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She’s basically taken Jesus’s explanations that salvation through faith in Him is also for the gentiles and grafted it onto non-Christians though works-based salvation which is wild.

The whole point of the gospels and the need for Jesus’s sacrifice is that no one can live up to the requirements of the law, and works-based salvation results in obsession with compliance instead of faith in God. Obedience flows from faith, not the other way around.

Just another example of secular humanism trying to replace Christian morals as the foundational value system in the West. Pope Francis saying that “human’s are all fundamentally good” should shock every Christian to their core. That’s not only non-biblical, it is in-biblical ie in contradiction.

If humans are fundamentally good then there is no need for Christ’s redeeming sacrifice. But the push is towards a default good natured humanity, and any defects are the result of circumstances/societ


So you believe that God allowed a man born in India, who may never have any exposure for Christianity in his entire life, to have zero chance to go to heaven because of that? This man could be an extraordinary human being, but he is condemned because of where he was born.

This applies to literally billions of the world population.
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An SEC team with 13 wins has never not made the tournament in the current format.

100% false


Kentucky made it last year at 13-17 with an RPI of 36.

LSU, Bama, Vandy, Florida, and USC all made it in 2024 with a 13-17 record.

But those RPIs were 15, 28, 26, 10, and 23 (after the postseason).

LSU right now is at a 62 RPI. That is so much movement to try to get to top 30 RPI. And South Carolina won't move the needle that much with their 93 RPI.
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trailed in only 5 of the 27 innings we played against UALR.

that’s not “extremely” close.

went 10-1 in the postseason last year.


I'm not sure where you are getting this from.

In Game 2, LR took the lead 6-3 in the 3rd. Won 10-4.

In Game 3, LR took a 5-1 lead in the 2nd. LSU tied it in the 6th, and led from the 7th onward.

So in the two elimination games, LSU actually trailed in 11 of the 18 innings.

Yes, LSU won and the rest is history, but you are lying if you weren't worried after LR dropped 5 runs in the 2nd inning in game 7.
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Ma'Khail Hilliard and Blake Money threw on Friday nights.


Hilliard went 7-1 in 2022.
Floyd ended up winning us a championship once he had developed.

Seems disingenuous to say he was left with nothing. I'm not going to argue the cupboard was full of all-star talent, but Jason Kelly did nothing with the pitchers here in 2022. I'll argue heavily that LSU doesn't win the CWS in 2023 if he was still our pitching coach.
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Only meltdown is the “fans


To be objective, I think this team has a chance to finish the season with the worst SEC record in modern team history.

13-17 is the worst since CPM's first season (12-17-1).

You have to look back before Skip to find a conference % worse than that.

Now, we all said that in 2024, too, so that's why you play the games.
This feels like it could be abused by runners if they know they will be out on a potential DP - just run back to first base and claim ignorance.
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Again, he did not make a defensive sub at 2nd. Dardar never left the game. He pinch ran for Pearson and brought in Clauss.


I mean, the point is the same - as bad as people complain the infield is, anytime one of the backups come in, they seem to do even worse (except at 1B).
It feels like every game that Jay has made a defensive sub at 2nd, that sub has made a costly error.
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If you’re saying we need to go 16-14 in the SEC I’ll have to very much disagree.


People underestimate how much movement these SEC series can do for RPI.

Ole Miss is 5-7, people are saying they are a garbage team on here, but they have an RPI of 10.

We follow that with 18 aTm, then 16 MSU, 97 South Carolina, 23 UGA, and 7 Florida.

That's 15 Quad 1 games.

Kentucky made it in the NCAAT last year at 13-17 and an RPI of 36.
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5 ERA turns into cy young when he faces LSU. Go figure


In his defense, I think in 14 pitches, 3 of them may have been actual strikes.

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Fielding is the problem. The offense is scoring runs and the pitching is coming around. They can’t keep giving teams unearned runs. The pitching only gave up 8 earned runs all weekend in that tiny ball park but they scored 7 more unearned.


It's walks too.

LSU is top 5 in BA against, and 3rd most Ks, but also 3rd most walks.
Yeskie continues to deliver, I'll give him that.

Through 2.5 games of this series, his pitchers have given up 7 earned runs (though anyone watching wouldn't give LSU a 2nd earned run yesterday).

Johnson's weak spot at Arizona was fielding, and it's really being highlighted this year.

LSU is .964 and 218th in the country in fielding % (before adding the 3 errors so far today).


.967 in 2021
.962 in 2019
.975 in 2018
.968 in 2017
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Who’s really great? Georgia & Texas seem to be the best so far. State just got swept at home.

We play geogia on the road, and miss st with mcpherson back is easily a top 3 sec team, would also be a road series


The SEC is really tearing itself up. If LSU can win the series today, at 6-6, we'd be in a tie for either 7th or 8th place, and one game out of a tie for 4th.

Mizzou and USC are the only two bad SEC teams (and LSU unfortunately doesn't get Mizzou).
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This is akin to bitching about catchers being on a knee and the infield shift.

Casual takes - all of them.


This is Al Bundy level stuff.

"I played Little League baseball and was taught that you need to score at least 1 run to win a baseball game."
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Whelp. Getting out of that shite only giving up 1 seems like a mini win.


LSU getting out hit 7-3 and Tennessee has left 7 on the bases. Yeah, a 3-run deficit is pretty good all things considered.

And Mack just came out. Running out of time.
Tennessee hasn't hit the ball past the baseline this inning.
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could see the MLB (at the time) turning their noses up at college coaches. I think it’s a reason Polk at State never got a look


Vitello jumping straight to MLB is an anomaly, and that is probably understating it.

I believe he's the first ever MLB manager to not have even assisted in the MiLB or MLB. That's probably because the name is right. You are much less of a coach in that position and a true manager.

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We won a series. We're 4-5 in the SEC. That's where we are right now.


#4 Arkansas is also right here now. The SEC is tough.

We are two blown saves vs Vandy and OU late from being 6-3 and everyone being cautiously optimistic on this team.
That's not even close to a strike on Yorke.
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Should stanfield be standing on the warning track next to the foul pole?


It's really amazing Jay Johnson has a job as a HC of a major university like LSU. He's clearly in over his head.
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They are trying to not get caught with their pants down if Wade backs out last second and we already fired McMahon and are left scrambling to find a coach they have not been in any contact with for weeks/months. They absolutely plan on keeping McMahon if Wade falls through, full stop, they are trying to make sure that doesnt happen by making Wade not be able to say no.


This is just silly.

He hasn't won enough games to keep his job. Why let him keep it another year if Wade falls through? It leads to two options: he continues to lose games and is fired in 2027 or maybe he has a slight upturn in success. In the latter situation, do you extend him?