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Title: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on May 05, 2018, 12:17:17 PM
( I changed the topic from BIG 12 Baseball to Texas Baseball)  
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on May 06, 2018, 10:52:06 AM
Texas lost 16-5 yesterday.   And this program is on its way back or improved?   :smiley_confused1:

https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/5/no-24-baseball-falls-16-5-to-no-9-texas-tech-on-the-road.aspx (https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/5/no-24-baseball-falls-16-5-to-no-9-texas-tech-on-the-road.aspx)
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 06, 2018, 11:18:32 PM
They won the series and are securely in 2nd place.  With Baylor on the road and Tech in Stillwater oSu should secure the regular season title.  I’s love to see Texas win out when it resumes but I imagine the Froggies will take one.
My expectations & projections for this Texas team are still right where I thought they’d be.  The only losses I really regret was the 2nd game in Manhatten and the 3rd game in Morgantown.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 11, 2018, 08:51:40 AM
Texas Tech is really quite good. Winning that series was huge.

Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 11, 2018, 08:55:05 AM
Updated regional projections:

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-projected-field-of-64-5918/ (https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-projected-field-of-64-5918/)
It would be pretty funny for this Texas team to host a regional and have the Ags as the 2-seed.  How embarrassing for them. :)
(But also, quite dangerous for us )
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 13, 2018, 07:13:12 PM
Thank you, Baylor. A share of a regular season title is now within striking distance.  It would probable take a Tech sweep and Texas taking at least 2 of 3 from the Horny Toads or a Texas sweep and the Cowboys losing 2 of 3 to the Red Raiders.  Slim but possible.  Make for an interesting weekend to close out the season.
Course if the Horns had taken the KState & WVU series this could all be a whole lot easier.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 16, 2018, 11:28:18 AM
Horns win 6-2 against Southwest Texas in a game that included a 2-hour lightning delay.

Alright, now let's sweep the toads and let the chips fall where they may.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 17, 2018, 11:04:33 PM
Horns beat the toads.

blowU loses to Kansas

oSu loses to Tech

A good day for Texas' B12 prospects...
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 18, 2018, 09:02:20 AM
Indeed. Now Texas just needs 3 of 4 wins in the last two games of the series between TCU at Texas and Texas Tech at Oklahoma State.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 19, 2018, 12:35:16 AM
Playing out nicely. Now only two games matter.  We need one more Texas win over TCU or one more Oklahoma State loss to Texas Tech or both.

Nice.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on May 19, 2018, 08:41:16 AM
Thank you Texas Tech !

http://www.big12sports.com/ (http://www.big12sports.com/)
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 19, 2018, 09:08:20 AM
Playing out nicely. Now only two games matter.  We need one more Texas win over TCU or one more Oklahoma State loss to Texas Tech or both.

Nice.
I'd love both, that would get us the outright championship, right?  I'd be aight with that. :)
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 19, 2018, 06:19:06 PM
Horns won & the live stats for Tech-oSu has had the Red Raiders up 7-3  in the bottom of the 9th with 1 out for a half hour. Storm delay?  Any way,looking good.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 19, 2018, 06:42:21 PM
You know... this is David Pierce's 5th conference championship as a head coach.  He missed last year and his first year at Tulane but won one in his second/final year there.  Won three straight at Sam Houston.  I like that.  Horns need to get back to winning conference championships.  First things first.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on May 19, 2018, 07:22:53 PM
So I guess the Tower will be all burnt orange tonight

Wish I was there to see it
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on May 20, 2018, 08:46:52 AM
Since starting out 9-9, we have gone 28-9.   And really since the end of April we have been on the road quite a bit.    Well done Texas ! 

https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/19/no-17-baseball-completes-sweep-to-win-big-12-conference-title.aspx (https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/19/no-17-baseball-completes-sweep-to-win-big-12-conference-title.aspx)

http://www.big12sports.com/ (http://www.big12sports.com/)
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on May 20, 2018, 11:12:05 AM
Since starting out 9-9, we have gone 28-9.   And really since the end of April we have been on the road quite a bit.    Well done Texas !  

https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/19/no-17-baseball-completes-sweep-to-win-big-12-conference-title.aspx (https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/19/no-17-baseball-completes-sweep-to-win-big-12-conference-title.aspx)

http://www.big12sports.com/ (http://www.big12sports.com/)
Yep.  And the 9-9 wasn’t as bad as it looked.  Pierce seemed to be more interested in testing variations of the lineup and bullpen than actually winning at that point in the season - a shrewd decision that paid off later.  And Texas had a rough non conference schedule. The Cardinal was red hot and there was some suspicion LSU was corking their bats.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on May 20, 2018, 03:26:25 PM
Ha, isn't there always?

