Tinker:
The American News media seemed to be very hopeful that Hillary Clinton would be the first Unites States women president. Until they saw a better news story in the form of Barack Obama becoming the very first black president. Emphasis on the color black.
The American news media was in love...http://www.youtube.com/
Then the American news media worked to condition the American people into voting for Barack Obama making American history as the first black American president. So then again the man Barack Obama had a very easy working relationship with that selfsame press core as he began to run the White House. Low and behold everything was going along just fine with the news media progressive agenda further conditioning the American people until alas, something glaringly bad went wrong.
Barack Obama was the president of a IRS harassing some American people who opposed the Obama progressive point of view. The IRS was being used for political reasons. And that public treachery was ugly to everyone.
Oh oh! Again another bad turn of events was that president Obama and Hillary Clinton did not want to tell the American people what really happened in Benghazi Libya, when the American ambassador was killed by terrorist.
Then another bad story about secret government wiretaps that was gathered from a news reporters phone records. Charging in one of the court ordered documents that a American news reporter just might be a American trader by reporting about government secrets information into public view.
And now we are learning about the sweeping prying eyes of the United States government secretly getting most of the phone and internet records from privet Americans citizens. The NSA is gathering the records of the American people phone calls. My goodness they really are listening to what we are talking to each other about in private all day and night long.
What is next that at lease half of the American news media will still enable this arrogant president Barack Obama to get away with this kind of White House government abuse, because he is simply a black person. Remember who writes history really does matter.
Who said "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
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Mainstream Media Fail to Break Even One of Four Obama Scandals
Well, if it is Thursday there must be a new Obama scandal. But one thing is for damn sure, whatever that scandal is, you can bet the American mainstream media will be playing catch up and not carrying the glory of breaking a story about a major White House scandal.
Fact: Over the past few weeks, four major scandals have broken over the Obama administration, and it is a very sad (and frightening) truth that our pathetic, American, lapdog mainstream media is not responsible for breaking even a single one.Verizon? Nope, not our guys. That was the Brits over at The Guardian.
IRS? Nope, not our guys. The IRS broke their own scandal with a planted question.
The Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records? Nope, not our guys. Believe it or not, the Associated Press didn’t even break that story. Like the IRS, we only found out because the Justice Department outted itself in a letter notifying the AP of what it had done.
Benghazi? Are you kidding. With a couple of rare exceptions (Jake Tapper, Sharyl Attkisson) the media has spent the last 8 months attacking those seeking the truth (Congress, Fox News) not seeking the truth. It was the GOP congress that demanded the email exchanges around the shaping of the talking points, not the media.
Left up to the media, we wouldn't know anything about Libya. All of the media's energy was collectively poured into ensuring the truth was never discovered.
And do you want to know what makes this realization especially pathetic? In three of the four scandals (the AP being the exception), had our media been less interested in protecting Power and more interested in holding Power accountable, these huge, career-making stories were right there for their taking.
For over a year now, conservative Tea Party groups have been complaining about IRS harassment. But because Obama told them to, the media hates the Tea Party. So in the face of these complaints and even a few Congressional inquiries, the media either ignored the harassment reports or openly sided with the IRS. (No joke. Click the link.)
Obviously, you can say the same about Libya. All the dots were there to connect: Security failures, two weeks of lies, the midnight arrest of some hapless filmmaker… But rather than connect the dots, the media played goalie for Obama against Fox News and Darrell Issa. Besides, there was a re-election to win and Todd Akin got something wrong about The Womanparts.
Moreover, there are still plenty of dots to connect about Libya. But the new SQUIRREL is OVERREACH and already the lapdogs are back in goalie formation.
As far as the Verizon story, members of congress, specifically Democrat Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, have been hint-hint-wink-winking to the media that something is horribly amiss going back to December:
In a Senate floor speech in December,
Wyden hinted at classified information he had received but could not
share due to Senate rules that indicated the law “on Americans’ privacy
has been real, and it is not hypothetical.”
