2024 Astros Foundation College Classic

[David Dennison 18856]

3 minutes ago, D3zii said:

Fuxk competing 

 

we want to win the SEC. 
football, Volleyball Softball and maybe W.BBall are the only sports I feel that are ready not to just be happy to be there but to win it 

We'll be able to compete in every sport. Moreover, all of them will get better by being in the SEC. It's already starting to happen.

[jeevsie 3734]

And the comeback starts

[hobbes2702 13033]

Just now, D3zii said:

That’s the attitude we had with football!!! That’s why we sucked for these last few years. Complacent and going off of the past

Texas Baseball is not Texas football. And we aren’t going off the past. We’ve been to Omaha half of DPs seasons. The SEC won’t be a problem.

[MuellerHorn 4230]

Could Schuessler or Galvan play 1B if JT was in the outfield?

[hobbes2702 13033]

2 minutes ago, Hondo said:

It pisses me off to no end too, but it's true.

If you actually know the game down to the smallest details, it's painfully obvious.

I knew we were in trouble after the 1st inning when I saw how we were trying to pitch them and how they were approaching their at-bats.  Those AB's had far less to do with LBJ and the hitter(s) than it did coaches' scouting/planning/coaching up.

On the flip side, the pitch calling for Holman was brilliant and he executed the plan very well.  We refused to let the ball run deep in the zone and go opposite field, so he continued to kill us with the breaking ball on the outer half.

In baseball, the smallest things matter.  They add up to hits/baserunners, and those add up to runs.  Or you can just ignore it and get dominated like we have tonight.

 

List all these coaches that are so much better than DP. Y’all do this dumb shit every year and then we play in Omaha 

[dcar00 14182]

next 3 games are gonna tell us something about this team. finally seeing some high level pitching.  If Witt comes around we will be OK on pitching but not sure about the hitting.  Lot of clueless looks at the plate.

 

[ztejas 43420]

1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

And that 2021 team still went to Arlington and got booty blasted and went to College Station and got shut out. Then in Omaha we got Bednar’d twice.

I'm not comparing results I'm comparing talent. The talent isn't the same and it's been evident watching these guys from the jump. Texas should be better than fucking up routine shit in the field, for starters. 

The talent needs to be better for Texas to get back to being a regular final four feature. I'm not sure how that's even debatable. You want to put money down that we're one of the last 4 standing this season? 

[chase25 2048]

3 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

And that 2021 team still went to Arlington and got booty blasted and went to College Station and got shut out. Then in Omaha we got Bednar’d twice.

We struggle against big time arms. I don’t think we are alone in that at the college level. How did top 10 Oregon State feel last week when Hagen Smith struck out 17 batters in 6 innings.

I'll never understand the game by game meltdown lol

[ClubWhatever 12138]

Man Borba is 0-3 with 3 forward Ks

[hobbes2702 13033]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

I'm not comparing results I'm comparing talent. The talent isn't the same and it's been evident watching these guys from the jump. Texas should be better than fucking up routine shit in the field, for starters. 

The talent needs to be better for Texas to get back to being a regular final four feature. I'm not sure how that's even debatable. You want to put money down that we're one of the last 4 standing this season? 

If you think this team isn’t extremely talented I don’t know what you’re watching or reading. Flores, JT, Gaspo, Borba, Dee, etc were all pretty big prospects and none are upper classmen

Edited March 2 by hobbes2702

[ztejas 43420]

1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

List all these coaches that are so much better than DP. Y’all do this dumb shit every year and then we play in Omaha 

Also - I'm not questioning DP as a coach. He's obviously a great coach. I just think we should be loaded a bit more than we are. 

[perfectchaos007 6636]

Ball to the adams apple. might hurt to swallow for a couple days

[hobbes2702 13033]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Also - I'm not questioning DP as a coach. He's obviously a great coach. I just think we should be loaded a bit more than we are. 

It’s just youth man. I agree we need stronger rosters, I just don’t think this is the year to complain about it. We were always going to be young this year and then we lost all our transfers. Not much to do about ti

Edited March 2 by hobbes2702

[NorthLoop 14195]

Fuck this ump

[B00M 6415]

5 minutes ago, D3zii said:

That’s the attitude we had with football!!! That’s why we sucked for these last few years. Complacent and going off of the past

Are you ok? Can you quit rubbing your pussy for this weekend? It’s a long season man, you’re blistering

[troph 24787]

3 minutes ago, Hondo said:

It pisses me off to no end too, but it's true.

