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The Power Four => SEC => Topic started by: MikeDeTiger on February 16, 2026, 01:07:47 PM
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Week 1 overreactions:
I didn't watch any of the games, just read recaps.
The starting pitching seems a bit iffy just yet. The relief pitching looked to be stronger than we're used to. Almost certainly the rotation will fluctuate for a while as the coach figures out what he's really got in this new staff.
Seems very hit and miss from the stats. We recorded the most K's LSU has ever had in a three-game series (!!!), but they also gave up too many home runs.
Defense behind the pitching had a good showing.
The bats were crazy. How much is Milwaukee's crappy staff and how much is that these guys can really hit remains to be seen. But it is "Week 1 Overreactions," so......
Gorilla Ball is back!!!
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Horns swept the Aggies over the weekend, so that's nice.
The UC-Davis Aggies
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The Vols swept the Louisiana boys as well.
The Nicholls St. version.
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Won't really know anything for a couple more weeks, then Texas is in a tournament with Coastal Carolina and Baylor. Should get some decent data then.
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Horns swept the Aggies over the weekend, so that's nice.
The UC-Davis Aggies
Being that I don't follow baseball I was kinda confused why we played so early in the season, especially being conference rivals etc and then I saw the small text.
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Horns-Ags is @ College Station this year, April 10-12. Should be a heck of a series, they always are between our two teams.
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Won't really know anything for a couple more weeks, then Texas is in a tournament with Coastal Carolina and Baylor. Should get some decent data then.
I see you take a different approach to "Week 1 Overreactions".....
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The Texas head coach largely had the same sentiment. To paraphrase, he basically implied that Texas had 3-4 star quality reliable players that he could trust to perform in the field and at the plate. Most of the others showed that they had talent, but needed to show it consistently during critical parts of the game.
They can field a pretty solid starting 9, but there's no trust in the depth right now.
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How would a top ten college team fair against a minor league team? Are they about like AA ball?
My buddies all told me it was at AA ball where the players were pretty much all very good. They said AAA often was populated with players who were also very good, but just shy of the MLB level, and would stay that way, many jump from AA to MLB. So, it seemed to me like AA was close to AAA overall, but maybe AA would be dotted with a few players who were really good.
It would be hard to make it to AAA and realize you just lacked that something to get to the Show.
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I see you take a different approach to "Week 1 Overreactions".....
Perhaps my version of an overreaction is an underreaction. Double reverse. Boom!
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How would a top ten college team fair against a minor league team? Are they about like AA ball?
My buddies all told me it was at AA ball where the players were pretty much all very good. They said AAA often was populated with players who were also very good, but just shy of the MLB level, and would stay that way, many jump from AA to MLB. So, it seemed to me like AA was close to AAA overall, but maybe AA would be dotted with a few players who were really good.
It would be hard to make it to AAA and realize you just lacked that something to get to the Show.
I think baseball can be kind of cruel in this aspect. Meaning, as a football player, if the call hasn't come by the time you're 23-24 years old, it isn't coming at all. Time to move on with life.
Baseball will let you drag it out forever. You can drive around with a minor league club, largely fund your own equipment and meals, and wait for that call up to the majors. Maybe that outfielder needs a day off unexpectedly. You get your shot. You can show them you belong, and be considered for a roster spot. Meanwhile, you're 28, 29, 30 years old.
I think your "top 10 college team" better be one of the "we win because we have really good pitchers" type teams. If you're earning a paycheck on a AA team, you're all probably past the "learning to hit standard pitching" phase.
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I see tonight that The Kids Where I Work are playing at The Place I Used To Live. Kinda wish I could see that.
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Hmm, I checked the score and that went about as well as I thought it might. Horns knocked them around pretty good. Tonight KU comes to town, kinda wish I could stay to see that. My office is right next door to the baseball field and the entire parking lot is full today. The game is on SEC+ and I wonder how much in advance do camera crews have to get here to broadcast a game, and how many of them there are. Could be another explanation for why the lot is packed today, but I don't know what it would be. Us usual employees don't fill the place up nearly like this.
Also, why would a B12 team bother coming to a place like this, I wonder.
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oops, I meant ESPN+, not SEC+
Silly tiger.
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Hmm, I checked the score and that went about as well as I thought it might. Horns knocked them around pretty good. Tonight KU comes to town, kinda wish I could stay to see that. My office is right next door to the baseball field and the entire parking lot is full today. The game is on SEC+ and I wonder how much in advance do camera crews have to get here to broadcast a game, and how many of them there are. Could be another explanation for why the lot is packed today, but I don't know what it would be. Us usual employees don't fill the place up nearly like this.
Also, why would a B12 team bother coming to a place like this, I wonder.
Because it's cold and miserable in yankee-land in February. Lots of yankee teams come down and do week-long tours in the South during February before their conference seasons get started. They'll play all comers, large or small, and try to pack in as many games as they can to make their time away from home worth it.
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Hmm, not bad. I'm not much for reading too much into midweek games, but knocking off a B12 team is still something, I guess.
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Man every college baseball team in Texas has some dudes. I consider them all to be dangerous. And it's good competition for those midweek games to keep everyone sharp.
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How much would you say pitching dominates beisbol in college vs MLB?
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I'm defiitely not qualified to answer that since I don't follow MLB, but hopefully one of our other posters around here could help.
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I've been told that, for an arbitrary value of "elite", that an elite pitcher has the edge over an elite hitter.
However...
There are only 30 MLB teams. Each need 4 or so starters, plus 6 or so competent relievers. At all levels, from high school through college through minor ball, MLB teams are ready to write sizeable checks to anyone who shows promise as a pitcher.
Anyone left over is likely in college.
There's umpty gazillion collegiate teams using not-quite-MLB ready talent. I'd therefore be willing to bet that collegiate hitters have a substantially narrowed gap in relation to their pitching counterparts. I've seen more 15-12 competitive collegiate scores where both teams trust their offense over their pitching.
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I wonder in college is a team stacked with pitching and mediocre hitting is going to prosper more than the reverse.
I understand the best is balance, but consider the zero sum game. In MLB, elite pitching can usually shut down elite hitting. Usually.
I could see some college pitchers developing from age 18 into being "elite" with great coaching. I was a pretty good HS pitcher before my arm went, with no coaching. I finally got coaching more recently and was amazed and what I had been doing wrong. A lot of smaller things, just technique, it really helped even me.
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Wow, we're playing at Texas A&M tomorrow (#24), we'll see if it goes any better than at Texas, who I did not realize was #3.
Then starting 4/2, Oregon State is coming here for a weekend series :o I know the PAC is basically dead, but the Beavers have some good baseball history and are currently ranked #11. Seems like quite something to host them here. Since that starts on a Thursday evening while I'm still on campus, I definitely want to try to go to that.
The Tuesday before that they play at #7 TCU. Quite a little schedule we got going.
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I'm a bit surprised you're playing such high level comp this early in the season.
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I'm a bit surprised you're playing such high level comp this early in the season.
Small schools like Lamar play top teams whenever they can. It's usually either for a midweek game, or maybe in an early-season weekend tournament with several teams playing a roundrobin.
Not to be disparaging but it's not like they've got an SEC-level schedule to look forward to. So they'll go on the road to play Texas and Texas A&M if they can, sometimes maybe even twice in a season.
What's really cool for them, though, is that their schedule against Oregon State is not just a midweek one-off but rather a full weekend series, and it's at HOME. That's going to be a fun series for them.
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Yeah, I'm definitely going to G1. I've seen some west-coast baseball royalty at The Box before, but I've never seen Oregon State. Our stadium is not that big, but I'm curious to see what kind of fan turnout we have. In early April, as long as it's not raining, the weather should be great to take in a ballgame.
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Good grief. 25 - 5 (L)
25 - 5!!!!
I know Texas A&M is ranked and is dangerous, but that is a crooked, lopsided, uncompetitive score. I haven't seen anything like that since Florida pummeled LSU 24-4 in g2 of the 2023 CWS.
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In other news, LSU lost its first game to McNeese.
Ever since I went there, McNeese has seemingly had a knack for knocking off LSU in midweek games.
This was one a comedy of errors, literally. Lots for this Tiger team to clean up.
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Lots of upsets in the SEC and top 25 yesterday. I saw some social media posts acting like it's a big deal.
It's not a big deal.
Midweek games are when the tiny underdogs pitch their aces, and the top teams tinker with their lineups.
This is nothing new at all.
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Certainly not new for McNeese to stick it to LSU midweek, and they've done it later in the season to more rounded-into-form Tiger teams than what this one currently is.
That said, still lots for them to clean up, yet, if they aspire to be worthy of their lofty ranking. Lot of potential on this squad, looks like. How consistent they can be will have a lot to say about how they ultimately fare.
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Horns will finally get a challenge starting Friday in a weekend-long roundrobin tourney in Houston with teams including Coastal Carolina and Baylor.
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Baseball America says this about Coastal Carolina:
16. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
- Previous ranking: No. 11
- Last week: 2-2
- Overall: 5-2
- Weekend record: 1-1
Results
Coastal Carolina had five games on the schedule, but rain canceled a Saturday matchup with Illinois in the team’s Baseball at the Beach tournament that also included VCU. The Chanticleers beat VCU twice, but dropped games against Illinois, 14-5, and a Tuesday home game against College of Charleston, 4-3.
Standout Performer
Senior outfielder Dean Mihos has been a steady presence at the top of the lineup all season. He went 6-for-14 (.429) this week with one double, three walks, one stolen base and just one strikeout. He’s gotten a hit in six of his first seven games and leads the team with a .407 average.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Campbell
Feb. 27: (Neutral site) Texas
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) UTSA
March 1: (Neutral site) Ole Miss
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6. Texas Longhorns
- Previous ranking: 7
- Last week: 4-0
- Overall: 7-0
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
After a 14-4 run-rule midweek win over Lamar, Texas leaned on its pitching staff to secure 8-1, 3-1 and 4-0 victories over Michigan State, which took two ranked wins at Louisville on opening weekend. Sunday’s 4-0 result marked the Longhorns’ first shutout of the season.
Standout Performer
Sophomore lefthander Dylan Volantis continued to shine in his new role as a starter, striking out a career-best nine over seven scoreless innings on Sunday. He retired 15 of the first 16 batters he faced, threw 63 of a career-high 91 pitches for strikes and allowed just four infield singles. Outfielder Aiden Robbins hit for the cycle on Saturday as well.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. UTRGV
Feb. 27: (Neutral Site) Coastal Carolina
Feb. 28: (Neutral Site) Baylor
March 1: (Neutral Site) Ohio State
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Other conference teams:
3. Mississippi State Bulldogs
- Previous ranking: 3
- Last week: 5-0
- Overall: 8-0
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
The third-ranked Bulldogs cruised through their first full week, dispatching Troy and Alcorn State midweek before sweeping Delaware over the weekend. Mississippi State outscored its opponents 58-12 across the five-game stretch.
Standout Performer
Starting pitcher Ryan McPherson continued to look sharp at the front of the Bulldogs’ staff, tossing six innings while allowing one earned run on four hits and striking out a career-high 11 against one walk. Through 10 innings this season, McPherson has 15 strikeouts and three earned runs allowed (2.70 ERA).
