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aTotal360

aTotal360

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1) They would rather face Pedro circa 2000 than Girado
2) Wes Rae is older than Greg Oden
3) Wes Rae looks like he's wondering if the fish are bitin' (personal favorite)
4) The Pirates should call up Frazier immediately
5) One poster thinks its unfair that we have "Cy Young and Kenny Powers"

They got some solid posters over there. Unfortunately the board format is teh suk.
http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/baseball/
 
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crushing

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Probably meant "Donk's home run was big". Don't know where the Donkey reference would come from, I could be wrong though.
 
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Ha. Those are great. Wonder why they sent only their ****** posters over here...
 
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thekimmer

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You remember Polk had a thing about appearance....

Hair had to be short and neat. Only facial hair allowed was neatly trimmed staches. Shoes shined before every game and so on. Cohen obviously does not carry on that tradition.
 
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lasher8

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I think he also didn't allow gold chains.

thekimmer said:
Hair had to be short and neat. Only facial hair allowed was neatly trimmed staches. Shoes shined before every game and so on. Cohen obviously does not carry on that tradition.
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esplanade91

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aTotal360 said:
1) They would rather face Pedro circa 2000 than Girado
2) Wes Rae is older than Greg Oden
3) Wes Rae looks like he's wondering if the fish are bitin' (personal favorite)
4) The Pirates should call up Frazier immediately
5) One poster thinks its unfair that we have "Cy Young and Kenny Powers"

They got some solid posters over there. Unfortunately the board format is teh suk.
http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/baseball/
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My personal favorite was "Is it just me or does Mississippi State have the roughest looking baseball players in the country? Do they even attend class? They look like they drive lumber trucks for a living."

NCDawg said:
Wish Rea would consider playing football. We could use him at OG or OT.
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Funny story how he ended up at MSU playing baseball. I get a chuckle out of the analysts saying "turned down a lot of big offers because his heart was with baseball" when it's not necessarily true. He had 1 foot in the door at LSU to play football but I don't believe they were that honest with him upfront. I'm not 100% but I think they led him on to believe he had a scholarship and when he made his way to to Corndogville to meet with some coaches they wanted him to walk-on. The story goes he was so pissed he gave up football and accepted his best baseball offer - which happened to be us because most everyone thought he was going to play football. So it's somewhat true, he certainly had other offers to play football, but none of them were LSU. Left a bad taste in his mouth I suppose. Getting recruited to play football can do that to you I guess.

True story, first night I met him we tried to prank call Urban Meyer. Freshmen year he had every football coach you can imagine in his address book of his phone.

We REALLY need a RT, and had he come in in 2010 and gone through the Balis meat grinder he'd be primed to have a great year this coming year. Ever heard of another offensive tackle that play D1 baseball at the highest level?
 
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Xenomorph

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I'll bet if this team wasn't on the cusp of Omaha.. say, if we hadn't even..

..made the SECT, there would be a few folks chirping about the appearance of some of our guys.

But once you win 20 in the show you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes.....
 
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esplanade91

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thekimmer said:
Hair had to be short and neat. Only facial hair allowed was neatly trimmed staches. Shoes shined before every game and so on. Cohen obviously does not carry on that tradition.
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He also never married, never had kids, and had a "roommate"...

The point of a coach having all those rules is to establish accountability and demand respect. I don't think Cohen needs to tell players to cut their hair to do that, and this is 2013... I think the days of 70 year old coaches making their players keep a clean shave is over.
 
Requiem For A Dawg

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Xenomorph said:
..made the SECT, there would be a few folks chirping about the appearance of some of our guys.

But once you win 20 in the show you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes.....
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I've never understood why this is a big unwritten rule in baseball about looking neat and clean.
 
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#Hailstate16

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No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
 
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lasher8

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Lot's of teams do. I've always noticed the gold chains. I haven't noticed the UVA players wearing them, though, but maybe I haven't been paying that much attn to it. They do kinda have the cleancut look that Polk always required.

Barkman Turner Overdrive said:
No doubt. We look like a mob family on summer vacation at the Jersey Shore.
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#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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Not sure if serious?

If "Bush league as hell" gets us to Omaha, then you can shove your 17ing etiquette.
 
J-Dawg

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#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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What a stupid post. I bet you believe uniforms decide the fate of games, too.
 
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lasher8

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I think you need to take another look. You're being just a bit broad with your generalization. And BUSH LEAGUE??? because they look a little scruffy??? you gotta be 17n kidding, right???

#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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shoeless joe

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#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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Armstrong and Henderson are clean cut wonder why you didn't name them***

Name one thing this team does that is bush league? One thing...
All you got is there appearance which is stupid and makes you look like a clown for even saying it.
 
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#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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Baseball is a game. Games are supposed to be fun.

If this team is bush league, so is 85% of every team in college baseball.
 
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esplanade91

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#Hailstate16 said:
No, the point of having those rules is because it is baseball etiquette. Outside of Pirtle, Renfroe, Graveman, Girado, Frost, and Frazier, this team is as bush league as hell.
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Post of the year. Our 47 (potentially more) win team is Bush League. When's the last time you watched an MLB game, buddy? What good did keeping their shoes shined do for all those marvelous Polk teams?

CadaverDawg said:
Not sure if serious?

If "Bush league as hell" gets us to Omaha, then you can shove your 17ing etiquette.
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Basketball and football keep getting further and further ahead of baseball in popularity because they have both abandoned the Bud Selig model of "keep it the same way it was in 1920" and there's no sign of it letting up. This isn't 1956 where the baseball team finishes a game and the starting pitcher takes dad's Bel-Air to pick up his best gal and takes her to the soda shop and spends one week's wages (5 cents) on 2 songs on the jukebox.

