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And proceeds to say almost the exact same thing in different words.

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My point being that the takeaway is a straw man of TV's actual point. Yes, a team can have a successful season without making it to Omaha because success is defined in different ways for different programs. If you think that's not true, we're watching a different sport

This is not at all the takeaway from this video. Different programs have different standards because there is obvious disparity in college athletics. Evansville did not have a failure of a season because by their standards, it was the most successful season in program history. Anyone who has ever actually played sports should understand that there is success outside of winning a championship. I'm not talking about participation trophy nonsense, just talking life lessons. Boys learning how to be men, even in the face of falling short of the ultimate goal. That's what TV was trying to say, and I am a big TV hater, so it's hard to give him his deserved props here

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he has been all over the place trying to figure out how to right the ship all year long

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Another way of saying this is "I don't understand the game of baseball nor could I ever coach it, so I'll just mindlessly look at box scores and records and say Jay didn't do well in hopes this national championship winning coach learns a thing or two about this sport!"

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you decided to come here and call everyone names while pretending to be better than them

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Who said I'm pretending?

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My opinion is, you are angered that it bothers you when UGA or Bama or other elite football programs mop the floor with your football team.

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My football team has won the second-most national titles since the year 2000, so I consider us as elite a program as just about anyone else. Admirable attempt at interpreting my psyche though. I'm thinking you probably mix in a few episodes of Frasier alongside some of those ad valorem CSPAN debates, Darin :rotflmao:

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I would rather watch congressmen debating ad valorem taxes on CSPAN or the old plow rust out behind the barn than a college basketball game.

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I'll be honest, I don't believe you simply because no sane person would brag about having such a lack of personality. To each his own though :cheers:

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I don't follow Mizzou golf. Damn, I didn't realize what a coward I was for that. I'll turn in my courage badge and my fan card. I'm so ashamed.

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There's a difference between following a sport closely and trying to overcompensate for your one dimensional school by telling other fans that "we don't care about that sport you like." You don't have to follow every minor sport closely to care about that team's success in the postseason. That seems to have been the missed point of this entire thread. I'll still take your courage badge and fan card though if you're offering

With the SEC baseball tournament in full swing, now is a great time to remind everyone that any fan that says "we don't care about x sport" is a coward and not a true fan of their school. Bama and UGA fans are some of the biggest offenders

Plenty to unpack here, so I'll go point by point

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It is an actual play, because it happens plenty of times. When you have a situation where you have to cut down the runner at the plate in the late innings, everyone has to be ready to move around, and that includes the pitcher covering third

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Once again, my point is that no bunt coverage exists where a pitcher is covering a bag. Therefore, whatever Jay called would not have resulted in the pitcher doing anything but fielding the ball. There are circumstances where the pitcher is backing up bags or covering first on a FORCE out, but you will never see a called play where the pitcher is covering a bag.

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The only time you ever see a runner go from first to third on a bunt, or even just a regular ground ball that never leaves the infield, is when everyone falls asleep and isn't paying attention.

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The other time you see this is when you crash both first and third. Since the pitcher will never be covering a bag, your two middle infielders will be covering three bags. Math is tough.

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it is clear that you MUST cut down the run at the plate, you have zero room to question my level of baseball knowledge.

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This simply isn't a MUST as you describe. It's nice to not allow the run to score, but sometimes a perfect bunt beats you. That would've been the case in this scenario had Tre thankfully not misread the sign.

To sum up where I think our miscommunication is coming from, you seem to think two things:

1.) That coaches call plays where pitchers cover bags. This is not true no matter how much you want to argue that it's possible from your comfy seat on the couch 2.) You seem to believe that calling a bunt coverage that results in allowing the opponent to score with a perfect bunt is some kind of coaching error or mistake. I just flatly disagree. Again cutting down the runner is nice, but a perfect bunt down the 1b line with the pitcher covering is the one play that beats you. Just like when Tre took off from 3rd and got thrown out at home during the first Wake Forest game, sometimes you call something where the perfect play beats you. That's ok. It's part of the sport, and that's why winning championships is so tough. That's why you need the luck that LSU received here

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As I just said to another person, the pitcher is free at that point to cover third base

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the fact that you made comment gives me a lot of peace of mind. There is no situation in baseball where the pitcher covers 3rd on a bunt play. I can now truly rest assured that you have no idea what you’re talking about