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Austin Peay
Feb. 27: (Neutral site) Arizona State
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) Virginia Tech
March 1: (Neutral site) No. 1 UCLA
5. Auburn Tigers
- Previous ranking: 5
- Last week: 3-1
- Overall: 6-1 (1-0 vs. Top 25)
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
Auburn stumbled out of the gate in Week 2 with an 8-0 midweek loss to unranked Cincinnati at Plainsman Park but rebounded over the weekend with wins over Kansas State (5-1), then-No. 12 Florida State (8-5) and Louisville (10-6). The Tigers have won eight straight games at Globe Life Field dating back to their first trip there in 2022.
Standout Performer
Tabbed “a catalyst” by head coach Butch Thompson, junior outfielder Bristol Carter went 7-for-12 with a home run, two RBIs and three stolen bases while drawing three walks against one strikeout. Thompson said Carter “might be the one who gets the most credit for getting us going.”
Upcoming
Feb. 25: vs. West Georgia
Feb. 27: vs. Nebraska
Feb. 28: vs. Nebraska
March 1: vs. Nebraska
8. Georgia Bulldogs
- Previous ranking: 9
- Last week: 5-0
- Overall: 6-1
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
Georgia faced little resistance in Week 2, beating USC Upstate 12-6 midweek before sweeping Samford 11-1, 12-4 and 22-0, with the first and last wins coming via seven-inning run rule. The 22 runs were the most in a game under coach Wes Johnson and marked the first time since 2010 that every Georgia hitter recorded both a hit and run scored in the same game.
Standout Performer
Junior Tre Phelps went 7-for-13 with two doubles, a home run, three RBIs and eight runs scored. His week included a perfect 4-for-4 performance Saturday and extended his hitting streak to 21 games dating back to last season.
Upcoming
Feb. 25: vs. Troy
Feb. 27: vs. Oakland
Feb. 28: vs Oakland
Feb. 28: vs. Oakland
March 1: vs. Oakland
9. Arkansas Razorbacks
- Previous ranking: 10
- Last week: 4-0
- Overall: 6-1 (0-1 vs. Top 25)
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
The Razorbacks handled business with a 3-1 midweek win over Tarleton State in Arlington before sweeping a quietly challenging Xavier club, which dropped the first two games by a combined four runs before being run-ruled Sunday.
Standout Performer
Second baseman Cam Kozeal went 8-for-17 with a double, a triple, two home runs and seven RBIs. The highlight came Saturday when he became the first Razorback since 2022 to hit for the cycle.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Arkansas State
Feb. 25: vs. Arkansas State
Feb. 27: vs. UT Arlington
Feb. 28: vs. UT Arlington
March 1: vs. UT Arlington
10. Oklahoma Sooners
- Previous ranking: 15
- Last week: 4-0
- Overall: 7-0 (1-0 vs. Top 25)
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
Oklahoma followed a perfect opening weekend with a 10-6 midweek win over New Mexico State and a sweep of Coppin State in which it outscored its opponent 57-1. With its seventh straight game scoring 10-plus runs, the Sooners set a program record for consecutive double-digit scoring games, surpassing the 1988 and 1998 teams’ six-game streaks.
Standout Performer
Third baseman Camden Johnson went 3-for-7 with two doubles, 10 runs scored, five walks against one strikeout and nine stolen bases in four games in Week 2. His four stolen bases Sunday were tied with teammate Trey Gambill for the most by a Sooner in a single game since 1996.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Arizona State
Feb. 25: vs. Arizona State
Feb. 27: vs. Gonzaga
Feb. 28: vs. Gonzaga
March 1: vs. Gonzaga
11. Ole Miss Rebels
- Previous ranking: 16
- Last week: 5-0
- Overall: 8-0
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
The Rebels added five wins in Week 2 with midweek victories over Arkansas State (7-6) and Jackson State (18-3 in seven innings) before sweeping Missouri State with 11-6, 6-3 and 3-2 wins. They enter Week 3 one win shy of matching their best start since the 2022 national championship season.
Standout Performer
It wasn’t the most efficient week, but it was as impactful as any for Ole Miss senior Judd Utermark, who went 6-for-19 with five home runs to push his season total to six. Utermark is tied with UCLA’s Roch Cholowsky and Will Gasparino and Miami’s Daniel Cuvet for the early national lead in home runs.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Southeast Missouri State
Feb. 27: (Neutral Site) Baylor
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) Ohio State
March 1: (Neutral site) No. 16 Coastal Carolina
19. Tennessee Volunteers
- Previous ranking: No. 13
- Last week: 2-2
- Overall: 5-2
- Weekend record: 1-1
Results
Tennessee hosted UNC Asheville in a midweek matchup and won that game 10-3, but dropped their weekend series against unranked Kent State, 2-1.
Standout Performer
Sophomore righthander Landon Mack got the start on Saturday, and did his part to keep Tennessee in the game. He struck out 11 and walked three in 6.2 innings, and allowed just one earned run on four hits.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Bellarmine
Feb. 27: (Neutral site) No. 1 UCLA
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) Arizona State
March 1: (Neutral site) Virginia Tech
21. Texas A&M Aggies
- Previous ranking: No. 22
- Last week: 4-0
- Overall: 7-0
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
The Aggies hosted Penn and swept their series, though it didn’t come easily. They won 1-0 on Friday, then won a 2-1 extra-inning game on Saturday before wrapping things up with a 7-1 Sunday affair. The Texas A&M pitching staff didn’t walk a single batter in this series.
Standout Performer
Sophomore righthander Aiden Sims got the start on Sunday. He threw seven innings and allowed one earned run on three hits, but struck out 10 of the 24 batters he faced—without a walk, of course. He faced the minimum through his first five innings and the 10 strikeouts were a career high.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Lamar
Feb. 27: (Neutral site) Virginia Tech
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) No. 1 UCLA
March 1: (Neutral site) Arizona State
23. Florida Gators
- Previous ranking: No. 24
- Last week: 5-0
- Overall: 7-1
- Weekend record: 2-0
Results
Florida hosted Stetson for a pair of midweek games and won both, with a combined score of 21-5. They then swept a three-game series against Kennesaw State to pick up their seventh straight win after dropping the season opener. The Florida pitching staff posted a 2.35 ERA over the weekend with 22 strikeouts and just three walks.
Standout Performer
Junior righthander Liam Peterson bounced back from a tough week one outing and looked dominant at times during week two. He struck out 12 batters and walked two in 5.1 shutout innings. He allowed one hit, and largely gave the defense a break, as 12 of the 16 batters he retired came via the strikeout.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Florida International
Feb. 25: vs. Florida International
Feb. 27: @ No. 22 Miami
Feb. 28: @ No. 22 Miami
March 1: @ No. 22 Miami
25. Vanderbilt Commodores
- Previous ranking: NR
- Last week: 5-0
- Overall: 6-2 (0-1 vs. Top 25)
- Weekend record: 1-1
Results
After a tough trip to Texas in week one that saw Vanderbilt slip just outside of the top 25, they blitzed both Eastern Michigan and Marist in a 5-0 week that brought them back into the fold. The Commodores outscored their opponents, 65-11, and won four straight games by the run rule. In this five-game stretch the team hit .427 with 13 home runs and posted a 2.13 ERA.
Standout Performer
Sophomore third baseman Brodie Johnston has been red hot since the season began. In this five-game stretch he reached base in every game and went 7-for-19 (.368) with two home runs, two doubles, three walks and just a pair of strikeouts. In eight games this season he’s hitting .419/.500/1.032.
Upcoming
Feb. 24: vs. Evansville
Feb. 27: (Neutral site) UC Irvine
Feb. 28: (Neutral site) Arizona
March 1: (Neutral site) Oregon
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watched the Horns for the first time last night
they played Coastal Carolina in the Bruce Bolt college clasic
THey lived up to their number 3 ranking and won 8 to 1.
CC is no cupcake being ranked 9
I was very impressed with the pitching as well as the hitting
last year our hittling was missing in action
looks like this year will be different
anyway they play again tonight as they face Baylor at 7 pm
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watched the Horns for the first time last night
they played Coastal Carolina in the Bruce Bolt college clasic
THey lived up to their number 3 ranking and won 8 to 1.
CC is no cupcake being ranked 9
I was very impressed with the pitching as well as the hitting
last year our hittling was missing in action
looks like this year will be different
anyway they play again tonight as they face Baylor at 7 pm
Glad you got to see it! I still haven't made it down to the Disch yet, but the team definitely seems to be rounding into shape earlier than last year.
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Impressive weekend for UT.
LSU's pitching appeared to take a step forward on the weekend, while the bats collectively slumped.
Lamar got a conference series sweep over UTRGV, who I did not even realize was in the Southland. Looks like that just happened in 2024.
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Florida is 12-1, winning 12 straight, including 2 @ Miami (3rd game cancelled). Entering that series, UF-Miami were 136-136-1 against each other, all-time.
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Oof.....two midweek losses to Northeastern and Louisiana (Cajuns) where the bats continue to slump and the defense falls apart with errors galore.
Rice played here yesterday (and won, 4-1). Our little stadium is cute, with its 3300 seats. I still wonder where they'd all park if it filled up. This lot just ain't big enough to support that, and the next closest place the general public can park that I know of would be quite a walk.
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Horns are looking pretty good so far. Seems like we've got a couple weekend starters at pitching, and the bats are doing well against mostly poor competition.
Speaking of which, we're playing someone called "USC Upstate" this weekend, which I had to look up. Apparently it's a school in South Carolina with an enrollment of 5K-6K.
I'm thinking about going on Saturday, unless it's too rainy.
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Ehhhh, almost got swept by High Point at home. Took a 4-run bottom-9 rally to avoid it. This team was cruising along, looking good and then BOOM.
Maybe not so good. Ugh.
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Well Texas swept the series, run-ruled them in games 1 and 3 but allowed a crazy huge comeback in the 9th in game 2. Admittedly it was after some long weather delays and the team was out of sorts.
Midweek game against always-ready Texas State, and then finally an SEC series when the Rebs come to Austin this weekend.
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Ehhhh, almost got swept by High Point at home. Took a 4-run bottom-9 rally to avoid it. This team was cruising along, looking good and then BOOM.
Maybe not so good. Ugh.
Kinda the same here. Lost the series to Sacramento State at home. Bats exploded in g1 but then went right back to slumping in gs 2-3, along with some iffy relief pitching. Just one more midweek game to figure some things out before conference play begins @Vanderbilt.
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Dropped our first midweek game to mighty Tarleton State last night. I don't expect it will be the last one. Like I say, EVERY school in Texas has some dudes.
Gotta regroup for a roadtrip to Auburn this weekend. Hoping for the bats to return.
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Last night was the fifth game Ive seen the Horns play. I have nerver seen our bats as quiet as last nights game. Amazing. We better pick it up against #4 Auburn or its going to be a long weekend.
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Last night was the fifth game Ive seen the Horns play.
Pretty good amount of games to have watched in person at this point in the season.
I won't get to see "us" play, but I'm still looking forward to hopefully seeing Oregon State in a few weeks when they come to take on the kids at the university where I work.