If you actually know the game down to the smallest details, it's painfully obvious.

I knew we were in trouble after the 1st inning when I saw how we were trying to pitch them and how they were approaching their at-bats.  Those AB's had far less to do with LBJ and the hitter(s) than it did coaches' scouting/planning/coaching up.

On the flip side, the pitch calling for Holman was brilliant and he executed the plan very well.  We refused to let the ball run deep in the zone and go opposite field, so he continued to kill us with the breaking ball on the outer half.

In baseball, the smallest things matter.  They add up to hits/baserunners, and those add up to runs.  Or you can just ignore it and get dominated like we have tonight.

 

The small shit matters in every sport. I play tennis, the entry to tennis is wide and easy. It’s fucking hard to excel in tennis, really hard. Making good decisions at the plate is probably a lot like tennis shot selections. No time to think, instincts and training have to be lit. There are other analogies, doesn’t matter. If you know anything about a demanding sport you know. It doesn’t take much to see LSU is superior. Again, not having a chance when you’re Texas is maddening.

[MuellerHorn 4230]

Fucking O'Dowd. Just stands there.

[SameSame 1704]

Buncha unprepared wilting weaklings, David Pierce should be dropped by helicopter on the back of a moving cow near Amarillo.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Hamilton on to pitch.

[Levi 2586]

2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

If you think this team isn’t extremely talented I don’t know what you’re watching or reading. Flores, JT, Gaspo, Borba, Dee, etc were all pretty big prospects 

Some are getting thrusted into action quicker because 2 of our best transfer aren’t playing this season. It sucks that they’re young but the talent is visible. 

[ztejas 43420]

2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

It’s just youth man. I agree we need stronger rosters, I just don’t think this is the year to complain about it. We were always going to be young this year and then we lost all our transfers. Not much to do about ti

Fair enough. We'll see what happens. 

I definitely think these guys have more pop than they've shown tonight. 

[ClubWhatever 12138]

The difference in this game is like two walks and two hits.  By the end of the year when we all growed up we will be right there.

[chase25 2048]

I don't think anything that we didn't already know was learned tonight. LBJ was off, bullpen was solid given we needed 6 innings out of them, really only made one mistake. Jack and Porter looked like they have all year, had nothing to do with LSU. Gasparino, Belyeu, Borba looked like I would expect them to look facing a future 1st round collegiate arm. 

Just move on to the next one

[dcar00 14182]

I really don't get that transfer dude just up and quitting...

[AbeFroman 2156]

Reasonably, I think our team needs glasses.

[ClubWhatever 12138]

Dee sighting

[Lat22 4014]

4 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

Fucking O'Dowd. Just stands there.

He’s sitting now, albeit too late. 

[B00M 6415]

1 minute ago, Levi said:

Some are getting thrusted into action quicker because 2 of our best transfer aren’t playing this season. It sucks that they’re young but the talent is visible. 

retooling season where we’ll still be competitive that should set us up nicely to lay our cocks on the SEC

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

24 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Those guys graduated and we have a team full of freshman and sophomores 

We have a senior and 5th yr senior in slumps with TRUE freshman behind them.

We lost 4 (?) transfer portals to injury in the fall and a dude that was GUARANTEED to start and play everyday fucking QUIT (!!??).

Growing pains boys and girls. 

We went 25 years from 50 -75 winning in Omaha. Then 83- 2002. 

Pierce can do some head scratching shit throughout the season but he has had us competitive pretty much every year that he has been here other than 18 (?). Too bad 20 got wiped out cuz that pitching staff had us 14-3 when the season was cancelled.  (Madden, Elder, Hansen all doing pretty good at the next level)

Edited March 2 by BillyGoatHill

[jw4381 3072]

Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but aren't Porter Brown and O'Dowd already all grown up?

[D3zii 3678]

6 minutes ago, B00M said:

Are you ok? Can you quit rubbing your pussy for this weekend? It’s a long season man, you’re blistering

but but 

 

[hobbes2702 13033]

1 minute ago, BillyGoatHill said:

We have a senior and 5th yr senior in slumps with TRUE freshman behind them.

