Palo Alto Super Regional: Texas @ Stanford

[Gucci_Suit 2828]

11 minutes ago, Levi said:

National Champions 

Sorry. I couldn’t remember. 

[SizzleChest 8314]

Just now, Hondo said:

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

 

This one is more like your wife pegging you mercilessly and then processing a Dirty Sanchez on your upper lip, but still...

Fify 

[Cairn Horn88 8502]

41 minutes ago, Knighthawk said:

The drooped punt vs UGA is an unfortunate analogy 

I just hate drooped punts.

[troph 25227]

1 minute ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

I just hate drooped punts.

Droopy punts are better than droopy cunts amirite?

[David Dennison 19542]

We got some droopy cunts in this thread.

[Zepol87 9341]

34 minutes ago, Updawg said:

Yeah it sucked. But they didn’t choke.

Saw more that a few great catches during the regionals and supers that made that shit look routine. 

[Hookem2147 22033]

No regrets with this team. We left everything out there and I feel like the coaching staff squeezed every last drop out of this roster.

Won't take away the pain of what happened, but they don't have anything to be ashamed of.

It's easy to recognize a team that battles their ass off and plays for one another and you could tell this group had that mix. It's what made cheering for them enjoyable. They always got back up when they were knocked down.

[Gatorubet 30720]

37 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

We got some droopy cunts in this thread.

Glad to see this.   I had to miss the last six innings.  Caught the 9th with 2 out. 

I figured nobody needed to hear for me today.  I agree the horns showed incredible flight and heart in a rebuild year.  it’s what baseball Blue Bloods do. Just a fucked up unfortunate ending.

I did run across a photo of the droopy Cunts. 

Fuck ‘em, and Hook ‘Em!

[Cairn Horn88 8502]

[Had Enough 2120]

I’m a middle aged dude. I’ve watched a great deal of games over the years on LHN. I try to attend a few a year live. I follow them always. I can’t recite all the numbers or the years in which things happened. But for 40 years I’ve kept up. Even if just catching the Statesman box score. Probably watched baseball every day of the summer growing up. Watching C Dub catch and dive/slide time after time.

He was a little shaky to start the season. But damned if I didn’t just witness the best right field defense I’ve ever seen. At any level.

He could run stuff down. He could make diving catches. But man his throws were on point. Time and time again. Consistently hard, accurate throws.

And then wow.

[Hank_Hill 20054]

Lot of idiots in here tonight. Including those letting a murse who is notorious for shit takes in literally every sports thread get to you. Good season, shit luck, made it further than we should’ve this year. We make it to Omaha >50% of the time, not 100%. Poor us. See y’all next year. 

[Burt Macklin 19230]

7 hours ago, BERT said:

Will you go back to the recruiting board. Geez man 

 

We don’t want him there either. He should be isolated to the Cloak Room. 

Edited June 13, 2023 by Burt Macklin

[Chuckie Finster 23079]

Small consolation, but DC’s catch and throw was #1 on SportsCenter. As it should be.

[Bigbend1812 13059]

[TexArcher 39072]

I still can't even believe how that ended.

Good season, we overperformed, ahead of schedule, tip the cap to the coaches and players, and all of that.  We'll look back on this as a building block season toward bigger things.

But right now, fuck this feeling.

[Horn80 6361]

Never seen Texas lose a game like that but can’t blame anyone for not catching a ball they can’t see due to lousy conditions.  Turn the stadium lights on and the ball gets routinely caught and it’s on to 10th inning.  

[ClubWhatever 12310]

1 minute ago, Horn80 said:

Never seen Texas lose a game like that but can’t blame anyone for not catching a ball they can’t see due to lousy conditions.  Turn the stadium lights on and the ball gets routinely caught and it’s on to 10th inning.  

The lights were on.  

Edited June 13, 2023 by ClubWhatever

[Horn80 6361]

1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:

The lights were on.  

Ok.  Seemed like neither EK or DC could see the ball so something was going on.

[Pescado_Rojo 19587]

I'm not going to go back and read the last 20 pages since 11:00 last night, so maybe this has already been covered. It looks to me like Sunken Diamond has shorter light poles, like a high school ballpark. If a ball gets above the lights at that time of the evening, forget about it...it just disappears. I saw Stanford and aggy lose popups in the same conditions in the regional round. 

