I just saw Mississippi State baseball on Sports Center

We trotted our closer out there in the 5th inning. I didn't see what happened but apparently we were unable to throw strikes. Used 5 pitchers walking 5 and giving up 6 hits. Oh well. Shite happens!

Mid week games doesn't mean anything but that's going to be the problem for State. I wasn't impressed with the pitching this past weekend or yesterday.

I argued this all last year and I turned out to be right. Last year, State dropped a few midweek games but continued to win weekend series. State's rank and rpi went up every week because of weekend series wins and nothing to do with mid week games

Mid week games means more if you are on the bubble. I say win ball games and don't worry about rpi.

It's early in the season. Managers still trying to find who is a player/pitcher, especially on Tuesday nights.

Exactly, and whomever makes up the rpi knows that. You tell your players that all games matter and you want to win them all but it doesn't hurt you if you lose a few.

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Mid week games means more if you are on the bubble

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You are always on a bubble in college baseball. You can be on the bubble for a national seed or a regional host or a 2 vs a 3 not at your place. You can make up a lot of ground toward the end of the season (like we did last year and getting a national seed). Those runs are rare though in the SEC because the late season competition is so good. Do yourself a favor and not lose midweek games that you should win. We lost midweek games last year to Oral Roberts and Eastern Kentucky in March that held us back until the very end.

LSU fans are great at pointing out other teams faulting at the worse possible times

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Yep up 6-1 lost 8-11 gave up 10 in 2 innings but apparently we like to point it out and mock others.