“When the public finds out that these
secret interpretations are so dramatically different than what the
public law says, I think there’s going to be extraordinary anger in the
country,” he told The Huffington Post the following month.
Politico shouldn’t feel bad, though, because when it comes to missing the four biggest scoops of the Obama administration, they have plenty of lazy, lapdog, sycophant company in that department.
Our media is not only biased, it is an utter and complete failure and embarrassment. And although there are plenty of remaining table scraps to make meals out of, the media is already losing interest in the IRS, Libya, and AP scandals, but for only one reason -- they are absolutely terrified of where they might lead.
During the Bush years, it was the New York Times, Washington Post and Sy Hersh breaking story after story after story about the White House. And yes, some of that reporting was -- ahem -- overreach, but at least Power knew it was being watched; our democracy was safe because an overzealous media is what you call a luxury problem.
Today, it is the complete opposite and the result is an administration run amok.
Get down on your knees and thank your Maker for conservative New Media, Roger Ailes, and for the few true liberals left in the media, like Glenn Greenwald -- who works for the Brits.
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Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras 5:37 PM ETEXCLUSIVE | Classified program allows extraction of audio, video, photos, e-mails and documents, enabling analysts to track movements and contacts.
‘No Such Agency’ spies on the communications of the world
Anne Gearan 5:35 PM ETNSA listens, code cracks and analyzes, all defensive activities. But little is known about the extent of any offensive work.
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Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They're Spying on Us
The "Bush-Obama era" will be long remembered for curbing the Constitution.
By Ron FournierJune 6, 2013
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a
16-year span of U.S. history that will be remembered for an
unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for
transparency. On the war against a tactic—terrorism—and its insidious fallout, the United States could have skipped the 2008 election.
It made little difference.
Despite his clear and popular promises to the contrary, President Obama has not shifted the balance between security and freedom to a more natural state—one not blinded by worst fears and tarred by power grabs. If anything, things have gotten worse.
And now this: The Guardian newspaper reports that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of customers of one of the nation's largest phone companies, Verizon.
If the story is accurate, the action appears to be legal. The order was signed by a judge from a secret court that oversees domestic surveillance. It may also be necessary; U.S. intelligence needs every advantage it can get over the nation's enemies.
But for several reasons the news is chilling.
Still, they expect and deserve an open discussion about how to fight terrorism without undermining the Constitution.
Obama started that conversation with a recent address on the drone program, media leaks and the need to move American off a constant war footing. It was a compelling and well-considered argument for the balance he is claiming to strike.
But he made the speech under pressure, and reluctantly. It only came amid new revelations about the drone program and the disclosure of newsroom spying (the Guardian may well be in Obama's sights next). Under Bush, the warrantless-wiretap program only stopped after it was publicly disclosed. In that way, the Guardian story is not a surprise, so why didn't Obama long ago acknowledge, explain, and justify such an intrusion into privacy?
Obama has promised to adjust the drone and leaks investigation policies, essentially acknowledging that his administration had gone too far in the name of security. Do you believe him?
One thing we've learned about the Bush-Obama White House is that words don't matter. Watch what they do.
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------------------It made little difference.
Despite his clear and popular promises to the contrary, President Obama has not shifted the balance between security and freedom to a more natural state—one not blinded by worst fears and tarred by power grabs. If anything, things have gotten worse.
- Killing civilians and U.S. citizens via drone.
- Seizing telephone records at the Associated Press in violation of Justice Department guidelines.
- Accusing a respected Fox News reporter of engaging in a conspiracy to commit treason for doing his job.
- Detaining terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, despite promises to end the ill-considered Bush policy.
And now this: The Guardian newspaper reports that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of customers of one of the nation's largest phone companies, Verizon.
If the story is accurate, the action appears to be legal. The order was signed by a judge from a secret court that oversees domestic surveillance. It may also be necessary; U.S. intelligence needs every advantage it can get over the nation's enemies.
