The Box is impressive but I'm okay going the rest of my lifetime without being heckled by opposing fanbases.
But you should do it anyway, and also see if you can get Matt Mitchell's "We're Texas And Y'all Ain't" t-shirt to wear.(https://i.imgur.com/z1iY2MY.png)
You should come to Austin for the LSU-Texas series in a couple of weeks. I have other commitments Saturday evening but am currently planning on going to the Friday and Sunday games.
Look at the Volunteer fans who all of a sudden discovered the existence of college baseball in 2024! :)
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Just checking in........
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What ranking is that? Last thing I saw had A&M #1.
I'd say that last night's game between Texas and TAMU-CC is one of those pesky mid-week contests that Texas was so adept at tanking last season. So far, that's a big improvement.
Horns dropped the first midweek game of the season last night against UTSA, in extra innings. Disappointing for sure. Need to bounce back and win against LSU this weekend.I saw that #1 UTenn dropped their game to Eastern Tennessee State or some such in extra innings too. Some days are just oddball baseball days.
Sounds like a better name for a linebacker, rather than a pitcher.I believe Jammer was from here. Angleton kid as I recall. I know several of his family members.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Longhorn safeties, named Quentin Jammer.
It's okay, you can just go ahead and say it, it feels good...
"ou sucks"
So easy, so simple, so fun, and so true!
I'd love to go to some games, if only The Box weren't 3+ hrs away.Oh yeah, baseball games are so much easier and more relaxing to attend. Football games have become an absolute beating.
I can navigate the baseball games so much better than a day at Tiger Stadium.
To put it in perspective, our next five SEC opponents include the #1, 5, 11, and 12 teams, plus A&M who was preseason #1 and still dangerous.Yeah the Horns have already played currently ranked #3 LSU and #6 Georgia of course, and still have to travel to #1 Arkansas and #16 OU. We get the Ags at home thank goodness. And then there's a home series against #9 Auburn and another home series against Florida who looks like they're struggling a bit this year but is usually a quality baseball team.
I'd imagine most of the hopeful SEC teams are facing something similar.
EDIT: We get Tennessee and Arkansas at home. Hopefully that's worth something.
Oh yeah, baseball games are so much easier and more relaxing to attend. Football games have become an absolute beating.
For some of us, in more ways than one :smiley_confused1:No doubt in my mind LSU will eventually fire the current guy and hire some buffoon hayseed coach who will win the NC in his first or second year, long before Texas ever wins one. That's how it goes for y'all.
Not nearly enough, as evidenced by our getting swept last weekend :)Heh, that's funny coming from an LSU fan. NIL literally bought you the baseball NC just two years ago. I'm not making any accusations here, it's completely within the rules, but it was direct driver of your team winning an NC.
Heh, that's funny coming from an LSU fan. NIL literally bought you the baseball NC just two years ago. I'm not making any accusations here, it's completely within the rules, but it was direct driver of your team winning an NC.
Getting Guidry back would be/will be huge, if he gets back to form.....that would give us another legit weekend starter.
The problem I fear is that for as long as I've been paying attention to injury recoveries to pitchers.....every time we hear about this "week to week"....."we expect him back any time now"....."it's just a matter of him getting that final 2%" blah blah blah.......it goes on and on into the end of the season and they're out way longer than anybody ever admitted, and they're never "back." I don't know if Guidry is ever going to be a real option.
I wish Schlossnagle nothing but the worst.Of course. TCU fans felt the same. Duke fans feel the same about Elko. And so it goes.
And now a 3-2 pitching bonanza. Some really good baseball played by both teams yesterday, what a great day at the Disch. 1 Ag error at 3rd made the difference in the game. Horns take the series but can they take the sweep? Our Sunday starter pitched Friday night, gonna take a major effort from Johnny All-staff to win today.Watched the game yesterday which sometimes is hard to do on the SEC network
Looks like the Geaux Tigers suffered a little revenge of the Vols yesterday.
Watched the game yesterday which sometimes is hard to do on the SEC networkI've got too many chores today to head down so I'll have to catch it on SECN as well. It'll be interesting to see how we approach the pitching.
I also saw Fridays game
Sure wish I could attend
And now a 3-2 pitching bonanza. Some really good baseball played by both teams yesterday, what a great day at the Disch. 1 Ag error at 3rd made the difference in the game. Horns take the series but can they take the sweep? Our Sunday starter pitched Friday night, gonna take a major effort from Johnny All-staff to win today.
Looks like the Geaux Tigers suffered a little revenge of the Vols yesterday.
