2023 Texas Softball - Back to WCWS

[Cairn Horn88 8,264]

Just go ahead and end this World Series, give ou the trophy and everybody go to a beach somewhere.

[Vermin 3,046]

9-0 blowu after 3. run rule territory.

[Js1 85,342]

31 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Just go ahead and end this World Series, give ou the trophy and everybody go to a beach somewhere.

This. Yawn 

[bschoolprof 6,254]

Yeah, I was bummed about missing the WCWS, but it would just lead, at best, to yet another ass kicking by OU.  There wasn't a single inning we played them this year that I thought we had a chance to win.  I enjoy the emotion and excitement of softball playoffs (Jomboy has some great breakdowns this year BTW), but honestly with OU being 8 standard deviations better than everyone else, the whole thing seems rather pointless.  

[Js1 85,342]

21 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

There wasn't a single inning we played them this year that I thought we had a chance to win

Even the 6 innings of game 2 when we had the lead, you just knew 

[bschoolprof 6,254]

That was a shitty game.  Maybe there was a brief moment after we homered and went up 2-1 or 3-1 (memory is fading), I let a small ray of hope in.  That was foolish.  

[Pato del Muerto 52,499]

Happened to glance at the espn scroll at the right time to see that fsu has an outfielder named muffley and a pitcher named sandercock?

tee hee. 

[idigTexas 2,288]

9 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Happened to glance at the espn scroll at the right time to see that fsu has an outfielder named muffley and a pitcher named sandercock?

tee hee. 

You "tee hee" and "heavy duty" too, don't you?

[Buzzrock 14,920]

Just go ahead and end this World Series, give ou the trophy and everybody go to a beach somewhere.

And which beach would this be, out of curiosity?

[Cairn Horn88 8,264]

Any beach will do.  

[perfectchaos007 6,643]

Stanford eliminates Washington. Stanford moves on to the final 4, which is 2 rounds further than expected for a 9 seed

Edited June 4, 2023 by perfectchaos007

[perfectchaos007 6,643]

Kelly Maxwell was pulled early against Tenn. Knew that was a terrible sign for OKST

[torre 1,286]

Schedule 

All times ET

 

 

Monday:

Game 11: No. 1 Oklahoma vs. No. 9 Stanford, noon, ESPN
Game 12: Rematch Game 11 (if necessary), 2:30 p.m.
Game 13: No. 3 Florida State vs. No. 4 Tennessee, 7 p.m., ESPN
Game 14: Rematch Game 13 (if necessary), 9:30 p.m.

Championship series: (ESPN)

Game 1: Wednesday, 8 p.m.  
Game 2: Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Game 3: Friday (if necessary), 8 p.m.

 

College softball: WCWS schedule, how to watch, NCAA scores - ESPN

 

 

 

 

[perfectchaos007 6,643]

Stanford and OU tied at 2 in the 7th inning. Game is closer than I expected it would be 

[Vermin 3,046]

blowu going to extras

[Js1 85,342]

36 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Stanford and OU tied at 2 in the 7th inning. Game is closer than I expected it would be 

Tree pitching is so good. They have like less than 30 HR as a team lol

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Tree pitching is so good. They have like less than 30 HR as a team lol

Canady is a stud.  She nearly did this herself.  If they bring her in at 2-1, Tree may have taken this.  

[Vermin 3,046]

0u wins 4-2 in 9 innings, streak at 51

[Js1 85,342]

31 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Canady is a stud.  She nearly did this herself.  If they bring her in at 2-1, Tree may have taken this.  

Maybe but 2 isn’t gonna beat OU. Stanford has a pitiful offense 

[bschoolprof 6,254]

To knock off OU as the champ, you just gotta be the best in the country at hitting. and pitching. and fielding.  It's a simple formula really.  

[Cairn Horn88 8,264]

6 hours ago, Vermin said:

0u wins 4-2 in 9 innings, streak at 51

Fuck ou.

[Vermin 3,046]

FSU beats Tenn 5-1 so it's OU vs. FSU in championship series Wednesday night

[Vermin 3,046]

 

[Js1 85,342]

OU is on a huge win streak, but FSU is 24-1 in their last 25 games. 

Two pitchers with an ERA under 1.05 and 1.60 as a team
.307 team average with 59 HR and 129 SB

FSU lost to OU 5-4 in March in Norman.  They scored 4 runs off Alex Storako in 4 innings, and the Bahl shut them down for the final 3 innings as OU rallied from a 4-3 deficit.

