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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

What happened to clemson?

From: Elliott
Regional Game 7 at home. Final game to determine if you get a shot at redemption. Your bitter rival beat you twice last season on the game's biggest stage to crush your spirit and end your shot at a National Championship. Not only that, they went on to claim the very title you set your eyes on. This season, they beat you 2 of 3 in emotion packed contests. But the tides recently turned. You are now one of, if not the hottest hitting team in college baseball. You have the chance to march in Columbia and take back some of your lost pride. With this as a scene setter, how can you fail so miserably? Make no doubt about it, clemson is more talented than UConn. Yes, three Huskies were selected in the first few rounds of the draft, but top to bottom the tigers are better. clemson's pitching is its major weakness, no surprise to anyone who watched them this year. But to get beat 14-1 at Doug Kingsmore is shocking!

For starters, how was this game not a sellout? Come on tiger nation! This is a great baseball program and you should've supported this team better. Less noise equals less home field advantage. Didn't you want that shot at the Gamecocks? Were you salivating at the chance or resigned to defeat at the hands of Tanner and company again? Did South Carolina beat you without even playing the game because you were fearfully looking ahead instead of at the Huskies?

In spite of all that, the absolute most unbelievable event was that clemson quit. Yes, they quit! In the sixth inning they gave up, waived the white flag. Down 8-1 at home, they quit. No let's get 2 or 3 back and see what we can do. Nope, the game was over. We had a good friend at the game who knows baseball and had no dog in that fight. He called in the top of the 6th and said they quit. How can you be so sure you say. Well, clemson is a team that wears their heart on their sleeve. Between Leggett's jumping and jiving in huddle before the first pitch to the sprinting and high fiving as they take the field each inning, clemson is a high energy team. When they go from that to quietly walking out to their position, it clearly demonstates that they quit. And that is embarassing.