LSU will host Florida State in the Super Regional Saturday in Baton Rouge. There are a total of 16 teams playing nation wide and the eight winners will advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., with the winning team becoming National Champions of 2019. The regional format is the best two out of three games. LSU is no stranger to hosting the regional playoffs in Baton Rouge at the "BOX" and should enjoy the advantage.
The LSU baseball team was ranked #1 in the preseason poll but that fizzled. Their recruiting class was also ranked #1 in the nation but failed to win the SEC championship. This writer is not a fan of preseason polls or trying to predict the outcome of recruiting. The head coach and his staff are a better barometer in judging a teams progress and of course a players capabilities once he reaches college is subject to proof and performance.
This writer also believes the playoff system of college baseball needs to be changed. Too many teams to begin with (64) and many that don't belong. Why should teams that don't win a division, a conference championship and or payoff or some other title designation qualify for the NCAA playoffs and a chance to play for a national championship? The real answer is to put more money in the pockets of the schools and the T.V. networks. The system does not encourage competition as some claim and of course the teams lose many players to the major league draft before they even graduate.
LSU will go into Saturday's game with an over all record of 40 - 24. Only 3 teams out of the 16 have a worse won-loss record. Duke 34-25; Ole Miss. 40-25; and Auburn 36-25. The four top teams with winning records are: UCLA 51-9; Vanderbilt 52-10; Stanford 45-12 and Mississippi State 49-13. This writer will be looking to see how many teams live up to their rankings and their won-loss record. As a follower of LSU sports for over 50 years, the last five or six years have been very unpredictable for the "Tigers" and this super regional is no different. But there is always hope.
So GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TIGERS
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Thursday, June 6, 2019
The Latest Mass Killings in Virginia Beach
Yes, another mass shooting and killing took place on President Trump's watch. Trump, the Presidential candidate in 2016 who blamed President Obama for all the mass shootings and said it would all come to an end when he took office, now finds himself presiding over a record number of mass shootings and killings. And like his rhetoric about Mexico paying for his WALL, his phony rhetoric on mass shootings and killings has come back full circle. There were 12 people killed in the Virginia Beach shootings.
Virginia's governor has called for a special session of the states general assembly to take up the matter of gun control in light of what happened. The news media noted that the republican party in the Virginia state legislature has blocked previous attempts to address gun violence. The people in Virginia will have great input this time around and will not be bullied by the NRA, the gun lobby or the republicans.
The NRA and republicans have used the cliché for years that guns do not kill people, people kill people. But just recently, people who fall for such simple minded self serving statements had a wake up call and from an unusual source. In a Beetle Baily cartoon in the Times Picayune news paper, Beetle asked Sarge: How come we take guns to war when guns do not kill people? The cartoon illustrates just how phony the NRA-republican slogan has become.
No one knows at this time what the special session in Virginia will adopt or produce but it could be an important step to real reform of gun laws that are necessary to reduce the killing of so many innocent people. The courts have upheld changes that several states have made to strengthen gun laws and that is the best way to defeat the NRA and the republicans who have allowed the NRA to write gun laws in the past.
Time and extreme positions provide an avenue for common sense solutions to emerge and come to the forefront.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Virginia's governor has called for a special session of the states general assembly to take up the matter of gun control in light of what happened. The news media noted that the republican party in the Virginia state legislature has blocked previous attempts to address gun violence. The people in Virginia will have great input this time around and will not be bullied by the NRA, the gun lobby or the republicans.
The NRA and republicans have used the cliché for years that guns do not kill people, people kill people. But just recently, people who fall for such simple minded self serving statements had a wake up call and from an unusual source. In a Beetle Baily cartoon in the Times Picayune news paper, Beetle asked Sarge: How come we take guns to war when guns do not kill people? The cartoon illustrates just how phony the NRA-republican slogan has become.
No one knows at this time what the special session in Virginia will adopt or produce but it could be an important step to real reform of gun laws that are necessary to reduce the killing of so many innocent people. The courts have upheld changes that several states have made to strengthen gun laws and that is the best way to defeat the NRA and the republicans who have allowed the NRA to write gun laws in the past.
Time and extreme positions provide an avenue for common sense solutions to emerge and come to the forefront.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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