"We" might not actually be much worth seeing this year. Dropped out of the rankings after last week, and deservedly so. It's getting a little late in the year to still be trying to clean up fixable problems. Despite the talent, this squad just may not be too hot this year.
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Tennessee sucks.
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I watched all our games on ESPN+
Girls softball as well
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6-game win streak snapped by being no-hit by Alabama. That's fun.
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Horns take 2 of 3 from Auburn. They looked good.
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Tigers lose another series, this time to OU, yet again needing literally just one routine play to change the series outcome. One more strike against Vanderbilt last Sunday, and one cleanly fielded ball Saturday against OU, and they'd be 4-2 in SEC play instead of 2-4
I'm not letting the "they're close" stuff fool me, though. This team has problems in every phase of the game, and has the poorest defense I've seen on the team in many years. Problems fielding and errors has been the rule for this team, not the exception.
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Horns take 2 of 3 from Auburn. They looked good.
Yeah and it coulda been a sweep, Horns blew the lead in the 9th in game 1. But it's baseball and that's the way it goes.
Same thing happened last week, Horns blew a big lead in the 9th and lost in extras. The team could be 6-0 right now. Need to clean up that Friday relief pitching.
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Yeah and it coulda been a sweep, Horns blew the lead in the 9th in game 1. But it's baseball and that's the way it goes.
Same thing happened last week, Horns blew a big lead in the 9th and lost in extras. The team could be 6-0 right now. Need to clean up that Friday relief pitching.
Its a long season and the Horns will have many chances to redeem themselves. This week brings Oklahoma for a home series. There just is no let up in the SEC.
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Now THAT is the way you bounce back from a midweek loss. 14-0 complete game shutout 7-inning run-rule of your archrival.
https://twitter.com/TexasBaseball/status/2037360889901326445
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Its a Start
2 more games this week
The Horns need at least one of them and hoping for a sweep
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Riojas pitching a complete game shutout is going to really help us keep the rest of our weekend pitching in good shape. That's huge for us.
I'm thinking about going down for the game tonight. My buddy Bald Greg has an extra ticket.
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Im invious but at least I can watch on TV
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Maybe I'll check out Sling Orange for my burnt orange wife since the burnt orange guys look so good this year. She'd probably enjoy watching them play. We don't usually have tv during the football offseason, so I missed our '23 and '25 games, but I chalk that up to being okay because it also means I'm not watching teams like this year's. But if the Horns really do something this year, it'd be a shame for her to miss it.
Hmm. I'll think about it.
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Horns are pretty good this year. Are they championship caliber? Gonna have to wait to find out. As I'm sure you've heard, the SEC ain't no joke when it comes to hardball.
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Maybe I'll check out Sling Orange for my burnt orange wife since the burnt orange guys look so good this year. She'd probably enjoy watching them play. We don't usually have tv during the football offseason, so I missed our '23 and '25 games, but I chalk that up to being okay because it also means I'm not watching teams like this year's. But if the Horns really do something this year, it'd be a shame for her to miss it.
Hmm. I'll think about it.
Just get ESPN+ and install it on a ROKU
With that you can watch all SEC sports
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I'll have to look into ESPN+, not really sure what that is or how it works. Is that what used to be called ESPN3?
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I watched Oregon State play last night, first time I've ever seen them in person. Couldn't pass up the chance to see the #8 team play when they played right next to my office, right when I got off work. Literally, my office shares the parking lot with the baseball facilities, so I just left my truck where I normally park and strolled over. Shortest walk I've ever had into a ball game.
Our guys played pretty well overall, some of the pitching was particularly good. Though from watching the Beavers, and just knowing that whole west-coast small-ball ethos (which I hate), they're probably not the deadliest of hitting teams. Still, they weren't able to muster much. 2 runs on 5 hits....it could've been worse. Unfortunately our guys couldn't plate any runs off of just 3 hits. They did have some great at bats, drew some walks and HPBs, but stranded all the runners. Managed to load the bases at one point, but Oregon State's guy pitched out of it. But overall, we played competitively, and weren't even close to run off the field. It's possible they could've kept the Beavers off the board if the 2B had played more aggressively. He definitely did not attack the ball early on, he looked reeeeeal tentative letting the ball come to him, and it cost a couple of on-bases, which OSU parlayed into runs. Now that I think about it, after he settled down, and after OSU scored a run in the first and second innings, they never scored again. It looked to me like a couple of our guys might have been a little awestruck by the moment, and they certainly played like it at first.
Which makes me wonder....how good, really, is Oregon State? We played both Texas and Texas A&M earlier this year, and they blasted us into orbit. I know not to read too much into a single game, but still. Also, just eyeballing both of those teams.....I wasn't particularly blown away by what I was seeing with OSU. Their pitchers were a bunch of fast balls and.....that's almost it. There was a truly beautiful slider at one point, but anything but the fastball was rare, and not particularly impressive. They did have 2 or 3 guys who consistently touched mid-to-high 90's, so that's something. The umpire's strike zone moved, expanded, contracted, warped into other dimensions....yeah, I'm the cliche fan, but I was right there and I saw what I saw. So it's hard to say how that affected the pitching and the hitting.
It's been a while since I've been to a college beisbol game, and though the stadium and crowd are not what I'm used to, it was still super fun. Most of the people sitting around me were family of the players. The couple sitting directly behind me were the parents of the DH, and dammit, he actually did bat a run in at the bottom of the 3rd, but Oregon State challenged and then he was ruled out at first base. I had a great, and close, view of first base and I thought he was safe, barely. Then later as everybody began getting the replays on their phones, it clearly looked like he was safe. Not even a tie, which would still go to the runner. Even ESPN's scrub announcers said they didn't see how you could overturn that. At the end of the 2-0 loss, I told the dad "I still think your boy had an RBI and it should've been 2-1." He chuckled and said he was just happy they didn't get embarrassed.
I also figured out where all the hot chicks at our college are. They're dating the baseball players. I have pretty limited encounters with students, but when I do go walking through campus, I've lamented that there don't seem to be any good-looking girls around like when I was in school. We must have some somewhere.....or maybe these girls don't go to school, maybe they just know the players from elsewhere. But I kept seeing very pretty girls, and sitting alone. I kept thinking that's odd, you don't usually see a girl like that sitting alone, particularly at a ball game....that she looks vaguely bored by. Then it dawned on me....they're just there for their boyfriend. Welp, good for those players. After getting choked out for a big fat 0 on your home field, at least you've got a cutie to keep you company afterwards.
Supposedly OSU's pitcher for tonight's game is supposed to be one of the best, if not the best, pitcher in the country. Wouldn't mind checking out another one, but I've got plans the rest of the weekend, starting with a BBQ at my dad's this afternoon.
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Top 2026 College Pitcher Prospects
- Jackson Flora (https://www.google.com/search?q=Jackson+Flora&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgAEAk) (RHP, UCSB): Often cited as the top pitcher in the class, owning a sub-1.00 ERA early in the 2026 season with massive strikeout numbers.
- Cameron Flukey (https://www.google.com/search?q=Cameron+Flukey&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgAEAs) (RHP, Coastal Carolina): A dominant starter who can reach 99 mph with his fastball and features a devastating curveball, considered a top-10 prospect.
- Dax Whitney (https://www.google.com/search?q=Dax+Whitney&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgAEA0)
(RHP, Oregon State):
Took over the No. 1 spot in many rankings by March 2026 due to elite performances.
- Mason Edwards (https://www.google.com/search?q=Mason+Edwards&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgCEAE) (LHP, Southern California): A standout performer leading up to March 2026 with a low ERA and high strikeout numbers.
- Liam Peterson (https://www.google.com/search?q=Liam+Peterson&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgCEAM) (RHP, Florida): Ranked among the top college pitchers in the 2026 draft class.
- Wes Mendes (https://www.google.com/search?q=Wes+Mendes&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgCEAU) (LHP, Florida State): A high-riser who has recorded multiple double-digit strikeout games.
- Thatcher Hurd (https://www.google.com/search?q=Thatcher+Hurd&sca_esv=cea4f549e60cd083&sxsrf=ANbL-n4P-YADtL5ep8AZVbu0NBZxJ8xZ1A%3A1775232254173&source=hp&ei=_uTPaaijCIadw8cPyfTa4Q0&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAac_zDo6bc-8hvFm9FvOA4Q9XYjtPxwX6&oq=best+college+pitchers&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhViZXN0IGNvbGxlZ2UgcGl0Y2hlcnMqAggAMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeSIkvUABYohxwAHgAkAEAmAFSoAGACqoBAjIxuAEByAEA-AEBmAIVoAKCC8ICBBAjGCfCAgoQLhiABBiKBRhDwgIQEC4YgAQYigUYQxjHARjRA8ICChAAGIAEGIoFGEPCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAuGIAEGLEDGMcBGNEDwgIOEC4YgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBiSA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJIDwgIOEAAYgAQYigUYsQMYgwHCAggQABiABBjJA8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAg4QABiABBixAxiDARjJA5gDAJIHAjIxoAfPiQGyBwIyMbgHggvCBwgwLjcuMTMuMcgHZYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=2ahUKEwiQ6ODFh9KTAxWL1fACHTDlI90QgK4QegYIAQgCEAc) (RHP, [Previously LSU/Yankees org]): A high-profile prospect returning from injury as a top breakout candidate.
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The friend of mine with whom I have the closest relationship among former MLB pitchers was a first round pick out of HS. He told me had he been round 2 or lower he probably would have gone to college. So, I kinda wonder how these top college pitchers ended up in college, and how they'd compare with maybe minor leagure AA ball etc.
My friend doesn't know from experience, he did say AA ball was the first place where nearly every player was quite good.
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https://twitter.com/gif_tannen/status/2040902066281865425?s=61
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Bad call
The batter was still in the batter box and did not interfere
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How the hell does a game go 12 innings and the score is 16-6?
I mean......I know how, but I don't think I've ever seen it.
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Geez, this team....
Replaced the 1B for a midweek game, which had been a black hole of errors, and the rest of the team decided to take up the slack (in errors).
"Oh, you benched the guy causing most of the problems? We can help! Look, I can make errors too!"
Losing to Bethune-Cookman on your home field.....ugh.
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#2* Texas Longhorns @ #16* Texas A&M this weekend....that should be a fun, competitive series.
Other ranked matchups:
#21 Florida @ #4 UGA
#22 Arkansas @ #8 Alabama
*rankings according to Baseball America
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Yeah it's interesting to note this is the first 3-game series AT Texas A&M since 1992. That's because last year's series was in Austin, then the two schools didn't play a full conference 3-game series since 2011 because of the split conferences, and before that in both the B12 and SWC, the teams would play 2 games at home and 1 away each and every year. Each school also did this with Baylor, due to proximity.
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How odd. I don't see why not just do the home-and-away 3-game series like any other team. Proximity shouldn't factor.
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I missed the funeral for Tennessee baseball.
Apparently it occurred the day after Tony Vitello left.
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How odd. I don't see why not just do the home-and-away 3-game series like any other team. Proximity shouldn't factor.
