Wow. Ok now can we doubt this team. Jeez. or is this just another streak. I think we are just plain bad. bad luck. 17-2 and you call that bad luck.
FWIW Sac State swept Hawaii. They also have some pretty good wins (to go along with some horrible losses). But yea I have no clue what happened to us tonight.
I was asking Ford this and I am really not quite sure but what does it take to be considered a balk? Their starting pitcher seemed to be twitching his wrist all night while starting his motion when he pulls his hand from his glove. I kept having to look twice because he made it seem like he has dropping the ball when trying to throw.
At least we got a safety.
So when do you think they will start changing things up a little. Are these loses beginning to take a toll?
I think that most of the balks have been called because our pitchers are not coming to a stop when they're pitching from the stretch.This is a "brain fart" which goes back to the lack of confidence and mental toughness on our staff right now.
We only won 14 conference games last year out of the 24 -
Which means we won 21 of 32 OOC games -
We padded the record on weak OOC games -
We probably weren't as good as we THOUGHT we were -
This year we lost 1/4 of our OOC wins on the schedule due to the rule change -
Maybe we just aren't as good as we thought we were - maybe we are mediocre at best -
It all starts with the pitching - which outside of Jericho right now is hit or miss at best -
When you are behind by 5 runs or more each and every game the batters seem to press to try and catch up which as a very bad effect -
Throw in the fact that the WAC is NOT very a good baseball conference -
Throw in the ridiculous travel and 4 game conference series and you have the POTENTIAL makings of a VERY disappointing season -
If they don't right the ship and in a hurry - they will not be playing in the tournament they are hosting -
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Last edited by Dwayne From Minden; 04-04-2008 at 09:02 AM.
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
I believe it is all a mental meltdown. I feel they really had some big time confidence and potential but when that walk off homer took the beakthrough chance of us beating Ark, we have not been the same since that moment in time. It rocked our team. Then we thought we were not as good as we thought we were and it has gotten worse.
"We'll lead, you follow, everyone else...get the hell out of the way" ~ Kerry Rupp
30 runs in the first inning in our games to this point says alot. Pitching sucks!
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