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Read that Geib's 3 run HR was his first AB since his injury last year, and on the first pitch. Quite a reintroduction. Always liked him, 1st/3B, difficult to find a spot other than DH.

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/12678-2020-little-league-thread-of-dominance/page/8/&tab=comments#comment-3161866 Check above thread from the Baseball Forum. Most are from the Austin/Houston area but may be able to offer advice.

Followed the Sunday game, but unable to watch. Any opinion if any of the 3WP’s could have been blocked ? Kubichek has 7WP’s and 5HBP in 21.1 innings.

Be nice for SCar to take 1 or 2 from Vandy for our SOS/RPI. They lost to a 6-8 Davidson team Wed.

Florida vs aggy tonight, 6PM, SECN. Scout aggy for our matchup on 30 Mar and check out Florida's new ballpark O'Sullivan got for declining Texas. (plus a 1.25M annual salary)

https://big12sports.com/stats.aspx?path=baseball&year=2021 B12 stats as conference play begins. Overall, very good. iirc, best in awhile. Luv that Fielding stat.

Never know about Tuesday games, but this could be a competitive game. Vaqueros took 2/3 from Baylor to open the season and just split a 4 games series with Grand Canyon (normally solid club) in Az this past weekend. That said, their stats are not impressive and Rimac hasn't pitched since 26 Feb when he was rocked by UW in Seattle. Head coach is Derek Matlock, former Texas St and WVU assistant, solid baseball guy. https://goutrgv.com/sports/baseball/stats/2021

Not a member of either, but paid subscription is now the "way of the world". Always liked the D1 Baseball Chat on Monday but now requires a subscription. Very little, if any free content on either site. Even The Baseball Cube, premier research site, now requires subscription. D1 is $119 per year, $14.99 per month. Ouch ! They do sometimes offer specials but not much less. D1 started the fully paid trend and the others followed. I've met Kendall and talked to him at the Disch, but just not worth it. Find it helpful to glean info from visiting other team fan forums.

6 Feb 1939 - 15 Mar 2018 RIP, Great One ! Thanks for the memories. "You want to win everything along the way, because that buys you 24 hours of peace, but the national championship is the goal for this program."

This week's schedule (aggyCorpus, BYU, Texas Southern, Tarleton St) are under .500. BYU has played a fairly strong schedule (Az, AzSt, Wash, Utah) Time to work on defense. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/softball/d1/usa-today/nfca-coaches Polls: USAToday/NFCA - 10 D1 - 11 ESPN - 11

https://www.iheart.com/live/talk-1073-fm-5602/ LSU radio.

Should have clarified, for those that do not have ESPN+. OU 2/Mizzou 1, 4th inn, , Uverse 1751 FSNOK. Juarez has gained alot of weight.

The finish of game one will not be streamed live or air on a TV network. Live stats will be available to follow at LSUStats.com. https://lsusports.net/news/2021/3/5/softballs-friday-game-with-texas-halted-due-to-rain.aspx. DH to follow will be on SEC+. Q&A about SEC+. Perhaps someone can find/post a stream to simplify. @shadow_operative2.0 @Machinator🙂 https://www.secsports.com/article/23926730/about-sec-network+

Too early to tell. Texas St normally a competitive game. UH took 3/4 from aggy corpus, 2 were 1 run games. SCarolina picked 4th in SEC East behind Florida, Vandy, Tenn (strong division). All teams seem to be playing at least 2 midweek games meaning pitching will be stretched. Texas St and UH games are scheduled for ESPN+. ESPN+ has alot of college baseball games this year. Worth the $5.99 per month. https://www.espn.com/espnplus/schedule/_/type/upcoming/channel/ESPN_PLUS/startDate/20210303

Good call Pato ! Pierce agrees. After the game, Pierce blamed himself for the bullpen's implosion. Pierce said that instead of playing the matchups, he should have immediately gone to Witt. "We've got to make a better choice right there," Pierce said. "It's probably my fault for putting them in that situation." A week ago against Arkansas, Stevens was again solid before running into trouble in the sixth inning. Ahead of this season, none of Stevens' 33 appearances at Texas had lasted more than 2.1 innings. "I don't think it's a concern yet, I truly don't," Pierce said of his starter's sixth-inning shortcomings. "Again, we get to know that maybe his tops is 85, 90 pitches and he can still eat up a lot of innings because he's such a good strike thrower. That's information as well." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/27/baseball-bullpen-decisions-cost-texas-series-finale-against-byu/6854832002/ Witt has nothing else to prove. Hope he is not overused. Also, no need to DH, too valuable as a pitcher. Seems to be the ideal closer. Besides outstanding "stuff", has that J Brent Cox/Huston Street attitude. Wenzel can handle mid relief.

Only 4 games, very early, but you can see the void left by Elish. Thus far team does not seem to be playing with the intensity and focus that Elish brought to the whole team. Her enthusiasm, focus, and drive to be the best will be missed by the entire team. Results in errors and other mistakes. As they say, a superstar (Elish) makes everyone better. Jefferson, Rhodes, Burke, and Iakopo are stars in their own right, but like many they just don't have that "let's go" leadership personality. That said, Covid protocol affected the team. They are really just getting to know each other.

True. 3 SF, 2 SH, and 5 errors by BYU helps the cause. "It is not about hits, it is about runs".... Augie 🙂

Did Huston opt out as a volunteer asst this year due to Covid ? Not listed on roster. I may have missed the news. Saw Tulo talking to Kennedy before an AB last night. Bio says he works with hitters and infielders.

