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Game 4: 2/18/25 FAU 6:30 PM 2-1 L (3-1)

Lance Roffers said:
To recap:

Arteaga takes out one of his best hitters to bring in a defensive replacement.

Arteaga plays hot potato with his bullpen and burns through it, only to settle on a true freshman who...didn't look to be *that* kind of talent to me.

Watches him give up a leadoff double, then walk a guy. Has a righty warming only to let his true freshman lefty face their best hitters and really never compete.

That defensive replacement comes up in a big spot only to give a feeble at-bat.

Canes lose.
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I really miss Fraser ball. I mean, even "early Jim Morris ball" was. mostly equivalent:
  • the nine fastest guys in the ballpark were all in orange and green
  • defense made plays and didn't make the same dumb errors. they were solid up the middle
  • every guy in the lineup was a tough out because they go oppo, bunt, draw walks
  • on the bases, every guy was a threat to steal and it disrupted opposing pitchers to no end
  • you didn't need to have just the same 1 or 2 guys account for all the run production
  • and because of that ....
  • you didn't need every at bat to be a swing for the fences like it's a 10 year old's piñata party
of course, you need pitchers who can throw breaking balls for strikes. and sure the game has changed. but not THAT much where the fundamentals don't count.
 
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You can tell who is a football fan and who actually watching and follows the program. The amount of people that are uneducated about this program in this chat is laughable. Stop bringing up Fraser and Morris when it was easier to win games. I don't want to hear anything about those two coaches. This is 2025 not 1980.

Anyone calling for JD's head after yesterday needs to get reevaluated. Think before you type......
 
ErickMarreroU said:
You can tell who is a football fan and who actually watching and follows the program. The amount of people that are uneducated about this program in this chat is laughable. Stop bringing up Fraser and Morris when it was easier to win games. I don't want to hear anything about those two coaches. This is 2025 not 1980.

Anyone calling for JD's head after yesterday needs to get reevaluated. Think before you type......
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Come on now. This is the baseball board. I love your optimism, but the sunshine and rainbows and kool aid D$ sells on the football board just doesn’t work here.

It is one loss, but most of the people that post here follow the team pretty closely - many for decades.
 
ErickMarreroU said:
You can tell who is a football fan and who actually watching and follows the program. The amount of people that are uneducated about this program in this chat is laughable. Stop bringing up Fraser and Morris when it was easier to win games. I don't want to hear anything about those two coaches. This is 2025 not 1980.

Anyone calling for JD's head after yesterday needs to get reevaluated. Think before you type......
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lol please don’t start this crap already. It took you until the very last 2 weeks to admit the team stunk last year.

We don’t know what this team will be. But JD is the laziest hire in school history and that is saying something at Miami. Yesterday we continued our mid week woes which is the only way we will show improvement given how loaded the acc is. I’m not even going to go into how poorly jd managed that game last night because this is just year 2 for him and it’s expected

“easier to win games” is a pathetic excuse for incompetence but I’m not surprised that’s your go to line to explain how we went from the top of the mountain to struggling to make the tournament consistently and are now 0-5 against FAU in last 5 games….. yes you read that right


This is the most knowledgeable board on this site with total die hards that have been right each and every year since its inception and know exactly why we will fail because of rotten culture/evaluations/development we’ve seen for 15 years.
 
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Angry Ibis said:
Come on now. This is the baseball board. I love your optimism, but the sunshine and rainbows and kool aid D$ sells on the football board just doesn’t work here.

It is one loss, but most of the people that post here follow the team pretty closely - many for decades.
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I’m not referring to the regulars. You know who is on this board and who just comes in after we lose games to talk ****.

I’m not going to jump off a bridge after one game regardless of how terrible the bats were.

We’ve been complaining about three things since last hear

Bullpen (might be fixed
Defense (might be fixed)
Base running (might be fixed)

Now we are *****ing and blaming him because the bats couldn’t crack? Get real brother. It’s one loss. And a bad one because I had us 9-0 going into UF.
 
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ErickMarreroU said:
I’m not referring to the regulars. You know who is on this board and who just comes in after we lose games to talk ****.

I’m not going to jump off a bridge after one game regardless of how terrible the bats were.

We’ve been complaining about three things since last hear

Bullpen (might be fixed
Defense (might be fixed)
Base running (might be fixed)

Now we are *****ing and blaming him because the bats couldn’t crack? Get real brother. It’s one loss. And a bad one because I had us 9-0 going into UF.
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So your rebuttal to this board of diehards is --- Look guys, we didn't **** all over ourselves in the loss, so that is a great thing for the program as we lose to FA-*******-U -- Salute the Hoot! ???