Given the import of pitching on the game, and the fact these are pretty young arms, it strikes me as very possible a team could find two 18 year olds who figured it out later in the season, or just had their arms 'fall off', and either excel late or crash and burn.Yup, both of those scenarios happen in college baseball.
A team might have to use up its staff to get into the CBWS and then have nothing left?
What do you call a phobia where you're afraid of not having a glove while watching a baseball game in person, in case a foul ball rains down on you, because you'll probably hurt yourself if you try to catch it bare-handed?
Cuz I have that.
If you're seated down the line, just be aware if the batter would pull the ball your way. That's scary. If he's the other-handed, you're fine.
Horns start playing AT the #10 ranked pigs' house tonight. If Texas is going to drop a series, this is a good candidate. Horns have played a lot of good teams at home, I like this one being on the road and testing the team's mettle. We'll see how it goes.
When I looked at Arkansas' game by game schedule, I wasn't as impressed. No doubt they're good, but hidden in their record is the fact they've lost to all the best teams they've played. I expect that will continue vs. Texas.Sure hope so!
Could you describe the raucous?(https://thebrekkyclub.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/3/7/29370051/7118438.jpg)
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I'll just leave this here
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Texas needs to eat a worm and die!
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Hey MDT,
I'm always here, because you know it just takes one hog to spoil your whole day.
:)
Oh no! looks like the Hogs ruined Texass's whole weekend!
>:(
And guess who's next? Yeah, that's right. You swamp kittens don't cry too much after the sweep next weekend!
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The Vols are taking a dump in the bed here in the late season. Awesome.
Horns swept the wareagletigers, and the ags, and then of course got swept by the piglets. It's tough in the SEC.
A pretty hot Gator team is coming to town this weekend. I'll probably get to at least one of those games.
Been waiting years to hear you say that.
Now you just need to learn how to chant "SEC! SEC! SEC!"
Horns got swept in embarrassing fashion. Voters couldn't abide leaving us at #1 and I get it.
UT is still #1 in D1Baseball's poll.Yeah that was a bit surprising.
I still say a playoff determines a playoff champion.I think this is a more accurate statement for sports like football where there is only 1 game at each round of the playoff.
It's not likely it determines the best team, if there is such a thing.
Admittedly, I'm a glass-two-thirds-empty kind of guy, and I watch from a perspective of "What will do us in, in the end?" moreso than "Can we do it this year?" There's the optimism and hope of a fan on one hand, but on the other hand is a cold adherence to chance and probability. Statistically speaking, after having so recently won a CWS, it will be a while, if ever, before we do it again. Granted, statistics only describe what happens, they don't control what happens, and probability likewise merely suggests what's likely, not what is imminent. But the realities of this game that dictate the statistics which describe it are such that it's improbable we can actually go all the way.Just be glad you're an LSU grad and not an A&M grad. We were this ][ close last year.
I wish I could cut that part of my brain off and enjoy with pure, unadulterated optimism. Because frankly, it does little to mitigate my disappointment when the season finally ends without a trophy.
Horns won both the baseball and football NC in 2005.Yeah I kinda remember that they were really on top in that time frame.
Longhorn baseball won the NC in 2002, made it to the final 4 in 2003, made it to the championship series and lost to Fullerton in 2004, and then won the baseball NC again in 2005. So the final 4, 4 years in a row, including two NCs and one runner-up. It was a nice stretch for the UT beisbol team.
Yup, 2005. Woulda/coulda/shoulda been 2009 when Texas was one out away in the top of the 9th in Game1 and then comfortably won Game2, but those golderned cajuns musta paid off the ump with some gumbo and crawfish etouffee or something.
I don't see it happening for Texas this year but it would be cool to win it and celebrate the 20th anniversary.
UGA played in the finals sometime in the late aughts, I think, but lost to some chump out west.....Fresno, maybe? Don't know if they've ever won a CWS. Don't know how big baseball is amongst the UGA fans. It's a huge deal for us, even before we started winning in the 90's, and I found a pretty fair baseball following amongst the UT fans as well when I lived in Austin.Baseball is pretty big in Athens, not as big as tennis or gymnastics, but bigger than basketball. They have a nice stadium seating 3,633. They won ths CWS in 1990 and were runnerup in 2008 to Fresno State.
I did not know Paul Mainieri was coaching South Carolina. We'll face the old coach next weekend for our final SEC series.https://twitter.com/secunfiltered/status/1920649453079253238?s=61
I didn't keep track of him when he resigned at LSU, but he said something along the lines of how he was tired, didn't feel like he was giving it his best anymore, and needed to step aside for the good of the program.
