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He's a winner. He's got good stuff and seems to have a good idea about how to mix things up and keep 'em guessing

The offensive numbers were very similar between the overall season and the SEC season:

Overall/ SEC
BA .245 / .247
HR 12 / 15
SLG% .322 / .351
OB% .338 / .336

There was a spurt in power during SEC games, but a lot of that is, I think, attributable to timing, that the offense started getting going finally in April and May, which is when the SEC schedule was.

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Great thread!

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Well thank you. Your quick response added greatly to my knowledge on the topic.

A very large number of Mizzou fans and students barely know MU has a baseball team. And if they do, they have preconceived notions about it, the whole aluminum-bat/inferior-baseball/club-sport attitude.

Mizzou Baseball and college baseball in general have not been adequately promoted or advertised or supported by the Athletic Department over the years.

There are tons of baseball fans in the area - we support 2 major league teams quite well. But those baseball fans - who are also Mizzou fans - haven't been given enough reason to try college baseball.

There are sign that the Athletic Department is waking up and wants to do better. But they will move slowly, unfortunately. They'd rather spend money on football and basketball.

I doubt we'll ever have or need a 10,000 seat stadium. I doubt we'll ever be an annual top of the SEC team. But we will get better.

From your keyboard to the eyeballs of the athletic department

What you don't get is that last night's attendance will likely be in the top 10 for the year at Taylor Stadium.

Given the cool weather and it being Spring Break (few students around), the only reason the crowd was that good was because we were playing LSU.

The 2012 average attendance was around 800+.

The poor attendance is due to weather, due to a history of really poor promotion and advertising,and a history of being a team that's not bad but not usually a conference-leading team either (in any conference).

The promotion is improving somewhat. It will take time and money to improve facilities and to improve the team performance. The weather we can't do anything about.

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Can anyone that listened to the Mizzou feed explain the bugs bunny comment? I didn't get it.

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I wasn't listening, but I've heard Hunter Mense talk about a "bugs bunny pitch" before, and I'd guess that's what he said tonight.

He's referring to a pitch that seems to stop or change speeds or move in slow motion on the way to the plate. Referencing the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon (that video has some problems, but its the best I could find)

Probably a term Hunter picked up in the minor leagues

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You are what I thought you would be in baseball. Better than you give yourselves credit for being.

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That's only because the Mizzou fans who generally post here are either not knowledgeable about baseball or are infected with the Mizzou fan curse of seeing everything in the worst possible light. I've been accused of being excessively optimistic about MU Baseball, but mostly that's because everybody else is so pessimistic.

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Just one thing. SEC baseball games are not meant to be played with banks of snow in the outfield

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There were no banks of snow in the outfield. Or anywhere on the field. In 20+ years I've never seen a game played at Taylor Stadium with snow on the field (unless it fell there during the game).

And yes, it was bitterly cold, and yes we do use it to our advantage. A quote from a report this morning in the Columbia Missourian:

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First-year South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook said the conditions weren't a factor. They were the same for both teams. Steele disagreed. "We’re not cold at all," Steele said. "We took ground balls the other day when the wind chill was 4 degrees. I wasn’t cold, that felt like I was on a beach."

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