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We'll be good. It's not a Catholic wedding. The service will last less than 30 minutes and the reception is on the same piece of property.

For those not old enough to see LSU baseball in the 90's, let me tell you something....you have no idea what a meteoric rise it was. I was a student at LSU from 1984-89 and was only a casual fan initially, but I caught the bug as I was leaving. In fact, my graduation from LSU was about 10 days before LSU went to A&M and stunned them in the regional to get to Omaha.

Imagine being in the middle of six straight losing football seasons from 1989 to 1994. Loss after loss after loss. Getting embarrassed in SEC games by good teams and sometimes BAD teams. It was miserable. The fan base was starving for a winner and Skip was just building his dynasty. That ride from 1991 to 2000 was incredible.

I was a student back then. I remember seeing Terry in the old Pentagon cafeteria and talked to him a couple of times. I can't say I knew him, but his personality was definitely polar opposite of Joey. I remember walking past Joey one day near Tiger stadium. I could not believe how built he was for a baseball player. Just a physical specimen.

I don't have a problem with his decision at all. If you look at the last 3-4 weeks, Noot and Shores had actually pitched better than Evans and Cowan. He figured those two would be plenty enough. No way Little Rock could shut down our offense with that pitching staff, right?

Yeah, let's blame the crowd. Good call. A bunch of early walks by our pitchers were on the fans too. Gotta fix that.

I was there all 5 days and remember it very well. 1997 was the last year of the old 6 team regionals, so it started on Thursday. We dealt with rain Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

We were comfortably beating UNC Greensboro on Thursday night when the game was postponed due to rain. My tickets were down the left field line. I can say that was probably the closest I've ever been to getting struck by lighting. When it hit, everyone in those aluminum bleachers ran for cover. The game was resumed Friday morning and we finished them off.

Later Friday, we won the Oklahoma game. In addition to the triple play, I think that's the game we broke the single season HR record. Of course, we finished that season with 188.

On Saturday morning, we played South Alabama in the "marble" game and were losing by several runs when the rain came again. That was the first game of the Saturday session (3 games). We waited it our several hours before they eventually canceled everything for the day. Sunday morning we resumed the game and couldn't rally. And of course, Sunday night was the classic against Long Beach.

The doubleheader was Monday against South Alabama and we easily won both games. It was dry and hot that day. No more rain.

He's saying we have Chris Guillot leading the cheers for LSU while Vandy has the stupid whistler.

I can't ever recall a coach being as positive as her. I mean, Tiger Park could get leveled by a tornado and she would say, "well, the foul poles are still standing".

Could we now get this updated with a 4 way tie with Arkansas, LSU, Vandy and Georgia at 19-11?

Yep. And they beat Oklahoma State with Pete Ingaviglia in Omaha. Oklahoma State was a regular in Omaha back in the 80's but they could never win the big one.