May 30, 2019
MCNEESE BASEBALL
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What did you expect from LSU baseball this year? From the time last baseball season ended, very few things went as expected.
We all expected Duplantis, Watson, and Hess to choose professional baseball. The baseball experts expected Marceaux and a few other signees to choose professional baseball. They all came to LSU and the expectations for this year were through the roof.
As the season started, LSU had the #1 recruiting class, potential All-Americans returning, and was ranked in the top 5 by every publication (and there are a ton of those in baseball).
Coach Mainieri made his expectations clear. “I’m proud of our 2009 national championship, but quite frankly, I’m ready for another one. This year I think we have a chance to do something special.”
Did you see what Vanderbilt did this year? That was supposed to be LSU. But nobody performed like an All-American and the #1 recruiting class was sidelined with injuries.
Josh Smith was one of the few players that produced as expected. He had a great year. Duplantis had more power than expected, but I really thought he would hit around.350. I and many others thought Watson would do the same.
Garza got going once he was finally healthy and adjusted, and other newcomers had their moments. But nobody had a Mahtook like first year that we have come to expect at LSU. Chris Reid exceeded expectations, but there were no expectations when the season began because he was barely on the team. There was hope Broussard and Hughes would be able to hit around.270, but they fell short.
Nobody would have expected LSU to go two years without a bona fide Friday night starter. Nobody would have expected LSU to have less than ten starts this year with the starter making it into the seventh inning.
I know the season isn’t over, and this is actually the time for optimism coming off an incredibly gutsy performance in the SEC Tournament. But, in order to appreciate what the baseball team has accomplished, we have to remind ourselves that when our expectations were set, very little of what happened this year was expected.
What if Marceaux, Henry, and Hill had chosen professional baseball? LSU would have been predicted to finish just above Alabama in the SEC West. Together they threw a combined 110 innings this year. For comparison, Ethan Small at Mississippi State threw 90 innings. Georgia’s three starters threw around 85 innings each.
The story this week around Baton Rouge seems to be that we are closer to seeing the team we expected all year. That is not true and therefore brings unfair expectations. This team is still missing huge chunks of what we all expected. Cabrera is clearly not 100%. Hill will still not pitch. Henry is still on a pitch count. Take away Bleday, one of Vanderbilt’s top starting pitchers, and limit the other top starter to 3-4 innings. Would Vanderbilt be expected to cruise to Omaha?
I have no clue what to expect at the Baton Rouge Regional this weekend.
LSU lost to Southern, LA Tech twice, ULL, Northwestern State, and McNeese State this year. In most of those games, the issue was offense, not pitching. Do you expect LSU to beat Stony Brook? I don’t need to look at the Stony Brook pitching staff statistics to know that they must have at least one pitcher the quality of the pitchers LSU faced in those midweek games.
I know LSU will have more energy Friday night, but late in the year when LSU was at risk of not hosting a regional I would have expected more offense in midweek games and it wasn’t there.
Conventional wisdom says the LSU bullpen is hitting their stride and so is Landon Marceaux. But, I have thought that many times this year only to find out that a pitcher I expected to pitch was going to have to take some time off due to soreness.
Of course if you pay any attention to NCAA regional games over the years, you know the unexpected is the norm. Aaron Nola might struggle to get out of the first inning, rain could force games to be delayed, and players that hit.200 during the season could hit.500. In other words, expect the unexpected. For LSU baseball this year, the whole season has been the unexpected. So the converse of that would be for the team to click on all cylinders. Wouldn’t that be nice to see… and unexpected.
HEY REF
Hey Ref 5 30 19
I must admit that there are times when simple just isn’t good enough. I’m trying to piece together a rule change for the upcoming 2019 football season. I hope I’m not getting this right but according to the National Federation’s web site (NFHS.org) there will be a change to a 40 (fourty) second play clock. The release states “in an effort to establish a more consistent time period between downs in high school football (dah, what else, after all you deal with only high school sports), the play clock will start at 40 seconds instead of 25 seconds in many cases beginning with the 2019 season”.
But hold onto your hat, Grasshopper, because “the play clock will continue to start at 25 seconds (A) Prior to a try following a score, (B) To start a period or overtime series, (C) Following administration of an inadvertent whistle, (D) Following a charged time-out, (E) Following an official’s time-out, (are you ready?), with a few exceptions, and finally (F) Following the stoppage of the play clock by the REFEREE for any other reason. In all other cases, 40 seconds will be placed on the play clock and start when the ball is declared dead by a game official.
Now did you get all that? As I kept reading this release I stopped to ask myself who’s the idiot that came up with this rule change? Well, the very next sentence gave me my answer. Here’s the quote made by Todd Tharp, assistant director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association and chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee “The entire committee needs to be commended for its thorough discussion regarding the move to a 40 second play clock, except in specific situations that will still have a 25 second play clock to show play is ready to begin”.
Then if that wasn’t enough to try and understand he boasts “This is one of the most substantial game administration rules changes to be approved in the past 10 years and without detailed experimentation from several state associations over the past three years along with cooperation of the NFHS Football Game Officials Manual Committee, all the elements needed to approve this proposal would not have been in place”.
I’m not going to point out his self-promotion and no doubt a king sized kisser of the derriere but there’s no other way I can explain this change. Last year I did send in a form requesting a rule change from a 25 second play clock to 30 seconds simply because the game and players have gotten a lot faster in the past ten or so years. With everything the officials are charged with before a legal snap can be made it’s become almost impossible to check those things off and be ready for the snap and the beginning of the next play. I compare the time between downs to that of airline pilots as they ready for takeoff. There’s a list of “to do’s” we must complete and with the speed of the high school game it’s almost impossible to finish before another snap is made. Hence some things don’t get checked off your list which is a major cause for many of the mistakes we make on the field.
The usual way changes are made to high school playing rules is a few associations are chosen nationwide to include those proposed changes into an entire season of games. Then after that season is finished the powers that be bring all the pluses and minuses of the proposed rule changes to the national committee to evaluate. Changes usually take two or three complete seasons before any thought of making said changes to on-field competition for the entire country.
This move to a sometime 40 second sometime not, sometime 25 second some time not play clock or what did I just say, write, read???? I’ll leave it at that and hope I didn’t confuse anyone simply because this news release has got to be huge misprint and a very not funny rule change that’ll do nothing but cause mass confusion on Friday nights. I’m having nightmares where games are lost because the clock should’ve been at 40 seconds. But the officials put 25 seconds on the play clock and the home team made a substitution that should’ve been allowed because there was supposed to be 40 seconds… … …
Lucy from the comic strip “PEANUTS” said it best “AAUGH”!!!!!
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