Texas Tech @ Texas Series Thread

[chase25 2048]

This team is better than the 2018 team this team just doesn't have a Kody Clemens that seemingly delivered in every clutch moment. Regardless of the outcome of this series this team is still in good shape to make a postseason run, just worry that like the 2018 team they may look overmatched against the best of college baseball like we saw on the opening weekend.

[Steel Shank 9430]

5 minutes ago, chase25 said:

This team is better than the 2018 team this team just doesn't have a Kody Clemens that seemingly delivered in every clutch moment. Regardless of the outcome of this series this team is still in good shape to make a postseason run, just worry that like the 2018 team they may look overmatched against the best of college baseball like we saw on the opening weekend.

Which is unacceptable.

[Machinator 32099]

nm

Edited May 1, 2021 by Machinator

[GreenspointTexas 9662]

Fuck

[Revolution512 1493]

Let’s see how we respond, sometimes this sort of thing is just what you need to re-focus on the stretch run. If we turtle the rest of the year, Texas is looking for a new baseball coach

[TwiceHorn 31514]

16 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

Which is unacceptable.

I mean, it is, but it took one August Edmun Garrido four or five years at least to produce a Texas-quality team.  May have taken Gus a bit, too, but that was before my time.

[NorthLoop 14219]

Dumb. The rain will be gone by 6.

[Machinator 32099]

 

[chase25 2048]

12 minutes ago, Revolution512 said:

Let’s see how we respond, sometimes this sort of thing is just what you need to re-focus on the stretch run. If we turtle the rest of the year, Texas is looking for a new baseball coach

No Texas won't be, they are 34-10 (12-4). West Virginia is also horrible.

[Machinator 32099]

And no, the end of game 2 will not be broadcast on LHN.

[cabowabo 4492]

And no, the end of game 2 will not be broadcast on LHN.

Do we at least get some more killer softball coverage?

[ztejas 43524]

19 minutes ago, cabowabo said:

24 minutes ago, Machinator said:

And no, the end of game 2 will not be broadcast on LHN.

Do we at least get some more killer softball coverage?

Hey now... those ladies work fairly hard to be pretty good at what they do. 

[ztejas 43524]

47 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I mean, it is, but it took one August Edmun Garrido four or five years at least to produce a Texas-quality team.  May have taken Gus a bit, too, but that was before my time.

Gus made the CWS in 7 of his first 8 years and won 9 straight SWC regular season titles to begin his career. 

Different era, of course. 

[RMac5 1551]

Tech would lose their minds if we could somehow get Tadlock hired. 

[Fletch 5800]

2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Is baseball such a pussy sport that it cant be played in rain?

Out of all the stupid opinions you’ve vomited all over the board for years now, this may be the dumbest. Did you ever play baseball? I’d assume not with such a stupid fucking comment like this. 

[Fletch 5800]

1 hour ago, chase25 said:

This team is better than the 2018 team this team just doesn't have a Kody Clemens that seemingly delivered in every clutch moment. Regardless of the outcome of this series this team is still in good shape to make a postseason run, just worry that like the 2018 team they may look overmatched against the best of college baseball like we saw on the opening weekend.

In fairness, Kodys performance that season was absurd. It was pretty much like creating a super player in mlb the show 

[Steel Shank 9430]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

I mean, it is, but it took one August Edmun Garrido four or five years at least to produce a Texas-quality team.  May have taken Gus a bit, too, but that was before my time.

This is year 5, season 4.

[chase25 2048]

3 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

This is year 5, season 4.

Augie was getting bounced in a regional in year 5 on their way to a 3rd place conference finish. Hindsight is always 20/20. Augie had skins on the wall so there was more faith that he would eventually get it going but it was by no means a quick process and you certainly can't say Pierce inherited any better of a situation.

[jimmyjazz 46001]

LMAO at the "fire Pierce" angle.

We deserve what we get.  Our fans suck.

[ztejas 43524]

13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

LMAO at the "fire Pierce" angle.

We deserve what we get.  Our fans suck.

Pierce didn't shit the bed from the mound on Friday. 

Not that Ty deserves any blame for anything this season. Guys have off days.

[Steel Shank 9430]

 

17 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

LMAO at the "fire Pierce" angle.

We deserve what we get.  Our fans suck.

 

We've finished last (2017), 6th (2018) and last (2019) in Big 12 batting under Pierce. Yeah, that's good. I should be happy with that. But who said fire Pierce?

[Biff Tannen 45695]

31 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

LMAO at the "fire Pierce" angle.

We deserve what we get.  Our fans suck.

