Kansas State @ Texas Series Thread

[LTtxfan 49320]

 HORNS WIN GAME 1  🤘

[Cairn Horn88 8277]

I’d prefer to score 6-7 runs in the first and cruise the rest of the game.

[Dewey 3286]

Craziness 

[zlavydra 2123]

Just now, Cairn Horn88 said:

I’d prefer to score 6-7 runs in the first and cruise the rest of the game.

Their other pitchers do suck, so that's not out of the question.

[CptnJiggleBits 931]

Never in doubt😏 wheew, fuck ya Horns!! Bananas shift in mo. 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

Waiting for the pussy Rogers to tweet about the win after sucking off his fellow aggy fucks. 

[HenryJames 66135]

I’d just like to say that I hate all of you.

[Valmy77 13251]

Good things happen when EK gets on base. He stirs the drink.

[Mac8111 2107]

[closetojumping 62765]

In the top of the 8th, @HenryJames texts me this: “blown out by kstate at home”. I’m like “just be patient, man, we got this. “ but the dude has been silent since his text. Here’s hoping he wasn’t standing on a bridge edge when he texted me. 

[Levi 2588]

Carlson was utility at Long Beach, right? He can play second 

Edit: got my names mixed up 

Edited April 8, 2023 by Levi

[Hammerin Hank 1227]

1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

Good things happen when EK gets on base. He stirs the drink.

Absolutely. His speed creates so many possibilities. Need him to get hot again 

[Ghost of LL 15539]

Amazing comeback—never a doubt, really.

[Bottlecap 1523]

Soon as I poured my first bourbon we smacked 5 runs. Will be starting earlier tomorrow 🤘🏽

[Mo Horn 8852]

Gotta admit, I turned it off, and we ended up winning. You're welcome. 

[Mac8111 2107]

How can Daly still be seeing any action ?

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

TCU up 5-2 on ok st. 

[markstanco 12586]

Gotta admit, I turned it off, and we ended up winning. You're welcome. 

Lololol. Me too. But I had a legit excuse picking kids up from the movies. I could have hit record but I wrote it off as a L.

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

Just now, Mac8111 said:

How can Daly still be seeing any action ?

Yeah, it’s been time to try somebody else. 2 years of sub par hitting and the defense isn’t good enough to justify playing time. 

Gotta find a way to get Duplantier or Carlson into the lineup. I said this a couple weeks ago and the argument was that “you can’t mess with middle infield defense.” Daly’s fielding isn’t good enough for that argument to have any merit. 

[Mo Horn 8852]

Just now, markstanco said:

Lololol. Me too. But I had a legit excuse picking kids up from the movies. I could have hit record but I wrote it off as a L.

I had no excuse, just didn't want to see them lose, which is what I expected. Especially after watching the astros blow it earlier today. Good on ya to all y'all that stayed with it. 

[ClubWhatever 12154]

2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Yeah, it’s been time to try somebody else. 2 years of sub par hitting and the defense isn’t good enough to justify playing time. 

Gotta find a way to get Duplantier or Carlson into the lineup. I said this a couple weeks ago and the argument was that “you can’t mess with middle infield defense.” Daly’s fielding isn’t good enough for that argument to have any merit. 

They did get Carlson and Duplantier into the lineup, and still played Daly.  

[Hookem2147 21345]

I don’t trust Flores’ arm at SS at all or his defense in general, but maybe against lefties they start letting him get some playing time with Daly moving over to second. It’s risky because we’ve seen Flores struggle on defense, but I am not completely against it now.

Powell moving to 1B with Carlson at 3B against lefties makes too much sense to not be a thing moving forward.

Also, Daly hit two balls tonight that would have opposite field bombs on a normal night, so he is far from completely lost. O’Dowd is the bigger problem defensively and offensively, especially against lefties.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Hookem2147

[Bottlecap 1523]

Flores had a nice play to end it tho

[Hookem2147 21345]

2 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

Flores had a nice play to end it tho

He’s a 3B long term imo, but it’s going to take an offseason of summer and fall reps to get him to where he needs to be because what he showed early in the year at 3rd was ugly.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Hookem2147

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

5 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

They did get Carlson and Duplantier into the lineup, and still played Daly.  

The issue is Daly shouldn’t be playing at all. He hasn’t been able to hit for 2 years. 