I guess he just needed a few years off, away from the over-zealous expectations of LSU fans.
Welp. A&M snapped Mizzou’s “perfect” SEC record.Sonofabitch!
Now, where'd that uppity little hawg go? 😎 Not so tough outside their own little pork-pen.Uppity? :57:
Speaking of, without doing any research whatsoever, it seems to me that's LSU's story as well. Barring the Auburn outlier, LSU can beat anyone at home, and is just as likely to lose to good teams away from home. Getting a top 8 national seed will doubtlessly improve their chances markedly, though their chances in Omaha, if they were to make it, would seem to be slim.
Horns stumbling down the stretch. Weak bats all season long were covered to an extent by strong pitching, but losing our best weekend pitcher 3 weeks ago just cratered our rotation. I like this team a lot, they've played well above their talent level, but this is not an Omaha team I think. Still a good first season in the SEC. A series win in Norman would be nice...I'll see your "stumbling down the stretch" and raise you a series sweep (all losses) to the team previously winless in the SEC.
Uppity? :57:
What a series, almost 4 hour rain delay, then a 10 run rule and finally blocked the sweep. Tiggers had the bats this time for sure! Good games!
I'll see your "stumbling down the stretch" and raise you a series sweep (all losses) to the team previously winless in the SEC.ooof, I saw the score from the first game and was surprised but figured the Ags would pull out the series win. Didn't know it was a series sweep until you just said it. Up and down, for sure, but so much talent on that team that I think almost anything is possible for y'all.
Pretty confident that Tennessee will not repeat as National Champs.I'm not even sure A&M will play in the post-season. I don't think with today's record they will, and in fact they should not. Strange how that works. I think a few years ago MSU won the CWS, and just recently fired their coach.
I have a funny feeling that Auburn has the magic on their side this year.
They sure knocked our butts in the grass, in BR no less. Only team to beat us at home this year, I think.
Well, Horns won Game1 up in Norman and Arkansas lost. Thanks to the Vols for the assist! Didn't expect this at all in the first season of a baseball conference like the SEC. There's so much to like about this team, and talent is pretty far down the list.
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Let's see if LSU can avoid being this week's Texas A&M and not get swept by USC, a team that hasn't won a conference series yet.
News today is that the typical g1 ace won't pitch tonight, they'll start him tomorrow in g2, and the usual g2 pitcher will go in g3. No word on who will pitch tonight. I guess it's to give them an extra day's rest, but it seems like a strange move to risk giving a team with nothing to lose confidence if you don't put your best foot forward and wind up handing them a series-opening win.
Welp....~???Yeah I think sometimes coaches outsmart themselves.
Holy cow, I totally missed this until just now:
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Series win against our hated archrivals with an emphatic 9-1 win in Norman yesterday. Glad we finally won another series before heading into the postseason.
This double-bye thing for a 16-team tournament seems strange but it should be fun.
Florida finishes SEC play at .500 (15-15) after a 1-11 start.
Is that a good coaching job? lol
Best not to get in a hole to begin with.
Your hated archrivals are sucking down the home-stretch this year.I like Skip Johnson, a lot. He was instrumental in Texas' success while he was here in Austin.
9 of the 16 teams left in post-season softball are from the SEC. Maybe somebody will start a thread about that.
I don't have a lot of interest in LSU softball, but I've loosely followed it over the years (emphasis on "loosely") because a short recap is included in a daily update I read about LSU sports. The team appeared to have some talent this year but was thought to have too many ups and downs, and now has been bounced from it's own regional for the second time in three years. Coach Beth Torina is speculated to need a more productive season next year, maybe a deep tourney run, to stay off the hot seat. Most of this team comes back and an injured arm or two is supposed to return.A&M softball, #1 seed, got booted from their own regional by Liberty. After being co-champions of the SEC, didn't even make it to the super regionals. What a shame, lots of people wanted to see them matched up to OU since we didn't get to in the SEC CCG.
I have no idea what "arm injuries" mean in softball and if/how they affect the pitchers the same as in baseball.
I don't have a lot of interest in LSU softball, but I've loosely followed it over the years (emphasis on "loosely") because a short recap is included in a daily update I read about LSU sports. The team appeared to have some talent this year but was thought to have too many ups and downs, and now has been bounced from it's own regional for the second time in three years. Coach Beth Torina is speculated to need a more productive season next year, maybe a deep tourney run, to stay off the hot seat. Most of this team comes back and an injured arm or two is supposed to return.To your last point, supposedly, the underarm softball pitching motion is much easier on the arm than pitching a baseball. I think softball pitchers tend to get tired arms--or maybe just worn down in general--if they throw too many innings. But you seldom hear of pitching-induced injuries
I have no idea what "arm injuries" mean in softball and if/how they affect the pitchers the same as in baseball.
