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Posted: 6/16/2012 12:16 AM
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Stonybrook was a big disappointment. FSU/Zona in the 10th. I was hoping FSU would play lights out so I could imagine us losing.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 12:41 AM
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Bennicasa looking extremely sharp.
FSU will win in the bottom of the 12th.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 12:59 AM
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4-3 in favor of Az now. FSU needs a miracle to win the title. It will take a super team from the ACC to go to Omaha and deal with the Demons.....and come home with the trophy.
Clemson will win in Chapel Hill before an ACC team wins the baseball crown again.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 1:02 AM
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Amazing stat. Mike Marting takes FSU to his 21st CWS. Even more amazing is he is yet to win one. And right now it looks like FSU is going to be in a big hole in this one. AZ looks like the better team and three outs away from a win.
And the K Zone graphic is showing us how big of a strike zone college pitchers really have. I wonder how long they are going to use it this year? It sure is exposing the ridiculous college strike zone.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 1:20 AM
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Right inning wrong team. I hurt for Martin and that team but once again it came down to some stupid decisions. The hit and run is a low percentage play in that scenario and you get picked off planning to steal. We have died by the aggression and so has FSU. When you have bats like that you don't gamble so much.
heelz62, I agree 100%. It cheapens the sport when a ball a foot off the plate is strike half the time not the other half. And then the K zone shows two strike 3's called balls. What a crapshoot.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 10:13 AM
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ACC teams are shell shocked when they get to Omaha...maybe its the big crowds...
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Posted: 6/16/2012 3:56 PM
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I'm one that truly believes it will even out - with the ACC talent not only will we win one soon but quite a few.
However, you have to wonder if there are other factors at play. I won't get into the bad luck of it all, or even who is calling the games or where the crowd sits but I was wondering at 1:00 eastern time last night if that were a factor moreso with the Seminoles than the Wildcats.
As I watched Ramsey yawning in the dugout it did cross my mind.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 5:23 PM
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Kent St. pitcher already gotten screwed twice. I can understand better the umps with the bigger zones - make the kids swing the bat. But to call a 3-2 ball that was a strike to the leadoff man who never tried to swing is plain stupid.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 10:03 PM
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Just saw that Josh Tobias for Florida is from Greensboro. He is a very good player. Did UNC try to recruit him and just got out recruited by Florida?
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Posted: 6/16/2012 10:04 PM
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I''m still pulling for the Sea Wolfs! BTW, what is a Sea Wolf? A wolf that can swim?
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Posted: 6/16/2012 10:55 PM
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Well, this one is on the great O'Sullivan. There is no way Johnson is your Game 1 starter in Omaha. You have an ace. His name is Hudson Randall. He's your best starter, and it's not close. I have no idea why Johnson started tonight, but he got shelled. Even in the first four innings he was in a lot of trouble. The Gamecocks squared up a ton of balls on him all night.
Prepare yourselves, boys. Because it looks like a three-peat is taking form. The saving grace could be Stanek, if he can beam himself back to a month ago when he was throwing the ball well.
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Posted: 6/16/2012 11:03 PM
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Not saying I agree with it, but here's why Johnson started www.gatorzone.com/baseball/box...hp?gameid=10801 Shut South Carolina down with a complete game on only 90 pitches. I don't think that's a good reason Main reason I don't like it is because it had been almost 2 weeks since he's thrown. He's been known as basically the 1A to Hudson Randall (you had his name reversed) all year. |
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Posted: 6/16/2012 11:09 PM
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Yeah, goheels...I'm so frustrated I inverted the name. Look at Randal's numbers against South Carolina over his last few starts, though. They are really good, too. If you view Johnson as "1A", that's fair. I think Randall is clearly the better pitcher. And it's not like the Gamecocks have hit him all that well. --------------------------------------------- --- goheels1117 wrote: Not saying I agree with it, but here's why Johnson started www.gatorzone.com/baseball/box...hp?gameid=10801 Shut South Carolina down with a complete game on only 90 pitches. I don't think that's a good reason Main reason I don't like it is because it had been almost 2 weeks since he's thrown. He's been known as basically the 1A to Hudson Randall (you had his name reversed) all year. ---------------------------------------------
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Posted: 6/16/2012 11:17 PM
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The gamecocks have put together some good teams but they have gotten more breaks than any team in history at the same time.
A lot of those compliments of Clemson and Floridas stupidity though.
