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I get what Cardboards is saying. When Tennessee is presented with an opportunity, like FAU, your best bet is against Tennessee. That's why that Alabama win was so cathritic. It felt like we were finally offing that chicken. Then South Carolina....

LSU is good. I don't think we had a good game. The Vitello bullpen decision stands out. LSU had the bunting gaffs, so there's the other side of that.
 
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Weezy said:
I get what Cardboards is saying. When Tennessee is presented with an opportunity, like FAU, your best bet is against Tennessee. That's why that Alabama win was so cathritic. It felt like we were finally offing that chicken. Then South Carolina....

LSU is good. I don't think we had a good game. The Vitello bullpen decision stands out. LSU had the bunting gaffs, so there's the other side of that.
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The last couple of years, that'd actually be a hell of a losing strategy. I mean, assuming you bet against Tennessee at every opportunity (not just the losses you're choosing to focus on).

If you have a big opportunity, that means almost always, by definition, you succeeded in some other big opportunity before that. The FAU game was huge because we had beaten Duke to get there. The LSU game was huge because we beat Stanford to get there. We were in the CWS to begin with because we beat USM in Daddiesburg to get there. We were playing USM because we beat Clemson in Clemson to get there. You're just ignoring all that and focusing on the final game, which was a loss.

If we were the team you and Cardboards are describing, baseball wouldn't have even gotten to Regionals, or gotten there and lost to Clemson in some really painful fashion, or gotten by Clemson and then lost out of nowhere to Charlotte. Or beaten Clemson, but lost to USM. Or made the CWS, but gone 0-2. Basketball would have lost to Duke. Football would have lost to LSU and Alabama last year, maybe even Florida.

I'm kind of amazed at how ingrained the BVS is. In the Dooley/Butch/Pruitt/Cuonzo/Donnie/Dave Hart/Currie/Raleigh/Serrano era, it worked, but it isn't cute to play the "we're so bad or unlucky" thing when your teams are actually pretty good now. We made the CWS...nobody feels bad for us anymore.
 
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I've acrually had trouble explaining to people WHY Tennessee's fans reacted the way they did to the Alabama win past just beating them. It was 15+ years of just bad/hard to describe losses and just getting our brains beat in over and over again. It was just pure catharsis for everyone, from fans to coaches and players.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
I've had trouble explaining to people WHY Tennessee's fans reacted the way they did to the Alabama win past just beating them. It was 15+ years of just bad/hard to describe losses and just getting our brains beat in over and over again. It was just pure catharsis for everyone, from fans to coaches and players.
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Congrats on the correct spelling.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
I'm not worried about what LSU fans think.
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This is going to be hard to believe but

The vast majority of things they don’t actually control. You workout in the off-season to get stronger. You take practice rep after practice rep to try to hone hand eye coordination and ingrain muscle memory. You have a scouting report. You have a plan. You have an approach. You swing at the right pitches. You take the wrong pitches. You choose the most logical pitch the throw. You position yourself as best you can. You know the wind. You know the situation. You read the ball off the bat, out of the hand, off the ground, in the air, etc as best you can. You do all of this work to put yourself in the best possible position to have success but it does not in fact guarantee anything.

People are so outcome driven. People control so little of their outcomes. Give yourself, through preparation, practice and decision making, the best and most chances to succeed and then enjoy the ride. Because you/they don’t control it.
 
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TBrown said:
This is going to be hard to believe but

The vast majority of things they don’t actually control. You workout in the off-season to get stronger. You take practice rep after practice rep to try to hone hand eye coordination and ingrain muscle memory. You have a scouting report. You have a plan. You have an approach. You swing at the right pitches. You take the wrong pitches. You choose the most logical pitch the throw. You position yourself as best you can. You know the wind. You know the situation. You read the ball off the bat, out of the hand, off the ground, in the air, etc as best you can. You do all of this work to put yourself in the best possible position to have success but it does not in fact guarantee anything.

People are so outcome driven. People control so little of their outcomes. Give yourself, through preparation, practice and decision making, the best and most chances to succeed and then enjoy the ride. Because you/they don’t control it.
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Prepare. Cards fall = where they may
 
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TBrown said:
This is going to be hard to believe but

The vast majority of things they don’t actually control. You workout in the off-season to get stronger. You take practice rep after practice rep to try to hone hand eye coordination and ingrain muscle memory. You have a scouting report. You have a plan. You have an approach. You swing at the right pitches. You take the wrong pitches. You choose the most logical pitch the throw. You position yourself as best you can. You know the wind. You know the situation. You read the ball off the bat, out of the hand, off the ground, in the air, etc as best you can. You do all of this work to put yourself in the best possible position to have success but it does not in fact guarantee anything.

People are so outcome driven. People control so little of their outcomes. Give yourself, through preparation, practice and decision making, the best and most chances to succeed and then enjoy the ride. Because you/they don’t control it.
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More is controlled than you're giving them credit for.
 
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What a ride these last couple of pages have been.

Proud of the team and their accomplishments. Google how many teams there are in D1 baseball and be proud your Vols were one of the last 6 standing.
Some people’s kids, I swear.
 
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