A Sea Of Red

Just so I had a place to put this link ... weekend primer:

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/liber ... b2370.html

Wow... you know someone's dropping the ball when the official scribe of LU has to create his own thread to post the link to his write-up for the next weekend series........

I don't think Sly has put up a thread in weeks. Where is he at anyway?

It has been quiet around here

In the past four weeks I haven't left North America and yet I have flown over 20k miles (Anchorage, Calgary, Jacksonville, Seattle twice). It is tough to post bleary-eyed in airports. I am glad to see others have picked up the torch for me this season in baseball.

The squad is playing great right now. Hopefully they stay focused against the Calvinists.

Looking at our roster and our stats for the year coming into this weekend, I would save Lyons and Fulghum for the midweek set (though Blake could come in relief but need to seriously watch his innings) Id say it comes down to either Bean or Stafford (IMO) for the Sunday spot. Without the game at Maryland I think its an easy choice between Lyons and Fulghum with the latter starting against Duke.

We win 5-0 on a one hit complete shut out by Lambert. (I think 1 hit, I looked very quickly). Regardless, good win, a sweep would be real nice and achievable as well.

I dont think stafford will be stretched out enough to start. Lambert going 9 was huge today. Would love to see herndon go deep tom as well. The next 2 weeks are all about our starters going deep into games

its an important decision because Bean struggled in his last start so it makes it more of a challenging decision because you want to have both Fulghum and Lyons available for the midweek pair (another situation comes up when we face Longwood then double up with Virginia Tech and JMU).

Flames up 4-0 in game 2. Close & Seiz with homers today.

Flames up 7-0 in the 8th inning and have now held PC scoreless 18 straight innings

LU wins 8-0

TCB

TCB?

taking care of business..come on beej

Going for yet another sweep tomorrow. Be interesting to see who Toman gives the ball to tomorrow

Beej, we have a pitching rotation for a reason.

I know Jon...but remember, Lang noted in his preview in the OP that Bean struggled last time out and has had a couple rough outings as the Sunday starter.

BJ, we can't have this conversation every weekend. It's a big deal to change up weekend rotation, change rest patterns for guys. It's something that inconsistent and teams that are not solid do. That's really not us anymore...we have solid veterans where we need them: Friday night and important weekday games, and we have talented big projectable arms on Saturday and Sunday. Bean is a freshman that will be on the weekend the rest of his career and is learning and getting better. Struggles happen to every freshman....that's why he isn't on Friday yet. The way we are playing - the midweek games we have coming up are absolutely crucial and it is better to have Lyons there.

Unless he falls in the shower, gets attacked by a bear, cuts his finger off with the plastic fork at the hotel breakfast, trips going up the stairs on the bus, sneezes and throws his back out, steps on a cactus with his bare foot, cuts himself with a fishing knife, hits his hand on a ceiling fan, drops his suitcase on his hand while looking for a sock under his bed, hurt his arm high fiving Grauer in warm ups, pulls his back out while throwing up, falls off a trampoline, or tears his ACL while falling down a hill, Bean is going to start.

Bean didn't do that bad. As long as there is that huge hole between first and second there is going to be a lot of singles to the right side. Second base cant play in the outfield on top of second. Some of those "hits" should not have happened. Also too many singles to shortstop. When we come against fast running teams it is going to hurt us.

I'll defer the point then...with the extra game and with Bean struggling last time out, it had me thinking.

SuperJon wrote:Unless he falls in the shower, gets attacked by a bear, cuts his finger off with the plastic fork at the hotel breakfast, trips going up the stairs on the bus, sneezes and throws his back out, steps on a cactus with his bare foot, cuts himself with a fishing knife, hits his hand on a ceiling fan, drops his suitcase on his hand while looking for a sock under his bed, hurt his arm high fiving Grauer in warm ups, pulls his back out while throwing up, falls off a trampoline, or tears his ACL while falling down a hill, Bean is going to start.

What if he gets food poisoning from eating brunch at Arosto? Is there a plan in place for such an occurrence?

That would be tough considering they are in South Carolina. Unlike our friend in this thread, I like to keep my hypotheticals to things that can actually happen.

SuperJon wrote:That would be tough considering they are in South Carolina. Unlike our friend in this thread, I like to keep my hypotheticals to things that can actually happen.

They have bears in SC? I'm thinking not many outside the Columbia zoo, but I'm sure Cary Green could tell us where they are.