The staff also couldn’t stop throwing cock-shots or hitting them. Base running was atrocious. Fielding was also bad. Schloss even got out coached in certain points. The point is the talent in the lineup was also not fielding, pitching or running the bases well either. You can’t just be hyper focused on one facet of the game when the collapse post Aggie was in all phases.
Look what Tulo had to work with. Talent wise there wasn’t much there for him, and it’s easy to see which guys wouldn’t sniff the middle to top end of rosters in the SEC. Winfield turned out to be a dud and Rodriguez was doing pretty good till he hurt his hand—still did well in towards the end all things considered. 4ish guys in the lineup were somewhat consistent with the rest being in and out of the lineup or a black hole. And while Flores regressed from last year, guys like Galvan and Kimble improved. At least Weiner got an ace and Ruger out of the portal, and freshmen of the year in the SEC.
Cherrypicking, really? And pointing out facial hair or “swagger/theatrics” when a guy messes up proves your entire point. Actually, I’m going to give Flores a call and tell him to shave his mustache so he can hit the ball opposite field.
Complaining about swagger and theatrics, which have been mostly with Williams and Galvan when it comes to you, seems a bit pointless when you check that they both combined for half the RBI’s tonight at the plate. Williams is true freshman at 17 years old and struggles at the plate when it’s not his pitch. Wow, shocker.
My point is Galvan having a bit of personality(1st team all-sec) or guys having some facial hair is at the very fucking bottom of why we are not playing good right now.
Tough to say since we aren’t involved with the day to day coaching. The guys have made bad habits that sprouted a little after the middle of the season. It’s similar to what they showed last year with Pierce. Sometimes you can’t coach consistency and guys will ultimately level up or revert back to their mean once the grind sets in. There is only so much Tulo/Schloss can do before it sets in that Gaspo can’t lay off pitches in the other batters box.
Have you ever pondered that some guys on this team anre just not good and Schloss et al have squeezed everything they can out of them? We got like 3 black holes in the lineup with two others that have been playing injured. I mean it’s the same lineup and defense Pierce had outside of 2 or 3 guys and they’ve managed to win the SEC and get the 2nd overall seed.
I actually think O’Connor would be a good hire for them even though Vaughn or Canham would be better. He’s the sole architect of making that program what it is today. Jimbo was gifted a Ferrari at FSU and we all know how that went. O’Connor would at a minimum raise the floor for Aggie and run a competent program. I just don’t think they can pull him away from Virginia since he got a raise last year.
S2 didn’t just live up to expectations — it exceeded them. And people “lapping up season 2” is a wild stretch considering everything it achieved thematically with season 1.
My house as a kid had two pillars that separated a hallway and the living room, and they were about 8ft or so apart. There was about a month long span where the only thing I would do all day was get in between those pillars and imagine I was Maul going up against Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan.
Have him die during the extraction.
anyway, my strategic point is moot at the end of the day because movies are based off of emotion. In the end the scene works.
As kids We all wanted a lightsaber for Christmas/Birthday/Halloween. If you were lucky enough, you got the Vader mask and lightsaber combo. While the world building was cool, the lightsaber was a pretty big deal.
For me it showed the impact Jyn has on Cassian. He’s at a crossroad with the orders from Yavin to kill Galen and immediately afterwards where Jyn reveals her father’s hidden weakness that he designed on Death Star. There’s also the convo with Jyn and Bodhi that Cassian overheard. It’s a matter of does he blindly follow the orders from Yavin or trust Jyn and the others that believe her as well. I think he was fighting the urge to not take the shot and follow his gut instincts, which aligned more with Jyn.
From just a strategic standpoint, when Cassian has Galen in the crosshairs, why should he kill him? Right now, Jyn just said that he knows the only known weakness of a planet killer and exactly how to destroy it. Maybe instead of killing the guy, Cassian and his team should find a way to extract him from Eadu first, then if it doesn’t work move on to Scarif.