Pierce's quotes below. jmo, but Pierce seems to favor power hitting, thus the long swings he mentions below. And this is why he moved in the fences at DFF. He seems to recruit for power. May be successful until you face quality pitching. Then adjustments need to be made like shortening the swing to make contact. That was the concerning thing, after 18K's on Sat, the trend continued without adjustments. Note that we were last in the B12 in hitting for '17 (.252) and '19 (.250) and 6th in '18 (.271). We were 8th (.256) last year. https://big12sports.com/news/2008/7/16/1513506.aspx tl:dr: They may be trying to hit a home run every at bat. "Hitting and scoring kind of comes and goes, but approach has to be better," Texas coach David Pierce said. "I think we have some length in our swing that's probably caused by some tension and I think we have faced really good, quality pitching out of the gate. You combine those three things together and it's kind of a nightmare for us right now." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/21/baseball-strikeouts-issue-texas-arkansas-bests-its-old-foe/4536956001/ "I got a lot of information from this tournament," Texas coach David Pierce said. "I think that's good for us." "Did we play well? No. Was Arlington an incredible field and kicked our butts? Yes," Pierce said. "We just look at it like that. We're not going to feel sorry for ourselves and I can't wait until we play again." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/22/baseball-beaten-ole-miss-texas-off-worst-start-since-2006/4549308001/

Appreciate your updates !

Zubia was an All State 3B in high school. Pierce seems to value offense over defense, jmo. Meaning there may be someone on the roster (Petrinsky, Geib) who may be slightly better defensively, but Pierce values Zubia's power. I know Zubia has worked very hard on the transition to 1B, lost weight, and am sure he works with Tulo to improve. Team effort, infielders need to make good throws, 1B needs to cover for them. When Kacy was in a hitting slump, Augie left him in the lineup "because he makes the team better." tl;dr: Let's give Zubia a coupla' more games before we erect the cross to crucify him. 🙂

Arlington update and AAS interview with Zubia (excerpts). https://twitter.com/KendallRogers/status/1362438069400580103 (can't get to embed) How ready is this team to get back on the field? I think that this team is probably the most prepared team that I've been on since I've been here. This team is full of maturity, it's full of dedication, it's just full of hard work. I think that's also a credit to our coaching staff and our staff in general. We've done a really good job with the COVID-19 world that we're living in right now. I think it's a really focused, a really driven and a really motivated team to win. I'm very excited to see what shows out (in the season opener). How is balancing your master's program for marketing with baseball? I get my master's in marketing from McCombs so it's the best of both worlds for me. You get to play at the highest level in sports and you get some of the best academics in the country so you can't beat that. Of the new guys on the team or the young guys who had smaller roles last season, who is going to take that next step? One of the guys that really sticks out to me is (second-year catcher) Silas Ardoin. The kid's work ethic is unmatched. He's always looking at ways to get better and he's always asking the older guys questions. He's always asking DJ about how to get better. He's always hanging out with DJ on what he does catching-wise and then he's always asking guys what they're looking for hitting-wise. He's taken a step in a very mature direction this year. It's gonna be really exciting to see him get to play a lot this year. Then another guy, I mean he's an incoming guy, is Mike (Antico). Mike's a whole new player. I'm really glad we got him and no one else did because he's gonna be really, really helpful to our team this year. I think that he is someone that can really wreak havoc on a lot of teams this year. What are this team's strengths? We're going to be able to score in multiple ways on offense. I think that's one of the biggest things for us, is that we have speed, we've always had speed, but we have power this year, we have guys who can handle the bat really well... Our pitching is gonna be really good, too. We've got a lot of guys that can come out of pen. We've got a lot of guys who can start,,, https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/18/texas-longhorns-baseball-zach-zubia-readies-2021-season/6794217002/

Hopefully, the heat will be working at Globe Life and teams will not have travel issues this weekend. Have been scanning other team's forums. A TCU fan posted heat was on for a WS game last year and the temp inside was in the mid/high 50's. As I scan other forums, you guys are not excited enough. 🙂 The ballpark will also provide a comfortable space in the winter months as well, as heat is provided through six boilers that combine to generate the heating system's hot water. "In the winter the boilers heat up water and generate hot water throughout the building," Johnson added. https://www.mlb.com/rangers/ballpark/globe-life-field/news/a-big-chill-to-fill#:~:text=The ballpark will also provide,the building%2C" Johnson added. Arlington: Fri 36/25 sunny Sat 45/40 sunny Sun 60/34 p/c https://weather.com/weather/weekend/l/c1f9df9733de9d6c96883936de01ca988e6217ae78a329b5ec2e6416ed904abf

If you need a softball fix, Kansas vs LSU tonight, 7PM, SECN. As of now game is on, temp forecast 40 degrees at gametime. As many know, Kansas head coach is Jennifer McFalls (former Texas asst coach) and Kaitlyn Slack (former Texas player) is a grad asst. Kansas dropped a DH to McNeese yesterday 9-8, 6-5. Most of the B12 games have been cancelled (schedule below). Very, very unfortunate the Texas Classic had to be cancelled. What an outstanding lineup of teams (Ala, Az, Colo St, SHSU). MsSt, Ole Miss, UH, UConn, and Lamar are scheduled in town 26-28 Feb but what a bummer not to see Ala, Az, Colo St, and Sam. https://big12sports.com/calendar.aspx?path=softball

Happy 90th Birthday, Coach ! Luv ya !