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Gators off to a good start at the Hoover Met today, up 5 to 1 and still batting in the top of the 3rd.
 

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We always blame the coaches...
JB, ultimately the coaches have to bear the responsibility. It might not seem fair to some, but in truth the great majority of coaches in all sports understand and accept that. A part of all successful coaches is wanting to prove the naysayers wrong, but that certainly isn’t the end-all. O’Sullivan will most likely never publicly tell the truth about an under-performing player(s), but they’ll somehow get better or get gone.

The trick for him, as it is for all coaches, is to keep signing the best players and figure out the chemistry along the way. He may even autopsy this season and decide that there’s some things he and his staff will have to do better ;). He’s a pro and he’s shown he knows how to bounce back. Whether that means another CWS title remains to be seen. Also, he’s not gonna be here forever. When that time comes, I just hope we don’t wind up with a Mike Jr. like F$U and I’m not referencing nepotism.
 

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Gators strike again in top of 7th. 13-1. 3 outs from run rule situation.
 

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This is going to be a good win for us today, shall we hold on. Not because Cowbell put their best team on the field, they did not. They started a shyt pitcher, but guess what, that is not UF's issue. You play the team that is on the field. This tourney is meaningless to ARK, Vandy, MSU and Tinerc and they are treating it as an intrasquad scrimmage. But for us if anything is learned from today is PUT BALL in PLAY. Just play the team in front of you and regardless of result, just try to improve on something. And today that was PUT BALL in PLAY.
 

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Good thing is we only used one pitcher today, saved the bullpen.

We really don;t have one LOL. Besides putting the ball in play, here is another positive from having a minimum of 2 more games. Hopefully we will have to use some of those no name shyt frosh pitchers that sucked mid week all season and maybe, just maybe we will find one who have found something, ala Tyler Dyson in 2017, who sucked all of 2017 but was the savior in the Supers and the WS.
 

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This is going to be a good win for us today, shall we hold on. Not because Cowbell put their best team on the field, they did not. They started a shyt pitcher, but guess what, that is not UF's issue. You play the team that is on the field. This tourney is meaningless to ARK, Vandy, MSU and Tinerc and they are treating it as an intrasquad scrimmage. But for us if anything is learned from today is PUT BALL in PLAY. Just play the team in front of you and regardless of result, just try to improve on something. And today that was PUT BALL in PLAY.
That's the way we treated this tournament a few years ago.
 

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1) good to win an early game.
2) even better to clobber your well-regarded opponent -- it's the best pep talk ever.
3) in elimination baseball it more means that they can repeat it than that they never could.
4) you're correct, too much this year this team hasn't succeeded in concentrating on making contact with the pitch.??
5) let us hope that our guys learned enough today to play better going forward.
6) plenty of things to remedy in the coming seasons, but this season is full upon us right now.
7) somebody can eliminate us, or we can eliminate them.
8) I'll be nervously watching and hoping to celebrate. Go Gators.
 
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But it is not the way a SEC tourney should be treated. Perhaps the SEC regular season should be shortened by a week so teams could play the tournament and still recuperate for the regionals.
I'm in total agreement with you. Over the past few years when I go to Bham to see the Gators we have been shellacked. I like to WIN the thing. This year we have no choice but to put our best foot forward and win the thing!
 

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We don't practice sliding technique enough. I think we should slide some while in the on-deck circle. :cool:
 
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Wow didn't see this one coming. HUGE blowout win vs a top 8 team/program. I see some trying to explain it away(as expected) that MSU wasn't using their best players but that is not our fault and we run ruled them and DESTROYED them. Barco dynamic yet again with only 4 hits and 1 run allowed to improve his record to 10-2. Some complained last game that we didn't get enough hits in the WIN but today we get 18 hits and 13 runs and we only struck out 3 times! Gators only hit the 1 HR and used small ball to drive in runs which is something many have complained about all season or all of Sully's career I guess. Great win for the Gators today no doubt.
 

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Wow didn't see this one coming. HUGE blowout win vs a top 8 team/program. I see some trying to explain it away(as expected) that MSU wasn't using their best players but that is not our fault and we run ruled them and DESTROYED them. Barco dynamic yet again with only 4 hits and 1 run allowed to improve his record to 10-2. Some complained last game that we didn't get enough hits in the WIN but today we get 18 hits and 13 runs and we only struck out 3 times! Gators only hit the 1 HR and used small ball to drive in runs which is something many have complained about all season or all of Sully's career I guess. Great win for the Gators today no doubt.
Great win and we took advantage of the fact that MSU decided to pack it in, rest up and wait for the regionals. Barco does look good and that a huge plus. Now lets see how we do today with a Bama team that won't pack it in but may be out of pitching.
 

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