefeated on Friday and Saturday the rest of the year.

This is a big week for us. Should be a great indicator of just how legit we are. USM on par with Georgia, if not better, and Ole Miss still scares me a lot.

Have to win at least two of those four games. But winning more than that is doable and would indicate that we're probably no fluke.

 

[Digging dog]

Sins are forgiven in Haiti ****

 

[121Josey]

That's a joke. What has State done outside of Hudson and Sexton?

 

[coach66]

Yep, he usually got shelled but rarely lost.

Nm

 

[8dog]

Whats overlooked is that we got a good stretch of mid relief sunday from brown but the coaches pushed him. Then houston came in and basically got bled to death. Breaux had a nice stretch too. SO it wasnt totally awful. But thats about as bad a lineup as we will face in Conf

We are the team you dont want to see postseason. We probably arent build for a month long run but we can light someone up on a given weekend.

 

[rugbdawg]

Both Oregon and Georgia most likely won't be .500 clubs at the end of the year.

Vandy is our best and only good series win so far.

 

[KurtRambis4]

You're right, BA

is a joke. #5 is ridiculous, and anyone that things that is equally ridiculous.

I'd say D1 has it about right, at 11.

As far as SEC Power Rankings and chasing a regional spot go, I would say we are still there.

I have it as the following:

1. USC
2. UF
3. A&M
4. MSU
5. VU
6. UK/AL

 

[Curby]

Whats overlooked is that we got a good stretch of mid relief sunday from brown but the coaches pushed him. Then houston came in and basically got bled to death. Breaux had a nice stretch too. SO it wasnt totally awful. But thats about as bad a lineup as we will face in Conf

We are the team you dont want to see postseason. We probably arent build for a month long run but we can light someone up on a given weekend.

Brown is feast or famine. Walks Walks Walks....mixed in with impressive Strikeouts. He is not the answer as a reliever coming in with men in scoring position....and if he's a starter, we better damn well be scoring a lot of runs...or pull him out after the first couple of walks.