College Station Regional

[WBT 20674]

4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Well shit, guess we gotta win two.

 

 

*three

[cabowabo 4514]

4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

The Flores error was the soul crusher. That was a horrible horrible error and cost ut the game  

that ball to third, he hesitated for a second and it ate him up 

Errors….plural

[BurntOrange&White 40047]

1 minute ago, Levi said:

Flores and Powell will get the heat but my god going 4 1/3 without a hit is awful. This team was hanging on by a thread for the majority of the game and we still had to fuck it up for them to win. If I was LBJ/Gage/Dre/Lummus I would livid right now. 

Doesn’t matter really. Flores 2 throwing errors cost the game. 

[Brandywine 1317]

Guys, I’m out of the country and reading this page you would have thought Texas lost 16 to 0. I looked on ESPN and saw 4 to 2 in the 11th inning. Pearce isn’t getting fired over that performance. Of course I didn’t watch the game and if they lose the next one and go home, he may be out of a job. 

[Helobious 9467]

Flores & Powell really shat themselves tonight, but is there really any doubt that we’re winning the first game tomorrow? Loiusiana is terrible. 

[The_Great_Hornsby 3285]

Just now, Brandywine said:

Guys, I’m out of the country and reading this page you would have thought Texas lost 16 to 0. I looked on ESPN and saw 4 to 2 in the 11th inning. Pearce isn’t getting fired over that performance. Of course I didn’t watch the game and if they lose the next one and go home, he may be out of a job. 

We have no arms left. We burned them all tonight trying to win. His job security wont be dictated by whether we beat UL or not. Nobody has any expectations for this team going forward. 

[TwiceHorn 31570]

1 minute ago, cabowabo said:

Errors….plural

The first one was actually somewhat excusable, the second not at all. 

[dcar00 14379]

1 minute ago, Helobious said:

Flores & Powell really shat themselves tonight, but is there really any doubt that we’re winning the first game tomorrow? Loiusiana is terrible. 

nooooooooooooo......

[jw4381 3095]

Y'all see what the Oregon 3rd baseman just did to end their game? 

[DanTheHorn 4966]

10 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

As a wise old cocaine user once said....that's the way baseball go

When did you talk to the dancing kid?

[MirrOlure 14859]

Guys, I’m out of the country and reading this page you would have thought Texas lost 16 to 0. I looked on ESPN and saw 4 to 2 in the 11th inning. Pearce isn’t getting fired over that performance. Of course I didn’t watch the game and if they lose the next one and go home, he may be out of a job. 

Of course he isn’t getting fired over that performance.

Hopefully he’s getting fired because in Year 8, we fucking suck donkey balls at just about everything that good teams do

[The_Great_Hornsby 3285]

Just now, jw4381 said:

Y'all see what the Oregon 3rd baseman just did to end their game? 

Fielded a ball and stepped on the base?

[ClubWhatever 12159]

Just now, jw4381 said:

Y'all see what the Oregon 3rd baseman just did to end their game? 

No, what?

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

1 minute ago, Helobious said:

Flores & Powell really shat themselves tonight, but is there really any doubt that we’re winning the first game tomorrow? Loiusiana is terrible. 

Pretty sure they have BOTH their #1 and #2 starters still available. Even if we get past them, we will run out of pitching before we get thru 3 games.

[jw4381 3095]

Also, our players have been doing that chest bump for years. Cut that shit out for crissakes.

 

[F250 28826]

8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Well shit, guess we gotta win two.

 

 

Need to beat Louisiana and then aggy twice.

[jw4381 3095]

1 minute ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Fielded a ball and stepped on the base?

Yep. Almost the exact play, just calmly fielded the ball and stepped on the bag. Our left infield had the yips.

Just now, ClubWhatever said:

No, what?

 

[ClubWhatever 12159]

The chest bump is a signal to a video coordinator.  It's not a "my bad".

[UTEX_ME 4766]

4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Flores & Powell really shat themselves tonight, but is there really any doubt that we’re winning the first game tomorrow? Loiusiana is terrible. 

they are terrible and we will win convincingly 

[TwiceHorn 31570]

7 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

Guys, I’m out of the country and reading this page you would have thought Texas lost 16 to 0. I looked on ESPN and saw 4 to 2 in the 11th inning. Pearce isn’t getting fired over that performance. Of course I didn’t watch the game and if they lose the next one and go home, he may be out of a job. 