I thought it was pretty cool. Even in an "away year" I could still catch one of the three games of the series at home.
Of course, it diluted the effect of homefield advantage when you only got 2 out of 3 games at home, which I suspect is why they've done away with it, now that both teams are once again in the same conference.
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Game 3 canceled due to weather. I heard the visiting team didn’t have a great weekend. 😉
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Yup tough weekend on the diamond for both Longhorn teams. But at least the softballers had their chance on Sunday and avoided the sweep.
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Swept by the Rebears, and run-ruled after 7 innings in game 2. Ugh.
This team just isn't particularly good at any phase of the game. At least not right now.
The conversation has changed from concern over not hosting a regional to whether they'll make the tournament.
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Lamar dropped 2 out of 3 at the Swamp Communists At The End Of The World. Only the second Southland conference series loss for them, first since early March.
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Swept by the Rebears, and run-ruled after 7 innings in game 2. Ugh.
This team just isn't particularly good at any phase of the game. At least not right now.
The conversation has changed from concern over not hosting a regional to whether they'll make the tournament.
It's surprising that the team's results have changed so dramatically, but given the massive amount of portal transfer activity in college sports I suppose this could be an entirely different lineup than the one that won the CWS last year?
Either way, tough to muster up much sympathy for the program that's won 2 of the last 3 NCs, no offense intended... ;)
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I want to say there's a pretty healthy number of guys back from last year's team. Half the team, I'd guess, without verifying.
They seem extraordinarily deadly, when they're "on." I think they're talented enough to take down anybody. Consistency is something they've lacked this season, in pretty much every phase. Except for defense, where they've consistently made error after error after error.
It all makes me think their head isn't right, but that's just a guess. If this were a football team I'd say they have all the classic hallmarks of a team that thinks it can just show up and the other team will lay down for them. I don't know if it works the same way in baseball players' minds, but it kinda feels like that.
And yes, I wouldn't expect anyone to feel bad for them with their recent success. For the same reasons, I'm not worried about the program long term.....yet.
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Reading some stuff this morning, sounds like maybe the portal additions this year haven't hit like they were expected to. Something Coach Johnson has done well at in his other seasons so far. The infield is mostly transfers, and they've logged a ton of errors, and so far their hitting hasn't lived up to their billing.
Just such a weird world we live in. It's a little easier to keep track of the baseball team than the football team because there's fewer players. But it doesn't make make them easier to care about or feel attached to.
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Geez, another 3 errors last night, although at least in a winning effort. You'd think a Southland conference school like this would be easy pickings, but LSU fans probably knew the Northwestern St. Demons beat LSU in 3 out of the 6 previous meetings, including a 13-3 rule rule victory over last year's eventual national champion.
This weekend, Lamar will play a full weekend conference series against the Demons, who lead the Southland standings. They get them at home, but their work will be cut out for them.
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Last night the Horns finally got a win over Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
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This team has the dubious distinction of being the first in the Jay Johnson era to be swept in back-to-back series.
We suck.
FIRE EVERYBODY!
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UGA takes game 3 from Arkansas in a football score, 26-14, scoring 11 runs in the final frame.
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This weekend, Lamar will play a full weekend conference series against the Demons, who lead the Southland standings. They get them at home, but their work will be cut out for them.
Nice sweep for the Cardinals.
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Horns won the series against Alabama, but couldn't close out game3 for the sweep.
I went to game1 on Friday night, what an awesome time. Weather was fantastic, team was rolling, ran into a ton of old friends.
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I heard A&M is having a nice 2nd half to the season.
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Yesterday LSU confirmed pitcher Cooper Moore's arm injury was more serious than initially thought (because of course it is....it always is in baseball) and he'll be out for the remainder of the season. Then they confirmed RF Jake Brown broke his hand against A&M and will be out for the season.
Not that we've been doing awesome anyway.
Sometimes it just ain't your year.
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Starting out Sunday, LSU had lost 8 consecutive conference games for the first time since 1977 when gas was $0.62/gallon and Jimmy Carter was president. It would've been a monumental feat to exceed that record, but these Tigers were up to the challenge, getting swept in three consecutive conference series for the first time in program history.
Truly a gritty and historic accomplishment for a team coming off an NC and pre-season ranked #1 in some polls!
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Another starting pitcher was lost during the Clanga series. No word on how serious his injury is or how long he'll be out, but this team certainly can't beat a MSU-caliber team missing two of its best arms. The bullpen has been disappointing. The defense has been abysmal, but they, at least, comprised a lot of unknowns. The pitching staff looked to be better than this, on paper.
Silver lining is that the offense has found its groove again lately. But when the bats are this lively and build leads in literally every game, yet late inning pitching gives every one of those games away......you have problems.
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Pitching is a bear. Last year the Horns lost 3 of their 4 best arms by the end of the season. This year it's only 2 of the top 5 including preseason injuries, but there's still over a month to go.
I saw something recently that the trend of high school kids getting tommy john surgery is increasing every year. That's alarming, for sure.
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I blame Canada.
Whenever I don't have an explanation for something, I figure it's safe to just scapegoat the Canucks.
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Headed down to the Disch today. Gonna be low 70s and sunny, beautiful.
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Well the Horns lost yesterday but won today. Weather was great for both, heck of a weekend.
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Tennessee and A&M avoid the sweeps. Ole Miss and Arkansas looks like it was a great series. Florida and Texas clinch their series in game 3. LSU sweeps a bad USC to stay alive, likely needing to find 4 wins in remaining games @UGA and at home against Florida, and maybe an SEC tourney win or two, to make the post-season.
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Trying to check Lamar's results, but as of this moment our athletics website will not load, and neither will any Southland conference standings sites I've checked, and espn.com's baseball results have all the other conference results, but the Southland's page is blank for the weekend.
It's definitely not an internet connection problem.
Super weird.
Canada is at it again.
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We should just nuke them from orbit.
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We should just nuke them from orbit.
Canada, or this LSU baseball team?
I'm cool with either.
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Canada, or this LSU baseball team?
I'm cool with either.
Old "Aliens" reference. But yes, Canada.
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We should just nuke them from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
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(https://y.yarn.co/bb9ff89e-d53c-47d9-b05a-e4db1b791d0f_text.gif)
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So, we need to take 2 out of 3 at the best team in the SEC and then do the same vs. a decent Florida team. Or, win 1 @UGA and then sweep Florida.
I put the odds at around 15% or so.
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I am afraid the Dawgs have the same problem they have had the last 2 years when they lost their own regionals which is a bunch of Triple A or better hitters and a bunch of rookie league or worse pitchers. I remain hopeful but pessimistic, a veritable oxyMORON.
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| 1 | 5 Georgia | 18-6 | .750 | — | 38-11 | .776 | 28-7 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 12-7 | W6 |
| 2 | 9 Texas A&M | 15-8 | .652 | 2.5 | 36-10 | .783 | 25-5 | 9-4 | 2-1 | 7-8 | W2 |
| 3 | 4 Texas | 15-8 | .652 | 2.5 | 36-10 | .783 | 26-4 | 7-6 | 3-0 | 10-5 | W2 |
| 4 | 11 Mississippi State | 15-10 | .600 | 3.5 | 38-12 | .760 | 25-6 | 9-5 | 4-1 | 8-9 | W2 |
| 5 | 17 Arkansas | 14-11 | .560 | 4.5 | 33-17 | .660 | 21-11 | 8-5 | 4-1 | 10-7 | W2 |
| 6 | 19 Alabama | 14-11 | .560 | 4.5 | 33-17 | .660 | 21-5 | 9-11 | 3-1 | 10-10 | W1 |
| 7 | 6 Auburn | 14-11 | .560 | 4.5 | 33-15 | .688 | 20-8 | 8-7 | 5-0 | 12-9 | L1 |
| 8 | 21 Florida | 13-11 | .542 | 5 | 32-17 | .653 | 20-12 | 11-5 | 1-0 | 14-6 | W3 |
| 9 | 20 Ole Miss | 12-12 | .500 | 6 | 32-17 | .653 | 24-6 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 11-14 | L1 |
| 10 | 24 Oklahoma | 12-13 | .480 | 6.5 | 30-17 | .638 | 19-7 | 7-9 | 4-1 | 8-12 | L3 |
| 11 | Kentucky | 11-13 | .458 | 7 | 29-16 | .644 | 19-6 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 3-3 | L1 |
| 12 | Tennessee | 11-13 | .458 | 7 | 32-17 | .653 | 25-9 | 5-7 | 2-1 | 7-6 | W2 |
| 13 | Vanderbilt | 10-14 | .417 | 8 | 28-22 | .560 | 23-8 | 4-9 | 1-5 | 8-14 | W1 |
| 14 | LSU | 9-15 | .375 | 9 | 29-21 | .580 | 23-11 | 3-10 | 3-0 | 3-12 | W5 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 7-18 | .280 | 11.5 | 22-28 | .440 | 18-15 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 3-17 | L6 |
| 16 | Missouri | 4-20 | .167 | 14 | 21-26 | .447 | 12-13 | 3-12 | 6-1 | 4-17 | L3 |
Standings ordered by SEC winning percentage with tiebreakers applied.
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Welp, Tigers couldn't hold on to a 4 run lead TWICE, in each case failing to put the inning away on an 0-2 count. Have to give credit to UGA for doing so much damage with 2 outs and in some cases with 2 strikes to boot. They're a great team and those are the kinds of things great teams do. But it's just so typical of this LSU team.
I don't see us getting a win against the next two pitchers. Game 1 was the must-have. Post-season is probably off the table.
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Congratulations to the Horn softball team crowned SEC champions this afternoon
Way to go Ladies
Now on to the National tournament which they won last year
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Tigers are swept for the third time this season, and for the first time ever by UGA. And with the sweep goes any realistic chance at a post-season bid. Nothing left to play for but pride. Bring on the Gators.
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Ugly outing for Texas in Knoxville but at least they avoided the sweep on Sunday. Last series will be against Mizzou in Austin this weekend, I'll probably make it to the Fri and Sat games.
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Ugly outing for Texas in Knoxville but at least they avoided the sweep on Sunday. Last series will be against Mizzou in Austin this weekend, I'll probably make it to the Fri and Sat games.
It appears every time you go to a Horn game they lose
You might consider sitting this one out
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I had the opposite effect on the football team. Texas is invincible at DKR when I attend. Or possibly outside of DKR, don't know, I only ever tested that once at Baylor's old stadium. It's no secret they fell off a cliff at the same time I moved and stopped attending games.
I always felt like I should've been able to leverage that into a comfortable income--Texas die-hards pay me to attend games. A reasonable $10 here and $20 there should add up to something worth my time with enough commitment to the cause.
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It appears every time you go to a Horn game they lose
You might consider sitting this one out
I'm often accused by my baseball friends of being the jinx, and it's sometimes true. We're 2-1 with me in attendance so far this year, so I'd say there's no definitive proof here in 2026.