How long you been a Longhorns fan?  There’s a reason the Fire Insert-Coach threads get started the day a new coach gets hired. 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4780]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Gus made the CWS in 7 of his first 8 years and won 9 straight SWC regular season titles to begin his career. 

Different era, of course. 

Yeah .. Gus came from South San Antonio High School.  A much better program than SHSU.

[TwiceHorn 31514]

38 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Augie was getting bounced in a regional in year 5 on their way to a 3rd place conference finish. Hindsight is always 20/20. Augie had skins on the wall so there was more faith that he would eventually get it going but it was by no means a quick process and you certainly can't say Pierce inherited any better of a situation.

Yeah, I'm not defending Pierce per se.  But we've had a number of years of shit baseball not under his watch under both his predecessors.

[jimmyjazz 46001]

24 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

We've finished last (2017), 6th (2018) and last (2019) in Big 12 batting under Pierce. Yeah, that's good. I should be happy with that.

Last I checked, we were 4th in batting and 1st in pitching.  Can you be gruntled with that?

 

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But who said fire Pierce?

 

2 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

If we turtle the rest of the year, Texas is looking for a new baseball coach

 

[jimmyjazz 46001]

12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

How long you been a Longhorns fan?  

39 years.  The "fire coach ___" is almost always comical.

[chase25 2048]

28 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

 

 

We've finished last (2017), 6th (2018) and last (2019) in Big 12 batting under Pierce. Yeah, that's good. I should be happy with that. But who said fire Pierce?

???

Uh we finished 6th (2017), 1st (2018), and last (2019). Started last year 14-3 before the season was cancelled. David Pierce is no Augie Garrido, nobody is and it is an unfair comparison to any baseball manager. Pierce in his first 4 seasons has done something in 2 years that it took Augie 6 years to do which is win the conference, made a regional in his 1st year, something it took Augie 3 years to do, and 2 years to make it to Omaha which took Augie 4 years to do at Texas. 

It's been a mixed bag under Pierce with a lot of promise and a little what the fuck was that (2019).

Edited May 1, 2021 by chase25

[Steel Shank 9430]

2 minutes ago, chase25 said:

???

Uh we finished 6th (2017), 1st (2018), and last (2019). Started last year 14-3 before the season was cancelled. David Pierce is no Augie Garrido, nobody is and it is an unfair comparison to any baseball manager. Pierce in his first 4 seasons has done something in 2 years that it took Augie 6 years to do which is win the conference, made a regional in his 1st year, something it took Augie 3 years to do, and 2 years to make it to Omaha which took Augie 4 years to do at Augie. 

It's been a mixed bag under Pierce with a lot of promise and a little what the fuck was that (2019).

"in Big 12 batting"

[Steel Shank 9430]

5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Last I checked, we were 4th in batting and 1st in pitching.  Can you be gruntled with that?

 

 

 

semi-gruntled.  Would like to see us bat better, Hopefully better days ahead, and Pierce's poorest batting teams are behind us. 

[dcar00 14317]

I'm looking for hosting a regional and winning. winning the super at a 40% clip.

Pierce has given me some hope here(especially with the improved overall hitting).  2019 was fucking horrible and we didn't get to wash the shitty taste out in 2020.  this is the year to do it.  As Super Regional will do that.  if we do we can get back to some semblance of normal Texas baseball.

if we happen to win, we are 2 CWS in 4 years.  to me 1 CWS every 3 years is a reasonable standard. 2 of every 4 is Garrido/Gus territory

[Fletch 5800]

59 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

LMAO at the "fire Pierce" angle.

We deserve what we get.  Our fans suck.

It’s insane. A Cantu fuck up away from the supers in 2017, big 12 champs and a cws appearance in 2018. 2019 we got murdered by injuries and youth. Got off to a hot start in 2020 then that virus thing happened. Madden just didn’t have it yesterday. Wasn’t able to watch today but hopefully we can we can rally and steal game 2 tomorrow then go all in on game 3. Losing this series isn’t the end of the world. Take game 3, take 2 of 3 from the roaches then sweep West Virginia and gear up for the Regional 

[chase25 2048]

28 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

"in Big 12 batting"

My bad lol. Still not much to be worried about IMO. Texas finished 8th in the conference in AVG. in 2014 and were 1 run away from playing for it all.

No one is going to mistake Arkansas for a poor hitting team, very good actually which is why it actually shocked me when I went and looked earlier today before their offensive explosion against LSU to find out they are hitting .283 (after today's game) as a team and were hitting just .254 in conference play before today's game (now .266).