[perfectchaos007 6,643]

34 minutes ago, Vermin said:

 

Games 1 and 2 of the World Series make sense having run rules in place, but for the if necessary game 3 I would remove the run rule.

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

5 hours ago, Js1 said:

OU is on a huge win streak, but FSU is 24-1 in their last 25 games. 

Two pitchers with an ERA under 1.05 and 1.60 as a team
.307 team average with 59 HR and 129 SB

FSU lost to OU 5-4 in March in Norman.  They scored 4 runs off Alex Storako in 4 innings, and the Bahl shut them down for the final 3 innings as OU rallied from a 4-3 deficit.

Far from a given.  I’d bet OU in 3 but wouldn’t bet on a sweep.  
 

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/37807466/oklahoma-softball-defends-celebrations-ahead-wcws-final

Lol.  Double standard BS.  We do what the men do?

Men don’t scream like that all game 

Men don’t slam the bat down and go crazy celebrating an intentional walk 

If it works, great.  Do it.  But don’t pull this ‘it’s girls so we get shit on’ BS

There, I feel better.  

[Js1 85,342]

2 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Far from a given.  I’d bet OU in 3 but wouldn’t bet on a sweep.  

OU in 3 is what I’m thinking as well. 

[Tailgate 3,022]

Well, I like teams who run at high level/maximum performance.

OU is about to pull the paddle out.

Really fun team to watch x3 years.

[Js1 85,342]

Weather delay

[torre 1,286]

8:10 First Pitch

 

 

[Js1 85,342]

Delayed again 

[Cairn Horn88 8,264]

0-0 B3

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

Jordy Bahl, speed racer. 

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

2-0 Crimson, bot 4. 

[TexasIsBetter 275]

ou softball...

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

3-0, back to MLB. 

[Vermin 3,046]

 

Nice robbery there. FSU had a pitcher with a 33 mph changeup I've never seen that before.

[bschoolprof 6,254]

Yawn. 
 

actually it was a pretty good game for 3 innings or so. 

[Cairn Horn88 8,264]

I’ll watch only if it goes to a game 3…..

[perfectchaos007 6,643]

Oklahoma 3 peats with ease. 
 

[Vermin 3,046]

56-1 and 53 straight is probably the greatest NCAA season of all time in any sport in the modern era with more parity and given the game-to-game luck involved in softball/baseball and it only being 7 innings. Sucks that it's the sooners hopefully we get to that level at some point.

[Constant 6,732]

I am going to keep putting off coming to terms OU is a softball school. Pretty good season. 

[ClubWhatever 12,144]

7 hours ago, Vermin said:

more parity

Really?  I'd hate to see how lopsided things were before.  Right now there's only one team with enough talent to win it all.  How can there be less parity that that?

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

28 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Really?  I'd hate to see how lopsided things were before.  Right now there's only one team with enough talent to win it all.  How can there be less parity that that?

Back in the day 2-3 west coast teams were amazing and everyone else was trash.  Even outside of OU there’s very solid programs throughout now - but I get what you’re saying too.  
If you look at the top 15 it’s all very solid programs in the big money sports - mainly football.  80’s/90’s OU, Bama, FSU, UT were almost nonexistent in softball.  Even Clemson now has really invested softball and it’s showing.  

[FloridaHorn 4,755]

There are other schools that can compete with OU, but they won’t until they commit their attentions and resources towards the sport the way the Sooners have. They have the best coach, the best players, the best NIL, the best exposure and they are building new facilities. No one else is making that type commitment.

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

And every goddamn mother fucker on this site wishes we were that good. 

No one really gives a shit about swimming. 

OU is literally the standard, period. 

[ChiTownDoc 21,154]

2 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

And every goddamn mother fucker on this site wishes we were that good. 

No one really gives a shit about swimming. 

OU is literally the standard, period. 

They’re definitely making a major commitment.  Gasso would be the second highest paid ncaa baseball coach.  That’s insane.  
Also saw last year the women’s final had better ratings than the baseball finale, both on ESPN.  

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

This year’s ratings won’t be good. Not because of Texas, but read the room. I’ll post how bad they were in a couple days. 

[bschoolprof 6,254]

I never really viewed female athletes as giant douchebags until OU softball. Jordy Bahl strutting around after every strike. Bat flipping walks.  So thanks sooners.  

[shadow_operative2.0 15,984]

If our girls won, this thread would be 400 pages. Winners get to do that shit.