We lost 4 (?) transfer portals to injury in the fall and a dude that was GUARANTEED to start and play everyday fucking QUIT.

Growing pains boys and girls. 

We went 25 years form 50 -75 winning in Omaha. Then 83- 2002. 

Pierce can do some head scratching shit throughout the season but he has had us competitive pretty much every year that he has been here other than 18 (?). Too bad 20 got wiped out cuz that pitching staff had us 14-3 when the season was cancelled.  (Madden, Elder, Hansen all doing pretty good at the next level)

I would have bet many dollars on that 20 team winning the whole thing. That was one of the best rotations we’ve ever had

[The_Great_Hornsby 3236]

1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

I would have bet many dollars on that 20 team winning the whole thing. That was one of the best rotations we’ve ever had

Put it on the wall

[dcar00 14182]

maybe it is me but our guys have loooooong swings.  not quick to the ball.  can get away with that against medi okra pitching but not against good college pitching.

[hobbes2702 13033]

Just now, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Put it on the wall

Put the Clemens number back on the wall and just sharpie the 1 into a 0

Just now, dcar00 said:

maybe it is me but our guys have loooooong swings.  not quick to the ball.  can get away with that against medi okra pitching but not against good college pitching.

I dunno if medi okra was intentional but I’m using it from now on

[Levi 2586]

3 minutes ago, B00M said:

retooling season where we’ll still be competitive that should set us up nicely to lay our cocks on the SEC

Plus NIL will be better with the transition to the sec. LSU’s NIL as a whole is average at best. Baseball got really lucky with one donor being the founder of Marucci. Without him they’re not getting Holman this year or #7 ring last year. 

[troph 24787]

We’ll be fine. I’m out, just like the horns. 

[tx 3 putt 76932]

36 minutes ago, Hondo said:

2 reasons:  We don't have the talent and we don't have the coaching.

I don't like admitting it, but LSU has a better program than we do, top-to-bottom.

There's a reason they got #7 before we did and did it in many fewer CWS appearances.

They may get #8 or #9 before we get #7.

 

 

their partnership with marucci is huge 

mlb players use those facilities in the offseason (non lsu players) 

[Biff Tannen 45678]

25 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Well we need to roll out better rosters than this. We were fucking juiced in '21 and '22 - not sure what has happened since then but the talent level just isn't the same. '21 had like five guys that would easily be the best player on this team. 

Don’t forget every single transfer we got is not playing. 

[UnhappilyMarried 815]

We’ve been an Omaha losers bracket level program for 8 years. Which is fine, better than it was the 8 years before that. Pierce has built flawed rosters and coached them up well. We see an elite arm 3-4 times a year and lose miserably. Win most of the others. 

The horribly recruiting over the past few years looks to be reversing course. Hitting big on this next class and giving them time to mature is how the program takes the next step. Until then, we’ll still be in the mix to host postseason baseball every year 

[hobbes2702 13033]

17 strikeouts is impressive lol

[DigDug 1669]

We have a lot of skinny hope non competitive at bats.  They have a lot of thick nose on the ball at bats.

[Cairn Horn88 8262]

53 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Career high Ks. Must be the best arm in America lol

This happens every year to us.

[dcar00 14182]

my only question is why we can't find some pudgy out of shape dudes to pitch.

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

9 minutes ago, Levi said:

Plus NIL will be better with the transition to the sec. LSU’s NIL as a whole is average at best. Baseball got really lucky with one donor being the founder of Marucci. Without him they’re not getting Holman this year or #7 ring last year. 

^^^EXACTLY. 

They backed up the full of money dump truck for those two(Skenes and White, probably Holman now too).

Want better players? TOF is waiting for your donation, ANNNNND, you can designate your money GOES TO the BASEBALL PROGRAM.

Edited March 2 by BillyGoatHill

[B00M 6415]

Putting the ball in play, nice, nice…

[Horny Bull 2759]

Duplantier on to pitch.

[dcar00 14182]

we look clueless.  that first strikeout was exactly what I was talking about.  long loopy swing with no chance.

[Cairn Horn88 8262]

Just now, Horny Bull said:

Duplantier on to pitch.

The whole staff may make an appearance tonight.

[tx 3 putt 76932]

Season is young, lots to improve on