Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Roberts. And as always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson. Here on the

magnificent Monday edition of the yard, rough weekend, guys. I mean, in many respects. And here's the thing.

I've had some people say, well, you know, at least we're not getting beat like this. A loss is a loss.

And losing does not work for Mississippi State

baseball. We are currently six games over 500. That's unacceptable. It just is. Absolutely

unacceptable. Let's just call it for what it is, right? It's unacceptable.

It's not acceptable here. That's the truth that it matter. I'm trying to get these levels right. So if I'm a little bit off today, I apologize. But, you know, it's frustrating, like all of you. I mean, the reality of it is, like I have people that reach out after ball know, like Steve, tell us, guys, I don't have any words of wisdom for you that's going to make you feel better about the current state of Mississippi State baseball.

I'm just not.

And it's amazing how one inning changes the perception of your team.

And here's the reality of it is we entered the weekend

kind of knowing we had no margin for error. We were hoping to get a sweep. A couple swings away from

getting a sweep. A couple pitches away from getting a sweep. We end up losing a series. And now

today it feels like the world is ending. It does. It is just college baseball, but we invest so much of our time,

our finances, our interest level, our emotions in Mississippi State College Baseball, and really

athletics as a whole. And then we struggle. You know, you look forward to this all year long, right?

We're going to gather at Dirty Noble Field, we're going to have

these huge crowds, and we're going to cheer our team on to Omaha. And the reality of it is,

is the possibility of doing that was erased really in many respects a long time ago. And so we want

to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, right? You're thinking, okay, okay,

you start doing it. You bargain with yourself, right? Oh, well, there's, if we can win this,

we can do that. And that's just to kind of keep the thin hope alive. And that's where I've been

for the last month. I remember thinking, hey, you know, the schedule eases up for us

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