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    Final Regular Season D1 Baseball Poll - Heels Remain #2

    Based on the D-1 Ranking, I believe that Nos. 1 through 5 are likely locked for the Top 8 Seeds, though surely not in the order currently ranked by D-1. #6 Auburn, however, needs to recover its momentum in the SEC Tournament. And, if I were sitting at #8, like Southern Miss, I would be...
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    Tease!

    Bump again.
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    Eight Diamond Heels Take Home All-ACC Honors

    Because the ACC likes to "spread the wealth." The conference does not want anyone to be "butt hurt." However, between FSU and Carolina, it believes that the 'Noles are far more likely to complain about their aching rear ends than are the Tar Heels. If individuals have to sacrifice for the...
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    God, I love small ball

    Sorry, but you have changed the stated objective. I said that it should be to "get ahead and to stay ahead." That means, if you're playing away, and it's a scoreless game in the top of the 4th, and your first batter reaches, unless he's a tank or a hopeless base runner, you play small ball...
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    God, I love small ball

    Or, maybe, to beat a team like Carolina with pitching perceived to be much better than my own.
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    God, I love small ball

    The league in which the manager decides, rather than moving a runner, and playing for one run, just one more trip through the batting order will yield that 3-run homer to clinch the game because, "statistically," that's the right way to play it. In other words, the magical thinking league, in...
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    D1 Baseball Field of 64 - Carolina #5 national Seed

    I don't actually care "which league is the toughest." That is probably because I have borne witness to one league relentlessly telling me it is the best--regardless of whether it is, or not. Check out 2006 as an example. I do care which teams, in any given league, are the best. In the SEC...
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    God, I love small ball

    Earl Weaver's approach may control the thinking at the MLB level. But it seems to me that college baseball is different. The objective should be to get ahead and to stay ahead by any and all means necessary The first sentence in the last paragraph in your post is THE key to winning college...
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    D1 Baseball Field of 64 - Carolina #5 national Seed

    The "toughest league in the country." That, sir, is conditioning. How otherwise would you "know," since you admit that you don't watch it?
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    D1 Baseball Field of 64 - Carolina #5 national Seed

    You agree with me--personally--that the Heels should be third. But, nevertheless, feel compelled to insist that "Georgia, Auburn and Texas are also right there." Have you been following those teams specifically? I confess that I have not, having watched UGa and Texas only once each this...
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    God, I love small ball

    Today, each time we moved a runner or runners over, you could see the physical, human toll on the Pitt pitcher at the time. His repertoire in pitching to succeeding hitters shriveled, as he concentrated on trying not to give up runs, instead of just getting outs. Not coincidentally, seeing...
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    D1 Baseball Field of 64 - Carolina #5 national Seed

    No. It's not. We beat GaT in a series. None of the rest of them has--in a game. And nobody of consequence (sorry OR) has beaten UCLA. Carolina, in a fair universe, should be no lower than third. SEC bias is the explanation. And we gave the slavish tools who relentlessly promote "It Just...
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    This Week w Coach Scott Forbes: Exam Week Challenges

    True. But you're better off reaching against good pitching than whiffing, inning after inning, while trying to barrel it up. Get the ball into play. Get a runner. Move the runner. Bunting is only a small part of that. Reaching, stealing and hitting the ball where it's pitched are more...
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    Baseball America top 400 draft prospects

    Cutting the pitch count--control--is THE key for Lynch. Like Jake Knapp, he needs to own the strike zone. Make them hit it or sit down.
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    Heels in the Polls - April 27 Week

    "Recently" is the period that I am describing. There are outliers, however. Bianco's Ole Miss teams and Gary Gilmore's Coastal Carolina squad are among them. Before "recently," at least back to 2003, when I started again to pay serious attention to college baseball, the preliminary match-ups...
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