In fact they should send Clemson a trophy for their help in making these championships possible.
Last edited 6/16/2012 11:17 PM by GrayHeel
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Posted: 6/16/2012 11:37 PM
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I agree with you, jhicks. Was just telling you their reasoning (and it was his 'turn' technically in the rotation, I guess). I went back and looked at Johnson's numbers, and they really aren't as good as scouts view his stuff. I would have gone with Randall, too.
They still have a chance here. 5-3, 2nd/3rd, 1 out, Tucker/Zunino up.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:04 AM
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Well, Tucker's at bat put a fork in that inning. You simply have to pound one into the ground there to guarantee you at least one run. Tucker is so good with the bat. He could have easily rolled one over to the right side. Instead, he pops out, allows Zunino to be intentionally walked yet again, and then Johnson scorches one to RF.
Roth, Webb, Price wins a lot of games as a combination. Florida has had some chances. But you can't play from behind against South Carolina. In doesn't matter now, but I'll stand behind my opinion that if you spot Randall a two-run lead, he makes it stand up.
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I agree with you, jhicks. Was just telling you their reasoning (and it was his 'turn' technically in the rotation, I guess). I went back and looked at Johnson's numbers, and they really aren't as good as scouts view his stuff. I would have gone with Randall, too.
They still have a chance here. 5-3, 2nd/3rd, 1 out, Tucker/Zunino up.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:14 AM
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People talk about Fox being too uptight and it affecting our play out there. I don't think I completely agree but people say it. Well, O'Sullivan is wired about twice as tight. I know they made it to the championship last year but they fell apart there and they're doing it again. Wild pitches, errors, first-pitch pop-ups in key situations. They can certainly come through the loser's bracket but I wouldn't bet on it.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:29 AM
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It's pretty simple right now. When the team in one dugout believes that it is their destiny to win the game and the team in the other dugout believes that their snakebitten to lose it...well, the outcome is easy to predict. This core group at Florida has known nothing but failure on the biggest stage (Omaha). The key pieces for South Carolina don't have any idea what it feels like to fly out there and not win the whole thing.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:33 AM
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Now, if you are O'Sullivan, I think you strongly consider throwing Crawford or Whitson against Kent St. I think that gives you the nest chance to come back and somehow take two against South Carolina.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:35 AM
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If you go ahead and throw Randall, you can maybe get him back (on shorter rest) for a second game vs. South Carolina (if they beat Arkansas). If you think he can do that, it's a no-brainer you start him vs. Kent St, then go Crawford.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 12:40 AM
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0 - 4.
Now it is up to Arkansas and Zona to not make this pure misery.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 7:02 PM
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Thank you mods. Back to the topic of Omaha. Go FSU Zona Arkansas and Kent St. (if Ark wins that is).
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Posted: 6/17/2012 8:18 PM
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FSU tends to "waste" a lot of runs. Score half as many in all these blowouts and sprinkle in a few more against the Arizonas of the world.
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Posted: 6/17/2012 10:55 PM
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I was thinking that myself. It's always frustrating as a baseball fan cause it just feels like you only have so many runs and you don't want to use them all up in a blowout. Remember a couple of years ago when FSU scored about 489 runs against OSU in their regional and then bombed out in the Supers?
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FSU tends to "waste" a lot of runs. Score half as many in all these blowouts and sprinkle in a few more against the Arizonas of the world.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 12:13 AM
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I do. It happens a lot. Teams crush other teams and end up losing by one run the next game.
Thats another thing USC hasn't done - not many blowouts. A ton of one run and two run wins.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 10:28 AM
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I think you need to pay attention more. All teams get breaks. It's just many people only remember ones that occur with teams they seem to hate. Based on some of your comments, you seem to hate the Gamecocks , or else you wouldn't be making some of the distasteful comments that you do that have nothing to do with baseball. Good teams make their breaks, and I have seen all three of the teams you mention get some. Good coaches put their teams into position to win.
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The gamecocks have put together some good teams but they have gotten more breaks than any team in history at the same time.
A lot of those compliments of Clemson and Floridas stupidity though.
In fact they should send Clemson a trophy for their help in making these championships possible.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 11:10 AM
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The gamecocks have definitely gotten their share of breaks. But they have done an incredible job taking advantage of these breaks during their 3-year run. It's like someone posted earlier of one team who thinks they're going to win so when that break happens they take complete advantage of it and it turns into something huge. Meanwhile the team waiting for something bad to happen overlooks the break that goes their way but crumbles when it goes against them. SoCarolina has definitely been the best at this.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 2:42 PM
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I typed out a response addressing all this stupidity but in the end who cares what you think or what you clearly don't know or understand.