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| 1 | 4 Georgia | 21-6 | .778 | — | 41-11 | .788 | 31-7 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 12-7 | W9 |
| 2 | 10 Texas A&M | 16-10 | .615 | 4.5 | 37-12 | .755 | 25-5 | 10-6 | 2-1 | 8-10 | L1 |
| 3 | 6 Texas | 16-10 | .615 | 4.5 | 37-12 | .755 | 26-4 | 8-8 | 3-0 | 10-5 | W1 |
| 4 | 18 Alabama | 16-11 | .593 | 5 | 35-17 | .673 | 21-5 | 11-11 | 3-1 | 10-10 | W3 |
| 5 | 5 Auburn | 16-11 | .593 | 5 | 35-15 | .700 | 20-8 | 10-7 | 5-0 | 14-9 | W2 |
| 6 | 19 Florida | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 34-18 | .654 | 22-13 | 11-5 | 1-0 | 14-6 | W1 |
| 7 | 13 Mississippi State | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 38-14 | .731 | 25-8 | 9-5 | 4-1 | 8-11 | L2 |
| 8 | 12 Arkansas | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 34-18 | .654 | 22-12 | 8-5 | 4-1 | 11-8 | L1 |
| 9 | 15 Ole Miss | 14-13 | .519 | 7 | 34-18 | .654 | 26-7 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 13-15 | W1 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 13-14 | .481 | 8 | 31-18 | .633 | 19-7 | 8-10 | 4-1 | 9-13 | W1 |
| 11 | Tennessee | 13-14 | .481 | 8 | 34-18 | .654 | 27-10 | 5-7 | 2-1 | 9-7 | L1 |
| 12 | Kentucky | 12-15 | .444 | 9 | 30-18 | .625 | 19-6 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 4-5 | L1 |
| 13 | Vanderbilt | 11-16 | .407 | 10 | 29-24 | .547 | 23-8 | 5-11 | 1-5 | 8-14 | L1 |
| 14 | LSU | 9-18 | .333 | 12 | 29-24 | .547 | 23-11 | 3-13 | 3-0 | 3-15 | L3 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 7-20 | .259 | 14 | 22-30 | .423 | 18-17 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 3-19 | L8 |
| 16 | Missouri | 6-21 | .222 | 15 | 23-27 | .460 | 14-14 | 3-12 | 6-1 | 4-17 | W1 |
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Man, Georgia on a 9-game win streak. That's impressive.
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I'm often accused by my baseball friends of being the jinx, and it's sometimes true. We're 2-1 with me in attendance so far this year, so I'd say there's no definitive proof here in 2026.
I stand corrected. Theres not a better way to spend an afternoon then at the ballpark
Im very envious
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| 1 | 4 Georgia | 21-6 | .778 | — | 41-11 | .788 | 31-7 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 12-7 | W9 |
| 2 | 10 Texas A&M | 16-10 | .615 | 4.5 | 37-12 | .755 | 25-5 | 10-6 | 2-1 | 8-10 | L1 |
| 3 | 6 Texas | 16-10 | .615 | 4.5 | 37-12 | .755 | 26-4 | 8-8 | 3-0 | 10-5 | W1 |
| 4 | 18 Alabama | 16-11 | .593 | 5 | 35-17 | .673 | 21-5 | 11-11 | 3-1 | 10-10 | W3 |
| 5 | 5 Auburn | 16-11 | .593 | 5 | 35-15 | .700 | 20-8 | 10-7 | 5-0 | 14-9 | W2 |
| 6 | 19 Florida | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 34-18 | .654 | 22-13 | 11-5 | 1-0 | 14-6 | W1 |
| 7 | 13 Mississippi State | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 38-14 | .731 | 25-8 | 9-5 | 4-1 | 8-11 | L2 |
| 8 | 12 Arkansas | 15-12 | .556 | 6 | 34-18 | .654 | 22-12 | 8-5 | 4-1 | 11-8 | L1 |
| 9 | 15 Ole Miss | 14-13 | .519 | 7 | 34-18 | .654 | 26-7 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 13-15 | W1 |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 13-14 | .481 | 8 | 31-18 | .633 | 19-7 | 8-10 | 4-1 | 9-13 | W1 |
| 11 | Tennessee | 13-14 | .481 | 8 | 34-18 | .654 | 27-10 | 5-7 | 2-1 | 9-7 | L1 |
| 12 | Kentucky | 12-15 | .444 | 9 | 30-18 | .625 | 19-6 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 4-5 | L1 |
| 13 | Vanderbilt | 11-16 | .407 | 10 | 29-24 | .547 | 23-8 | 5-11 | 1-5 | 8-14 | L1 |
| 14 | LSU | 9-18 | .333 | 12 | 29-24 | .547 | 23-11 | 3-13 | 3-0 | 3-15 | L3 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 7-20 | .259 | 14 | 22-30 | .423 | 18-17 | 4-11 | 0-2 | 3-19 | L8 |
| 16 | Missouri | 6-21 | .222 | 15 | 23-27 | .460 | 14-14 | 3-12 | 6-1 | 4-17 | W1 |
We're not last! Woohooooo!!!!!
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We're not last! Woohooooo!!!!!
Pretty crazy though seeing the teams that are in 11-15. The past two NC winners, plus perennially strong Vanderbilt and South Carolina. And heck, seeing Ole Miss in the bottom half too. What a wild, weird, wacky conference.
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We shoulda never let those Texas schools in.
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True dat.
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Pretty crazy though seeing the teams that are in 11-15. The past two NC winners, plus perennially strong Vanderbilt and South Carolina. And heck, seeing Ole Miss in the bottom half too. What a wild, weird, wacky conference.
Also unusual to see Florida be middle of the pack. And unless I'm mistaken, Bama isn't usually one of the better teams with that kind of record.
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Heck, even the dirt burglars played in the championship series within the past 4 years, and they're currently in the bottom half of the conference.
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Swept at home by Florida. Barring an extremely unlikely run to victory through the SEC tournament to claim an auto-bid--and there's nothing to suggest LSU is capable of pulling it off--their season is done with the conference tourney.
LSU post-mortem:
As of the end of the regular season: The Tigers were swept in 5 of their 10 SEC series, and finished the regular season 9-21, surpassing the previous program high of 18 losses set in 1978 (6-18). Along the way, the Tigers also set a school record with 9 consecutive SEC losses during the middle of the season.
Among all SEC teams, LSU's pitching staff finished dead last in five key areas: team ERA (7.24), runs allowed (267), earned runs allowed (231), walks (183), and wild pitches (53). Not only did they finish last in those categories, they seemed to get worse as the year went on. They gave up 11 or more runs in each of the last six.
Not much better on the fielding front, where they finished last in fielding percentage and third to last in passed balls.
Additionally, LSU lost arguably its best pitcher, and arguably its best two players for the season, as well as losing its next-best pitcher for multiple games. None of those injuries excuse the dismal stats or sloppy play, but they do underscore just what a forgettable season it was.
Softball team won their regional, and moves on to face #1 Alabama in the Super. Guess I'll root for them now, though I don't know anything about them.
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The Southland conference apparently has a different format for a conference tourney which amounts to the same thing as a Regional + Super Regional setup. The top 8 teams from the regular season are split into two 4-team double elimination brackets, with the winners meeting in a three-game series.
Lamar fought through the loser's side of its bracket to win, and will face McNeese in the three-game finale. McNeese, on its side, upset regular season conference champion SLU. Lamar finished the regular season #2, McNeese #5, Lamar took 2 of 3 from McNeese in the regular season, and will get the Cowboys at home. Two wins from a NCAA tourney auto-bid, which would be nice for them.
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Horns swept a hapless Mizzou team to finish the regular season second in the conference. A couple of late-inning pitching breakdowns made two of the games far more interesting than they should have been. The team's bullpen is just too inconsistent for me to think they've got a chance at winning the NC. They're a good team but not a great one. They SHOULD make it out of their own regional this year, but they SHOULD have done the same last year too, and didn't.
Anyway, it's been a pretty fun season and hopefully the program can continue building.
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Maybe they can at least make a deep tourney run and knock out some over-hyped ACC teams along the way. That's always fun.
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Maybe they can at least make a deep tourney run and knock out some over-hyped ACC teams along the way. That's always fun.
Fingers crossed. Last year they got knocked out of their own regional by little brother UTSA. Ooof.
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In brighter news, the Lady Longhorn softballers won their regional handily, and will host ASU in the supers this weekend.
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Auburn officially ends LSU's only hope for the post-season. The loss caps the collective worst year of conference play for LSU's three main sports--baseball (9-21), basketball (3-15), and football (3-5)--in over 50 years.
#gym school
......
except.....
we keep losing to the dirt burglars in gym.
Furk.
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Florida beats Miam 22-10. I guess we went for 2 late. Rub it in. haha
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Longhorn baseball team advances to the Super Regionals
Hook Em
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Florida beats Miam 22-10. I guess we went for 2 late. Rub it in. haha
Always a delight to see Miami lose in any sport at all.
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A&M vs. USC face off tonight with one loss each in their regional. Don't know much about SC but A&M could be in better shape, having come through the winner's bracket. otoh, after losing to Texas State 5-4, SC has posted scores of 19, 15, and 14. Their bats are on fire. Aggies will have to find some pitching to shut that down.
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Double elimination tourneys are always about middle pitching and overall depth. Both teams are gonna have to muster up something unusual tonight.
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Agree. Just seems SC is already mustering up something unusual with those crooked numbers.
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Agree. Just seems SC is already mustering up something unusual with those crooked numbers.
Well if they are, the good news is that this time I won't be over at the Aggie inlaws' house. They were quite salty last night.
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The lady Longhorn softball team advances to the championship finals
way to go
Hook Em
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The lady Longhorn softball team advances to the championship finals
way to go
Hook Em
The Real UT is triumphant. Hook 'em Horns!
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Looks like it will be an all-Texas affair for the WCWS. SEC! SEC! SEC!, I guess.
Although we all know Texas is a B12 team. Or a SWC one.
On the men's side, USC came out of the loser's bracket to put down A&M. Dammit, Aggies......I should've remembered that LSU is the only SEC team that can be relied on to put down west coast traditional baseball powers, but we fell down on the job this year and decided to suck. If SC wins a 13th title, I'll blame the Aggies.
I like blaming the Aggies for things anyway.
And of course, they're really a SWC team, not an SEC one. Which is why I thought they could deal with USC.....I said we're the only SEC team who could deal with the west coast.
Forget who I'm rooting for.....I'm rooting against USC now.
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I suppose I'll just go ahead and root for Texas.
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Frontrunning bandwagoner!
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So tonight it begins, a rematch from last year's WCWS.
This Texas team seems to love putting itself in a hole, and then clawing out of it, so if I had to guess I'd say the Horns will lose game 1, and then come back and win game 2 in dramatic fashion. Game 3, who knows?
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So tonight it begins, a rematch from last year's WCWS.
This Texas team seems to love putting itself in a hole, and then clawing out of it, so if I had to guess I'd say the Horns will lose game 1, and then come back and win game 2 in dramatic fashion. Game 3, who knows?
I think Texas believes in its #2 and #3 pitchers more than Tech believes in theirs. Tech has some really weird schemes to moderate the workload on Cannady. Clearly Kavan is Texas #1, and we know she won't be dominant three days in a row.
Softball is goofy like that. The Texas hitters seem to find their nerve exactly when required.
