Captain Falcon

Glad to see this. It’s been awesome for the Regionals the last few years.

Those two home sweeps are a killer for State. Just find a way to go 1-2 in those series and you’re 12-6 and right in the thick of it for a league title. Oh well.

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We badly need to sweep Carolina and lsu next weekend After that we have Texas, Auburn and Aggie. We will be lucky to get 3 wins total out of those 3 series so a sweep this weekend and next is necessary to get to at least a 16-14 conference record and a solid 2 seed. A host is out of the question for us right now

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Nah we’re probably hosting at 16-14. But the Gov Cup and Hoover would probably matter for that too.

The bare minimum this weekend is you gotta win one more game and take the series. If you can find a way to win all three, awesome. But gotta get at least one more.

I’m also not writing State off in any of the last three series either. State playing well is capable of winning series against any of those teams. This is still the same team that swept Ole Miss fairly comfortably at Swayze, which is a sweep that has aged terrifically since then.

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I'm not trying to be an ahole, sincere question - what the heck? I watch as many SEC games as I can, and the last 2 State series are difficult to fathom. State is 4th in the conference in batting average, 2nd in ERA and 2nd in fielding % (conf games only). That should add up to some wins at home, not reverse sweeps. Good luck this weekend, but SC has been a different animal since they fired Paul.

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It’s largely been an offense issue. We’ve missed McPherson too, specifically thinking of Game 1 against Georgia in reference to that, but UGA and Tennessee just pounded the strike zone and threw a ton of offspeed stuff and our offense had no answer for it. We’ve largely become home run or bust on offense the last two weeks.

Pitching has been mostly ok. There’s only so much you can do when your offense is averaging 3 runs a game in the last 5 league games.

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State has nothing to worry about. LSU is toast this year. When you get frustrated with State just know you're not even in the same galaxy of suckiness as LSU is this year. Take a deep breath State

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Have you never watched a State vs LSU baseball series? I’ve lost count of how many times a struggling LSU team has turned their season around by seeing State on the schedule.

State plays LSU at Dudy Noble in two weeks and somehow a winner must be declared. Don’t really know how that’s possible.

State started 7-2 and has now lost four in a row, all at home. And two of those are Valincius starts.

Desperately need to get it together and win these next two games, or else the conversation may shift from “are they a Top 8 seed” to “will they be in the Hattiesburg Regional or the Atlanta Regional”? Barring a huge run the next few weeks,

I feel like we’d probably beat Bethune Cookman and Sacramento State.

It felt like Georgia was just spinning breaking balls at the bottom of the zone all night and State never got a handle on it. Kudos for UGA for the series win. I was unsure what to make of UGA going into this weekend but you don’t win series in both Starkville and College Station without being really good.

Not going to freak out about State at this stage, they’ve exclusively lost close games to ranked teams at this point. But could definitely use a win tomorrow. A little bit of a weird State team this year. They can run anyone off the field on a given day and win a lot of games via blowout, but haven’t done the little things well in close games. That can certainly evolve as the year goes on. But right now it’s the reason why this team has lost two SEC series already.

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For one day we get to be #1 in the SEC in baseball in April Totally expect Valincius to shove our shite in tonight, expecting a wild rubber match Saturday

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This is about where I am too. Tonight favors State and then Game 3 may finish 21-20.