All I ask from our next baseball coach..............

[Hanmudog]

1. Quit losing the freaking showcase game on Super Bulldog Weekend. It blows a great chance to pump excitement into baseball.
2. Win the Governor's Cup and realize that it is a boost in a recruit's eyes even though it is not an SEC game.
3. Bunt, steal, sac fly, whatever....just manufacture some freaking runs somehow.
4. Host a regional no less than 3 out of every 4 years.

Is that really too much toask?

 

[saddawg]

I'm never gonna be satisfied in baseball til we win it all. I'll take just bowl games in football and making the tourny in basketball. I just think we realistically have a shot at the NC in baseball.

 

[Mjoelner]

5. Quit working the count and knock the piss out of the ball if you can hit it. I still think we beg for walks too much or try to get starting pitchers out of the game by increasing their pitch count instead of knocking them out of the game.

 

[KurtRambis4]

this is the one damn sport that i think we can reallistically win it all in and till that day comes, won't be satisfied. i mean wichita freakin' state, rice, oregon state (b2b) just to name a FEW...it really pisses me off. here we are, barely making the SEC tourney year in and year out...thanks jackie.

 

[Hanmudog]

I won't be 100% satisfied until we do win a national title but until you can be good enough to host a regional annually, beat your instate rival, and win in front of crowds..............it ain't happening. I have just reached my breaking point with MSU baseball. There are two games a year that have a bit of extra meaning and pump up fan excitement: Super Saturday and Governor's Cup. We have more often than not lost both every year and Polk blows it off like it was just another game and we just did not get the breaks. I have never seen fan apathy this bad for MSU baseball. Football yes. Basketball yes. But MSU baseball???? Listening to the quotes from the players is driving me nuts too. It is like they care even less than Polk does. I am a nut hair away from saying "17 them" and I hope they lose the rest of their games.

 

[Goat Holder]

We could have won the National Title last year if Polk wasn't so senile.

And apathy is about the worst thing for any MSU sport. As if we have already don't have a small enough fanbase. The losing forcing change, not the fans reaction.

 

[Todd4State]

we did win the Governor's Cup last year, but I think some of that was because the year before David Murray had the gall to ask Polk why we couldn't win that game, and Polk blew a gasket saying "This is not football." and ended the interview right there.

But I do see your point- there were a few years where we went into that game and Ole Miss was pumped up and out for blood, and we were pitching a true Fr. walk-on from JA and trying to act "classy". I must say after we got embarassed, I didn't feel much better about being "classy".

 

[OMlawdog]

MSU had a good team but not a great team, and it got the job done and went to Omaha. You can't win a National Title with suspect starting pitching, and after Pigott, the starting pitching was thin.</p>

I think Polk did a great job last year, obviously he hasn't done a great job in recruiting because he was unable to replace Easley, Moreland and Rea.</p>

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[Goat Holder]

Polk again held us back. North Carolina game, anyone? He didn't mean to, he's just operating on a lower level because of his age, NCAA fights, etc. I, unlike others, think we've recruited well. We still get whoever we want. I think Polk's on field decisions have sucked lately. We strand more batters than we ever have, as hard as that is to believe. We leave pitchers in 3 batters too long instead of 2.

Oregon State was in the same boat as us, and their coach did an outstanding job in Omaha. Polk did not.

Just because I said we could have won the Title, you don't have to put me back in my place. We could have, I know it and believe it. We were just as capable as the other 7 teams there.

 

[vhdawg]

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[Stormrider81]

If you had lined up all the teams and played a quick game of "which of these things aren't like the others" people would have promptly pointed to our team. We didn't have the pitching to win the CWS. That being said, we certainly could have put up more of a fight than we did. When we predictably lost the lead to UNC we quit. Our showing against an equally inexperienced Louisville club was beyond pathetic. We had 3 great hitters, one starting pitcher capable of pulling a great performance every now and then, and 3-4 really good relief pitchers. We came together and played well for two weekends but let's not go overboard here.

 

[patdog]

We weren't even close to being the 7th best team at the CWS last year. We were an average SEC team that got hot at the right time to get to the CWS but then fell back to earth when we got there.

 

[Goat Holder]

except that they continued the hot streak into the CWS.

 

[Todd4State]

Yes, my personal favorite.

The other was after we got beat by USC, mainly because Steve Gendron couldn't field a ground ball it. This came up in the postgame interview on the radio, and Polk said that Gendron "lost the ball in the stands because the ball bounced up in front of someone wearing a white t-shirt, causing Steve to misplay the ball". (Nevermind that the ball was on the ground, and Gendron shouldn't have been looking at the ball and not at anyone in the stands, unless they're a really hot chick). One of my friends that I went with to the game, was wearing, you guessed it, a white t-shirt. I then promptly hit him in the back of the head sarcastically and we talked about how ridiculous the "excuse" was.

 

[cowbell9]

and...bingo, bango ,bongo...NC's. Go figure.

 

[clandbulldog]

Just kidding--got your joke man!