Cajun Baseball Talk

[ManAboutTown]

_ the bottom line is that we are a struggling team that ran into a real bad UALR baseball team that cant figure things out. However, we needed this, but we cant think for one minuite that we are good cause we played a bad baseball team. this week it did seem like we were a totally different team with Goulas back in the lineup. the real test will begin during the midweek when we put Matt Broussard back out there to see if he can get it done again, this time against better compitition. Hopefully we can carry some momementum from this weekend into the week. I hope that les smith tweeks something in his stance or swing again this week...he was prettty unconsious this weekend! _

The results speak for themselves, but the most impressive improvement this weekend was the approach at the plate. UALR's Friday and Saturday starters are solid pitchers.. Having said that, their defense choked the life out of them all weekend. Having Goulas in the lineup gave us a ton of flexibility, and he was the proverbial "spark" that everyone was referring to. Fontenot was in a mini-slump and he burst back onto the scene as well. You could also see what our pitching stuff is capable of when they are not under constant pressure to keep us in the game. I will say that we are still striking out too much, and Scott Hawkins is missing everything right now, we're still making ridiculous errors, Thad is a sucker for anything that breaks; its feast or famine with him. We'll see what we're made of in Miami this weekend, but there was a vast improvement on all areas in this series.

[LifeTimeCajun]

i agree with what you have said...just hope that we can do it against a better ball club Pitching looked good...you are right. A Lil concerned about lil Robe. Hes been hit a little harder than last year. i am sure he will be fine, i just dont look as dominate as last yr? Thad is becoming a great catch and throw catcher.

[ManAboutTown]

_ i agree with what you have said...just hope that we can do it against a better ball club Pitching looked good...you are right. A Lil concerned about lil Robe. Hes been hit a little harder than last year. i am sure he will be fine, i just dont look as dominate as last yr? Thad is becoming a great catch and throw catcher. _

Thad is the best defensive catcher we've had since Danny Mazziatte. I don't recall one instance where he failed to throw a runner out at second.

Robe had been bothered all year with that Tendonitis. I think once that clears up, and he gets some work, he'll be fine.

[GoneGolfin]

_ the bottom line is that we are a struggling team that ran into a real bad UALR baseball team that cant figure things out.

While UALR may be the most horrid defense club I have ever seen at the Div. I level, they can hit the ball. Their bullpen is also the worst in the Sun Belt. But how many other teams have swept a three game series from UALR this year? The answer is none. The Trojans actually went on the road to take 2/3 from an FAU team that swept two games from us at Moore Field. Some may try to equate UALR with Texas Southern ... but that is extreme exaggeration. Texas Southern is not in Arkansas-Little Rock's league ... they are in Arkansas-Pine Bluff's league.

Sometimes what a young team needs is some success ... any success. And whenever you get a conference sweep against a team that was .500 in conference play entering the weekend, that is success.

Brian

[LifeTimeCajun]

Brian,
Im with you on the sweep. That team in maroon this weekend played some bad baseball though. But credit to our young guys, they took advantage of just about every mistake they made, and hopefully this weekend gives us a little bit on confidence. that can go a long way

[LifeTimeCajun]

_ While UALR may be the most horrid defense club I have ever seen at the Div. I level, they can hit the ball. Their bullpen is also the worst in the Sun Belt. But how many other teams have swept a three game series from UALR this year? The answer is none. The Trojans actually went on the road to take 2/3 from an FAU team that swept two games from us at Moore Field. Some may try to equate UALR with Texas Southern ... but that is extreme exaggeration. Texas Southern is not in Arkansas-Little Rock's league ... they are in Arkansas-Pine Bluff's league.

Sometimes what a young team needs is some success ... any success. And whenever you get a conference sweep against a team that was .500 in conference play entering the weekend, that is success.

Brian _

brian,
did anyone have a weekend comparable to les smith this weekend in the sunbelt?

[Frenchie35]

_ I hope that les smith tweeks something in his stance or swing again this week...he was prettty unconsious this weekend! _

Anthony and Trahan worked with him. They had him keep his left foot on the ground when the pitcher makes his delivery. He kept picking up his foot when the pitcher released the ball. I guess it worked because he is hot at the plate. should be conference MVP this week.

[cajunbaseball1]

Well I still have a hard time believing they could win the SWAC, but atleast we agree this was a very successful week for the Cajuns!

In addition to the worst fielding and pitching team in the nation that was maybe the worst coaching staff in the nation. What a display of character they showed trying to embarrass player after player on the field. If a head coach or pitching coach did to me what they did to their whole infield at times somebody may have been decked.

_ While UALR may be the most horrid defense club I have ever seen at the Div. I level, they can hit the ball. Their bullpen is also the worst in the Sun Belt. But how many other teams have swept a three game series from UALR this year? The answer is none. The Trojans actually went on the road to take 2/3 from an FAU team that swept two games from us at Moore Field. Some may try to equate UALR with Texas Southern ... but that is extreme exaggeration. Texas Southern is not in Arkansas-Little Rock's league ... they are in Arkansas-Pine Bluff's league.

Sometimes what a young team needs is some success ... any success. And whenever you get a conference sweep against a team that was .500 in conference play entering the weekend, that is success.

Brian _

[ManAboutTown]

_ Well I still have a hard time believing they could win the SWAC, but atleast we agree this was a very successful week for the Cajuns!

In addition to the worst fielding and pitching team in the nation that was maybe the worst coaching staff in the nation. What a display of character they showed trying to embarrass player after player on the field. If a head coach or pitching coach did to me what they did to their whole infield at times somebody may have been decked. _

that was classless and uncalled for.
the team obviously didn't respond to any of that.

[raginsaints]

what exactly did their coach do? i saw him chew out a pitcher in one mound visit. then another one i was talking to a friend of mine and then heard the whole crowd booing, anyone wanna fill me in?

[Dad04]

_ We're at FIU this weekend. And thats the team that scares me, not Troy or WKU. _

My bad. FIU is pitching very well. Middle TN is apparently doing everything well.

[LSUTiger4RaginCajuns]

_ what exactly did their coach do? i saw him chew out a pitcher in one mound visit. then another one i was talking to a friend of mine and then heard the whole crowd booing, anyone wanna fill me in? _

Yeah, someone fill me in too. I did see the fool chew out the first pitcher on the mound. I have never seen that before. He deserved all the booing just for that performance alone.

But like you I heard the crowd in the first base stands give a coach the what for but I wasn't sure that was the same coach who acted like a child a couple of innings before.