Sunken Diamond

Disch...Much taller light standards. 

 

[dcar00 14974]

2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm not going to go back and read the last 20 pages since 11:00 last night, so maybe this has already been covered. It looks to me like Sunken Diamond has shorter light poles, like a high school ballpark. If a ball gets above the lights at that time of the evening, forget about it...it just disappears. I saw Stanford and aggy lose popups in the same conditions in the regional round. 

Sunken Diamond

Disch...Much taller light standards. 

 

It is a high school field.  always has been.

[skeeter 455]

8 hours ago, Gucci_Suit said:

Where does winning it land? Super duper excellent?  

[Cajun 11777]

Helluva a season by a team, if we're being honest with ourselves, that really wasn't that talented.  These guys overachieved and I do not mean that as a jab of any sort.  So many missing parts, so many holes, gaps, deficiencies, etc, but like Mr. Lebowski they went out and achieved anyway.

I was equally impressed with Pierce's ability through the post season to push the right buttons.

All that said, it's time to step up your game in recruiting AND figuring out ways to keep pitchers healthy.  You feel me DP?  Figure that shit out and do it fast.

That is all.

[Cajun 11777]

14 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm not going to go back and read the last 20 pages since 11:00 last night, so maybe this has already been covered. It looks to me like Sunken Diamond has shorter light poles, like a high school ballpark. If a ball gets above the lights at that time of the evening, forget about it...it just disappears. I saw Stanford and aggy lose popups in the same conditions in the regional round. 

Sunken Diamond

Disch...Much taller light standards. 

 

Yeah, lots of guys lose high pop-ups at Sunken Diamond. Those are ridiculously low light standards for a major college ballpark.  Like Pony League level.  Nothing EK and company could do on that.  If it disappears you're fucked and there is no remedy beyond blind luck.

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3634]

30 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Ok.  Seemed like neither EK or DC could see the ball so something was going on.

Pacific twilight and shorter, shittier light poles than your local softball fields at the city park. Almost worse than the old intramural field sodium lights.
 

Shouldn’t be allowed to host games at night if your “stadium” has worse lighting than many high schools. Seriously terrible lighting. Smithson Valley’s baseball field down the road from me has far better lighting standards.

Oh well, fuck ‘em.

 

Edited June 13, 2023 by Wilcox Cummingtonite

[The Original Greaser Bob 2888]

9 hours ago, Tommy Nobis said:

 Stanford will get raped by wake forest

Well...all right for you.

And All Right Now

[dcar00 14974]

2 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Pacific twilight and shorter, shittier light poles than your local softball fields at the city park. Almost worse than the old intramural field sodium lights.
 

Shouldn’t be allowed to host games at night if your “stadium” has worse lighting than many high schools. Seriously terrible lighting. Smithson Valley’s field down the road from me has far better lighting for their field. 

Oh well, fuck ‘em.

 

Kyle Petersen should be proud his college has a little league field.

[Hookem2147 22033]

Just now, dcar00 said:

Kyle Petersen should be proud his college has a little league field.

That broadcasting crew was so embarrassing in the final innings. Straight up screamed nooooo when that ball went off the bottom of the wall.

[TwiceHorn 32079]

19 minutes ago, Cajun said:

Helluva a season by a team, if we're being honest with ourselves, that really wasn't that talented.  These guys overachieved and I do not mean that as a jab of any sort.  So many missing parts, so many holes, gaps, deficiencies, etc, but like Mr. Lebowski they went out and achieved anyway.

I was equally impressed with Pierce's ability through the post season to push the right buttons.

All that said, it's time to step up your game in recruiting AND figuring out ways to keep pitchers healthy.  You feel me DP?  Figure that shit out and do it fast.

That is all.

Yeah, recruiting might not be where it ought to be. I think a lot of the appeal of Texas as a destination had fallen off quite a bit. Having Tulo on board was a big draw for non-pitching talent, but we didn't have a completely legit pitching coach with Allen.

As someone said way back a ways, credit to Pierce for getting rid of Allen. God knows we've seen a lot of coaches refuse to get rid of their pet assistants even when the need to do so becomes glaringly obvious.