"Etiquette"... whatever the 17 that is in baseball... is Bush League. What a 17ing insult to our own team. "Well... we only won because Alabama didn't have great etiquette and instead had long hair and patchy facial hair."

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What a stupid post. I bet you believe uniforms decide the fate of games, too.
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I bet he's still bitching about basketball players not wearing daisy dukes and Chuck Taylor's.



ETA: Your beat-off material Frazier has long hair. I saw him on campus every day this year and he was more times than not wearing one of those headbands women wear to keep it down. Graveman has long hair too.
 
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#Hailstate16

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Ease up fellas... not much work getting done today waiting on three so I'm stirring the pot. I was taught by many a great baseball man(and yes, Polk is at the forefront of that group), that you were to be clean cut, clean shaven, cap on straight, jersey tucked in neatly, eye black lines straight, and cleats shined before every game. Unfortunately, the game is changing so it is something that must be accepted. Commentators said a few weeks back, that Cohen said a few years ago he wouldn't have allowed a lot of what goes on to have happened.
 
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esplanade91

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shoeless joe said:
Name one thing this team does that is bush league? One thing...
All you got is there appearance which is stupid and makes you look like a clown for even saying it.
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Thank you. As a team they made a 3.36 GPA last fall, which I believe is the highest ever for a Mississippi State baseball team in a single semester. They sure are Bush League.***

Polk's grooming recommendations did a lot of good where it counted.***
 
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rem101

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I bet you were really freaking out when the Redsox won as "the idiots" and all their long hair and unshaven faces.
 
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thekimmer

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Eh, I think its a personal preference, generational thing...

My personal preference is that I like a team that looks sharp and plays sharp but I'll take the plays sharp over the looks sharp of course. I'm also over (ahem) '35'. I think the player's appearance kind of mirrors how young guys roll today. Seems like its the thing to forgo shaving for long periods of time.
 
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esplanade91

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#Hailstate16 said:
Ease up fellas... not much work getting done today waiting on three so I'm stirring the pot. I was taught by many a great baseball man(and yes, Polk is at the forefront of that group), that you were to be clean cut, clean shaven, cap on straight, jersey tucked in neatly, eye black lines straight, and cleats shined before every game. Unfortunately, the game is changing so it is something that must be accepted. Commentators said a few weeks back, that Cohen said a few years ago he wouldn't have allowed a lot of what goes on to have happened.
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Apology accepted.

I'm glad Polk's way of running a team is a thing of the past. A guy on the team in the early 2000's told me he was openly racist (evident in the lack of black players on any of his teams) and I personally think he was a homosexual. Most of all he was a prick and didn't care about MSU as much as himself or his agenda.

In 30 years when people forget about everything about a coach except his W-L I'll have a different opinion.

You're allowed to disagree with me, but I also think this year's team's popularity is so ridiculous because of how they look like some scruffy misfits out there. Obviously the majority of the reason is wins, but "Kenny Powers" had a lot to do with it.
 
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There's something to be said for a neat appearance. Polk had the right idea, and I wish Cohen would adopt the same philosophy. But all in all, I think we look pretty neat, especially compared to football and basketball players.
 
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RocketDawg

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When LeBron James started in the NBA at 18, he looked about 30

Wes just turned 20 and he looks about 30.

When I was 30, I looked about 18. Most people thought I was a co-op student.
 
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One of these attributes doesn't really belong with the others.

esplanade91 said:
Apology accepted.

I'm glad Polk's way of running a team is a thing of the past. A guy on the team in the early 2000's told me he was openly racist (evident in the lack of black players on any of his teams) and I personally think he was a homosexual. Most of all he was a prick and didn't care about MSU as much as himself or his agenda.

In 30 years when people forget about everything about a coach except his W-L I'll have a different opinion.

You're allowed to disagree with me, but I also think this year's team's popularity is so ridiculous because of how they look like some scruffy misfits out there. Obviously the majority of the reason is wins, but "Kenny Powers" had a lot to do with it.
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shoeless joe

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#Hailstate16 said:
Ease up fellas... not much work getting done today waiting on three so I'm stirring the pot. I was taught by many a great baseball man(and yes, Polk is at the forefront of that group), that you were to be clean cut, clean shaven, cap on straight, jersey tucked in neatly, eye black lines straight, and cleats shined before every game. Unfortunately, the game is changing so it is something that must be accepted. Commentators said a few weeks back, that Cohen said a few years ago he wouldn't have allowed a lot of what goes on to have happened.
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in the game of baseball, being called bush league is about the worst that can be said about a team or player. To help you out here are some things that are "bush league"
1. Purposely lowering a shoulder into a runner while not making a play on the ball.
2. Overly celebrating a "routine" homerun or any hit for that matter. (See Joey pancake)
3. The fake bad throw into the outfield on a pick off.
4. Purposefully cutting bases. ( done mostly in high school with 2 man umpiring crew)
5. When a Guy steals a bag the SS or 2nd baseman saying "foul ball"
6. A coach leading cheers directed toward the other team or player

These are just a few off the top of my head and there are many more. The bad thing is a lot of these are done/taught in high school these days. However, none of these make me think of our baseball team.
 
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RocketDawg

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Crap, it oughta be that way in all sports ... and everyday life too. Seems like people want to look as sloppy as possible nowadays. What's wrong with looking neat and clean?
 
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