Awesome series win for the Horns, and I'm delighted to get the conference title for the first time in over a half-decade.
Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 02, 2018, 12:05:48 AM
A couple of big upsets today.  Glad we weren't one of them.

Aggies handled Indiana, Horns handled Texas Southern.

Tomorrow, it's on.  Wouldn't want it any other way.  My i s c & a aggie wife is already talking shit to me.  I never return it. History is on my side when it comes to this rivalry. :)

Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 03, 2018, 01:06:44 AM
Well that was fun.  Maybe it'll even shut up my i s c & a aggie wife for a half a day... ;)

Title: Re: BIG 12 Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 03, 2018, 08:38:41 AM
The BIG 12 had another good day yesterday.   Go Indiana !

https://www.ncaa.com/sports/baseball/d1 (https://www.ncaa.com/sports/baseball/d1)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 04, 2018, 03:28:29 PM
Aggies lose to Indiana, and then Texas grinds out a tough one against the Hoosiers to win the regional with a sweep.  I'll take it!

Currently awaiting the winner of the Oxford regional to see if we're traveling or staying home for the Super.  Tennessee Tech up 10-0 on Ole Miss so it looks like it'll go to a winnrer-takes-all Game7 tonight.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 08, 2018, 10:37:37 AM
Tennessee Tech comes to Austin with a 55-10 overall record.   They are hitting .338 overall as a team. 

http://www.ttusports.com/sports/bsb/2017-18/schedule (http://www.ttusports.com/sports/bsb/2017-18/schedule)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 10, 2018, 09:19:37 AM
Tennesse Tech wins game one 5-4.   

https://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d1/2018/06/09/tennessee-tech-texas (https://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d1/2018/06/09/tennessee-tech-texas)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 10, 2018, 11:21:42 PM
Horns win 4-2 so there will  be a game 3 tomorrow.  Hook 'em Horns!  Let's get back home to Omaha!
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 11, 2018, 04:25:05 PM
BOOM!  Horns win game3 5-2, and punch their ticket to the CWS.

University of Texas at Omaha, in the house.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 11, 2018, 04:25:28 PM
Texas Tech now playing against Duke in their own game3, best of luck to the Raiders.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 11, 2018, 09:14:07 PM
Horns take the world seriously

should be interesting
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on June 11, 2018, 09:37:56 PM
corngrats to the Horns and Raiders

welcome to the Big O
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 12, 2018, 08:08:14 AM
Texas and Texas Tech advance to the CWS.  
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 12, 2018, 09:16:57 AM
does anybody remember the 69 Mets

probably not
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 12, 2018, 11:05:58 AM
does anybody remember the 69 Mets

I remember Rhianna singing about the 68 Jets.
Is that the same thing?
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 12, 2018, 11:17:12 AM
Well, it's time once again for the Texas Longhorns to treat our little friends to the northeast to our rivalristic presence that adds meaning to their lives.

We have plenty of rivals - mostly OU, but Arkansas ain't never had a rival they despised as much as us.  And every time they get to play us, they remember.   Maybe they have no personal memory but they probably remember grandpappy waxing eloquent about Kenny Hatfield's 1964 performance.

Unlike A&M (who longed to get out of our shadow so they could finally feel good about themselves by reveling in the glow of SEC mediocrity instead of Big 12 mediocrity and supplementing their mediocrity with wins over the likes of Nicholls St, Prairie View, Ball St and Sam Houston St) Arkansas (and Nebraska too) have languished in obscurity since their departure(s).  Hating Texas gave the Hogs (and the Huskers) a real purpose they have had trouble replacing.