We were lucky and LBJ was salty to keep a narrow lead and even the tie/extras. Aggy aggied. 

We had no room for errors and first pitch flyouts and strikeouts, but that's all we did. 

We are now fucked like Chuck. 

Edited June 2 by TwiceHorn

[Mo Horn 8855]

Just now, Brandywine said:

Guys, I’m out of the country and reading this page you would have thought Texas lost 16 to 0. I looked on ESPN and saw 4 to 2 in the 11th inning. Pearce isn’t getting fired over that performance. Of course I didn’t watch the game and if they lose the next one and go home, he may be out of a job. 

He shouldn't get fired because of tonight. He should get fired because his teams are fundamentally unsound. Too many mistakes in the field, bad approaches at the plate, and horrible pitch execution on the mound. He doesn't develop his pitchers, and calls a horrible game as the pitching coach. His teams are inconsistent and he does less with the talent that he has than other teams, and he's regularly outcoached. 

[Alex Karev 1031]

We beat ourselves tonight.

[dcar00 14379]

23 minutes ago, D3zii said:

NEXT YEAR ?!?

he's not getting fired.  sure I'd be absolutely fine with it but it's not happening.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21946]

8 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Gobble Pierce’s dick pussy

Fuck you and that piece of shit Hornsby.  Our guys played their heart out all you can do is shit all over them.  I sure hope you’ve never made a fucking mistake in your life, but you both still seem like miserable pieces of shit.  Go beat your wives you miserable pricks 

[Brandywine 1317]

3 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Of course he isn’t getting fired over that performance.

Hopefully he’s getting fired because in Year 8, we fucking suck donkey balls at just about everything that good teams do

I’ve never been a big fan of his. Just another poor hire from the last interim AD, 

[Levi 2592]

5 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Doesn’t matter really. Flores 2 throwing errors cost the game. 

It definitely does. Flores let them tie the game which sucks but we had opportunities to either go home 2-0 or not give up the winning run. It’s a massive mound of shit with Flores unfortunately at the top. 

[BurntOrange&White 40047]

Just now, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Fuck you and that piece of shit Hornsby.  Our guys played their heart out all you can do is shit all over them.  I sure hope you’ve never made a fucking mistake in your life, but you both still seem like miserable pieces of shit.  Go beat your wives you miserable pricks 

Flores deserves to be shit on. The same way Blake Gideon is shit on after all these years. Pierce deserves to be shit on. Fuck your feelings you cry baby bitch. 

[Had Enough 2088]

2 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

Pretty sure they have BOTH their #1 and #2 starters still available. Even if we get past them, we will run out of pitching before we get thru 3 games.

That strategy was offered up on this very board.  Save your arms for games 3, 4 and 5 and the winners bracket game eat up arms while the loser gets Grambling.

If Ace and Hurley can be on, there’s a chance but not sure what you do in that third game, if it comes to that.

[Mo Horn 8855]

5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The first one was actually somewhat excusable, the second not at all. 

How is throwing the ball over the 1st baseman's head on a routine ground ball excusable?

[BurntOrange&White 40047]

1 minute ago, Levi said:

It definitely does. Flores let them tie the game which sucks but we had opportunities to either go home 2-0 or not give up the winning run. It’s a massive mound of shit with Flores unfortunately at the top. 

None of the other shit piles up if not for Flores errors. We win 

[tx 3 putt 77548]

Put the ball in play, make the other team make a play 

[OU Sucks 8917]

Just now, Mo Horn said:

horrible pitch execution

My favorite is when we throw 2 strike pitches that are so far off the plate that they wouldn't fool an autistic dancing kid, then we go from 0-2 to a walk.

[TwiceHorn 31570]

Just now, Mo Horn said:

How is throwing the ball over the 1st baseman's head on a routine ground ball excusable?

He laid out to field the ball and probably should have just eaten it. The second one was routine. 

[Mo Horn 8855]

Just now, TwiceHorn said:

He laid out to field the ball and probably should have just eaten it. The second one was routine. 

95% of college shortstops make that play. 

[Helobious 9467]

8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The first one was actually somewhat excusable, the second not at all. 

There’s no way that first one gets ruled an error by MLB scorekeepers.

[Levi 2592]

2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

None of the other shit piles up if not for Flores errors. We win 

I forget you fail to look at anything holistically. 

[BurntOrange&White 40047]

1 minute ago, Levi said:

I forget you fail to look at anything holistically. 