Development of who we do have seems to be pretty good though, for the most part.  Although offense hasn't been completely glorious, we see a lot more .3xx averages than we ever saw in the late Garrido era.

Hopefully, the addition of Woody Williams helps attract some more solid pitching.  And he seems to have done pretty well developing who we have.

Edited June 13, 2023 by TwiceHorn

[dcar00 14974]

Just now, Hookem2147 said:

That broadcasting crew was so embarrassing in the final innings. Straight up screamed nooooo when that ball went off the bottom of the wall.

Why can't petersen go call the Tennessee games or something?  it's ridiculous.  same shit happens when we play LSU.  it's fucking Ben McDonald(although he's not as douche as the standford fuck).

He should be embarrassed for his university.  2 OF's lose a ball in the (no) lights??   our light standards are twice as tall.  no wonder that shit kept happening in the regional.

[dcar00 14974]

37 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Ok.  Seemed like neither EK or DC could see the ball so something was going on.

the ball gets above the lights and you lose it.  it was about 8:40PM or so out there when it happened.  sunset is 8:30PM.

[TexArcher 39072]

39 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Ok.  Seemed like neither EK or DC could see the ball so something was going on.

It was just that time of day where the sky isn't bright enough or dark enough to pick out the ball.  And lights don't help.  From what I remember from high school, it's really only like that for a few minutes.  Just bad luck.

[The Original Greaser Bob 2888]

8 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

He should be embarrassed for his university.  2 OF's lose a ball in the (no) lights??   our light standards are twice as tall.  no wonder that shit kept happening in the regional.

Come on dude.  Have a little pride.

Stanford is the best all around university in the country -- by far.  We don't do embarrassment.  And the baseball field is quaint by big time standards but wonderful. 

I'm not happy -- I was rooting for Texas just a bit more than Stanford. 

[Dahobbs 18324]

3 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Come on dude.  Have a little pride.

Stanford is the best all around university in the country -- by far.  We don't do embarrassment.  And the baseball field is quaint by big time standards but wonderful. 

I'm not happy -- I was rooting for Texas just a bit more than Stanford. 

Fucking bullshit. Go rah rah for Stanford elsewhere. 

[dcar00 14974]

18 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Come on dude.  Have a little pride.

Stanford is the best all around university in the country -- by far.  We don't do embarrassment.  And the baseball field is quaint by big time standards but wonderful. 

I'm not happy -- I was rooting for Texas just a bit more than Stanford. 

Little League lights and Petersen....

[Horn80 6361]

28 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

It was just that time of day where the sky isn't bright enough or dark enough to pick out the ball.  And lights don't help.  From what I remember from high school, it's really only like that for a few minutes.  Just bad luck.

Agree, just bad luck.  Texas outfielders were outstanding all season and perhaps the best unit.

[markstanco 12790]

30 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

It was just that time of day where the sky isn't bright enough or dark enough to pick out the ball.  And lights don't help.  From what I remember from high school, it's really only like that for a few minutes.  Just bad luck.

Would lights help if some of them are pointed skyward since their poles are shorter than normal?  No idea on such optics. 

[Hookem2147 22033]

There were about 15 different coin flip moments in that game and Stanford was the beneficiary of at least 12 of them. Texas got a few favorable calls in the 8th as the strike zone became the size of an apple, but other than that it was all Stanford. I still can't even believe they ruled that Flores HBP a foul ball or that the 3-2 pitch Morehouse threw in the 4th was called a ball that contributed to the 3 run inning.

[Slacks 7064]

10 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Wut? No

I can accept Dylan Campbell couldn't see the ball, after balling his ass off to get us into the position in the first place.  I find humor in it. He probably doesn't, but I'm old.

 

[BonzoMontreaux 1137]

Hell of a year.  Agreed on the rebuilding year points and yet we were battling for a World Series spot until the end.  This team showed all of the inconsistencies and greatness of what it could be all year and we got a glimpse of it all this last series.  That does NOT include the last play.

I've spent time in the outfield in baseball and in softball.  You are going to lose a ball.  It is terrifying and helpless when it happens but it does happen.  Can't imagine what those dudes are going through.  But if you can't see it, you can't see it.    To be called 'chokers' says more about the people labeling them that.

