To be objective, I think this team has a chance to finish the season with the worst SEC record in modern team history.

13-17 is the worst since CPM's first season (12-17-1).

You have to look back before Skip to find a conference % worse than that.

Now, we all said that in 2024, too, so that's why you play the games.

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re: LSU 7 @ Ole Miss 8 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/12/26 at 2:29 pm to MorbidTheClown

This feels like it could be abused by runners if they know they will be out on a potential DP - just run back to first base and claim ignorance.

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re: LSU 3 @ Ole Miss 6 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/10/26 at 9:57 pm to LSUgrad88

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Again, he did not make a defensive sub at 2nd. Dardar never left the game. He pinch ran for Pearson and brought in Clauss.

I mean, the point is the same - as bad as people complain the infield is, anytime one of the backups come in, they seem to do even worse (except at 1B).

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re: LSU 3 @ Ole Miss 6 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/10/26 at 9:40 pm to MrKnowItAll

It feels like every game that Jay has made a defensive sub at 2nd, that sub has made a costly error.

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re: Bethune-Cook 10 @ LSU 7 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/7/26 at 10:38 pm to vidtiger23

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If you’re saying we need to go 16-14 in the SEC I’ll have to very much disagree.

People underestimate how much movement these SEC series can do for RPI.

Ole Miss is 5-7, people are saying they are a garbage team on here, but they have an RPI of 10.

We follow that with 18 aTm, then 16 MSU, 97 South Carolina, 23 UGA, and 7 Florida.

That's 15 Quad 1 games.

Kentucky made it in the NCAAT last year at 13-17 and an RPI of 36.

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re: Bethune-Cook 10 @ LSU 7 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/7/26 at 9:56 pm to TigerMonkey7

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5 ERA turns into cy young when he faces LSU. Go figure

In his defense, I think in 14 pitches, 3 of them may have been actual strikes.

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re: SEC Baseball Standings / Stats 4/6/26 Week 4

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/6/26 at 10:33 am to VeryReauxna_ish

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Fielding is the problem. The offense is scoring runs and the pitching is coming around. They can’t keep giving teams unearned runs. The pitching only gave up 8 earned runs all weekend in that tiny ball park but they scored 7 more unearned.

It's walks too.

LSU is top 5 in BA against, and 3rd most Ks, but also 3rd most walks.

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re: LSU 16 @ Tennessee 6 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/5/26 at 1:47 pm to tigeramongpigs

Yeskie continues to deliver, I'll give him that.

Through 2.5 games of this series, his pitchers have given up 7 earned runs (though anyone watching wouldn't give LSU a 2nd earned run yesterday).

Johnson's weak spot at Arizona was fielding, and it's really being highlighted this year.

LSU is .964 and 218th in the country in fielding % (before adding the 3 errors so far today).

.967 in 2021
.962 in 2019
.975 in 2018
.968 in 2017

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re: Tigers Hitters SEC games only stats

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/5/26 at 11:06 am to josh336

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Who’s really great? Georgia & Texas seem to be the best so far. State just got swept at home.

We play geogia on the road, and miss st with mcpherson back is easily a top 3 sec team, would also be a road series

The SEC is really tearing itself up. If LSU can win the series today, at 6-6, we'd be in a tie for either 7th or 8th place, and one game out of a tie for 4th.

Mizzou and USC are the only two bad SEC teams (and LSU unfortunately doesn't get Mizzou).

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re: Never understood why college players refuse to catch fly balls with 2 hands

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/4/26 at 2:17 pm to slackster

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This is akin to bitching about catchers being on a knee and the infield shift.

Casual takes - all of them.

This is Al Bundy level stuff.

"I played Little League baseball and was taught that you need to score at least 1 run to win a baseball game."

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re: LSU 7 @ Tennessee 5 Final - SECN

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/3/26 at 6:41 pm to misey94

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Whelp. Getting out of that shite only giving up 1 seems like a mini win.

LSU getting out hit 7-3 and Tennessee has left 7 on the bases. Yeah, a 3-run deficit is pretty good all things considered.

And Mack just came out. Running out of time.