I can live with freshman and O’Dowd working through things because their struggles have been nowhere as long-term. Reality is this just may be who Daly is as a hitter. 

[TrashMaster G 17581]

1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Ball game

Do you ever get tired of being so wrong?

[ztejas 43524]

7 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Also, Daly hit two balls tonight that would have opposite field bombs on a normal night, so he is far from completely lost.

But that's the problem with Daly. He doesn't have that power and those balls get hung. Faltine obliterates both of them last season. 

[Mac8111 2107]

He has to be leading nation in slow rollers to the infield

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

6-2 TCU

[ztejas 43524]

14 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I said this a couple weeks ago and the argument was that “you can’t mess with middle infield defense.”

Dude get off your high horse. Everyone and their mom has been looking for an excuse to get Daly out of the lineup lately. The issue is that we don't have a true defensive short stop right now. 

[Hookem2147 21345]

7 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

The issue is Daly shouldn’t be playing at all. He hasn’t been able to hit for 2 years. 

I can live with freshman and O’Dowd working through things because their struggles have been nowhere as long-term. Reality is this just may be who Daly is as a hitter. 

O’Dowd is 5 for his last 30. Daly 5 for his last 34. Both have been bad but Daly is a far superior defender to O’Dowd.

I wish I could see a splits breakdown for O’Dowd but I bet his batting average against lefties is below .175.

If you are going to move around the middle infield it needs to be Daly to 2B against lefties.

 

Edited April 8, 2023 by Hookem2147

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Dude get off your high horse. Everyone and their mom has been looking for an excuse to get Daly out of the lineup lately. The issue is that we don't have a true defensive short stop right now. 

This is just a bad argument though. Daly isn’t a “true defensive shortstop” either.

People keep making excuses for a guy that hasn’t hit in 2 years. Try anything else even if it fails. 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

Again, it's O'Dowd who needs to sit. Daly is just fine at 2B. 

[ztejas 43524]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This is just a bad argument though. Daly isn’t a “true defensive shortstop” either.

People keep making excuses for a guy that hasn’t hit in 2 years. Try anything else even if it fails. 

No it isn't a bad argument. Who of our defensive infielders do you think is better than Daly this season? 

[OU Sucks 8893]

7 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Also, Daly hit two balls tonight that would have opposite field bombs on a normal night, so he is far from completely lost. O’Dowd is the bigger problem defensively and offensively, especially against lefties.

Yeah, but on a normal night, Daly would've just hit it 20 feet shorter to compensate.  Seriously though, his average is almost identical to last year's (not good) and his RBIs are way under pace.

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

Just now, ztejas said:

No it isn't a bad argument. Who of our defensive infielders do you think is better than Daly this season? 

I’ve never argued Texas has great options defensively. Point still remains they need to try something else. 

I also don’t think the drop off defensively at sS is going to be nearly as significant as some continue to argue. No matter who you try at SS. 

[ClubWhatever 12154]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This is just a bad argument though. Daly isn’t a “true defensive shortstop” either.

People keep making excuses for a guy that hasn’t hit in 2 years. Try anything else even if it fails. 

It’s not going to happen unless he goes sub .220.  Pierce thinks Daly is his best middle infielder and won’t give that up for 40 points of BA.  

[zlavydra 2123]

Y

6 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

O’Dowd is 5 for his last 30. Daly 5 for his last 34. Daly is a far superior defender to O’Dowd.

I wish I could see a splits breakdown for O’Dowd but I bet his batting average against lefties is below .175.

If you are going to move around the middle infield it needs to be Daly to 2B against lefties.

 

I don't care much which one of the two sits, but you can't have both in the lineup.  If Daly slides to 2B, then we roll with Flores at SS, or can Carlson play short?

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

4 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

Again, it's O'Dowd who needs to sit. Daly is just fine at 2B. 

Nah. They need to just rotate Daly and O’Dowd at 2nd to match up righty/lefty. 

Try anybody else at at SS. 

[hobbes2702 13049]

8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

O’Dowd is 5 for his last 30. Daly 5 for his last 34. Both have been bad but Daly is a far superior defender to O’Dowd.

I wish I could see a splits breakdown for O’Dowd but I bet his batting average against lefties is below .175.

If you are going to move around the middle infield it needs to be Daly to 2B against lefties.