[hobbes2702 13479]

9 hours ago, SizzleChest said:

Fify 

You sir win the day

[Eastwood 4394]

43 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

It was just that time of day where the sky isn't bright enough or dark enough to pick out the ball.  And lights don't help.  From what I remember from high school, it's really only like that for a few minutes.  Just bad luck.

Same thing in golf. There’s a set of conditions where the ball just disappears into the sky. You’re tracking it and it vanishes. 

[Sir Ulrich 5337]

35 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Come on dude.  Have a little pride.

Stanford is the best all around university in the country -- by far.  We don't do embarrassment.  And the baseball field is quaint by big time standards but wonderful. 

I'm not happy -- I was rooting for Texas just a bit more than Stanford. 

Check back in two years when the Pac explodes and Stanford is relegated to thr MWC

[BillyGoatHill 4421]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm not going to go back and read the last 20 pages since 11:00 last night, so maybe this has already been covered. It looks to me like Sunken Diamond has shorter light poles, like a high school ballpark. If a ball gets above the lights at that time of the evening, forget about it...it just disappears. I saw Stanford and aggy lose popups in the same conditions in the regional round. 

Sunken Diamond

Disch...Much taller light standards. 

 

Somebody else said it is quaint. That is about right.

Smaller light standards with lights pointing straight down. Ball gets above them at twilight which on the west coast seems even more prominent and it disappears. Been to that field and watched games at that time frame and it's very easy to lose the ball. Last night, It wasn't just one guy, but 3 players. Fuck that softball field.

Proud of the team fo the way they fought back not once, but twice. A Hit in the earlier innings and tree is sitting at home. Extras, I feel the same. 

Hopefully we build from this and carry it forward to next year. Hook Em 🤘

[hobbes2702 13479]

59 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

That broadcasting crew was so embarrassing in the final innings. Straight up screamed nooooo when that ball went off the bottom of the wall.

Dude seriously what the fuck was that shit

[HenryJames 67369]

Pitching Witt in the postseason was a mistake. 

[Hondo 749]

We definitely got screwed on some calls, but there is no bottom of the 9th if the ump didn't gift us that last run by not calling strike 3 twice.

Flores was hit twice, once before it hit the trailing forearm.  The ball clearly changes trajectory, whether from hitting his leading wrist or the knob of the bat.  They made the right call on Brown's HBP.  We got screwed on some pitch calls, but so did they. 

Had we won that game, it would have been a travesty to Stanford and their fans.  Losing it is one to us.  

But we're not a once-in-awhile program.  We'll be back and it'll be fun to watch them compete in the SEC.  Baseball is different down there.  They trash the game up a bit more than I like, but they can absolutely play some ball.  There is no doubt about that.  Texas is going to have to step it up a notch to be competitive week in and week out.

On to 2024.

 

[Cajun 11777]

45 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Come on dude.  Have a little pride.

Stanford is the best all around university in the country -- by far.  We don't do embarrassment.  And the baseball field is quaint by big time standards but wonderful. 

I'm not happy -- I was rooting for Texas just a bit more than Stanford. 

I would say the same to Stanford and those in charge of that field/stadium -  C'mon, have a little pride.  And, yes, that shit is embarrassing no matter how it is spun.

[BillyGoatHill 4421]

2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Dude seriously what the fuck was that shit

Petersen knows pitching and college baseball but make no mistake about him, he IS a condescending Stanford homer. And worst of all, he is probably the biggest TEXAS band wagoner when his freaking trees are sitting at home.

[Cajun 11777]

4 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Pitching Witt in the postseason was a mistake. 

Absolutely a mistake.

He's done.  It's time for Tanner to see what's next.  Love his heart, but it was never going to happen they way they wanted to will it to happen.

[Hookem2147 22033]

6 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Pitching Witt in the postseason was a mistake. 

Nah. There's no evidence to suggest starting an inconsistent Hurley for the first time in a month was a better option. If you don't throw Witt in the postseason all we would be thinking about in the back of our minds is what if his next appearance was when he turned the corner. It can happen at any moment coming off that surgery.

Even if he wasn't very effective, Witt working his way back and choosing to play for this team meant a lot emotionally to the rest of the guys. It mattered.

Edited June 13, 2023 by Hookem2147