#2 Seed at Hattiesburg
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This thread,.... another case of just throwing a live grenade in the room, and running off.
Let's wait until at least the end of the third SEC series to make regional projections. We've played two top five teams and were very competitive. Let's see how the team responds after coming home and regrouping.
For most teams with our talent level or similar, I think bullpen is probably the difference in the ceiling being “win it all” vs a ceiling of “can make it to a Super Regional or Omaha but not much more”.
Our offense and starting pitching will carry us to a lot of wins this year, I feel confident in that. But obviously as the year goes on we’ve gotta have some guys in the pen solidify some roles.
I don’t think anyone’s offended. It’s just a stupid thing to say. And Winfield is wrong. Just making a regional isn’t a good season. That should be the floor. A good season is hosting & winning a regional. We need to quit being scared to have expectations & standards. We’ve accepted “pretty good” and “mediocre ” far too easily for 40 years.
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We’ve also played 100% of our toughest games away from The Dude, too. It’s about to flip for us where most of our big upcoming series are at home. Have to imagine that only helps.
and Winfield is over our NIL program. Let that sink in. Mediocre expectations usually gets mediocre to less than mediocre results
Just for the record.... he doesnt have mediocre expectations. That's how you define it
I agree, Pat. State and its people need to have higher expectations. Sometimes you may fall short, but why accept pretty good and mediocre? I have never understood that mindset of accepting pretty good.
I'm curious because you've mentioned talent being an issue multiple times. Where do you think we're lacking talent? The lineup? The pitching staff as a whole? The bullpen? Our catching situation?
I'd argue we have talent every where right now, but especially the pen is a lot of unproven talent that will hopefully develop this season as it progresses. James has likely cost State two games being unable to block balls up. Hopefully Milewski(not sure I spelled that right) is 100% healthy soon so Raymond and him can handle the catching duties.
Our lineup can go toe to toe with anyone in the country. As well as our starting pitching.
If you're meaning the bullpen and catching, I think more people feel similarly to you.
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By that measure we’ve had only 8 good seasons in our entire history.
100% true.
USM lost 2 of 3 to Arkansas State. Oh well, USM ain't one seed now. They could've had Silva.
Here’s how the visiting SEC teams did for the weekend:
MSU lost 2 at ARK,
USCe lost all 3 at UF,
Tenn lost 2 at UGA,
Bama lost all 3 at UK,
Old Mess lost 2 at Texas,
A&M lost 2 at OK,
LSU lost 2 at Vandy and
Burn swept Mizzo at Mizzo.
(Mizzo is the weakest link in the SEC.
It’s hard to win 2 of 3 on the road in SEC.
MSU lost 2 at ARK,
USCe lost all 3 at UF,
Tenn lost 2 at UGA,
Bama lost all 3 at UK,
Old Mess lost 2 at Texas,
A&M lost 2 at OK,
LSU lost 2 at Vandy and
Burn swept Mizzo at Mizzo.
(Mizzo is the weakest link in the SEC.
It’s hard to win 2 of 3 on the road in SEC.
And as many mistakes as we made, we still won one easily, lost one easily and lost one in a walk off. In other words, it was a very slim margin between winning one and winning two.
We're still very good with things to work on, as those of us with eyes and good sense thought going into the weekend.
It's very early, I am betting we will have success this season. Year one with new staff isn't always a cake walk like some want to believe. No doubt our relievers have to step up. The last game Saturday wasn't all on relievers fault, Ace booted the ball in bottom 8th pretty much open the flood gate. Should have gotten out of inning down by one run not four!
Its crazy how quiet this board gets sometimes. Where are all the attacks on this opinion today ??
It's crazy that we feel differently after losing 6 straight SEC games than we did when we were playing well enough to win the next 6 SEC games we played after this post was originally made??
It's not crazy at all. It's exactly the reaction you'd expect unless you're just getting your jollies taunting people.
Losing is bad enough without Richards trying to score SPS troll cred points.
It sounds like the troll was correct and everybody losing their minds were wrong. He called it. Unfortunately.
Even a broken troll is correct twice a year.
Funny how the “trolls” are just posters with opinions that age well. I guess the qualification for troll is to just be right.
Counterpoint….. this hasn’t actually aged well because USM has been sucking lately too.
(We’ve obviously got issues, though, and I was wrong to speak with supreme confidence on this group that hasn’t fully earned it still).
(We’ve obviously got issues, though, and I was wrong to speak with supreme confidence on this group that hasn’t fully earned it still).