re: 2023 Diamond Dawgs (29-27, 11-20) / LSU pitching coach Wes Johnson is new HC

Condon might have come in runner-up. Those two have been great.

Yeah, Mizzou is the only program keeping us from being the worst in the conference.

I’ll never understand why we can’t release a public master plan for athletic facilities. Everything we do outside of football is so reactionary and piece meal and it’s leading to undelivered promises - baseball, softball, and track chief among them

We have no shortage of donors, publicly tell them what they can donate to.

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Everything we do outside of football is so reactionary and piece meal and it’s leading to undelivered promises

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It seems to be our thing. We were even doing it in football - remember the god-forsaken partial indoor practice field embarrassment? It's like someone works overtime to help us be stupid about stuff like that. If I recall correctly, we may owe Jeremy Pruitt of all people for helping us get out of the football indoor practice facility rut.

Then Kirby comes in and gets the school to unleash the $$$ floodgates and the rest is football history.

If they just slap a patch on the Steg and keep up basketball-as-usual we are going to descend to community college level in that sport.

Kirby has a vision for what is needed to succeed and his results command that he gets first priority when something else comes up (I.e. the current Sanford expansion to the concourse which doesn’t directly impact the team but delivers on enhancing fan experience).

I know the other coaches of other sports have a vision for what they want in their programs but it never seems to follow an actual pecking order. Last time we had a master plan was when Damon Evans was AD. Everything since hs been a shitload of football upgrades and then modernizing Stegeman, modernizing the existing part of Foley, nothing for track, nothing for softball, modest upgrades for soccer, deserved upgrades for golf, and finally modernizing tennis after losing the premier collegiate tennis event because the facilities were lagging so far behind.

McGarity gets to shoulder most of the blame but why am I having to learn about Foley expansion news through Anthony Dasher on Twitter, including a single rendering of the third base side (there has been nothing addressing first base side or right field) and some public hand wringing that costs are too high (which is fricking bullshite; you have the donors and resource capital to do anything you want to actually do)

Only thing I can assume regarding baseball is that Josh is slow playing Strick in the event that he wants to make a coaching change and give the next guy the creative license to say what he wants/needs

6-6 in the 4th as LaPlante hits a leadoff inside the park HR

This has been a highly weird, if entertaining, game. First time I've seen a runner called out after hitting a homer because he passed a base runner. That Wofford center fielder's deception cost us a run.

I know it’s a rule but I kind of feel like that’s rewarding Wofford for pretending to have caught a ball they didnt

Condon comes in to score on a 2 out single so it evened out

10-6 Dawgs in the 7th now

Dawgs win it 10-8, give Wofford their 2nd loss of the season and snap their 14 game win streak

Really liked what Hoskins continues to show and was encouraged by what Marsh was able to do down the stretch. Starting still remains an enigma but this offense is so deep I don’t know if it’s going to matter that much as long as the bullpen can sustain

Cocks on Friday to start SEC play