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The episode felt as if it was trying to imitate Andor.

They would in my book. I think you can put Sam Houston as one that counts. Baseball is different because you can have non power five schools be better than actual power five schools. Same with basketball.

I think there was a note that it had to be against power 5 teams.

I actually think he’s good at developing pitchers, there is plenty of evidence for that. It’s the in game utilization of his pitchers that is just horrible at times.

Yeah pretty much this.

His in game decision making, especially with pitching management, is highly questionable.

That was a really fun episode. The whole Mando redemption on Mandalore is going quicker than I thought. Interested to see where they go from here.

All fair points. Daly should still be playing better in the field and he’s showed the hitter he can be. I don’t think anyone expected him to be the same as Faltine at short, those would be unwarranted expectations. I think the thought was he had a sophomore slump and the expectation was that he would figure it out in the offseason to be closer to his better form. DC definitely got better towards the end last year. I still think the slower start shouldn’t carry over to this season because his role is a for sure full time starter. Last year it was up in the air at times in the beginning.

For starters, Daly could maybe go to his freshman form where he was hitting .316, fielded .964 and tied for second in hits on the team. I guess he set the bar too high and we shouldn’t expect anything from him. DC showed what he’s capable of last year but again I guess we are dumb to think he should take the next step. O’Dowd you probably have a point. I wasn’t expecting much out of him in the beginning and he hasn’t done much to make me think he can be a consistent contributor going forward. Guillemette was a solid contributor at USC and should be better at this point of the season. 3 experienced players and junior not getting it done consistently. This upcoming stretch of the schedule could be where these guys, along with the others that are struggling, find their groove. They go into conference playing good ball through out, and we look back at this time as growing pains or whatever. Or, they do the same with the upcoming schedule but when conference play starts against better competition, their inabilities start to shine again. We will have to come to the unfortunate conclusion that they are simply not that good, and Pierce fucked up in the off-season big time, weak NIL or not.

I’m not to 2019, yet. Our guys expected to produce are not getting it done at a high enough clip. Then you look at the inexperienced/young guys and see too many holes in their game. Take Faltine for example. He didn’t have the best bat but was already borderline elite in the field as freshman. He had guys with experience in front of him that could pick up the slack. Both Flores and Thompson at times look completely lost at the plate and in the field. Guys like Daly, DC, O’Dowd and Guillemette are not not consistently pulling their expected weight. Hopefully Powell can help put another spark in the lineup. Right now, Kennedy is the only guy in the lineup consistently worth a damn. You could maybe put Brown in their but he’s had some wtf moments.

Best pitcher didn’t have his best stuff Friday night, and then today get Arkansas’d. If we can’t learn to play a full nine and finish, the future is going to be hard to watch. Also, I don’t think I’ve seen this many hard hit balls right at the defense in such a short time frame. Maybe those start to fall.

Right down the fucking middle

Nah, it really hasn’t. He picks and chooses when it’s there. Whitehead can’t hit a ball and he also can’t watch a ball. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

He can’t hit pitches in the other batters box

O’Dowd is going to be a love\hate player this year.

Sucks for Campbell against LSU because he hit the ball well just right at them.

Solid first episode with nothing too impactful happening…Space whales! I still don’t understand Bo’s contradictive opinions on Mandos stupid cult traditions and her unwillingness to just take the dark saber. Also, I understand the Mandalorian armor is almost impossible to be practical in the real world but if you’re going to get a bunch of them running on sand and in water, make sure they at least look somewhat comfortable.

We’ve got some damn good young arms that have shown great upside. We better hope the bats show soon.

Pierce still searching for frosh AD but everyone and their dog knows he’s never coming back.

Lulz. You see one bad pitch and say that.

That was a gigantic meatball

Pierce better riot if they overturn this.

You blink and it’s already an 0-2 count.

Our bats are such a buzzkill