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I think Texas believes in its #2 and #3 pitchers more than Tech believes in theirs. Tech has some really weird schemes to moderate the workload on Cannady. Clearly Kavan is Texas #1, and we know she won't be dominant three days in a row.
Softball is goofy like that. The Texas hitters seem to find their nerve exactly when required.
Yeah last year Tech tried to over-use Cannady and the Texas hitters finally got to her and smacked her around pretty good in game 3. She gave up 5 earned runs on 5 hits in the 1st and they yanked her.
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So tonight it begins, a rematch from last year's WCWS.
This Texas team seems to love putting itself in a hole, and then clawing out of it, so if I had to guess I'd say the Horns will lose game 1, and then come back and win game 2 in dramatic fashion. Game 3, who knows?
Quite happy to be wrong about that one.
We'll see how the pitching strategies play out in game 2.
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BOOM
Softball national champs once again. What a postseason for the Lady Longhorns. Total badasses.
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Congrats to our lady Longhorn softball team
National Champions repeat
The tower will be all orange tonight showing a big number one
never get over that sight
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I've never looked at the WCWS bracket before. It looks like the loser of the initial winner's bracket gets sent to the loser's bracket of the other four-team pool. How weird.
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I've never looked at the WCWS bracket before. It looks like the loser of the initial winner's bracket gets sent to the loser's bracket of the other four-team pool. How weird.
Yeah they do a switcheroo. I guess it makes things a little more interesting so you're not just constantly seeing the same 4 teams play each other over and over.
Interesting thing that, because Texas lost in the first game, they were able to go on to be the team to deliver the death blow and eliminate 4 teams total. That's the max number of teams you can eliminate in one CWS.
And it was a fun group of teams to eliminate, also.
Clanga
The sometimes rival Huskers who hate us dearly
the fake UT
And little brother from the dusty plains of west Texas
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Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the super against Oregon. It doesn't start til Saturday so I'll be able to catch the Saturday and Sunday games. If it goes to Monday I'll have to miss it due to my son's Boy Scout meeting.
Chances for thunderstorms tomorrow so we'll see how that works out.
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Thinking I might cut on Sling Orange for a month so we can catch UT from here on. Mrs. DeLonghorn will enjoy that. Will be kind of a bummer if they don't advance to the CWS.
Super lame that I didn't cut on tv for any of the 2023 or 2025 post-season. I kept up with us pretty well in detailed recaps and youtube highlights, though.
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Also, I love that you call Moo State "Clanga" now. I'm pretty that rubbed off on you from me, because I don't think you said that when we first met. I feel like I'm making a difference in the world, because everybody should call those annoying, cow-bell toting misfits "Clanga."
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Also, I love that you call Moo State "Clanga" now. I'm pretty that rubbed off on you from me, because I don't think you said that when we first met. I feel like I'm making a difference in the world, because everybody should call those annoying, cow-bell toting misfits "Clanga."
Oh you definitely taught me that and that was for your benefit.
I normally call them "cowbell" but for you, they're clanga.
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Also, I love that you call Moo State "Clanga" now. I'm pretty that rubbed off on you from me, because I don't think you said that when we first met. I feel like I'm making a difference in the world, because everybody should call those annoying, cow-bell toting misfits "Clanga."
Well, "Mississippi State" is just too long to say or type. Calling them the "Bulldogs" narrows it down to like 22 teams.
It also puts Texas fans in mind of the time when we, also, had cowbells in the stadium. The stadium was at like 72,000 capacity then. One wonders what 105,000 partisans, not quite obeying the "don't ring it during the snap" rule, might sound like. If special permission is required, well, conferences tend to do what we ask.
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One of the away games I went to was @ Starkville one year. It was pre-expansion, like a big high school stadium. They needed those cowbells so it wouldn't be mistaken for a library.
*edit - looking it up, it was 41,000 when I visited. It was just both sidelines and one upper deck. I'd never been to anywhere smaller than the Gator Bowl (70K-ish) before then. Between the Swamp and my high school stadium, it was closer to my HS stadium.
Went to Brice-Williams, Neyland, Tiger, Citrus Bowl, and Tampa. So yeah, it was tiny.
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Stayin' alive. One more game to go for the CWS.
I was lucky enough to be able to go last night, what a great time. I'll be there again tonight hoping I'm not a jinx.
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Oregon is supposed to be using their top Ace tonight. It will be interesting to see if our hitters can be successful against him. If we are going to be successful at the CWS we have to be able to hit against top pitching. Tonight will indicate our ability to do so.
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Oregon is suppose to throw their top ACE against us tonight. These are the guys we have to be successful against to win at the CWS
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I'm glad Oregon took out their "changeup king" pitcher. We couldn't make solid contact against that guy.
Their closer came in and gacked the game. Ours, well, closed it out.
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Our pitching is still what I would call "unsteady" but it's usually good enough. Last night was fun, it was a great crowd.
On to Omaha.
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I cut on a Sling 3-day pass specifically so we could watch the Austin Super-regional. Mrs. DeT is a caricature of early-to-bed-early-to-rise.....she's worthless after 9 pm. She usually starts getting ready for bed at 8:30 and even if she tries to stay up, she'll just fall asleep on the couch. Which is why the late start times for the Austin Super's games sucked. She missed almost all of it, and I didn't have a lot of interest without her. Glad the pass was pretty cheap.
I did get to watch UNC knock USC out. Secondary Mission for this post-season accomplished. (Obviously, the primary mission was unattainable this year. The second is to stop USC from getting any more titles.) Now on to the tertiary mission: somebody stop all the other SEC teams from getting any more titles. And I sure ain't rooting for UNC, so.....go WVU or Troy, I guess?
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I cut on a Sling 3-day pass specifically so we could watch the Austin Super-regional. Mrs. DeT is a caricature of early-to-bed-early-to-rise.....she's worthless after 9 pm. She usually starts getting ready for bed at 8:30 and even if she tries to stay up, she'll just fall asleep on the couch. Which is why the late start times for the Austin Super's games sucked. She missed almost all of it, and I didn't have a lot of interest without her. Glad the pass was pretty cheap.
I did get to watch UNC knock USC out. Secondary Mission for this post-season accomplished. (Obviously, the primary mission was unattainable this year. The second is to stop USC from getting any more titles.) Now on to the tertiary mission: somebody stop all the other SEC teams from getting any more titles. And I sure ain't rooting for UNC, so.....go WVU or Troy, I guess?
Booo. I'm gonna tell your wife you said that.
It'd be nice for Texas to win another title in Omaha and start clawing back a few versus the Johnny-come-lately LSU Tigers.
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Can't threaten me with that, she knows the deal :)
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As I listened to Ben McDonald during the UGA/Clanga games, it reminded me.....
I know we have the no religious talk rule.....
But is Skip Bertman going to hell for mortgaging McDonald's future arm on getting those teams to Omaha to get some CWS experience? I vote yes.
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I gather McDonald is a pitcher who you think was over used?
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He was an LSU pitcher in the late 80's, before any CWS titles. 1989 Golden Spikes winner and until Skenes recently, the only #1 pick LSU ever had. I think he lasted less than 10 years in the majors and was "okay."
I was young, but my impression of his time at LSU was that he was far and away the best pitcher, and Bertman kinda treated him like "You're our Friday ace, get on out there and gimme a complete game. Come to think of it, try to keep your count down anyway because I need you to close out Sunday too, can't be too careful. Also, go ahead and pitch this midweek game, we need to win all those we can, you'll have two full days rest before Friday, don't act like you're tired."
I don't know what the actual story is, but the general sentiment amongst fans is that Skip blew out his arm with over-use. At least one of his teams got to Omaha, which probably helped them when the 90's started.
I generally enjoy listening to him on ESPN. He kinda has a lot of the same accent as Orgeron, without the gravely voice. Which is weird, because I think McDonald is from Denham Springs.
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5 SEC teams in Omaha. I don't actually know what kind of baseball history OU has, but adding Texas to the SEC feels like it means we're gonna get even more of this. The SEC has often been highly represented there in modern times.
First trip for UT since....? 2022? That's basically a drought for them. They have more CWS appearances than actual CWS tourneys. They have like a 115% percentage of making the field :72:
First trip for UGA since.....2008? Played the finals against Fresno State? I can't remember. When Florida beat us in 2017, my brain exploded and took most of my cbb memories with it.
Ole Miss just won a few years ago. Somebody please make sure that doesn't happen again.
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Ole Miss is definitely on the weaker side of the bracket. I won't be surprised if they win through.
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Good grief, that other bracket is just the SEC Tournament all over again.
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5 SEC teams in Omaha. I don't actually know what kind of baseball history OU has, but adding Texas to the SEC feels like it means we're gonna get even more of this. The SEC has often been highly represented there in modern times.
First trip for UT since....? 2022? That's basically a drought for them. They have more CWS appearances than actual CWS tourneys. They have like a 115% percentage of making the field :72:
First trip for UGA since.....2008? Played the finals against Fresno State? I can't remember. When Florida beat us in 2017, my brain exploded and took most of my cbb memories with it.
Ole Miss just won a few years ago. Somebody please make sure that doesn't happen again.
Not that I pay much attention to CWS/Beisbol stuff, but wasn't it Miss State that won two years ago? Or maybe Ol Miss won one in there as well?
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Miss State won in 2021. Ole Miss won in 2022.
Then some Johnny-come-lately scrub team from the dirty swamps of Louisiana won a couple over three years.
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.....and immediately went back to being a scrub.
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Horns swept a hapless Mizzou team to finish the regular season second in the conference. A couple of late-inning pitching breakdowns made two of the games far more interesting than they should have been. The team's bullpen is just too inconsistent for me to think they've got a chance at winning the NC. They're a good team but not a great one. They SHOULD make it out of their own regional this year, but they SHOULD have done the same last year too, and didn't.
Anyway, it's been a pretty fun season and hopefully the program can continue building.
Sandbagger.
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Sandbagger.
Ha!
I didn't say anything untrue.
It'll be really interesting to see how the Horns stack up against Georgia in the first game. I really wanted to see them play one another in the regular season, but I guess Omaha will have to do.
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I have no scouting report beyond they seem to hit the ball well.
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Well....good luck to all your teams who made it. As fellow fans, I hope your guys give you lots to cheer for and that one of your teams keeps the crown in the SEC.
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So....Florida's 2B transfers to LSU as a fifth-year senior. He homered twice in UF's regular season to bury LSU.
If you can beat 'em, join 'em?
Yay, college sports in 2026!
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I just noticed that 4 of the 5 SEC teams in the CWS are grouped so they play each other with only the winner advancing
Looks like the bracket makers were scared to let the SEC loose on the other none SEC teams and minimizing a chance for an SEC final
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On the other hand, it guarantees an SEC team into the final series.
Ole Miss now into the losers bracket so it'll be a tough journey for them, to make it an all-SEC finals.
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This purple-clad old guy in his LSU hat sitting behind home plate for all these games like his team is anywhere near the CWS is killing me.
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Are they playing tonight?
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Well Texas sure ain't. What a disaster.
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Well Texas sure ain't. What a disaster.
