I would hesitate to think that Mississippi’s baseball team has more economic production might than our own.

Here’s a question, though… if they’re so good, why haven’t they separated themselves more in the West? The SEC has a very good crop of teams this year… there are 4-6 legitimate contenders for Omaha, IMO. Ole Miss is one of those teams. They took a series from Florida on the road, but other than that and the simple statistics, nothing convinces me that they’re any better than Alabama or LSU. (And we know how well Georgia did on the road against Bama… oh wait, nevermind.)

Ole Miss is a great team, don’t get me wrong, and winning on the road in the SEC is a tall order. I’ll be satisfied to come out of the weekend with 1 win. A series win would be a very pleasant surprise, and a sweep would cause me to write the Dawgs’ name in pen on the Omaha bracket.

Hopefully we’ll like what we see. Big games like this are how you see what your team is really made of… how they’ll perform under the pressure and bright lights of the big games. I’m getting pumped just thinking about it.

We have an inflated ERA because our mid-week pitchers have been pretty rough thus far. Our OBP is slightly behind theirs and our SLG% dwarfs theirs. I don’t really see what the problem is here.

And they still use Fielding % to determine defensive ability in college…? Yeesh.

We seem to respond very well to the bad losses