But for several reasons the news is chilling.
- Verizon probably isn't the only company coughing up its documents. Odds are incredibly strong that the government is prying into your telephone records today.
- Issued in April, the NSA order "could represent the broadest surveillance order known to have been issued," according to The Washington Post. "It also would confirm long-standing suspicions of civil liberties advocates about the sweeping nature of U.S. surveillance through commercial carries under laws passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
- This appears to be a "rubber stamp," order, reissued every few months since 2001. As is the case with all government programs, the systematic snooping into your telephone records is unlikely to ever expire without public outcry.
- Congress is full of hypocrites. Liberals who criticized Bush are less incensed with Obama. Republicans who bowed to Bush are now blasting Obama. The next time your congressional representative criticizes Obama for curbing civil liberties, ask if he or she would vote to repeal the Patriot Act, the post-911 law that handed unfettered power to the intelligence and military bureaucracies. Most won't.
- The Bush-Obama White House hates transparency. President George W. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, were justifiably criticized by Democrats (none more successfully so than Obama himself) for their penchant for secrecy. Obama promised that he would run history's most transparent administration. By almost any measure, on domestic and well as foreign policies, Obama has broken that promise.
Still, they expect and deserve an open discussion about how to fight terrorism without undermining the Constitution.
Obama started that conversation with a recent address on the drone program, media leaks and the need to move American off a constant war footing. It was a compelling and well-considered argument for the balance he is claiming to strike.
But he made the speech under pressure, and reluctantly. It only came amid new revelations about the drone program and the disclosure of newsroom spying (the Guardian may well be in Obama's sights next). Under Bush, the warrantless-wiretap program only stopped after it was publicly disclosed. In that way, the Guardian story is not a surprise, so why didn't Obama long ago acknowledge, explain, and justify such an intrusion into privacy?
Obama has promised to adjust the drone and leaks investigation policies, essentially acknowledging that his administration had gone too far in the name of security. Do you believe him?
One thing we've learned about the Bush-Obama White House is that words don't matter. Watch what they do.
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Tinker:
How does the Washington DC yes men like the American military now?
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Off The Battlefield, Military Women Face Risks From Male Troops
Dora Hernandez gave a decade of her life to the U.S. Navy and the Army National Guard, but some of the dangers surprised her.
"The worst thing for me is that you don't have to worry about the enemy, you have to worry about your own soldiers," she says.
Sitting in a circle, a group of women nod in agreement. All are veterans, most have spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they're also survivors of another war. According to the Pentagon's own research, more than 1 in 4 women who join the military will be sexually assaulted during their careers.
"I was assaulted while I was in boot camp in the Army, and I was raped when I went to the Navy," says Sabina Rangel, who is hosting the group in her living room outside El Paso, Texas.
The women introduce themselves with similar short, shocking accounts of their military careers. It's the first meeting of a group set up by , an organization designed specifically to work with female vets on their journey back from active duty to civilian life. Not an easy task.
“ I knew the command's attitude toward rape, so I
didn't say anything, and this guy was my superior and I had to work with
him every day.
- Jamie Livingston Gautier served 23 years in the Army, and her friendly, confident demeanor helps break the ice. "We may not have the same trauma that you have, but you're not alone," she says.
A 'Culture Change'
About 19,000 sex crimes take place in the military each year, according to the Pentagon's most recent estimate. Many of the victims are male, but men in the service face the same risk of sexual assault as civilian men do. It's a different story for women. Women who join the military face a much higher risk of sexual assault than civilian women. Read more...http://www.npr.org/
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By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer
I don’t know why I’m surprised. But I have to admit I am a little bit.
If you would have told me when I arrived in Hoover that LSU would sweep through a regional 13 days later by beating Jackson St., Sam Houston St. and ULL, well I would have believed you.