Now they have played a really tough schedule so it isn't an apples to apples comparison but for comparison Texas is hitting .280 (.267 in conference). I think most just have a really bad taste because of just how overmatched they looked that opening weekend which they did look really fucking bad. An opening weekend in which Mitchell Daly and Douglas Hodo did not play. 

Edited May 1, 2021 by chase25

[Fletch 5800]

46 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

semi-gruntled.  Would like to see us bat better, Hopefully better days ahead, and Pierce's poorest batting teams are behind us. 

Assuming Melendez and Cam come back next year, those 2 with Daly, Hodo and Silas coming back is a nice start. Hopefully Faltine can improve at the plate.  Then there’s dudes like Geib, Powell, Campbell and a 40 year old Austin Todd coming back. It’d be nice if Kennedy could put it all together. He’s shown flashes of gap to gap power, just hasn’t been able to put it all together. And we got another recruiting class with a bunch of legit hitters. Keep recruiting at this level and keep Tulo around and we should be a consistent top 10 team over the next few years 

[chase25 2048]

Also to put into perspective just how good Ty Madden has been. 

Jack Leiter has now given up 12 ER in his last 14.1 IP. A kid who will likely go top 2 in the draft. Can happen to anybody.

[ztejas 43524]

Also also Louisville and Tennessee both lost yesterday to unranked teams and Florida hung 7 on Vandy last night and is hanging tight with them today. 

Texas potentially dropping a couple (to a really good Tech team) doesn't make us a bad team - probably not #3 in the country but there are not 15 teams better than us out there. 

Edited May 1, 2021 by ztejas

[dcar00 14317]

we need to pay Tulo to stay.  how we do that?  I don't think the hitting is just coincidence.

[jimmyjazz 46001]

48-13 for the last 2 seasons.  The sky is falling.

[Sheriff Bart 106]

Pierce sucks. He’s gone soon

[Levi 2588]

Young but talented team loses the first game of a big series to tech and is now only down by 2 with runners on. This series is not over yet and if they do happen to lose the series tomorrow, let’s wait till after the tcu series to fully judge this team. 
 

Look, I’ve been one of the most critical when in comes to this team and particularly with Pierce but their goal of winning the conference is still attainable. But some of you guys are acting like they just got swept by tech when in reality they still have a chance to win game 2 and obviously game 3. They can drop this series and go to Fort Worth pissed off and win that series, which would leave us winning 2 of the 3 big series. That’s a damn good result from this team. 

[Sheriff Bart 106]

Move the fences in for TCU is the answer

[Revolution512 1493]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Last I checked, we were 4th in batting and 1st in pitching.  Can you be gruntled with that?

 

 

 

There’s a pretty big caveat associated to my post, if this team tanks let’s see what changes. This is a different leadership group

[ztejas 43524]

Vandy dropped game 2 against Florida. 

[Machinator 32099]

 

[Fletch 5800]

2 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

There’s a pretty big caveat associated to my post, if this team tanks let’s see what changes. This is a different leadership group

What’s tanking? Swept by tech, tcu and lose the series with West Virginia then go 1-2 in whatever regional? Yeah I don’t see that happening. Even losing 2 of 3 to tech and tcu, I still think we’d end up hosting 

Hahaha haven’t even kissed the second game to tech and there’s some small speculation. But yeah keep Tulo at all costs. Our pitchers have developed pretty well under Pierce. Our bats took a step forward in 2017 compared to 2016, but we fucking sucked in 2016 but have been roughly the same since. Roughly. Tulo has been nails 

[Fletch 5800]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Vandy dropped game 2 against Florida. 

And this. It’s baseball. Shit happens 

Shit our 05 team got swept by Baylor and lost 2 of 3 to Kansas

Edited May 2, 2021 by Fletch

[dcar00 14317]

7 minutes ago, Fletch said:

And this. It’s baseball. Shit happens 

Shit our 05 team got swept by Baylor and lost 2 of 3 to Kansas

one win here, and series wins v TCU and WVU and we should be hosting.  lose series to Tech and TCU and I get concerned about NCAA "spreading the love" bullshit.

[Guest Lobo]

Understand though we get swept by tech this weekend, we don't host a super regional unless we sweep tCU and WVU>

[Fletch 5800]

12 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

one win here, and series wins v TCU and WVU and we should be hosting.  lose series to Tech and TCU and I get concerned about NCAA "spreading the love" bullshit.

Well, let’s take game 3 then sweep the roaches just to be sure 

[ztejas 43524]

43 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Well, let’s rip their heart's out at 1pm tomorrow then take game 3 then sweep the roaches just to be sure 

(Fify)

Edited May 2, 2021 by ztejas

[Fletch 5800]

That’d be nice. Punch em in the face and win game 2 then carry that momentum to game 3