I don't have much sympathy left for you if you get dragged for these defensive / stump for JD and the program attempts. This Board won't have it. You are years into this gig and people appreciate your connection to the program, but honestly it is probably better to say nothing at times versus trying to constantly defend JD at this point.

To 2025, it is 1 game. To these diehards, it is the first loss of a new season of the same downhill slide of a storied program.
 
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And it is the truth about Fraser and Morris.

Fraser coached when you only needed to win one round to make Omaha…
Angry Ibis said:
So your rebuttal to this board of diehards is --- Look guys, we didn't **** allover ourselves in the loss, so that is a great thing for the program as we lose to FA-*******-U -- Salute the Hoot! ???

I don't have much sympathy left for you if you get dragged for these defensive / stump for JD and the program attempts. This Board won't have it. You are years into this gig and people appreciate your connection to the program, but honestly it is probably better to say nothing at times versus trying to constantly defend JD at this point.

To 2025, it is 1 game. To these diehards, it is the first loss of a new season of the same downhill slide of a storied program.
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I’m just confused? We’ve been complaining for 15 years but what are we going to do about it…. Enough with the *****ing and complain. Let’s take some ******* action

I cannot stand *****ing and complaining. It takes an army to get back to the top. Everyone has to be aligned, everyone needs to be pushing the propaganda and it he is fired or retired… lol.

How do we expect to get better if we are in public bashing our coach. Perception is reality, parents of our recruits and future recruits see what are fans are saying. Maybe we should push more propaganda even if you don’t believe in it… why? Because perception is reality.

I’m gonna keep pushing the JD propaganda on Twitter to the recruits because I’m trying to make an impact and turn the narrative to the recruits who follow me, which is most
 
ErickMarreroU said:
And it is the truth about Fraser and Morris.

Fraser coached when you only needed to win one round to make Omaha…

I’m just confused? We’ve been complaining for 15 years but what are we going to do about it…. Enough with the *****ing and complain. Let’s take some ******* action

I cannot stand *****ing and complaining. It takes an army to get back to the top. Everyone has to be aligned, everyone needs to be pushing the propaganda and it he is fired or retired… lol.

How do we expect to get better if we are in public bashing our coach. Perception is reality, parents of our recruits and future recruits see what are fans are saying. Maybe we should push more propaganda even if you don’t believe in it… why? Because perception is reality.

I’m gonna keep pushing the JD propaganda on Twitter to the recruits because I’m trying to make an impact and turn the narrative to the recruits who follow me, which is most
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You’re digging yourself further into the grave with these types of comments. You sound silly man. If JD stinks to high heaven no propoganda is going to change that especially when it’s the state of Florida and we have 2 top 10 programs in the country as our biggest rivals. Talk is cheap winning is all that matters… and the odds are heavily against Jd winning this year and during his tenure… however long that may be
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
You’re digging yourself further into the grave with these types of comments. You sound silly man. If JD stinks to high heaven no propoganda is going to change that especially when it’s the state of Florida and we have 2 top 10 programs in the country as our biggest rivals. Talk is cheap winning is all that matters… and the odds are heavily against Jd winning this year and during his tenure… however long that may be
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Brother it doesn’t matter who the coach is. I will push propaganda to the recruits every day of the week. CNN and Fox News push propaganda 24/7 365.

Until everyone is aligned we will go no where.

Time to stop *****ing and complaining and to take some action
 
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ErickMarreroU said:
Brother it doesn’t matter who the coach is. I will push propaganda to the recruits every day of the week. CNN and Fox News push propaganda 24/7 365.

Until everyone is aligned we will go no where.

Time to stop *****ing and complaining and to take some action
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I don’t agree with your stance but I commend you for it
 
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GuYsm, how do we expect to get better if we are in public bashing our coach?

Maybe fire the coach that never should have been hired and replace him with someone competent.

Fly the ******* banner. Worst hire in the history of UM athletics.
 
My criticism is over the things he can control. We have fixed the bullpen and should never be allowing a true freshman to stand out there and blow the game after over managing earlier.

When you have veteran options you should be spoon feeding the freshmen at this stage in my opinion.

If Cleveland was available to come into the game in the 7th, he should've started the inning.

Anything but letting that kid stand out there and walk the world.

And the over managing with subs and pitching changes all to let a true freshman blow the game (and not an elite 1st round true freshman).

The bats are why we lost and I get that, but as the manager you can only contribute in certain spots and he continues to be a net negative to my eyes.
 
The reality is Miami is now no better than FAU, UCF & FGCU. We were once the standard bearer, but those days are long gone.
My daughter goes to an SEC school with a really good program and the level of commitment and program overall is nothing short of amazing.
 
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