That was before I knew Mark Laird’s ankle would be fat. Before I knew Cody Glenn wouldn’t show up. Before I knew Alex Bregman would match home runs with hospital visits, and Raph Rhymes would have a lip to match Laird’s ankle. Before I knew Chris Sciambra would get sick.
This gang looked like the 2012 LSU offensive line.
But as they’ve done all season long, they found a way. They’re 55-9 on the season and two wins away from a ticket to Nebraska. Look, LSU didn’t play well this weekend. At times, they were just plain poor. They were rewarded for a terrific season by being able to host a weak regional, and they fought through it without a loss.
There are concerns, sure. There were also phenomenal efforts that stared adversity between the eyes and reverse judo kicked right through it.
We’ll start on Saturday night which is where LSU won this regional.
Aaron Nola should have gotten Sam Houston St. out 1-2-3 in the first. Instead he was touched for five unearned runs and racked up 42 pitches on a steamy night. Christian Ibarra made a pair of errors. Bregman kicked one, and Sam Houston found a couple of holes in huge spots to suck the life right out of the Box.
I don’t think there’s a pitcher in the country who could have handled that type of circus better than Nola. He regrouped in the dugout as LSU scratched for 2 runs and then went out there in an effort to get LSU as deep as he could. He made it seven innings, and if LSU is able to hoist some hardware in a few weeks, that performance won’t be lost on me, and it probably won’t be lost in the annuls of this program’s lore. It was that good.
He threw just 69 pitches over the last six innings, hung zeros in all of those frames and allowed the offense to apply some pressure to Sam Houston. He gave LSU a chance.
Bregman then lit the spark in the eighth. He crushed a line drive single to right center to ignite the crowd. Mason Katz walked, and the Box came to life. Paul Mainieri pushed the right button with the hit and run that turned Rhymes’ double play ball into a rushed chance and an error.
It was over at that point.
They plunked Ibarra and then Ross drilled a single through the left side for insurance. Credit Ross, man. He doesn’t hit for a high average, but he almost always comes through in those clutch spots. He doubled in the regional final last year against Oregon St. His doubles against Arkansas and Texas A&M created last at bat, series clinching victories. He’s a clutch hitter.
That brought us to Sunday when I was expecting no more than four innings from Brent Bonvillain. Despite what happened this weekend, ULL can hit. I thought they would come out and swing the bats against Bonvillain, but he was brilliant. That looping curve was missing bats, and he kept the ball in the strike zone. Bonvillain’s bugaboo has been the hit by pitch. He was nowhere near that Sunday night, and paired with his SEC Tournament outing, Bonvillain is a guy Mainieri can count on next weekend.
It was nice to see the defense play well Sunday night outside of a Bregman error that cost LSU a run. Andrew Stevenson made two awesome catches in center to further his case to be in the lineup. It irks me that LSU has a free out in the lineup, but if there is going to be one he might as well be a gazelle with a magnet in his glove. If he can hit .280 by the time he leaves, LSU will have one hell of a piece.
I mentioned the Bregman error, and he made three in the regional. I, myself, don’t think they had anything to do with Friday’s collision. I just think he’s a little bit shaky mentally. That doesn’t carry over one bit to the plate, because he knows he’s going to get a hit up there. He’s just not as confident at shortstop. Both of the misplays on Saturday were because he got the short hop and didn’t smother it. He’s got to take one more step back or in to get the bigger hop. Sunday’s error was, more than anything, because he played the ball to his backhand side as opposed to rounding it and coming through the ball. In two years he’s going to be an above average shortstop. He’s not right now, but he’ll do more good than bad. He cost LSU one run Sunday but accounted for three at the plate. Generally that’s your tradeoff.
The real story Sunday was Nick Rumbelow. My goodness was he good. His fastball was up to 95 mph, and the slider was unfair. Mainieri called on him to get a strikeout, but that was easier said than done against Caleb Adams. Rumbelow blew it right by him in a fastball count before cruising through 2 1/3 more innings of perfect baseball. This kid is throwing the ball as well as anyone on the staff right now, and it’s coming at the right time.
