I'll tell ya what- all you people that want to compare Croom to Cohen- here's your chance.
I could take the %#%%#!@ (sorry) Bad News Bears and beat JSU. You can say that we are the Bad News Bears, but I'm fairly certain that the Bad News Bears have balls, and I would not want to disgrace the Bad News Bears when they don't deserve it.
That said- this is 100% on Cohen. We should NEVER lose to JSU in baseball, I don't care how bad we are. Yes, the umpiring was bad- I was there- but that said, there is no way on Earth that we should even be in a position against them to where the umpiring could even potantially have an effect on the game. If you want more evidence against Cohen, I submit this- Jaron Shepherd and Ryan Duffy were not in the lineup tonight. Duffy MAY have been hurt. I can excuse that a little bit, but by the fifth inning, when there is even a smidgen of a chance that the game could be close- put your big guns in- relatively speaking of course. Even worse, Jaron should have taken the last at bat, not a slumping Ryan Collins, who predictably grounded out to end the game. And again, there was no reason why this game should have been close. JSU doubled their hits against us. Unexcusable. Also we had more errors than they did. Also unexcusable. I'm not sure how or if we prepared for this game- meaning I don't know if we took batting practice or not, but whatever we did or did not do to prepare, it should be totally rexamined.
Honestly, Cohen is lucky that we do not have an AD right now, because I would have to fire him after this. I don't care how bad the situation is. You just don't do this. And yes, I still like him personally, but unlike the Polk cronies, I love MSU baseball more than I like Cohen. Before tonight, I said that year four would be fair to judge him. After tonight, go ahead and trim off a year. He better hope that these freshmen coming in are as good as he (and I'll admit it, I to) think they are going to be. Because honestly, they are about the only thing that can save him at the moment in my eyes.
I think I've bashed on Cohen enough now. I do know enough about baseball to know that the coach can only do so much. If I'm going to pick a goat tonight- and I have a whole %#%%#!@ herd her to pick from- it would have to be Cody Freeman who let JSU run at will, threw a ball into CF that eventually allowed one run to come in, and then could not block a ball allowing another run to come in. He had a complete performance by not doing **** at the plate.
As far as the hitters in general- they tried to work the count even though the umpire had a homer strike zone that moved around. And just to be clear again- no, I'm not blaming this on the umpire. What I am blaming it on is the hitters who kept trying to work walks. When an umpire has a wide strike zone, swing the bat. And yes, I know that caused us to swing at some bad pitches, but ****, that's better than standing there and hoping the SWAC umpire is going to call it fairly when he hasn't done that all evening.
And I also finally want to respond to another post on BDJ about the upperclassmen having "more pride than the freshmen who don't know what it means to play for MSU"- that had very little credibility with me to start with, and now it's just laughable because I know MSU baseball, and this is sure the hell not what it's about. I hope our freshmen don't learn how to play like Jet Butler and Ryan Collins. I mean ****. And especially tonight when our best player other than Conner Powers was one of those freshmen-Kendall Graveman- who "lacked pride".
Finally again- that's why it's called a rant people- all of you talking about Oregon- it's pretty clear we made a mistake. We should have just cut everyone, shut the program down for a year, and then started all over agian. At least Oregon didn't have to deal with a bunch ****** players with ****** attitudes that play the game the wrong way. SO to the players, I say this. Nothing is better than you. !%$# you.
Love, Todd4State
I could take the %#%%#!@ (sorry) Bad News Bears and beat JSU. You can say that we are the Bad News Bears, but I'm fairly certain that the Bad News Bears have balls, and I would not want to disgrace the Bad News Bears when they don't deserve it.
That said- this is 100% on Cohen. We should NEVER lose to JSU in baseball, I don't care how bad we are. Yes, the umpiring was bad- I was there- but that said, there is no way on Earth that we should even be in a position against them to where the umpiring could even potantially have an effect on the game. If you want more evidence against Cohen, I submit this- Jaron Shepherd and Ryan Duffy were not in the lineup tonight. Duffy MAY have been hurt. I can excuse that a little bit, but by the fifth inning, when there is even a smidgen of a chance that the game could be close- put your big guns in- relatively speaking of course. Even worse, Jaron should have taken the last at bat, not a slumping Ryan Collins, who predictably grounded out to end the game. And again, there was no reason why this game should have been close. JSU doubled their hits against us. Unexcusable. Also we had more errors than they did. Also unexcusable. I'm not sure how or if we prepared for this game- meaning I don't know if we took batting practice or not, but whatever we did or did not do to prepare, it should be totally rexamined.
Honestly, Cohen is lucky that we do not have an AD right now, because I would have to fire him after this. I don't care how bad the situation is. You just don't do this. And yes, I still like him personally, but unlike the Polk cronies, I love MSU baseball more than I like Cohen. Before tonight, I said that year four would be fair to judge him. After tonight, go ahead and trim off a year. He better hope that these freshmen coming in are as good as he (and I'll admit it, I to) think they are going to be. Because honestly, they are about the only thing that can save him at the moment in my eyes.
I think I've bashed on Cohen enough now. I do know enough about baseball to know that the coach can only do so much. If I'm going to pick a goat tonight- and I have a whole %#%%#!@ herd her to pick from- it would have to be Cody Freeman who let JSU run at will, threw a ball into CF that eventually allowed one run to come in, and then could not block a ball allowing another run to come in. He had a complete performance by not doing **** at the plate.
As far as the hitters in general- they tried to work the count even though the umpire had a homer strike zone that moved around. And just to be clear again- no, I'm not blaming this on the umpire. What I am blaming it on is the hitters who kept trying to work walks. When an umpire has a wide strike zone, swing the bat. And yes, I know that caused us to swing at some bad pitches, but ****, that's better than standing there and hoping the SWAC umpire is going to call it fairly when he hasn't done that all evening.
And I also finally want to respond to another post on BDJ about the upperclassmen having "more pride than the freshmen who don't know what it means to play for MSU"- that had very little credibility with me to start with, and now it's just laughable because I know MSU baseball, and this is sure the hell not what it's about. I hope our freshmen don't learn how to play like Jet Butler and Ryan Collins. I mean ****. And especially tonight when our best player other than Conner Powers was one of those freshmen-Kendall Graveman- who "lacked pride".
Finally again- that's why it's called a rant people- all of you talking about Oregon- it's pretty clear we made a mistake. We should have just cut everyone, shut the program down for a year, and then started all over agian. At least Oregon didn't have to deal with a bunch ****** players with ****** attitudes that play the game the wrong way. SO to the players, I say this. Nothing is better than you. !%$# you.
Love, Todd4State