How could you look at his two throwing errors as anything but failure and costing us the game? Explain

[WBT 20674]

6 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

That strategy was offered up on this very board.  Save your arms for games 3, 4 and 5 and the winners bracket game eat up arms while the loser gets Grambling.

So you tank Game 1 to get to beat Grambling to then set yourself up to beat ULaLa once and aggy twice.  Or you win Game 1 and set yourself up to have to beat aggy twice.  It's a real conundrum.

The goal is to win the regional, not to get a game against Grambling to pad your stats.

Edited June 2 by WBT

[dcar00 14379]

where was that LBJ all year?  If he shows up we aren't in this position.

[F250 28826]

Fuck it. Football season is around the corner.

 

[TwiceHorn 31570]

Pierce improved the offense pretty much across the board compared to late stage Augie. 

Defense has slipped under Pierce. 

But the killer is that pitching just has not been consistently good during his tenure. 

[Levi 2592]

1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

How could you look at his two throwing errors as anything but failure and costing us the game? Explain

Whatever man, you’re not even reading what I’m saying.

 

[Hookem2147 21365]

The Powell play was anything but routine. That was not an “error”. With runners in motion and the ball hugging the line you have to make a split second decision.

It should have never gotten to that point though. We tempted fate the entire night.

Edited June 2 by Hookem2147

[UnhappilyMarried 821]

4 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

where was that LBJ all year?  If he shows up we aren't in this position.

Still a lot of wasted pitches, but it felt like the mindset that he didn’t need to go 8 innings helped a lot. 5 from him and 4 from Gage was absolute perfection. Curious if Gage has a decision to make this summer

[Had Enough 2088]

15 minutes ago, WBT said:

So you tank Game 1 to get to beat Grambling to then set yourself up to beat ULaLa once and aggy twice.  Or you win Game 1 and set yourself up to have to beat aggy twice.  It's a real conundrum.

The goal is to win the regional, not to get a game against Grambling to pad your stats.

The goal is to win the regional.  That’s exactly right.

We did almost pull off this game, but that still leaves us with limited options for game 3 and game 4, if need be.  Gage could come back.  Andre could as well, but that’s hope that they’re effective.

Grambling being a non-competitive 4 seed changes the dynamics.  A top flight, amongst the best in the country lefty is a tough matchup and also changes the dynamics.  The Aggies #2 and 3 starters give up 3 and 4 more earned runs a game than Prager.

We could go #3 or #4 or #5 against UL and still have a chance to win.  But if we lose, it truly was no big damn deal.

As it stands now, we’re in an incredibly tight spot because our pitching is taxed.  And we’re still in the same position had we lost game 1 and won game 2.

Edited June 2 by Had Enough

[The_Great_Hornsby 3285]

5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

The Powell play was anything but routine. That was not an “error”. With runners in motion and the ball hugging the line you have to make a split second decision.

It should have never gotten to that point though. We tempted fate the entire night.

We will have to agree to disagree here. In that situation you run to the bag, plant a foot on it and field the ball in front of the bag. Instead, he hesitated and then panicked because he hesitated and failed to field it cleanly because he was rushing to make the play. 

[WBT 20674]

5 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

As it stands now, we’re in an incredibly tight spot because our pitching is taxed.  And we’re still in the same position had we lost game 1 and won game 2.

Exactly, we're in the same spot now as we would have been in the best case with the lose game 1 plan.  The difference is we had a chance tonight and lost.  But the let's play Grambling at all cost plan never gives you a chance at all.  This team doesn't have the pitching - their only chance was to go 2-0.

Edited June 2 by WBT

[The_Great_Hornsby 3285]

Just now, WBT said:

Exactly.  We had a chance tonight and lost.  But the let's play Grambling at all cost plan never gives you a chance at all.  This team doesn't have the pitching - their only chance was to go 2-0.

Yeah. The season ended tonight barring an offensive explosion that renders our pitching situation irrelevant. They have not shown that capability all year. This regional is chalked for us. 

[dcar00 14379]

5 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

Still a lot of wasted pitches, but it felt like the mindset that he didn’t need to go 8 innings helped a lot. 5 from him and 4 from Gage was absolute perfection. Curious if Gage has a decision to make this summer

He should have had the mindset to go 6 all year.  that is all we needed from him any game he pitched. but yes he wastes a lot of pitches.

[InkaUtexas 26175]

31 minutes ago, F250 said:

Need to beat Louisiana and then aggy twice.

Fuck em, lets do it.