And no I didn’t forget about Chris Cotton. I could gush about him more here, but you don’t have time for that. He’s awesome.
That brings us to Friday which was really, really ugly.
Ryan Eades had zero command. I’ll give him a little slack because he pitched the first inning in a driving rainstorm that helped him hit one batter and fall behind Jackson St.’s best hitter 2-0 before they pulled the tarp. When play resumed he pumped a fastball in there that Charles Tilery punched down the line for a double. Eades didn’t find it after that, though, missing badly with both pitches and failing to put guys away when he had the chance. I have no idea what LSU is going to get from Eades this coming weekend, but it’s scary. With Glenn in limbo, a questionable Eades will cut this season short.
I did love what I saw from Kurt McCune Friday. He threw 39 of 52 pitches for strikes and struck out five Jackson St. Tigers over 4 2/3 strong innings. We’ve seen McCune do that a couple of times this year, but he almost always comes back with a sub-par outing the next time out. If Glenn doesn’t return, McCune becomes the long relief guy with Bonvillain moving into the rotation. At least McCune has a good taste in his mouth right now.
The final pitching note in on Joey Bourgeois. It seems like a long time ago, but Bourgeois did throw a good ninth on Friday to finish the win. Just because Rumbelow pitched the eighth Sunday doesn’t mean Bourgeois has been demoted.
Couple of notes on the bats.
Bregman was a beast this weekend. He actually hit a pair of homers and delivered clutch singles both Saturday and Sunday.
Katz blasted one off the batter’s eye in center. That’s not cheap.
Rhymes hit a few balls hard, as did JaCoby Jones.
LSU really needs Sean McMullen to heal up this week, because the top of the order is not nearly as potent without him in there. I’m told the hamstring strain is not severe, but those can linger. I expect Mark Laird at as close to 100 percent as he can be for next week. He wasn’t that on Sunday. He’s a better fit in the two-hole than at leadoff for sure.
Like I said, LSU didn’t play well this weekend, but they overcame all the junk on the periphery and won all three games. That’s what they’ve done all year. There’s a really good opponent coming into the Box in five days.
These guys have waited 51 weeks for that.
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PALMER: Around the Horn
Reflecting on the Baton Rouge Regional
By HUNT PALMER
BBI Senior Writer
I don’t know why I’m surprised. But I have to admit I am a little bit.
If you would have told me when I arrived in Hoover that LSU would sweep through a regional 13 days later by beating Jackson St., Sam Houston St. and ULL, well I would have believed you.
That was before I knew Mark Laird’s ankle would be fat. Before I knew Cody Glenn wouldn’t show up. Before I knew Alex Bregman would match home runs with hospital visits, and Raph Rhymes would have a lip to match Laird’s ankle. Before I knew Chris Sciambra would get sick.
This gang looked like the 2012 LSU offensive line.
But as they’ve done all season long, they found a way. They’re 55-9 on the season and two wins away from a ticket to Nebraska. Look, LSU didn’t play well this weekend. At times, they were just plain poor. They were rewarded for a terrific season by being able to host a weak regional, and they fought through it without a loss.
There are concerns, sure. There were also phenomenal efforts that stared adversity between the eyes and reverse judo kicked right through it.
We’ll start on Saturday night which is where LSU won this regional.
Aaron Nola should have gotten Sam Houston St. out 1-2-3 in the first. Instead he was touched for five unearned runs and racked up 42 pitches on a steamy night. Christian Ibarra made a pair of errors. Bregman kicked one, and Sam Houston found a couple of holes in huge spots to suck the life right out of the Box.
