Probably goes without saying, but this baseball team

[stateu1]

certainly isn't suited for tournament play, even if we do make it. We can hang 3 games with teams that can't hit, but no way we last multiple games against decent hitting teams.

 

[engie]

How many midweek scenarios you see in the postseason?**

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

What tournament? I'm not getting all caught up in beating two ****** SEC teams. Maybe I'm wrong and we'll keep reeling off wins, but I don't see how we'll win too many SEC series against quality hitting teams. I'm not trying to be a debbie downer, just being realistic. I'm amazed that we're able to do what we've been doing given the hand we've been dealt. I'm really impressed with our coach and the fight in our team, but that can only get your so far.

 

[engie]

We need to get to 14-16 in conference to almost assuredly make the tournament. That's 8-13 from here on out. Hardly an unattainable goal considering 6 of those games are against teams clearly worse than the two we have already swept.

 

[stateu1]

8-13 is attainable, but who's "clearly" worse than UT?

 

[8dog]

Its plumlee thats killed us. He is the reason pitching is tight this week. And he also got hit hard last night. So it really wasnt about depth as much as it may seem

 

[Bulldogg31]

8-13 is attainable, but who's "clearly" worse than UT?

If you believe RPI, then Bama (RPI of 156) and Georgia (125) are twice-to-three-times as bad as Tennessee (51) and Ole Miss (56).

 

[engie]

Georgia and Bama per RPI. "Clearly about as bad" might have been the better term.

There is 9 additional games against teams that are not clearly better than Ole Miss, so I can also swing it back that direction as well, in Auburn, LSU, and aTm -- 6 of which we play at home.

The only teams that seem to be clearly better than us on paper right now are Arkansas who we already played, Kentucky, and South Carolina. All of which we will be done with in 10 days and staring at nothing but very beatable teams from then on out.

We might need more than 14 wins because this is the worst overall year for SEC baseball that I recall there being. Very weak overall this year. Seems to be 3-4 good, 6-7 marginal, and 3-4 bad teams. No elite squads.

This midweek was an obvious trap series. Especially with how spent we were on the hill getting out of Oxford. If people didn't see the possibility of it coming, I really don't know what to tell them. That said, I was disappointed in our offensive effort yesterday. Just were not there mentally at the plate. Goal for this weekend should be to not get swept. If we manage to take 2 -- you can almost start making plans to head to ACC or Big12 country in June.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Georgia and Alabama's records are not great, and I like the looks of our remaining schedule.

 

[patdog]

I don't believe TN is as good as their RPI. RPI prob has Mississippi about right, maybe just a little bit low. Bama and UGA are bad.

 

[Dawgs'n'Grizz]

Goal for this weekend should be to not get swept. If we manage to take 2 -- you can almost start making plans to head to ACC or Big12 country in June.

You mean you don't see us hosting this year??

 

[engie]

It would take a miracle to host this year.

You can look back, I never saw this as a host team. But I might have been shortselling it prior to the majority of the arm injuries, given what we know now.

 

[MaroonNation]

Georgia baseball has 17k twitter followers lol. That is pathetic. State has 92k followers which isn't bad for a team who has never won a championship. LSU topped the list with like 212k, followed by SCe and Arky in the 100k's. OM and TAMU was in the 50ks which is crazy when you think of how big the Aggie fan base is. I guess yell leaders wearing tight white shorts and tight tee shirts tied in a knot "hooters style" just doesn't replace good old fashioned bat girls.

 

[maroonmania]

Cannizaro should probably get a raise and a bonus if he just gets this walking wounded team into a regional somewhere. Never seen anything like it, apparently we lost Ashcraft last night with another pitching injury. Our pitching staff has a voodoo curse on them or something.

 

[stateu1]

Maybe once the Cabanas were built, the Injuns moved to the Dude.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

One day you guys will believe my Indian Burial Ground Theory

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

4-2 against UGA and Bama and you just have to get one game in each of the other series. You're right, it is very attainable, but our pitching just keeps me from bein too excited. Are we better than several of those teams? Yeah, but our lack of quality bats behind the starters and our decimated pitching staff doesn't have me excited as we get deeper into the schedule.