re: Baseball America Preseason Rankings

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exactly. the way engie posts about MSU, you would think they are some national powerhouse contending for the NC

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That's what we are -- and have been in baseball fairly consistently over the years. It's what we will be going forward. You'll see that clearly soon enough.

Hilarious, we go through a bad decade by our standards under an over-the-hill coach that got to stay 10 years too long, and all you dumbasses suddenly think we are irrelevant to the sport we played a HUGE role in building?

That's right, WE built college baseball. The palaces you see around the SEC are the product of what MSU has done since the 1970s. That's right -- I said it. And I'm DAMN proud of it. Ask college baseball experts where the modern era of the SEC -- and thus the sport -- began and see what they tell you.

MSU has (today) the 6th nicest baseball stadium in the SEC. It was built in 1985.

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Then he should be thanking us for giving him the blueprint to success. Without Ron Polk coming first and MSU becoming the first profitable baseball program, Skip Bertman never happens.

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Everyone appreciates what your homosexual coach did for the sport

MSU BASEBALL: We were good til other schools decided to give a shite

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MSU BASEBALL: We were good til other schools decided to give a shite

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How old were your parents the last time OM saw Omaha?

Keep telling yourself this. Going to make this year even more enjoyable for the rest of us when Cohen takes his ?12th of 13? career series from Bianco.

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That's right, WE built college baseball.

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Um...Texas would probably argue with you on that one.

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Where are the Ags?

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This could be a very ugly year for us. Rob Childress is our head coach and our pitching coach. He has basically nothing to do with our offense, which is handled by Andy Sawyers. Before him, Matt Deggs handled the offense.

Under both Deggs and Sawyers, we are a small ball, station to station offense and loaded with speed but no power. When it works, it's a blast to watch. Our bats went cold in mid-April last season and never really recovered. By the end of the season, we had six cold bats in the lineup and were eliminated in our own regional. There's very little in life as ugly as watching a small ball offense with high strike out totals. I know that small ball can work as there is a wino over in Austin who has used it to win multiple national titles, however, we've never been able to execute consistently with it. If we have another 2012 offensively, I will be ready to see change for 2014.

During RC's tenure, we have consistently had great starting pitching. We had two great starters last year in Michael Wacha and Ross Stripling. Both of those guys were drafted and are gone. We have no proven starters on this roster, although I have a blind faith that RC will come up with an answer. To be fair, Rafael Pineda was great early last season as the Sunday starter before slumping late in the season and Daniel Mengden, who started the season as our closer and couldn't buy a strike, became a solid mid-week starter by late last season. I don't have a clue who our 3rd or 4th starters will be. Maybe Gandy Stubblefield will fill one of those roles?

RC's bullpens have traditionally had a closer, one go to guy, and no one else he trusts. Last year, our closer was very erratic. To be fair to Rob, we were supposed to have a stud JC transfer named Jason Jester who didn't make his grades and was ineligible. Between Jester, Parker Ray, and Corey Ray, I think that the bullpen will be solid.

I'll find out a little tonight as there is a six inning scrimmage at beautiful Olsen.