I don’t think there’s a pitcher in the country who could have handled that type of circus better than Nola. He regrouped in the dugout as LSU scratched for 2 runs and then went out there in an effort to get LSU as deep as he could. He made it seven innings, and if LSU is able to hoist some hardware in a few weeks, that performance won’t be lost on me, and it probably won’t be lost in the annuls of this program’s lore. It was that good.
He threw just 69 pitches over the last six innings, hung zeros in all of those frames and allowed the offense to apply some pressure to Sam Houston. He gave LSU a chance.
Bregman then lit the spark in the eighth. He crushed a line drive single to right center to ignite the crowd. Mason Katz walked, and the Box came to life. Paul Mainieri pushed the right button with the hit and run that turned Rhymes’ double play ball into a rushed chance and an error.
It was over at that point.
They plunked Ibarra and then Ross drilled a single through the left side for insurance. Credit Ross, man. He doesn’t hit for a high average, but he almost always comes through in those clutch spots. He doubled in the regional final last year against Oregon St. His doubles against Arkansas and Texas A&M created last at bat, series clinching victories. He’s a clutch hitter.
That brought us to Sunday when I was expecting no more than four innings from Brent Bonvillain. Despite what happened this weekend, ULL can hit. I thought they would come out and swing the bats against Bonvillain, but he was brilliant. That looping curve was missing bats, and he kept the ball in the strike zone. Bonvillain’s bugaboo has been the hit by pitch. He was nowhere near that Sunday night, and paired with his SEC Tournament outing, Bonvillain is a guy Mainieri can count on next weekend.
It was nice to see the defense play well Sunday night outside of a Bregman error that cost LSU a run. Andrew Stevenson made two awesome catches in center to further his case to be in the lineup. It irks me that LSU has a free out in the lineup, but if there is going to be one he might as well be a gazelle with a magnet in his glove. If he can hit .280 by the time he leaves, LSU will have one hell of a piece.
I mentioned the Bregman error, and he made three in the regional. I, myself, don’t think they had anything to do with Friday’s collision. I just think he’s a little bit shaky mentally. That doesn’t carry over one bit to the plate, because he knows he’s going to get a hit up there. He’s just not as confident at shortstop. Both of the misplays on Saturday were because he got the short hop and didn’t smother it. He’s got to take one more step back or in to get the bigger hop. Sunday’s error was, more than anything, because he played the ball to his backhand side as opposed to rounding it and coming through the ball. In two years he’s going to be an above average shortstop. He’s not right now, but he’ll do more good than bad. He cost LSU one run Sunday but accounted for three at the plate. Generally that’s your tradeoff.
The real story Sunday was Nick Rumbelow. My goodness was he good. His fastball was up to 95 mph, and the slider was unfair. Mainieri called on him to get a strikeout, but that was easier said than done against Caleb Adams. Rumbelow blew it right by him in a fastball count before cruising through 2 1/3 more innings of perfect baseball. This kid is throwing the ball as well as anyone on the staff right now, and it’s coming at the right time.
And no I didn’t forget about Chris Cotton. I could gush about him more here, but you don’t have time for that. He’s awesome.
That brings us to Friday which was really, really ugly.
Ryan Eades had zero command. I’ll give him a little slack because he pitched the first inning in a driving rainstorm that helped him hit one batter and fall behind Jackson St.’s best hitter 2-0 before they pulled the tarp. When play resumed he pumped a fastball in there that Charles Tilery punched down the line for a double. Eades didn’t find it after that, though, missing badly with both pitches and failing to put guys away when he had the chance. I have no idea what LSU is going to get from Eades this coming weekend, but it’s scary. With Glenn in limbo, a questionable Eades will cut this season short.
I did love what I saw from Kurt McCune Friday. He threw 39 of 52 pitches for strikes and struck out five Jackson St. Tigers over 4 2/3 strong innings. We’ve seen McCune do that a couple of times this year, but he almost always comes back with a sub-par outing the next time out. If Glenn doesn’t return, McCune becomes the long relief guy with Bonvillain moving into the rotation. At least McCune has a good taste in his mouth right now.
