Ongoing UF Baseball Commentary

Apologizing for bringing up fishing is more offensive than bringing up fishing.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Hook’em WES!

 

That's funny guys-- ok as long as talking about fishing is on side-- correction- my brother's Cobia yesterday was 44 lbs. not 36-- plus 5 large yellowtail and a Rainbow Runner- in addition to what the other two guys caught- all within limits.

 

That is a lot of good eating.

 

Last fishing post.

A great bike riding friend of mine (former pro) was a real fisherman. He died of brain cancer before he taught me how to fly fish. I really miss him.

A former grad student of mine is a fly fisherman. He says that he will teach me, but he lives in San Diego. We met up for the solar ecplise a few years ago at Sun Valley, ID. I had hiked the day before and he asked me what insects I had seen. Mostly I remembered some small grasshoppers. When we went to the local shop he bought a number of grasshopper flys and he was told tht they wouldn't work and that other flys would be better. Guess who was right.

A former grad student friend is a fly fisherman, but I don't think he will have the time to teach me. I took him on his first real fishing trip on the Brule River on the Wisconsin/Upper Michigan border. BTW it is a great place to fish as there is very little access except by canoe. You do have to be wary of bears, though. He was at U Minnesota and now at Johns Hopkins. I wonder where he fly fishes out of Baltimore.

 

What does your brother think about bunting in early innings?

 

Sully changed up the line-up big time, but we still have line-up issues.

In a perfect world you would want your lead-off man to have a stellar OBP and be a threat on the base paths. Langford does fit that description, but maybe a waste of home run power. The next batter should have really good bat control. That is a problem. We don't have that. Can you think of any current Gator hitter that can hit behind the runner and has a solid bunt?

Having a solid hitter without that particular skill set might be the best we can do.

If we had that two hole hitter that can move a runner over we have Jud who would be the ideal three hole hitter. The other team could take their chances or pitch around him and he takes the walk.

 

Big one today as we fight to make sure we play in the SEC tournament. Watching SC win 3 in a row not helping us. Hoping Bama beats them today. Missouri winning doesn’t help us. Beating Kentucky is huge as we propel ourselves up the standings and knock them back as they are one of the teams we are fighting for with the 11 or 12th spot. We also play SC and Mizzou soon and would have to be expected to take 2/3 from both. SC had former local kid and major thorn in our side Andrew Eyster that is putting up big numbers once again. Going to Miss. St. next week is a tricky one. They can swing it but pitching has been bad. Gotta take 2/3 there too and again will be tough. We’ve gotta come through offensively and s ire runs early.

 

You mentioned the lighter schedule we have and those teams are saying the same thing about us . “We have Florida coming up, we should take at least 2”

 

You nailed it on that one Winger!

 

The big news for me is UF’s RPI dropped to 22 despite taking 2 of 3.

This means that the weak schedule at the end is going to really hurt UF’s RPI. 13-17 may not be enough. UF might have to be 14-16 now. That would mean 6-3 over the last 9 SEC games.

13-17 with a win over the SWAC might be enough but it is leaving a lot to chance. Not winning today hurt imo.

 

But even going 2 and 1 DROPPED the RPI. Not good… Just W’s isn’t enough. They need a lot of W’s. More than 2 most likely. The 6 road games will help a bit but MSU has a poor RPI.

 

The rain out make up home game versus FSU looks to be a big game.