The Official #10 Auburn @ #12 Tennessee Series Thread (Sat. May 3 11AM EDT) (Sun. May 4 1PM EDT) (Sun. May 4 45 mins after) (All games SECNET+)

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VOL931 said:
Why though? Why not play someone else who gives the team a better chance to win? Isn't this a TEAM SPORT? I never did understand this line of thinking. He can sit the bench like anyone else. Talent?? Use it then!
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Baseball is probably the most chemistry based sport there is while simultaneously somehow basically being an individual sport at its core. It’s hard to explain but he’s right.
 
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VOL931 said:
Why though? Why not play someone else who gives the team a better chance to win? Isn't this a TEAM SPORT? I never did understand this line of thinking. He can sit the bench like anyone else. Talent?? Use it then!
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If you bench Curley he will check out mentally. Curley needs to play to to work out of this funk he is in.
 
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utVolFanInVA said:
Youngest team? Not sure that is so true ...

TN has 9 players with 80+ ABs:
1 = R-SR: Ensley
4 = JR: Chapman, Fischer, Bargo & Peebles
1 = SO: Curely
3 = FR: Marin, Abernathy & Clark

AUB has 10 players with 90+ ABs:
1 = R-SR: McMurray
1 = SR: Fabian
3 = JR: Irish, Snow & Steele
2 = SO: Belyeu & Carter
3 = FR: Fralick, Rembert & Terrell
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D1 Baseball says TN has youngest team in SEC. FL is 2nd youngest.
 
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CobbWebb71 said:
Maybe he hasn’t realized he’s that guy yet.
Burke also had one of the most dangerous lineups in college baseball history batting around him too.
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That's another thing I think fans forget. Teams feared our lineup last season ,this season not so much. When you lose 120+ homeruns to draft you're going to have a down year in power. Fischer most likely will be only 20+ homerun hitter this season. Last year there was 5 or 6. Big difference..
 
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txbo said:
Curley has too much talent to bench him. Gotta let him work it out. Bet he’ll be there for us when we need him.
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It is past time for him to show that he deserves to be on the field. He is error prone and his bat is not producing. He has given up more runs with his glove than he has hits. They moved him from third to second and made another error the first game at second. He is, as of now, a liability to the team. We hit into double plays because of poor base running. We take third called strikes more than we strike out swinging. We have difficulty throwing out bunters and throwing out base stealers. We let pop flies fall with three players standing around the ball I am in disbelief of what I have seen on the field the last 2-3 weeks. I know the team is being coached, but is not being related to the field during games.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
That's another thing I think fans forget. Teams feared our lineup last season ,this season not so much. When you lose 120+ homeruns to draft you're going to have a down year in power. Fischer most likely will be only 20+ homerun hitter this season. Last year there was 5 or 6. Big difference..
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Yep. I'm not giving up on this season nor our players in their draft year, but I do think you fill out the lineup card with an eye toward next season going forward.
 
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Will Heflin just made an overall statement with which I am in agreement —— “Tennessee isn’t doing anything well right now - nothing!” “They won game 2 with a walk-off but weren’t competitive in game 3.”

Big series ahead with Vandy. Go Vols.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I’m disappointed in how this season has ended up, but I can’t say I’m surprised. I think this is one of those years where Tony’s decision to schedule soft in the non-conference fooled the fans. We lost basically the entire team this off-season, and the hot start had some making ridiculous claims about this year’s team being potentially better than last year’s team. It wasn’t fair to the guys then to have that type of pressure.

Truth is, this team is young and lacks an identity. It’s a rebuild year and the 20-0 start had us thinking it wasn’t. I think ultimately this team just doesn’t have it, which is completely understandable. I think next year the struggles from this season probably pay off.
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I've had the same thoughts. Just hoping we are right. This group doesn't seem to have a team personality like we are used to.
A couple of guys show some fight, but overall not so much. Gotta love Liam Doyle.

Really gotta love Coach Vitello. He let the entire umpire crew know what he thought of them collectively and then one by one !!
I think he also was expressing the frustration that has probably been building for awhile. The man hates to lose.
 
