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Levon wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:30 pm

charlestonalum wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:12 pm Something is amiss with team. Chemistry, leadership, youth, press clippings - who knows, but not typical Vanderbilt baseball under Corbin. Hope it is correctable.

Adversity is a hell of a tough teacher, let's hope they learn. This team is very talented, just flat, almost emotionless the last 2-3 weeks.

Agree and wonder at root cause - maybe schedule but been always have a tough schedule.

This announcer thinks we normally play Louisville twice a year.

We are in the gutter, time to get with it and bounce back.

roanoke wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:25 pm I’ll repeat - I am not that worried about the team. It was Finals Week last week - and we are @ Louisville after @ Florida after MSU after @ Tennessee.

Tough, tough schedule. We do need for Leiter to re-find his confidence. Corbs is clearly trying to find pitchers to tough out 5 innings... I think he will find several. I am wondering where Fisher is? Maldonado is solid. Reilly, Murphy, McIlvane, Schultz - plenty of guys to rise for the post-season.

We still have Rocker and Leiter.

Everything you say makes sense and in the long run I suspect (and really hope) that you're right, but this team needs a fire lit under it. They just seem uninspired, just plowing thru the grind. Baseball should be fun, but this team just looks grim.

Grim and or uninspired which is what I meant about leadership (not at coach level but members of the team.)

roanoke wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:25 pm I’ll repeat - I am not that worried about the team. It was Finals Week last week - and we are @ Louisville after @ Florida after MSU after @ Tennessee.

Slight correction: Finals go until the 10th.

katmai wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 9:23 pm

roanoke wrote: ↑Tue May 04, 2021 5:25 pm I’ll repeat - I am not that worried about the team. It was Finals Week last week - and we are @ Louisville after @ Florida after MSU after @ Tennessee.

Slight correction: Finals go until the 10th.

All the more reason to be kind of flat right now...

Exams started on Monday May 3rd and will run all this week (except Wed. May 5 no exams because of of Cinco De Mayo) and conclude on May 10.....This is the "grind it out week. Hope they are ready for Alabama.

https://registrar.vanderbilt.edu/docume ... hedule.pdf

Carter Young's eyes look like the result of finals....Was concerned about Louisville until I just read that finals are not over. Mental fatigue affects baseball more than any other sport IMHO. Also, no finals on May 5th because of Cinco de Mayo? I had to read that twice.

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Carter Young's eyes look like the result of finals....Was concerned about Louisville until I just read that finals are not over. Mental fatigue affects baseball more than any other sport IMHO. Also, no finals on May 5th because of Cinco de Mayo? I had to read that twice.

I agree. The fifth of May, 1862 was the day of the Battle of Puebla, which was part of the relatively obscure Franco-Mexican War. Cinco de Mayo is not a national holiday in Mexico (or anywhere else as far as I know).