May 28, 2015
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Thursday, May 28: 5pm—6pm: SportsCentral… with Sid Edwards and Steve Johnson
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THE WIZARDRY OF OS
Assistant Basketball Coach and Head Swimming Coach at Central High
Good news LSU baseball fans! The tournaments the rest of the year are double elimination throughout. Last week, I made the statement that the SEC Tournament had the most challenging format for this team, and we saw that on Saturday. But keep in mind, LSU was not beaten twice in Hoover, LSU has not lost two games in a row all year, and they have only lost one weekend series all year.
That being said, LSU did not play a complete game in any of their SEC Tournament games. The bats and the long relievers showed up in the first two games while the starting pitching faltered. On Saturday, the starting pitching was there while the bats and short relief did not perform well.
As a result, Tiger fans are panicked about either the bats, starting pitching, or relievers not performing and the season ending too soon. I would love to calm their fears, but that is not how baseball tends to work out. At some point in the NCAA tournament, one of those three aspects of the game will underperform and the other parts of the team will have to pick up the slack. If two of three or all three falter, then LSU will lose. Again, back to the good news. LSU can lose one a week from here on out and still make a great run.
Looking back at the season to date, and trying to find a couple of keys for the post season, I found two stats that I think will be significant.
In the postseason, experienced fans are concerned about running into a hot pitcher that shuts down the lineup. In this scenario, LSU will need to generate runs with their running game. So let's look at possible opponents and how they have done defensively against the stolen base. I'll throw in a few extra teams for comparison.
Team Stolen Bases Against/ Caught Stealing/ Percent Stolen
LSU 40/ 22/ 65%
Arkansas 57/ 30/ 65%
Florida 47/ 24/ 60%
UNCW 53/ 22/ 70%
Tulane 29/ 37/ 44%
Lehigh 73/ 25/ 74%
Houston 45/ 24/ 65%
Rice 30/ 11/ 73%
ULL 45/ 23/ 66%
UCLA 28/ 18/ 61%
You can draw your own conclusions, but these numbers show why LSU had so much success against Arkansas. UNC-Wilmington might have an especially tough time with the Tigers. The low number of attempts show that Rice and Tulane are especially good at holding base runners should LSU face either team in a Super Regional. LSU would not see UCLA until the final series in Omaha, but keep those numbers in the back of your head.
The other statistic of note for Tiger fans to be aware of is the number of runs LSU has surrendered in the 7-9 innings. This year LSU's opponents have scored 70 runs in the last three innings. As a point of reference, LSU held opponents to 45 runs in the 7-9 innings last year. Before you hit the panic button, realize LSU gave up 81 runs in those three innings two years ago.
Again, what those numbers mean is open to interpretation. Personally, I won't be comfortable in any of LSU's post season games until they record the final out. I am hoping the offense keeps their sense of urgency throughout every game and adds insurance runs at every available opportunity. That being said, I am confident LSU can win close games.
Regardless of how it happens, LSU should make it to Omaha. Along the way there will be plenty to keep Tiger fans on the edges of their seats. Bregman playing his last games for LSU, the defense playing as they have all year, the offense pushing the envelope, and the all or none production of the pitching staff means we are in store for a thrilling post season.
HEY REF
By Dennis Dearie
Veteran Louisiana High School Referee
We all know how much an opinion is worth. If you take that amount and add a buck fifty to it, you’ll have just enough for a cup of coffee. With that in mind try thinking of all the conversations that went on this week around the office water cooler. On one hand you’ve got these so called super fans trying to fill holes in their rosters that graduation leaves each and every spring.
So, with that said I guess you can say I’m NOT a fan of this idiotic modern craze called FANTASY football. You can coach, own, hire/fire coaches, make landmark trades and so on (and I hope you have plenty of fun doing it) but it just ain’t my cup of tea, OK? I’ll save you a lot of time and effort and maybe an argument or two by saying without hesitation there’s no need in trying to explain all the “rules” to me and how exciting it is to “coach” your very own football team because I stopped playing PRETEND after 1st grade.
By saying all this up front maybe you’ll understand why I got upset when two friends took almost half an hour out of a busy work day debating why the SEC should’ve allowed former Notre Dame QB Everett Golson to enroll in one of its member schools. He couldn’t attend an SEC school simply because it was against their rules to allow him to transfer even though he’d already graduated in the spring.
The SEC simply stated that athletes that have been disciplined by a member school are forbidden to compete under its established rules once they’ve earned their degree. I just don’t see the conference going into emergency, special session to get him enrolled.
I’d like to know why would a conference want to add to its long list of problem players by signing Golson? That’s the one question I’d like to ask of little cry-baby Nicki at Alabama! He was quoted saying the rule puts the SEC at a disadvantage. Are you kidding me, Nicki? Would you gamble the farm to have a guy play one year at most? My only thought to little cry-baby Nicki is he should think before he speaks.
He caps his stupidity and is quoted saying the “SEC is going to become a farm system for other leagues”. The last time I looked the NCAA is nothing but a farm system for the NFL. The vast majority of today’s top athletes spend two maybe three years playing for nothing before jumping onto a professional team’s payroll.
I can’t blame an athlete wanting to be paid for working. I believe that’s the way our system is supposed to work. But we have in place of slave owners is the NCAA as it continues to make slaves out of these young athletes. We fought a civil war to end slavery but it’s alive, well and making billions for a select number of people.
When I see coaches making in excess of $4 or $5 million a year PLUS benefits and the young men that work 365 days a year, 20 hours a day and are paid ZERO then you have a rotten system. But when millionaires start crying because they’re not able to get in line to keep mostly poor, black athletes under their “whips” then the problem is much bigger and much, much worse than what we see on Saturday afternoons.
Till next week…
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