Baseball: Louisiana vs. McNeese State

[campo118]

So many of you seem to forget baseball is not basketball, football or any other sport. The Yankees could lose to Virginia, or Vanderbilt. Name me any other sport that a college team could play with a top notch pro team? The best team in college baseball can lose to a guy throwing 68 mph (ahemmm Jackson State)… Some of you need to calm down… It was a bitter cold night, and neither team wanted to be out there playing beyond the 9th inning. Lots of mistakes were made, lessons will be learned, and things will be cleaned up. Step off the ledge peeps...

[duggie85]

So many of you seem to forget baseball is not basketball, football or any other sport. The Yankees could lose to Virginia, or Vanderbilt. Name me any other sport that a college team could play with a top notch pro team? The best team in college baseball can lose to a guy throwing 68 mph (ahemmm Jackson State)… Some of you need to calm down… It was a bitter cold night, and neither team wanted to be out there playing beyond the 9th inning. Lots of mistakes were made, lessons will be learned, and things will be cleaned up. Step off the ledge peeps...

You're right ppl need to calm down, but your pro comparisons are ridiculous.

[Just1More]

No they are not competitive. When was the last time they even won the Southland conference? Go back and look at their record the past few years. They will be even worse this year.

Baseball can be competitive on any given night. Most teams are only a pitcher away from beating just about any other team. The biggest issues were self-inflicted... not McNeese-inflicted. My point wasn't to put McNeese on a pedastal (so I'm not researching them). It was only to say that when you play someone that has it out for you, and you make countless unforced errors... bad things happen. Even our best seasons have had bad games. And again... that gave Tony a lot of things for he, his staff, and every fielder and every batter to get serious about. Nothing from last year is blessing this team right now. But it is very easy to have a "bogey after the birdie". Tony needed something to get this team's attention. It's better to happen now than in the final stretch.

[Boomer]

Baseball can be competitive on any given night. Most teams are only a pitcher away from beating just about any other team. The biggest issues were self-inflicted... not McNeese-inflicted. My point wasn't to put McNeese on a pedastal (so I'm not researching them). It was only to say that when you play someone that has it out for you, and you make countless unforced errors... bad things happen. Even our best seasons have had bad games. And again... that gave Tony a lot of things for he, his staff, and every fielder and every batter to get serious about. Nothing from last year is blessing this team right now. But it is very easy to have a "bogey after the birdie". Tony needed something to get this team's attention. It's better to happen now than in the final stretch.

----Can somebody explain what happened on the safe squeeze when they were gonna intentionally put Trahan on and we got trapped in a rundown???

[CrazyCajun]

You go ahead and jump off that bandwagon anytime you want, champ.

Don't be so gullible, Yall really can't see through this clown? His name... His comments...and his buddy alum71.

[LifeTimeCajun]

We'll it wasn't a safety squeeze. It was a suicide. The catcher was standing up with his arm out to intentionally walk the batter. Pitcher throws the pitch, runner takes off from third. Dead duck. Bonehead play. Never should of happen.

[Ragin4U]

Don't be so gullible, Yall really can't see through this clown? His name... His comments...and his buddy alum71.

Trolls troll.

Its a mid-week game. You cannot go undefeated. Dont like losing but its not a season killer just like a win would not have been a season maker. The errors KILL me though!

[ulXrunner]

Other than it being McNeese I have no issue with game. We could pick at things but need more games to see if our negative play becomes bad habits. We win Bama series all will be forgotten.

[campo118]

Let me clear the air on the suicide squeeze… Suicide squeeze plays are designed as a timing thing. The coach pulls out the stop watch and calculates the time it takes for the pitcher to deliver from a set position. You run a suicide squeeze typically on a left handed pitcher, or any pitcher who has a long delivery to the plate. Throw in the fact that it's an intentional walk situation, which often time gets delivered even slower than a normal pitch, with a right handed batter at the plate, which means the intentional walk pitch will be delivered to the left handed batters box. All of these elements combined means that the squeeze call was not a bad idea, it was just not executed very well. Again, these things can be cleaned up, so let's not jump off the ledge folks...

[snote]

Can somebody explain what happened on the safe squeeze when they were gonna intentionally put Trahan on and we got trapped in a rundown???

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