Brutal first inning for Texas. That catcher appeared to have the yips. They kept talking about how Texas likes to be patient at the plate. I assume that's correct--I haven't watched them enough to know. Assuming that's the case, that first inning also seemed to make them press, which is a common thing for a patient team that falls behind early. Might have taken them out of their comfort zone.
Gonna have to do it the long way around now.
Both OU and UGA looked really good their first game. Might be a good one between them tomorrow night. As I suspected, UGA can't homer every inning in Omaha like they do at home, but it also looks like it doesn't matter. Their lineup looks dangerous up and down the order, who can get it done a variety of ways. I guess they don't count on the long ball, they just hit 'em if they can. Fair enough.
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Like I've said a few dozen times this year, this is a good Texas team that isn't a great Texas team. They can scrap around when hard pressed but I didn't see this team as a CWS winner and at this point that would be extremely unlikely.
Still, winning is always better than losing, getting to Omaha is a success, and there's a decent amount to build on for next year.
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Unfortunately Texas keeps getting time slots that make it hard to watch. Either too late, or too early on a work day.
I've discovered that Sling--at least on this limited day-pass plan I got--only allows viewing from one device at a time. While I could probably watch UT on the side this afternoon from work, Mrs. DeT gets home around 3:30 and will be watching on delay. Meaning I can't watch. We could both wait til tonight, but I'll be watching UGA/OU.
The first game against UGA didn't start until 8, and she doesn't last past 9:30, tops, so she missed a fair bit of that one. Though after the first inning, I think she was okay not putting herself through more.
Ole Miss has the ignominious distinction of being the 2&Q team from their bracket, as the only SEC school. Way to represent, idgits.
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I'm no baseball guru, but I guess the adage of "good pitching beats good hitting" still is reasonably true over the aggregate.
That is, in order to be a contender, you're going to need 2-3 starters you absolutely can depend on. It's unlikely you're winning championships if 13-9 is the score of most of your games, you're probably not winning a trophy. You're bound to run into a guy that will keep that in the 3-4 run range. You'll need arms to match it.
Texas has like 1 1/2 reliable pitchers, and our 1 reliable one was (a) not that reliable and (b) a victim of hilariously ill times defensive miscues. That said, 7-1 or 3-1 is still a loss. If Texas couldn't get more than 1 run (and that aided by UGA mistakes), they weren't winning even if Volantis were brilliant.
Texas' #6 ranking is probably about right.
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I'm no baseball guru, but I guess the adage of "good pitching beats good hitting" still is reasonably true over the aggregate.
That is, in order to be a contender, you're going to need 2-3 starters you absolutely can depend on. It's unlikely you're winning championships if 13-9 is the score of most of your games, you're probably not winning a trophy. You're bound to run into a guy that will keep that in the 3-4 run range. You'll need arms to match it.
Texas has like 1 1/2 reliable pitchers, and our 1 reliable one was (a) not that reliable and (b) a victim of hilariously ill times defensive miscues. That said, 7-1 or 3-1 is still a loss. If Texas couldn't get more than 1 run (and that aided by UGA mistakes), they weren't winning even if Volantis were brilliant.
Texas' #6 ranking is probably about right.
Yup. A good but not great team and one I never felt was destined to win the NC.
Still, finishing #2 in the SEC regular season and getting to Omaha is a pretty good season. I'd love to NOT be the 2&Q team from our side, but I don't have faith in any of our remaining pitching. We started our best, and he wasn't good enough.
This is okay for year2 under a new coach, but his job is to assemble the roster that doesn't have mediocre arms, and doesn't have super-timid hitting at the worst time. He has the resources to spend as much as any other college baseball program out there, so there are no excuses for having a weaker roster than our opponents. Next year needs to be better.
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Errors are the Great Separator in Omaha, I've often thought. I think there's something to experience there and not letting the moment do you in. I felt bad for WVU last night. Costly errors by their 3B and then 2B is what ultimately bit them. It's one thing to play a clean game and get beat by a team who was better that day. When you commit errors, it often feels like you beat yourself.
I've seen plenty of our teams make some errors in the regular season and overcome them, especially at home. I also saw what I considered the best team we ever assembled go 2&Q in Omaha, in no small part due to two uncharacteristic errors. The competition in Omaha is too stiff for mistakes, and the pressure is too great. The miscues were the result of nerves, which were the result of not having been to the CWS in 4 years, with nobody on that team having been on the previous team to make it. Getting knocked out of their own Super the year before had ramifications far beyond ending that one season, I believe. Had they made that trip the year before, I think they'd have handled the next year better. As it was, the greatest team of ours I ever saw (imo) squandered their potential.
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Recruiting college baseball, even with NIL, has to be really weird. I mean, you can go directly from high school to being a mega-paid player (usually pitcher) in the MLB system. They have the money to fund even a reasonably likely prospect at a level that collegiate NIL just can't touch. Spend all your time convincing great talent to attend your school and play for your team - then watch them all accept their draft slot paycheck and not show up.
Seems like you gotta recruit good-but-not-great talent, then learn to improve them. From what I gather, Texas has a couple of coaches in Tulo and Weiner that do just that.
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Recruiting college baseball, even with NIL, has to be really weird. I mean, you can go directly from high school to being a mega-paid player (usually pitcher) in the MLB system. They have the money to fund even a reasonably likely prospect at a level that collegiate NIL just can't touch. Spend all your time convincing great talent to attend your school and play for your team - then watch them all accept their draft slot paycheck and not show up.
Seems like you gotta recruit good-but-not-great talent, then learn to improve them. From what I gather, Texas has a couple of coaches in Tulo and Weiner that do just that.
All true but this is nothing new, it's always been this way in college baseball-- the best players, the ones with real MLB prospects, will sign with a university but then get drafted and go play under a big contract in the minors.
If anything, player retention is probably now easier in college baseball because a top level university might be able to retain a decent but not spectacular picthing prospect at higher pay than he'd get as a 12th round draft pick. And he can always enter the draft again next year.
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I always thought Paul Mainieri really struggled with that. He spent a lot of effort recruiting and signing guys who never made it to campus because the Braves AA club was a better deal. Good recruiters expect that kind of thing, of course, and ideally plan accordingly. He wasn't bad at it, but it seemed like a lot of his years included a lot of pitching staffs that were good but not great because he put so much emphasis on signing a couple of aces he was counting on who never dressed out for us.
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I always thought Paul Mainieri really struggled with that. He spent a lot of effort recruiting and signing guys who never made it to campus because the Braves AA club was a better deal. Good recruiters expect that kind of thing, of course, and ideally plan accordingly. He wasn't bad at it, but it seemed like a lot of his years included a lot of pitching staffs that were good but not great because he put so much emphasis on signing a couple of aces he was counting on who never dressed out for us.
Yeah that loser only won, what, 2 or 3 NCs?
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One.
And that was relatively early on, his third year with us, I think.
Particularly over the back half of his time with us, we struggled with complete staffs because he put so many eggs in the baskets of kids who everybody knew were draft risks. Everybody but him, I guess.
I don't mean to say he was a bad coach, but he whiffed on a higher number of recruits than our other coaches in my lifetime, because he was enamored with kids who were just never going to step foot on campus. Johnson inherited a mess of a pitching roster, and he's done much better. Granted, we're in the portal/NIL era now, so it's probably apples and oranges. But he goes after guys we can actually get. Other than this, his 5th year--which still wasn't that bad--our pitching depth has beefed up.
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Well, any coach at LSU since 1990 or so, that only won a single measly NC, actually is a bum. So your point is taken.
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We're 6th in all-time CWS appearances. If we make another one before USC, Ok. St., Arizona or Stanford get 1 or 2 more, we'll move into the Top 5 list. Two more appearances for Top 4. We'd need 5 more appearances to move to #2 to tie with Miami (and of course Miami would have to not gain more). Texas is so laughably ahead of the rest of the field that if we ever did get #1, it won't be in my lifetime.
In the 40 years since our first appearance, we've gone 20 times, averaging every other year. Or--removing Smoke Laval's years--an actual bum--even better than that for the other years. Obviously you can't cherry pick the worst years out, but 1) I like to imagine a world where Smoke wasn't our coach, and 2) it's interesting to note that even with a guy who didn't make Omaha much, the % of appearances is still so high across a time-span that includes him.
The CWS began in 1947, and in that 79 years, Texas has 39 appearances, ~half the time there's been a CWS. That includes a remarkable 7 appearances in both the 60's and then again in the 80's.
There's no question LSU is the most accomplished program of the last 40 years. But there's also no question that the total span of history is dominated by Texas, to the point where they would have to fall of the map for literally multiple decades, while one of the other closest teams continued to roll (it can't just be any team). Actually, it could really only be USC, and to a lesser extent, Ok. St., 'Zona and 'Furd. The others with a ballpark number of appearances to that first group, like FSU, Miami, and ASU, started so much later than Texas that they wind up falling into the same bucket as LSU.....great history, but nowhere near as early as Texas.
Depending on how much one weights titles, that will affect how much you offset the difference in number of CWS appearances between USC and Texas. Texas has 18 more CWS appearances than USC. But USC's staggering 12 titles.....damn. They won the whole thing more than half the years they made it. For comparison, LSU's .638 win% in the CWS is amazing. And it's still dwarfed by USC's incredible .740 win%. That's insane.
Miami, who didn't make the CWS until 1974 and is second behind Texas with 25 appearances, has 4 titles to show for it. FSU, who is in third place with 24 appearances and has been going since the 1950's, has 0 titles. Lolz.
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Yeah FSU is the most notorious of all the regulars. As annoying as it has been for Texas to make it so many times, but not win it "enough"-- I can't even imagine how frustrating it would be, to be a Florida State baseball fan.
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UNC is #14 on the list with 12 appearances, starting in 1960. That shows how quick and steep the dropoff is from teams in the Top 5. They also have 0 titles.
And I'm hoping they don't pick up their first this year.
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UNC is #14 on the list with 12 appearances, starting in 1960. That shows how quick and steep the dropoff is from teams in the Top 5. They also have 0 titles.
And I'm hoping they don't pick up their first this year.
I don't think the winner of that side of the bracket was ever going to beat the winner of Georgia-Alabama-OU-Texas.
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I did not remember/realize that UGA won the CWS the year before we started our run.
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Yeah that was the year after the most infuriating event in college baseball history had occurred.
CBS had picked up the CWS and decided that for TV broadcast reasons they wanted a single championship game.
But, the problem was, they still left it as a double-elimination tournament with two pools, up to that point. So Texas was undefeated in its pool, while Wichita State had an early loss but made it to the championship from their pool. The Shockers won the "championship game" and thus Texas became the first sports team in history (probably) to lose a double-elimination tournament with a single loss.
To say I'm still bitter about that, would be an understatement.
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I get it.
Baseball wounds that never heal are real. Some things anger and haunt me to this day and I suspect always will.
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Well that sucked. Anyway, is it swimming and diving season yet?
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I only have any passion for CFB (and some for MLB). I pay some attention to a sport if the Dawgs are doing well, maybe, I saw somewhere their women had a good year in track. Yay. They have a nice equestrian team, my wife mentioned she'd like to watch a match sometime, cool. They used to be a gymnastic power (women's). They usually are good in tennis.