The final pitching note in on Joey Bourgeois. It seems like a long time ago, but Bourgeois did throw a good ninth on Friday to finish the win. Just because Rumbelow pitched the eighth Sunday doesn’t mean Bourgeois has been demoted.
Couple of notes on the bats.
Bregman was a beast this weekend. He actually hit a pair of homers and delivered clutch singles both Saturday and Sunday.
Katz blasted one off the batter’s eye in center. That’s not cheap.
Rhymes hit a few balls hard, as did JaCoby Jones.
LSU really needs Sean McMullen to heal up this week, because the top of the order is not nearly as potent without him in there. I’m told the hamstring strain is not severe, but those can linger. I expect Mark Laird at as close to 100 percent as he can be for next week. He wasn’t that on Sunday. He’s a better fit in the two-hole than at leadoff for sure.
Like I said, LSU didn’t play well this weekend, but they overcame all the junk on the periphery and won all three games. That’s what they’ve done all year. There’s a really good opponent coming into the Box in five days.
These guys have waited 51 weeks for that.
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Nice column about how this LSU baseball team won even when they played below par anyway that seem very true to me.
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Tonight at 6 p.m. the LSU baseball team will begin their best-of-three Super Regional series against Oklahoma in an effort to do something they haven’t done since 2009 - that is, return to Omaha for the College World Series. As has been well documented all week long, tonight's contest will feature two of the best pitchers in college baseball in Oklahoma's Jonathan Gray and LSU's Aaron Nola, and runs are likely to be hard to come by. With that in mind, I offer these four keys to an LSU victory tonight:
Keys to an LSU victory tonight:
1) Stay ahead in the count
Having Nola stay ahead in the count is important for obvious reasons, but it's also critical in limiting Oklahoma's aggressiveness on the bases and at the plate. When a pitcher is behind in the count, it's much harder to call a pitchout on a suspected steal attempt or make a batter chase a pitch on an anticipated hit-and-run.
2) Solid outing from catcher Ty Ross
Oklahoma likes to steal, and will probably be more aggressive than usual tonight knowing that hits will be hard to come by. I look for Ross to be put to the test and to pass with flying colors.
3) Play error-free baseball
LSU leads the SEC and is 6th in the nation in fielding percentage, and a complete game stellar defensive performance will be critical tonight. Against a team like Oklahoma and a pitcher like Gray, LSU can’t afford even a brief defensive breakdown like the one they had in that crazy first inning against Sam Houston State during Regional play.
4) Manufacture runs however possible
During LSU's three Regional games, the Tigers left a combined 36 runners on base including 16 against Sam Houston State. Reaching base will be much harder in tonight’s game, so look for LSU to be especially aggressive in advancing the base-runners they have by means of bunts, sacrifices, hit-and-runs and steals - whatever if takes to get the runners home.
Of course there are other obvious keys to victory like getting a solid pitching performance by Nola, collecting a few timely hits, and preventing Gray from getting too comfortable on the mound, but those pretty much go without explanation.
Tonight's game will be televised to a national audience on ESPN starting at 6 p.m. and should be one of the better, if not the best, Super Regional contests this weekend. Below is a complete schedule of Super Regional games. All times shown are Central (CT).
