Ron Polk
Ron Polk
Ronald GeorgePolkwas a long-time head baseball coach at Mississippi State and is considered, by some, to be the "Father of Southeastern Conference Baseball." Polk compiled one of the most successful winning records, as a coach, in both MSU and Southeastern Conference history. In 31 seasons as an SEC coach he compiled a 1218-638-2record. His career record stands at 1373-702-2. He currently ranks 9th on the all-time wins list nationally for 10+ year Division I coaches. His teams won five SEC...
below clubs good normal opponents perennial struggling
I'm not down on the opponents, but most of those opponents were .500 clubs or below .500 clubs. Like even (Arizona), a normal perennial power, is struggling right now because of young players, so I don't know if we were that good when we were 18-0.
arguing arrested
They told me I was going to be arrested if I didn't get off the field. For what? Arguing a call?
cool hour mile per throws
He's a cool customer. And he throws a 93, 94 mile per hour fastball.
straight win
A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.
atmosphere football line sidelines state
It was like a football atmosphere out there. I thought it was the 50-yard line on the sidelines of an Ole Miss-Mississippi State football game.
kids lights playing surface
But Smith-Wills has done everything we asked, put a new playing surface in, put new lights in, but it's an old facility. That's fine. It's not bad. It's old. You know how kids are, they want better facilities.
bullpen pounding strike
Our bullpen has been great. We've been pounding the strike zone.
arms bullpen deal depth innings
Innings are getting up there, arms are tired. (Pitching woes) can get contagious. Thankfully, we have bullpen depth to deal with it.
ourselves week
This week will be a big test. We'll know a lot more about ourselves after this week.
nearly ours
We had nearly as many hits, but they put them together. That's what it's all about. We just spaced ours out.
call few good pitching played weeks
We've played good teams, but give me a call in a few weeks and I'll let you know how our pitching is.
five hits innings until
We had the 13 hits in five innings because we didn't have a hit until the 5th inning.
umpires
Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.
bad games good home start won
The good part is that we've won 11 games to start the season. The bad part is, they were all home games.