You guys have put together some good teams - be it with some low character kids or not - that deserved to win some things. Most notably the 2011 CWS. Not so sure about the 2010 CWS.
In the end I hope that you win enough CWS to find a board of a team in your state or conference. We welcome that.
Sammy E. is a friend and former teammate so the hate stuff is BS. What I hate is your bottom of the barrel fanbase and watching one of your coaches grovel at a kid I wouldn't pee on if he were on fire. Enjoy him.
(I also am not a huge fan of the nickname, mascot, or garnett but who really cares about any of that)
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I think you need to pay attention more. All teams get breaks. It's just many people only remember ones that occur with teams they seem to hate. Based on some of your comments, you seem to hate the Gamecocks , or else you wouldn't be making some of the distasteful comments that you do that have nothing to do with baseball. Good teams make their breaks, and I have seen all three of the teams you mention get some. Good coaches put their teams into position to win.
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The gamecocks have put together some good teams but they have gotten more breaks than any team in history at the same time.
A lot of those compliments of Clemson and Floridas stupidity though.
In fact they should send Clemson a trophy for their help in making these championships possible.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 3:03 PM
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Arizona is looking awfully good.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 3:04 PM
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Arizona is looking awfully good.
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It would be bittersweet to see them win.
But extremely welcomed as opposed to whats left.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 3:28 PM
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Maybe I'm just too old, but I don't understand what you're saying or to whom you are saying it to. I apologize in advance for misunderstanding. CU Fla. stupid, I don't get it.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 8:35 PM
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Way to go Golden Flashes! Florida is sent packing. Although, the Gators should have won that game at the end.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 8:39 PM
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Kent State did everything in the world to gift-wrap it from the mound and Florida didn't take advantage.
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Way to go Golden Flashes! Florida is sent packing. Although, the Gators should have won that game at the end.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 9:00 PM
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Tough break for the Gators on that called strike 3 when they thought they had tied the game.
Pretty surprised to see them 0 for 2 and a BBQ.
Should be a great game tonight between Arkansas and South Carolina. They played 3 real close contests down in Fayetville this season with USC taking 2 of them.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 9:04 PM
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I felt for the kid, but he definitely went around on that pitch.
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Tough break for the Gators on that called strike 3 when they thought they had tied the game.
Pretty surprised to see them 0 for 2 and a BBQ.
Should be a great game tonight between Arkansas and South Carolina. They played 3 real close contests down in Fayetville this season with USC taking 2 of them.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 10:14 PM
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For all the USC fans that can't comprehend how they get the breaks there is another one with the interference call. Not saying its the wrong call but USC pulls junk like that all the time and it has gone their way in the last two years.
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Posted: 6/18/2012 11:06 PM
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Because of Chad, Jenn, and the entire Holbrook clan, I generally pull for South Carolina, unless they are playing us, or if we could directly benefit from a loss on their part.
I am pulling for South Carolina to win it all in Omaha, because of Chad and the absolute class human being that he is.
If I had a son, I would be as ecstatic if he played for Chad down in Columbia, as I would if he played for Mike here in Chapel Hill. IMHO, could not go wrong either way............
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Posted: 6/19/2012 12:13 AM
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Still not sure about the pinch ht decisin for Johnson. He's a plus hitter, even if he has struggled a bit lately. And you're giving Kent State an out with the sacrifice. Anyone who watched that inning could tell that every arm Kent State trotted out to the mound was nervous as heck and had no control of any of his pitches. I just don't like that play. Could Johnson have rolled over one and started a DP? Sure. But I take my chances with him in the box and with making Kent State actually get someone out (instead of giving them an out).
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Kent State did everything in the world to gift-wrap it from the mound and Florida didn't take advantage.
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Way to go Golden Flashes! Florida is sent packing. Although, the Gators should have won that game at the end.
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Posted: 6/19/2012 12:29 AM
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Well done Razorbacks, well done.
After I went 0 - 4 the first two days I'm 4 - 0 since then.
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Posted: 6/19/2012 12:37 AM
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GrayHeel- just curious, why all the hate for SC? I know our fanbases typically don't get along, but I'm just curious about your story. You can PM if you'd rather. I'm just wondering.
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