re: Mizzou fans ...

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You are what I thought you would be in baseball. Better than you give yourselves credit for being.

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That's only because the Mizzou fans who generally post here are either not knowledgeable about baseball or are infected with the Mizzou fan curse of seeing everything in the worst possible light. I've been accused of being excessively optimistic about MU Baseball, but mostly that's because everybody else is so pessimistic.

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Just one thing. SEC baseball games are not meant to be played with banks of snow in the outfield

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There were no banks of snow in the outfield. Or anywhere on the field. In 20+ years I've never seen a game played at Taylor Stadium with snow on the field (unless it fell there during the game).

And yes, it was bitterly cold, and yes we do use it to our advantage. A quote from a report this morning in the Columbia Missourian:

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First-year South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook said the conditions weren't a factor. They were the same for both teams. Steele disagreed. "We’re not cold at all," Steele said. "We took ground balls the other day when the wind chill was 4 degrees. I wasn’t cold, that felt like I was on a beach."

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