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On another note ............ where in the hell are all our fans ?
Defending national champions and we can't fill the place for a conference game ?
We lose some games and now our "best fan base in the country" loses interest ?
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I’m disappointed in how this season has ended up, but I can’t say I’m surprised. I think this is one of those years where Tony’s decision to schedule soft in the non-conference fooled the fans. We lost basically the entire team this off-season, and the hot start had some making ridiculous claims about this year’s team being potentially better than last year’s team. It wasn’t fair to the guys then to have that type of pressure.

Truth is, this team is young and lacks an identity. It’s a rebuild year and the 20-0 start had us thinking it wasn’t. I think ultimately this team just doesn’t have it, which is completely understandable. I think next year the struggles from this season probably pay off.
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I've followed your basketball analysis for years now, so I respect your opinion, but I couldn't disagree more. First, the season hasn't ended, so it's premature to be disappointed in an outcome that is yet to be determined. I think it's funny in basketball, Barnes and squads have arguably given us the best decade of basketball most middle age TN fans have ever seen in their life, yet every season the "beauty of the regular season" is always negated because the dialogue is always "well, let's wait and see what they do in march. They crap the bed every year."

Why is it with baseball, fans care more about the regular season than the post season? It's odd, because baseball is the one sport that a .500 team can get hot for a two week stretch and end up in a championship series in Omaha. This is THE sport where post season play is a great equalizer. We're not losing to scrubs. We play in THE best baseball conference on the planet, and any of the SEC squads could hoist the trophy in a month. That is why you don't go out and schedule a brutal non-conference schedule when you're going to play 7 ranked series in the SEC. The idea that we're scheduling soft isn't even true either, as they've played in some of the premier tournaments in Texas over the last several years and did fine. Won the Shriner's classic this year... which brings me to my last point, and it won't be a popular one. I'd rather be a 13 seed matched up with a non-conference rival in their park for Supers, than be a 4 seed paired with an SEC rival at home in Supers. Give me a Coastal Carolina, a DBU, hell - send us west. Give me anyone but an SEC team. This league has shown time and time again that it eats its own during the regular season but that any of those teams can find themselves in Omaha (see TN's win at Clemson and then Southern Miss a few years ago). The doom and gloom meltdown is a bit dramatic, because if you've watched this league long enough, you know that none of this matters right now.
 
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vol_smoothie said:
On another note ............ where in the hell are all our fans ?
Defending national champions and we can't fill the place for a conference game ?
We lose some games and now our "best fan base in the country" loses interest ?
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The weather messed up the whole series
 
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Volstylexx said:
I've followed your basketball analysis for years now, so I respect your opinion, but I couldn't disagree more. First, the season hasn't ended, so it's premature to be disappointed in an outcome that is yet to be determined. I think it's funny in basketball, Barnes and squads have arguably given us the best decade of basketball most middle age TN fans have ever seen in their life, yet every season the "beauty of the regular season" is always negated because the dialogue is always "well, let's wait and see what they do in march. They crap the bed every year."

Why is it with baseball, fans care more about the regular season than the post season? It's odd, because baseball is the one sport that a .500 team can get hot for a two week stretch and end up in a championship series in Omaha. This is THE sport where post season play is a great equalizer. We're not losing to scrubs. We play in THE best baseball conference on the planet, and any of the SEC squads could hoist the trophy in a month. That is why you don't go out and schedule a brutal non-conference schedule when you're going to play 7 ranked series in the SEC. The idea that we're scheduling soft isn't even true either, as they've played in some of the premier tournaments in Texas over the last several years and did fine. Won the Shriner's classic this year... which brings me to my last point, and it won't be a popular one. I'd rather be a 13 seed matched up with a non-conference rival in their park for Supers, than be a 4 seed paired with an SEC rival at home in Supers. Give me a Coastal Carolina, a DBU, hell - send us west. Give me anyone but an SEC team. This league has shown time and time again that it eats its own during the regular season but that any of those teams can find themselves in Omaha (see TN's win at Clemson and then Southern Miss a few years ago). The doom and gloom meltdown is a bit dramatic, because if you've watched this league long enough, you know that none of this matters right now.
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Losing series to the likes of Kentucky and Auburn is not fun. As frustrating as losing in the Box last weekend was, I can understand it because very rarely do teams win a series against LSU in the Box. Same goes for Texas A&M; that team when they are hitting can smash any pitching staff in the country. Unfortunately, it seems like when A&M played HR Derby against our guys in that double header a month ago it killed a bunch of our guys' confidence, and outside of the Ole Miss series we haven't gotten it back.
 
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