My issue with softball pitching is they are off the rubber when they release the ball.Sort of how for many decades in baseball the classic double-play started with an imaginary out at 2nd base?
Balk, every time.
I responded to a post by Utee by noting that the OU baseball team seems to be sucking.A bad streak is bad until it isn't. Headed into Game1 in Norman, the Horns were 1-5 against SEC competition, 0-2 in SEC series.
But, oddly, this year's team has virtually the same win percentage as the 2022 team that lost to Ole Miss in the CWS finals. 64% vs. 65%.
But the '22 team played well down the stretch, while this year's team had a 5-game losing streak in the process of losing 6 of the last 7 regular-season games.
OU beat Kentucky 5-1 to start off the SEC tournament. A couple of guys who had been injured have become available. Maybe the team is not as bad as it looked ending the regular season.
UT vs. UT, Round 1 of many.
Glad we saved Liam Doyle for today. We’ll need him to shut down the Horns offense to have a chance.Our offense ain't much. Hopefully a bit better as Belyeu gets more comfortable back from injury.
Decent setting to listen to the game on my pink radio.
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There appears to be an LSU spy lurking in your midst.
Gay LSU fans? Man, they have to be awesome cooks.
Horns' super would match up with UCLA should both win. Gotta get through the regional first, though. And of course the committee put one of our purple nemeses in our regional...
Depends on then 4-seed, how well they hit, what type of hitting they do, etc. How do they match up against your various potential pitchers?
But, if you think at all that you can get away with using Johnny All-staff in Game1, then I say save your aces for later in the weekend. Assuming all goes to chalk, I'd rather face a 2-seed twice with my best arms, than use one of my best on the 4-seed.
Why are you whispering?Copy/paste from the B1G forum and that's how it pasted. I don't make the rules.
I see the advantages of both, which is why I'm not sure what I'd do. Just curious what anyone else thinks. No word from our coach yet on what he plans to do.
I figured Texas could just throw one of their bazillion dollars at it, of which they have a gajillion, and get that place right by tomorrow.I assume that's exactly what's happening. At a normal place, this kind of project might take months. On UT's campus, hours.
Very dangerous. Nevertheless, we shall rebuild.
They had the old damaged part cut up and removed by dark last night. Preparing to install the replacement sections.
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Horns lose their 3rd (and final) game to UTSA this season. I knew this wasn't an Omaha team, but I did kinda think they'd make the Supers. Still they played well above their heads most of the season.I wish Schlossnagle nothing but the worst of luck.
Horns lose their 3rd (and final) game to UTSA this season. I knew this wasn't an Omaha team, but I did kinda think they'd make the Supers. Still they played well above their heads most of the season.we still have the women
I wish Schlossnagle nothing but the worst of luck.Nobody gives a shit what you wish.
we still have the women
go Horns softball team
uhhh, no. 🙃uhhh oh yes
Arkansas and Tennessee will meet in Little Rock for what we'll call the SEC Super Showdown. Did they play in the regular season?
Look at all those surf-boy and ACC teams in the Supers. Ugh.
we still have the womenDid I see this right that Texas Tech and Texas are in the finals?
go Horns softball team
Did I see this right that Texas Tech and Texas are in the finals?Yup. The Horns finally broke their OU curse by beating them the first time and putting them into the losers' bracket, and Tech finished them off for their 2nd loss and elimination.
Horns take game 1 of all Texas softball World SeriesWow, what a crazy game. So many strange things.
I'm not sure how I feel about being able to use one dominant pitcher every single game. I mean, it's great when you have one of course. But it sucks when you don't.
I realize I'm just used to the paradigm in baseball, where the overall pitching staff matters and one dominant guy isn't going to win you every game by himself.
Perhaps it's time to expand the infield, or even the entire ballpark, for softball.
I'm not sure how I feel about being able to use one dominant pitcher every single game. I mean, it's great when you have one of course. But it sucks when you don't.Not to worry. 3rd time was the charm,
I realize I'm just used to the paradigm in baseball, where the overall pitching staff matters and one dominant guy isn't going to win you every game by himself.
Perhaps it's time to expand the infield, or even the entire ballpark, for softball.
Also, having 250 lb ladies cranking them out messes up the geometry of the field.Not many of those any more. There are notable exceptions, but most of the young ladies are good all-round athletes.
Going to be Epic! Whoever wins takes the title. Mark my words!