FSU baseball is a perfect example of playing a game instead of engaging in a sport. We, and I say we because I’ve been a fan and season ticket holder for 44 years, we play as if there is no point in winning, as if no one were keeping score. The reason you keep score is that there is a winner and a loser. Make no doubt, winning is the goal and winning beats losing every time. Yes, there are moral victories all the time, but there is no M for moral in the win/loss column, there is only a W and a L. FSU will never finish with a W in the important games of the year or the final game of the year as long as we have a coach who has no consequence in winning vs. losing. It doesn’t matter to “Eleven” if we win or lose. He still makes loads of money with no one at the university daring to question him on any phase of our baseball operation. We fans pack Howser and live and die with our team, but only the fans go home sad after a loss like this past Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Eleven goes home to take a nap, eat a steak and read a book, probably about fishing or something. I wish he would read memoirs and thoughts from previous college coaches who have won it all by letting his boys play the game, swing the bat, go for the darn gaps and fences and not take pitches, play small ball and bunt and run the bases ineffectively. It’s just another game….like Eleven said Friday night…”It was a great game to watch for the fans.” Only the Virginia fans Eleven, only the Virginia fans! My new wish is that Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium has a new shrine…..”Mike Martin Box” up in the back where Eleven could get his wish, to be a fan and perhaps for once share the pain and disappointment of losing all the games that matter. Yes, he’s won 1800 games, but that means little compared to losing so many, including all final games we have ever played at the College World Series. We have been to the CWS more than any other team in history……to have never won. And if you study the talent Eleven has squandered in those years and trips it is mind boggling. It’s time for a change in approach. Get us a new coach, one who thinks winning is as important as looking good in a uniform. One who lets the boys swing when it counts. One who does not get so tight it is palpable to all who play for him and watch his teams play, by calling every pitch and every swing. Let FSU PLAY the game to win! It is a disservice to perhaps the finest fans in Tallahassee and beyond, but also to the young men who put on those uniforms to play and to win…..win it all. Just one time let’s have FSU One Time, not Eleven Time!