I'm happy for Razorback fans that Omaha will soon afford Texas with an opportunity to provide the Piggies with yet another reason to hate Texas.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 12, 2018, 11:44:21 AM
love it when they start crying with their pig hats on
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 12, 2018, 12:21:03 PM
love it when they start crying with their pig hats on
I like it when their mouthy mouths fall silent.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on June 12, 2018, 12:44:58 PM
Amazing that I still remember.....

Or is it a miracle?  Oh well....

Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan and Tug McGraw

Bud Harrelson and Al Weis and Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones

Coaching Gil Hodges and Yogi Berra

One of my earliest memories of MLB that did not include the Minnesooota Twins
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 12, 2018, 01:17:47 PM
Yogi Berra played for the Longhorns?  I had no idea.

Arkansas fans really are the worst.  I've had my run-ins with Sooner fans, and I have to deal with Aggie fans on a daily basis, but anyone who has ever been to a Texas-Arkansas football game in FayetteNam will understand exactly why I say the little piggies are the absolute worst.

Sure hope the team shuts up their mouthy mouths in a hurry on Sunday.  
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on June 12, 2018, 01:58:36 PM
Yogi Berra played for the Longhorns?  I had no idea.
I think he played for the Razorbacks
woo pig sooie!
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 12, 2018, 03:02:29 PM
as ol Yogi would say

when you get to a fork in the road

take it
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on June 12, 2018, 03:31:40 PM
Yogi also said,

Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

and my favorite........

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 12, 2018, 04:51:40 PM
My favorite Yogism

In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 12, 2018, 06:46:59 PM
Then there was the time Yogi called up the local fire chief and told him he had a lot of things

to contribute to their charity drive and all they needed to do was come pick it up

The fire chief says "Thats great Yogi how do we get to your house?"

and Yogi says "cant you just use one of your little red trucks?"

Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 16, 2018, 10:38:57 AM
Texas vs Arkansas at 1 pm cst

https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/baseball/d1/2018 (https://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/baseball/d1/2018)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on June 18, 2018, 08:43:34 AM
That was fun

Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 18, 2018, 09:24:58 AM
Yesterday was the most embarrassing Texas baseball game that I have ever seen at the CWS.     I am shocked at how ill prepared we looked and how timid we played.      Its one thing to go to Omaha, its another to stink up the place. 

https://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d1/2018/06/17/texas-arkansas (https://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d1/2018/06/17/texas-arkansas)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: BrownCounty on June 18, 2018, 05:10:21 PM
Its one thing to go to Omaha, its another to stink up the place.

I wouldn't be too upset.  We home field advantaged our way into the CWS.  Texas is a pleasantly improving team.  I've enjoyed watching our turnaround.  But it's still a work in process, and we were never CWS material this year.  Next year perhaps.

First and foremost, we have zero consistency at the plate.  That's not the hallmark of a CWS team.  Outside of Kody, you never know what you're going to get.  And Kody is allowed a bad day every now and then, but with these other 8 guys, we have no chance when he does.

I like the look of Zubia.  He looks the part.  Problem is, he's not getting it done for a fella that does nothing but bat for the Texas Longhorns.  I anticipate seeing another hoss in the 4-hole next year.  A more reliable one.

Pitching is still not A-1.  I give us a B+.  That's not CWS material.  Too much unpredictability.

This is a fine group of players.  This is not a CWS team.  This is a team knocking on the door.  I have complete faith in Pierce to keep working the issue.  He's doing a good job.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on June 19, 2018, 01:35:40 PM
Yeah what he said. We couldn’t buy an out in that one bad inning from hell. Oh well.  That happens. Project still ahead of schedule.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: TexasFan on June 19, 2018, 03:14:45 PM
Beat Florida !  :)
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 19, 2018, 03:14:50 PM
Yup, as much as that game sucked, especially against the hated pigs, it's still a lot more than I (or most everyone else) expected from this team back in February.  I like the direction we're headed.  This team is easy to root for, even when they're having a bad day.

Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on June 19, 2018, 08:45:35 PM
corngrats on a dern fine season and ANOTHER trip to Omaha for the Horns
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: EastAthens on June 19, 2018, 09:13:49 PM
does anybody remember the 69 Mets

probably not
I was 10 and a full-blown Henry Aaron worshiper. The Bravos played the Miracle Mets in the 1st ever Divisional Playoff. This was when I heard Tom Terrific say he did not sleep a wink the night before he pitched the 1st game because every time he closed his eyes, he saw Bad Henry knocking another ball over the wall. I never knew that was what pitchers called Aaron. The Mets swept in three.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: BrownCounty on June 26, 2018, 05:21:34 PM
Sorry, EastAthens.

I just had to knock your handle off the front page.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on June 27, 2018, 08:18:24 AM
Well, I suppose you could have said something about Texas beisbol.  Or beisbol in general.  Or Texas in general.

Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: EastAthens on July 07, 2018, 02:42:58 AM
Well, +1 for that Big 12 maturity and tolerance. I expected no less from Longhorn Nation which had no stake, as far as I know, in the 1969 NLCS.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on July 07, 2018, 10:08:37 PM
I was in Bob’s barbersop, in the chair, getting my ears lowered when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s career record for homeruns.  Bob and Curtis both stopped clipping to stand watching along with the other 10 or 12 guys in the room.  I was about 12.  My dad close to 50.  Bob at least 60.  Curtis maybe 35.  Everybody else probably between 40 and 70.  Weird to think I might be the only person still living who was in that barber shop to see that.  There were probably pithy comments but I can’t remember any.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on July 08, 2018, 10:39:18 AM
I remember that moment, don't remember exactly where I was.  Probably my parent's living room

I'm old
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on July 08, 2018, 11:27:27 AM
Weird how some things stick in ones mind.

I was just 2 when JFK was shot so I don’t remember that particular event as a crystalized moment in time like most folks from the generations ahead of mine do.  But I have vague memories (either real or imagined) of everybody in my family being rather shaken by something.

I do remamber where I was during the ice bowl, when Texas beat Arkansas 15 to 14 in 1969, when man walked on the moon, when I heard about RFK and MLK being assisanated, when I heard General MacArthur had died, LBJ’s funeral, George Wallace getting shot, when some lady tried to kill Ford, when Reagan (and Brady) were shot,  when John Lennon died, when John Belushi died, when the Challenger exploded, when the Federal Building in OKC exploded, when 9/11 transpired, and when VY beat USC.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: FearlessF on July 08, 2018, 12:03:59 PM
Weird how some things stick in ones mind.

I was just 2 when JFK was shot so I don’t remember that particular event as a crystalized moment in time like most folks from the generations ahead of mine do.  But I have vague memories (either real or imagined) of everybody in my family being rather shaken by something.


I was less than two.  I do remember my mother sitting on the floor in front of the TV crying
Always thought it was JFK, but I was too young.
I assume it was MLK Jr.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on July 09, 2018, 11:31:16 AM
I said upthread that I remember hearing General MacArthur had died.  That can't be right because he died in 1964.

I remember being in the classroom of a school I attended from the fall of 1968 through the spring of 1970.  And I remember my teacher with a beehive hairdo making a big sentimental speech about how America had just lost a hero.  I think we had to draw and color pictures of army generals with stars and medals to commemorate this tragedy.

Must've been Eisenhower.

Seems like the stupid teacher would've mentioned he had been a president as well as an army general.  I mean sheesh.  She would've left a better impression on me instead of a 50 year misunderstanding.

Eh.  Maybe she did mention it and my mind was wandering at the time.

It was March of 1969 and I was seven, so I was probably thinking about Burt Hooton on the mound for Texas, or humming Sly and the Family Stone's Everyday People, or watching Susan Turner, the cute little squirmy blonde who wore short dresses and sat at the desk in front of me.

A busy man like me can't be expected to hear everything a teacher has to say.  I caught part of it.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: BrownCounty on July 09, 2018, 01:30:47 PM
It was March of 1969 and I was seven, so I was probably thinking about Burt Hooton on the mound for Texas, or humming Sly and the Family Stone's Everyday People, or watching Susan Turner, the cute little squirmy blonde who wore short dresses and sat at the desk in front of me.

