DH Game Thread vs USA

[zeppelincajun]

Ha. Glad you saw some semblance of humor there. It’s difficult to convey via text.

And it wasn’t in response to one simple fact, as I’m sure you know.

On a serious note, who, on the schedule, do you think the Cajuns need to win a series against (and not sweep) for the doubters to give them some credit? Or with ODU and the Georgia teams not on the regular season schedule, is there not one?

IMO this has less to do with "doubters" and more to do with discussing the whole picture. If we are going to examine how we statistically stack up against our conference mates (a totally valid discussion), I think it's important to keep in mind that the level of competition (to this point of the season) has not necessarily been equal. Our performances against some lackluster competition, IMO, has left some things to be desired. We had to gut out a series win against High Point. The narrative leaving that series was the Panthers were just better than we gave them credit for. They are currently sitting at 7-16 (1-5 in the Big South). We had to slug our way around 18+ innings of truly awful pitching this weekend against a very down USA team. Credit where it's due. We did that. This absolutely would've been an 0-3 weekend with the 2017-2021 offenses.

There are plenty of quality clubs left on the schedule that we would do well to take the series against. Playing as we have to this point, I'm not sure it will happen against the CCUs and USMs. We walk three guys in an inning against Coastal, and they may hang a 10 spot on us.

On a positive note: our strength of schedule is 12 out of 14 in the SBC...at 132. JMU and ASU are at 226 and 243 respectively. I take that to mean the vast majority of our league (including us) is committed to making this conference a contender on the national level.

[lafman1]

Well that didn’t take long.

[Dad04]

Thank you JD. Exactly what I was getting at before the charmins started with the personal bs.

Imperfection is baked into the college game. Baseball is hard.

[ManAboutTown]

Yea you can tout early season meaningless SOS numbers all you want. What I’m referring to is the eye test and I’ve been following Cajuns Baseball for longer than you’ve been alive. This team is the best we’ve had in 7+ years in overall attack. Our pitching staff is talented, they will settle in. I’m just not a sky-falling guy. But whatever, you do you.

Oof... There are some beauties in this discussion. The replies to me saying the obvious back then have aged well...

[MWolf]

That is not a controversial take. I think another problem is we read the game threads. There are many posts of "WE LOST TO HIGH POINT WE SUCK." "WE LOST TO MCNEESE WE SUCK." "WE LOST TO SOUTH AL AND BLEW A LEAD WE SUCK." Saying we have plenty of room to improve is not controversial. I get defensive when people say we suck. We don't. We have plenty of room to improve, and must improve to have success in the post season. Sometimes it's hard to separate in-the-moment reactions from general views of the team. Not just yours but everyone's.

We got swept by JMU we suck