Diamond Heels Strive To Be Super - Inside The Lines
Grace Nugent, Tommy Ashley, and Just Baseball's Monty Taylor talk Chapel Hill Super Regional as Carolina hosts USC this weekend.
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Diamond Heels Strive To Be Super - Inside The Lines
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Based on their viewpoints, we have no chance. Lol.
I love Grace and Tommy, but that was kind of a depressing video! It sounds like we shouldn’t even bother showing up. How on earth was USC not ranked at the end of the year? I really wanted A&M.
I think everyone needs to step away and breathe. Let’s stop analyzing every pitch and AB from last weekend, analyze the entire season and make your points from there. Or, just wait until the first few innings are played Friday and go from there. They’re good, we’re good. There’s a reason you play the games.
As we have often heard, opponents are frequently formidable. If and when we beat them, however, there is little or no time to celebrate (or to get "the Big Head") because we have another waiting in the wings.
It is "a process." That is the eternal glory of baseball. Sustained effort, adjustment and endurance are required, against different teams and under different conditions.
Be at the Bosh if you possibly can. That is the only condition that you can control.
The point of the show is to share insight into the team and players coming into Boshamer....clearly Carolina can match up against anyone.
I've found with these type shows - across the sports and shows I do - if we say anything positive about the opponent, you see the "might as well pack it up and not show up" posts....happens every time.
I've also found - and this is key - if we short change an opponent, and they beat Carolina, folks are quick to run back and say 'well Tommy and so and so said it would be easy and they lied to or told us wrong and blew smoke up our rear ends'
USC is a good team with very good pitching. So is Carolina. And it's baseball. Anything can and probably will happen.
And Heelium's last line is on point.
I've found with these type shows - across the sports and shows I do - if we say anything positive about the opponent, you see the "might as well pack it up and not show up" posts....happens every time.
I've also found - and this is key - if we short change an opponent, and they beat Carolina, folks are quick to run back and say 'well Tommy and so and so said it would be easy and they lied to or told us wrong and blew smoke up our rear ends'
USC is a good team with very good pitching. So is Carolina. And it's baseball. Anything can and probably will happen.
And Heelium's last line is on point.
I definitely wasn’t trying to allude to yall being a certain type of way, just haven’t seen so much anxiety on this board BEFORE we play lol
Exceptional show guys. Gonna be another great series at the Bosch. Man, I am sure am gonna miss Grace when she’s gone!
Grace is great.
But the person you really want to see and hear is Tommy Ashley. He's the common factor.
And he's not window dressing.
But the person you really want to see and hear is Tommy Ashley. He's the common factor.
And he's not window dressing.
Grace is gone?
Excuse me please, one more drink. Could you make it strong 'cause I don't need to think....
That is frightening to watch &. listen to due the stats of the pitcher & USC’s offense that have run up a ton of runs the last few games.
That kid is awesome & as was said,”Great pitching beats good hitting”. We are going to face as tough a team right now as there is.
That kid is awesome & as was said,”Great pitching beats good hitting”. We are going to face as tough a team right now as there is.
People are acting like they thought we were going to get a path of like Lamar, Milwaukee, Cal Poly to get to the championship if we won the regional.
It's the postseason. Have to beat good teams to accomplish your goals. But I'd rather be us than them.
If you would’ve told this board 2 weeks ago that we’d get USC in the super people would’ve been elated. They were impressive last week, but they also dropped the first game to Texas State. Not to mention the fact that other than 3 innings, we cruised through what was supposed to be a really tough regional.
It’s a syndrome that has developed since about 2019. Rough stretches for the revenue sports which has led to an overall doomer mentality even though baseball has been an overall success in that time span and longer.
It’s also the annual period where the ledge jumpers visit the baseball board.
I’ve seen enough of this sport to know that you might look like hot stuff one weekend and dog chit the next.
I like us a lot in this one
It’s also the time of the year where a lot of fans that don’t follow the team all year join in. And those folks don’t understand how truly great we are.
This isn’t shade to the postseason fans. We’re happy to have all the support we can get (preferably with no dooming).