A busy man like me can't be expected to hear everything a teacher has to say.  I caught part of it.

You started early.

At 7, I was likely thinking about Roger Staubach's duel with Craig Morton, humming Sweet's Little Willy, or visualizing how I could keep my wheelie up for more than 20 feet.

Squirmy blonde in a short dress?  I would have never noticed.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: longhorn320 on July 09, 2018, 01:36:59 PM
I still remember very clearly where I was and who I was with when I heard JFK had been shot.

The only time I had a similar feeling was when the Challenger accident happened and of course 911
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on July 09, 2018, 02:25:39 PM
You started early.

At 7, I was likely thinking about Roger Staubach's duel with Craig Morton, humming Sweet's Little Willy, or visualizing how I could keep my wheelie up for more than 20 feet.

Squirmy blonde in a short dress?  I would have never noticed.
Trust me, BC. You would have.
I may have mentioned that my heinous Okie accent landed me in the speech class two days a week with a stutterer, a stammerer, a French kid and seven Mexican nationals.
I was with my speech class on Track & Field Day when Susan competed in the standing long jump.  The length of her jump was unspectacular but her effort was memorable because when she came down, the hem of her short dress rose up to the middle of her back, exposing her undie-clad backend which elicited:
a g-g-g-g-golly from the stutter;
a mmm mmm mmm wow from the stammer;
an ooo la la from the french kid;
seven ai chihuahuas from the Mexican nationals; 
and a shazam from me
But that wasn't all.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: BrownCounty on July 09, 2018, 02:37:28 PM
Trust me, BC. You would have.

I'm sure I would have, given the circumstance...

But one thing that holds true if you just leave nature alone - walk into a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade class.  The little boys are talking about sports, and the little girls are talking about little boys.

Hate to upset the apple cart.

Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on July 09, 2018, 02:41:29 PM
We had a kid in our class named Robbie Johnston.  In hindsight, he was clearly an ADHD kid, but back then we just called him bad.  He was occasionally amusing but constantly annoying.

The teachers disciplined him mercilessly but they probably got tired from time to time and let him just run amok.  On Track & Field Day he was sprinting all around, annoying everybody.

As Susan came down on both feet, Robbie ran by, yelled "Woo," and slapped her on the buttocks, knocking her to her knees.  Thus eliciting a second round of g-g-g-golly, mmm mmm wow, ooo la la and a smattering of ai chihuahuas.

Being the consummate gentleman, I withheld comment and hurried to Susan's side to help her up.  Alas, she scrambled to her feet and lit out after Robbie, screaming "Robbie!" before I could get there.

For a minute, Robbie was a god.  With his wreckless gall and absence of boundaries, he had not only reacted to Susan's allure but had incited her highly motivated interest and he had touched her.

The speech class and I hurried after Susan who hurried after Robbie and in a melee that ensued I tackled Robbie to ask the burning question:

What was it like?

What? he asked.

Touching her there, like that?  I asked.

Who?  he asked.

He had already forgotten.

Occasionally amusing.  Constantly annoying.
Title: Re: Texas Baseball
Post by: utee94 on July 09, 2018, 10:08:55 PM
We called 'em "hyperactive" when I was a kid.  

I was just a "talker."  I was still getting sent out of class for "talking" in high school.  My 9th grade honors English teacher would just send me out, at least once every few weeks. I'd ask her "where should I go?" and she'd respond, "I don't care, just get out."  So I'd wander past the cafeteria, past the library, and past the principal's office.  At first they stopped me and asked me for a hall pass, I told 'em they needed to talk to Mrs. Pruitt because she threw me out of class without a hall pass.  Eventually they just got used to me wandering the halls during 4th period and left me alone.

My 11th grade Honors American Studies teacher took a different tack.  The classroom had 5 columns of chairs, but it was an Honors section so it only had enough student to fill three of them. We never had assigned seats but she made everyone else in the class sit in three colums to the right, and made me sit in the column to the far left, so that there was a full column of chairs in between us and there was nobody next to me for me to distract.

What she didn't realize, is that she had basically just put me on stage in front of the entire class.  And I just happened to be VERY into theater at the time.  Her mistake.