Baton Rouge Super Regional
Oklahoma (43-19) at LSU (55-9)
Game 1: 6 p.m., Friday | ESPN
Game 2: 6 p.m., Saturday | ESPN2
Game 3: 6 p.m., Sunday (if necessary) | ESPN2
Chapel Hill Super Regional
South Carolina (42-18) at North Carolina (55-9)
Game 1: Noon, Friday | ESPN2
Game 2: 11 a.m., Saturday | ESPN
Game 3: Noon, Sunday (if necessary) | ESPN
Raleigh Super Regional
Rice (44-18) at NC State (47-14)
Game 1: 3 p.m., Friday | ESPN2
Game 2: 3 p.m., Saturday | ESPN2
Game 3: 3 p.m., Sunday (if necessary) | ESPNU
Fullerton Super Regional
UCLA (42-17) at Cal State Fullerton (51-8)
Game 1: 6 p.m., Friday | ESPN2
Game 2: 9 p.m., Saturday | ESPN2
Game 3: 9 p.m., Sunday (if necessary) | ESPN2
Tallahassee Super Regional
Indiana (46-14) at Florida State (47-15)
Game 1: 11 a.m., Saturday | ESPNU
Game 2: Noon, Sunday | ESPNU
Game 3: Noon, Monday (if necessary) | ESPN2
Charlottesville Super Regional
Mississippi State (46-18) at Virginia (47-10)
Game 1: Noon, Saturday | ESPN2
Game 2: 6 p.m., Sunday | ESPNU
Game 3: 3 p.m., Monday (if necessary) | ESPN2
Nashville Super Regional
Louisville (49-12) at Vanderbilt (54-10)
Game 1: 2 p.m., Saturday | ESPN
Game 2: 3 p.m., Sunday | ESPN
Game 3: 6 p.m., Monday (if necessary) | ESPN2
Corvallis Super Regional
Kansas State (44-17) at Oregon State (48-10)
Game 1: 6 p.m., Saturday | ESPNU
Game 2: 9 p.m., Sunday | ESPNU
Game 3: 6 p.m., Monday (if necessary) | ESPNU
In other baseball news, I’d like to congratulate LSU junior right-hander Ryan Eades for being selected in the second round of last night's MLB draft by the Minnesota Twins. Eades was chosen by the Twins with the 43rd overall pick. I sure was hoping he’d be selected in the first round, but I’m afraid his last few outings may have dropped his stock a little. Oklahoma’s Jonathan Gray, who LSU will face in tonight's game, was selected in the first round with the third overall pick by the Colorado Rockies. The first and second rounds, as well as the compensatory picks, were completed last night. The draft continues at noon CT today with Rounds 3-10 and concludes with Rounds 11-40 beginning tomorrow at noon. LSU signee Justin Williams, an infielder from Terrebonne High School in Houma, La., was selected in the second round last night by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the 52nd overall pick.
In LSU football news, newcomers from the 2013 signing class will be reporting to campus today for the start of summer workouts. As of this time, it looks like all of the signees will make it in, except for Rashard Robinson (CB, 6'2", 165 Pompano Beach, FL). From what I've been told, Robinson still has some work to do in the classroom and is taking a couple of summer classes to becoming eligible. Robinson and the staff remain hopeful that he will succeed and be able to enroll at LSU in July.
With the start of the LSU football season 85 days away, today we’ll continue our jersey countdown by turning our attention to two players who were part of National Championship seasons at LSU. First, let's go back to 1958 and take a look at a member of the White Team - Billy Hendrix, Sr. from Rayville. At 6'0" 185, Billy was described as an “undersized, but speedy” left end. During the end of the regular season that year, Hendrix caught a Warren Rabb pass in the end zone to preserve the Tigers’ undefeated record and defeat Mississippi State 7-0. Hendrix was team captain when LSU defeated Clemson in the January 1, 1959 Sugar Bowl, and his son played for the Tigers in the early 80s. Another Tiger who wore number 85 and played the tight end/long snapper position was Alex Russian. Russian (6'4" 225) was recruited out of the Austin, Texas area and was part of the 2007 recruiting class. He redshirted that 2007 season, but contributed to the team as long snapper and tight end through 2011. Russian made the SEC Academic Honor Roll his junior and senior seasons and continues to serve the Tigers today as a Graduate Assistant at the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes.
Reader comments: Scott, here's a good read by SB Nation about LSU football: 2013 LSU football's 10 things to know: Don't write off Les Miles' Tigers just yet
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