If they did win the CWS, well yay, but soon forgotten by me. I often ponder why I care if I do. I figure it's something to 'do'.
My own baseball team has been run ruled in every game so far after five. Saturday was hot and humid so I was glad to have it over. I pitched two innings and was soaked.
I'm 17 years older than the 55 minimum, so I'm doing OK.
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I enjoy watching college baseball, especially live. It's probably easy for me because in my lifetime Texas has usually been good, and occasionally great.
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Baseball is all we had in the 90's when I was growing up. After a couple of promising football teams in the later 80's when I was becoming aware of sports beyond running around in a semi-structural fashion in neighborhood yards, the 90's happened and all was lost in football. Not that I cared overly much about football back then, other than my dad took me to some Ole Miss games, and that was fun in person. Mostly I wanted to know how Jordan was doing, and were the Bulls ever gonna win a championship with him? Wait, scratch that....they got one. Wait, they got another one. Wait, another.....
Anyway, on the local front, football was dismal, and basketball had highly talented yet underachieving rosters, such as ones with Chris Jackson, Shaq, and Stanley Roberts, which teams barely made a dent in the tourney.
Baseball is kinda what we had to keep us going back then. And because the team was so frequently successful in my pre-teen and teen years, it became a thing I latched on to. Plus, catching a game at the Box live is a very enjoyable way to spend an afternoon or evening.
I never cared enough to watch much regular season games (outside of LSU) or closely track the conference or national teams (outside of LSU), but once post-season starts, I used to love watching the regionals onward on TV. For various reasons, that tapered off around 10 years ago, and this post-season is the first I've cut on TV so we can watch it in probably that long.
Which in one way, I feel is a shame, because apparently our teams the past few years have been okay. And in another way, is not a shame, because I know we just bought players like Skenes away from Air Force, just like we do in football, and the whole thing has the stink of "You'll never know if I love LSU, I'm just here for the money, bruh" on it, just like football. Though, for some reason, not quite as much, to me. I do still feel something for the baseball team. Whereas I feel virtually disconnected and at most irritated with the football team.
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We're 6th in all-time CWS appearances. If we make another one before USC, Ok. St., Arizona or Stanford get 1 or 2 more, we'll move into the Top 5 list. Two more appearances for Top 4. We'd need 5 more appearances to move to #2 to tie with Miami (and of course Miami would have to not gain more). Texas is so laughably ahead of the rest of the field that if we ever did get #1, it won't be in my lifetime.
In the 40 years since our first appearance, we've gone 20 times, averaging every other year. Or--removing Smoke Laval's years--an actual bum--even better than that for the other years. Obviously you can't cherry pick the worst years out, but 1) I like to imagine a world where Smoke wasn't our coach, and 2) it's interesting to note that even with a guy who didn't make Omaha much, the % of appearances is still so high across a time-span that includes him.
The CWS began in 1947, and in that 79 years, Texas has 39 appearances, ~half the time there's been a CWS. That includes a remarkable 7 appearances in both the 60's and then again in the 80's.
There's no question LSU is the most accomplished program of the last 40 years. But there's also no question that the total span of history is dominated by Texas, to the point where they would have to fall of the map for literally multiple decades, while one of the other closest teams continued to roll (it can't just be any team). Actually, it could really only be USC, and to a lesser extent, Ok. St., 'Zona and 'Furd. The others with a ballpark number of appearances to that first group, like FSU, Miami, and ASU, started so much later than Texas that they wind up falling into the same bucket as LSU.....great history, but nowhere near as early as Texas.
Depending on how much one weights titles, that will affect how much you offset the difference in number of CWS appearances between USC and Texas. Texas has 18 more CWS appearances than USC. But USC's staggering 12 titles.....damn. They won the whole thing more than half the years they made it. For comparison, LSU's .638 win% in the CWS is amazing. And it's still dwarfed by USC's incredible .740 win%. That's insane.
Miami, who didn't make the CWS until 1974 and is second behind Texas with 25 appearances, has 4 titles to show for it. FSU, who is in third place with 24 appearances and has been going since the 1950's, has 0 titles. Lolz.
I wonder where A&M appears on that list? I know we've been around 4-5 times in the last 20-30 years, but didn't have a single CWS win until "our previous coach" almost won the whole thing 2 years ago, and most likely would have won the whole thing if he didn't already have another job lined up and his mind elsewhere.
I'm not even certain we never had a single win, I just know we had very few wins until very recently. I think we went once in the 70's, once in the early 90's, '99, and a couple of times more this century.
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I think I saw some graphic yesterday that Texas was averaging like 14 runs per game across the NCAA playoffs.
They managed 1 run on UGA in 18 innings.
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I wonder where A&M appears on that list? I know we've been around 4-5 times in the last 20-30 years, but didn't have a single CWS win until "our previous coach" almost won the whole thing 2 years ago, and most likely would have won the whole thing if he didn't already have another job lined up and his mind elsewhere.
I'm not even certain we never had a single win, I just know we had very few wins until very recently. I think we went once in the 70's, once in the early 90's, '99, and a couple of times more this century.
A&M is higher on the list of appearances than you might think, ranked #21. However, as I mentioned, the dropoff from the Top 5 and Top 10 is sharp (okay, actually, the dropoff from the Top 1 is also sharp), so A&M still has just 8 CWS appearances. They first went in 1951, last appeared in 2024. They have 7 wins and 14 losses there, for a .333 win%. No titles yet.
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I think I saw some graphic yesterday that Texas was averaging like 14 runs per game across the NCAA playoffs.
They managed 1 run on UGA in 18 innings.
I don't want to unfairly impugn the stellar pitching we saw from UT and UGA last night, but here goes.....
Something did not seem right about the batters to me. I'd have a stronger opinion if I had seen them play more. But my limited-sample-size-watching made my Spidey sense tingle that something other than stellar pitching was going on.
I do not at all mean to say that the pitching wasn't largely responsible. Only that it seemed like the guys at the plate--all of them--were having bad days. That makes me nose twitch. Could be nothing more than pressing in an elimination game.
But I do wonder when it's not just a couple guys here and there....when it seems like everybody, on both teams.
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I think I saw some graphic yesterday that Texas was averaging like 14 runs per game across the NCAA playoffs.
They managed 1 run on UGA in 18 innings.
Not exactly. If you take out Georgia then the Horns averaged 12 runs per game over the NCAA Tourney. But that includes games in the regional against Holy Cross and Tarleton State where Texas scored 19 and 16.
If you take those out, then Texas averaged 9 runs per game against teams with a pulse, not named Georgia.
It's still a pretty stark contrast but it's not quite that huge.
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A&M is higher on the list of appearances than you might think, ranked #21. However, as I mentioned, the dropoff from the Top 5 and Top 10 is sharp (okay, actually, the dropoff from the Top 1 is also sharp), so A&M still has just 8 CWS appearances. They first went in 1951, last appeared in 2024. They have 7 wins and 14 losses there, for a .333 win%. No titles yet.
I think of the 7 wins, a bunch came in 2024. No idea how many rounds there are in the CWS, but I think we had like 4 of the 7 wins in 2024 alone, and one or two wins in the previous CWS appearance, also under our previous coach. So for forever and ever, we had like 2 total CWS wins all time, and now we have 7 wins, of which a bunch came very recently.
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I think of the 7 wins, a bunch came in 2024. No idea how many rounds there are in the CWS, but I think we had like 4 of the 7 wins in 2024 alone, and one or two wins in the previous CWS appearance, also under our previous coach. So for forever and ever, we had like 2 total CWS wins all time, and now we have 7 wins, of which a bunch came very recently.
In the 2024 CWS the Ags went 3-0 on their side of the bracket, beating Florida, Kentucky, and Florida again.
Then they won Game1 of the championship series against UTenn, to go 4-0 in the CWS.
Then the Ags lost the next 2 against UTenn, for a 4-2 record in the CWS.
Additionally the Ags went 3-0 in their regional (including a win over Texas) and went 2-0 in their Superregional.
So the Ags were 9-0 in the NCAA postseason tournament, until losing the final 2 against Tennessee.
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I'll add that 9-0 in the NCAA tournament doesn't really indicate to me, some lack of focus or poor effort or poor planning or poor preparation on the part of the head coach, regardless of who he was contacting.
The 2 final losses in a row to Tennessee weren't some anomaly. Tennessee had already beaten the Ags and eliminated them in the SEC tourney a few weeks prior. Plus they were the SEC regular season co-champs, they were the SEC tourney runner-up,
2024 Texas A&M had an excellent team and an excellent season. They just ran into a better team at the end. It happens.
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I'm not a fan of a team who was sub-.500 in its conference winning the national freakin' title. It's kind of a joke. But no one cares about college baseball.
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It's inherent to a sport that allows 64 teams in the field, which has been the case for a good while now.
The rest of it is just the nature of playoffs, which are built to reward the hottest team at the end, not the best team over the course of a season. It doesn't usually come up in such a glaring way, because generally the best teams throughout the season will emerge as the hottest teams at the end. But the possibility is always there, and it happens.
I don't think anyone should argue for the Sooners as the best team throughout the season, but it's hard to make a case against them being the best by the end of it.
Just depends on what type of champion people want. This sport picked the Best-At-The-End model, but at least the Sooners will have dominated their way through some good teams in their own backyards. Whatever negatives we might say about the Sooners' regular season, Omaha is built not to be reached by a team who didn't earn something.
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Have a fun tournament to start the season, then go about finding out who the best team is over the course of the season with the most games possible.
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Well, it just prepares you for life after college.
Someone is going to win the AL West. They'll qualify for the MLB playoffs. They could be World Series champs at the end.
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Congrats Sooners!
https://twitter.com/cwsomaha/status/2069252354835194027?s=61
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blech
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Puts it in perspective.
https://twitter.com/sportscenter/status/2069259971942895881?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA
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Congrats to the Sooners. For winning a CWS title, sure, but mostly for giving me more lolz at UNC/the ACC.
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UNC and the ACC are irrelevant. OU deserves nothing but dismay and horror. Anything good that happens for them, is bad for the entire rest of the world.
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https://twitter.com/adamdoth/status/2069222467369828729?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA
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Well shoot.....we got another baseball coach and I never even made the time to go meet the last guy I remembered as an LSU player. Got a message yesterday from my supervisor that if we weren't doing anything today at 2:00, to go over to the baseball complex for the press conference introducing the new coach. I looked it up and the previous guy took a job at UofH even before the College Station regional. I guess all it takes is one little SLC tourney title and a regional appearance, and you can get scooped up by somebody else. I don't reckon we'd have fared any better in the regional if the coach hadn't already taken the Houston job, but it couldn't have helped.
The new coach has been a coach for the Longhorns and most recently was USC's pitching coach. Apparently he'd already accepted the job when his Trojans were blasting away at his new team in the CS regional.
Not much of a public speaker, judging by his press conference. Guess we'll see what kind of coach he is.
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Oh man at first I thought you were talking about LSU.
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Oh man at first I thought you were talking about LSU.
Nah, I'm talking about a real team. One that can get in a regional in a field of 64 freakin' schools.