 

1000%. 

[Hookem2147 21345]

2 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

Y

I don't care much which one of the two sits, but you can't have both in the lineup.  If Daly slides to 2B, then we roll with Flores at SS, or can Carlson play short?

I’ve wondered about Carlson playing SS but he hasn’t gotten any reps there, even in warmups.

O’Hara is probably the best defensive SS on the roster but he crapped his pants in his only appearance and the bat probably isn’t ready.

Edited April 8, 2023 by Hookem2147

[ztejas 43524]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I’ve never argued Texas has great options defensively. Point still remains they need to try something else. 

I also don’t think the drop off defensively at sS is going to be nearly as significant as some continue to argue. No matter who you try at SS. 

Defense at short is immense. You need to be a much, much better batter to make up for it assuming you're worse defensively. 

Again - we all see how much Daly sucks. We also all see (except for you, maybe) that there isn't a realistic option to insert at short over Daly on D. 

Pretty sure I commented within the first 3 games that we didn't have a true SS. It's going to fuck us all season. 

[Kwix 2192]

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Just get out of this and get something going. Still winnable. 

 

You win the George Michael fan of the day award! 

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Defense at short is immense. You need to be a much, much better batter to make up for it assuming you're worse defensively. 

Again - we all see how much Daly sucks. We also all see (except for you, maybe) that there isn't a realistic option to insert at short over Daly on D. 

Pretty sure I commented within the first 3 games that we didn't have a true SS. It's going to fuck us all season. 

We don’t have a true shortstop but point being Daly isn’t one either. He’s far from an elite SS. I’m not expecting a huge drop off defensively if you play somebody else there.

If Daly was Faltine at SS but couldn’t hit your argument might have merit. But the dude is nowhere close to that good defensively.

[ztejas 43524]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

We don’t have a true shortstop but point being Daly isn’t one either. He’s far from an elite SS. I’m not expecting a huge drop off defensively if you play somebody else there.

If Daly was Faltine at SS but couldn’t hit your argument might have merit. But the dude is nowhere close to that good defensively.

The only reason that Daly is even playing short is because he's so fucking good at 2nd and 3rd. And it's not like he's been terrible at SS this season- he just isn't great. 

Ultimately it's a coaching/management failure to not have that position addressed. 

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

Just now, ztejas said:

The only reason that Daly is even playing short is because he's so fucking good at 2nd and 3rd. And it's not like he's been terrible at SS this season- he just isn't great. 

Ultimately it's a coaching/management failure to not have that position addressed. 

I wouldn’t say terrible but I don’t think the fielding numbers tell the entire story either. Daly’s range at SS is very limited. 

 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

13 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Nah. They need to just rotate Daly and O’Dowd at 2nd to match up righty/lefty. 

Try anybody else at at SS. 

Nah, Daly at 2B is much better than O'Dowd. Their shitty hitting is about the same overall. 

[ztejas 43524]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I wouldn’t say terrible but I don’t think the fielding numbers tell the entire story either. Daly’s range at SS is very limited. 

 

Dude we all agree that his range is limited. I've been obliterating the guy for weeks now. I'm not sure what we are really disagreeing about. 

[Rickylovesweed 14533]

1 minute ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

Nah, Daly at 2B is much better than O'Dowd. Their shitty hitting is about the same overall. 

O’dowds issue is he can’t hit lefties and we are seeing a lot of lefties because of how many left handed hitters are in the lineup. 

I would definitely prefer O’Dowd against right handed pitching. 

[Had Enough 2083]

Thomas is a bigger problem than Daly. ODowd is probably a bigger problem than Daly. Flores is a bigger problem than Daly. Duplantier has shown about the same, and we have no idea whether he can play defense. Harp on Dalys lack of power but Carlson has no XBH in 28 plate appearances.

Daly is playing the premium defensive position.

I didn’t see tonight and was working while watching Tuesday but Dalys defense versus OSU and AF had some damn good moments.

If we struggle against lefties, Thomas and ODowd should sit first. We probably should play matchups, but that’s not really Pierces thing. It might be now. You’ve got to play them enough that when called upon to play you give them a fighting chance to succeed.

Don’t expect the bottom of the order to save the day. Offensively we’ve been poor the last week because EK and Powell have been poor.

There will be big hits out of the part of the order though. Just who knows when.