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re: LSU 7 @ Tennessee 5 Final - SECN

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/3/26 at 6:37 pm to trussthetruzz

Tennessee hasn't hit the ball past the baseline this inning.

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re: On whether Jay Johnson would take a MLB job if offered.....

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 4/2/26 at 10:53 am to Henry Jones Jr

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could see the MLB (at the time) turning their noses up at college coaches. I think it’s a reason Polk at State never got a look

Vitello jumping straight to MLB is an anomaly, and that is probably understating it.

I believe he's the first ever MLB manager to not have even assisted in the MiLB or MLB. That's probably because the name is right. You are much less of a coach in that position and a true manager.

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re: So we won a series at home against a mediorcre Kentucky team

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/29/26 at 6:19 pm to BrianKellysbuyout

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We won a series. We're 4-5 in the SEC. That's where we are right now.

#4 Arkansas is also right here now. The SEC is tough.

We are two blown saves vs Vandy and OU late from being 6-3 and everyone being cautiously optimistic on this team.

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re: Kentucky 10 @ LSU 17 Final

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/29/26 at 4:18 pm to BigTigerJoe

That's not even close to a strike on Yorke.

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re: UK score 3 with 2 outs. Pitcher throwing 98.

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/29/26 at 2:42 pm to Tiger Ryno

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Should stanfield be standing on the warning track next to the foul pole?

It's really amazing Jay Johnson has a job as a HC of a major university like LSU. He's clearly in over his head.

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re: I don’t think it’s right for the admin to be treating MM like this

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/25/26 at 5:01 pm to thunderbird1100

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They are trying to not get caught with their pants down if Wade backs out last second and we already fired McMahon and are left scrambling to find a coach they have not been in any contact with for weeks/months. They absolutely plan on keeping McMahon if Wade falls through, full stop, they are trying to make sure that doesnt happen by making Wade not be able to say no.

This is just silly.

He hasn't won enough games to keep his job. Why let him keep it another year if Wade falls through? It leads to two options: he continues to lose games and is fired in 2027 or maybe he has a slight upturn in success. In the latter situation, do you extend him?

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re: BOTH NC State insider boards' staff writers are reporting Wade to LSU is in motion

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/25/26 at 12:00 am to Olric

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Disagree. I think it suggests lsu has the resources to win despite the coach but with the right coach it can be done consistently.

See PM vs JJ

I continue to argue it is the right person at the right place and at the right time.

I don't think JJ could do what PM did in that era, frankly. His success has been based on building a team like this year, or 2024, finding the flaws, flushing them, and replacing them.

But he's the perfect coach for the NIL/portal era for LSU. Meanwhile, the opposite is true. PM just cannot succeed in this era, but pulled LSU out of the Smoke basement successfully.

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re: BOTH NC State insider boards' staff writers are reporting Wade to LSU is in motion

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/24/26 at 11:53 pm to Olric

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As did their successors

Then they both went on to be fired from their subsequent lesser jobs

This suggests that the only reason any coach succeeds is because of LSU.

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re: LSU WBB vs TT Raiders - 101-47 Final - LSU sets record for most 100 pt games in a season

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/22/26 at 2:33 pm to Jim bean xxx

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Is it just me- seems like we have dominated this game but only up 5

TT's offense has almost solely been jacking up low % threes, and they just made a couple of them (and got a couple of weak shooting fouls).

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re: That was a sweepable series.

Posted by OvertheDwayneBowe on 3/21/26 at 11:51 pm to WAC13

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Man, we started SEC play 3-12 in ‘24 and were one break away from hosting a Super. Not saying the same thing will happen but JJ’s teams typically get better as the season goes on.

We’ll be alright

I think people need to start realizing how narrow the line is between a championship-level team and a team that misses the NCAAT or barely makes it in.

LSU went 19-11 last year and hosted a SR.
Last year, the bar was lowered for SEC teams and a 13-17 made it in (UK)

LSU won 7 SEC games by 1 or 2 runs. You could probably find a single moment in each of those games and say LSU was 7 plays away from not making the NCAAT last year.

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