Wow. LSU huh? Sweet revenge or a year of suffering coming

Good luck with that one baw, especially if Ma'Khail Hilliard gets on the mound in game one

Will be sweet sending them home early

With this year's pitching, projecting Oregon State winning any more than 2 out of 3 times is quite the stretch.

Some stats:
Team Batting Average:
3.    Oregon State          .318
10.  San Diego State      .305
16.  Minnesota               .300
53.  UCLA                      .286
60.  LSU                        .285
68.  Canisius                 .283
136. Northwestern State .271
150. Gonzaga                .269

Team ERA:
3.     UCLA                     2.94
6.     Gonzaga                2.96
10.   Minnesota              3.11
18.   Northwestern State 3.33
23.   Oregon State          3.45
64.   San Diego State     3.90
99.   Canisius                 4.31
141. LSU                       4.68

Team Fielding Percentage:
2.    Gonzaga                 .985
4.    UCLA                     .982
10.  LSU                        .980
11.  Oregon State          .979
50.  Minnesota               .975
75.  San Diego St.         .973
137. Northwestern St.    .970
184. Canisius                .967

Gonzaga is a very well-coached, defensively sound, good pitching team that is used to playing in the Northwest.  Both Gonzaga and UCLA are top 10 in ERA and Fielding Percentage, which says a lot about both teams.  Both Gonzaga and UCLA have three quality starters.  When Oregon State played in Surprise against Gonzaga, Gonzaga threw their Sunday starter, Mac Lardner.  The result?  Lardner went 6 2/3, allowing five hits and two runs.  Both runs came on solo shots by Nick Madrigal and Zak Taylor.  UCLA's Sunday starter also went 6 2/3, allowing seven hits and zero earned runs.

UCLA is the better-hitting team of the two.  I think Gonzaga and UCLA are the 1A and 1B teams that I would least like to see out of the Minneapolis Regional.  I think UCLA has a better shot of winning the Minneapolis Regional.  The Bruins are a much better road team than the Zags.  Plus, UCLA already beat Minnesota in Minneapolis 6-1 in March.

I have a ton of respect for LSU, but I think that both Gonzaga and UCLA are better.  If either come to a Corvallis Super Regional, Fehmel and Heimlich better be perfect, because game three would be a tough one to need to win.

It is a huge gamble, and flies in the face of conventional wisdom of win and stay in WB. However, LSU is a tamer animal this year with starters capable of dominating , but inconsistent...and their pen is apparently thin and ineffective. Our patience and the fact that we have no soft spots 1-9 will allow us to ramp up the count and get to the pen in 6th or so.

Would love to see LH and BF set up 2-3 to close this out.

LSU is always going to be a good team, but youth and key injuries make this a less formidable match up. We are better .

Enough with this baw crap. Should we refer to you as hick, rube, hayseed, chum bait, nutria ranchers? I assume baw is a colloquial version of boy which I had never heard until I was in the service. There it was a put down aimed at people of color by southern rednecks. And yes, I was stationed in the south and overseas and heard it from your ilk everywhere. It demeans you, not anyone else by lowering yourself to this kind of discourse. Civility and respect is a virtue that may be elusive to "y'all" but you can attain it if you want.

My question to you..... hot shot.... 
you coming up to see your “bayouboys” ?

lower case intended. If you understand that.