Jump to content

Texas Baseball 2025 - The Schwining tradition starts here...


Recommended Posts

Posted
32 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

drove by uh-v sunday, so hits close to home 

go jaguars 

I've been to Jaguars strip club before so.................................. so this is nothing like that

Posted (edited)
17 minutes ago, BERT said:

I've been to Jaguars strip club before so.................................. so this is nothing like that

 

if you meet a nice virgin at jaguars odessa, tx and promise to give her a ride home in the am ... ask where she lives before the fireworks start. young 3putt didn't give a fuck it was a 2hr drive to drop her off, 52yo putt probably wouldn't give a fuck either 

the love of my life, for a solid 3 days 

Edited by tx 3 putt
  • Haha 5
  • Drool 1
Posted
1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

if you meet a nice virgin at jaguars odessa, tx and promise to give her a ride home in the am ... ask where she lives before the fireworks start. young 3putt didn't give a fuck it was a 2hr drive to drop her off, 52yo putt probably wouldn't give a fuck either 

the love of my life, for a solid 3 days 

ok, that's fucking awesome lmao

Posted
3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

to be fair, uh-victoria is stacked this year. very legit Red River Athletic Conference contenders and should make an naia title run 

😬😬😬😬

They are a rolling ball of Jellyfish that can't be stopped.

Spoiler
VISITOR
HOME
Baseball
02:00 PM
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Tankersley Field - Prairie View, TX
image.gif.cf9d7bbbe0475633e4d0229984fec0b6.gif

 

  • Haha 2
Posted
 
if you meet a nice virgin at jaguars odessa, tx and promise to give her a ride home in the am ... ask where she lives before the fireworks start. young 3putt didn't give a fuck it was a 2hr drive to drop her off, 52yo putt probably wouldn't give a fuck either 
the love of my life, for a solid 3 days 

Virgin stripper you say? You found the unicorn.
Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, SuckitKevin said:

I’ve got an extra ticket to the Santa Clara game on Saturday. It’s just GA. If someone can use it PM me and it’s yours. It’s only 1.

 

do we have to stand next to you ?

Edited by tx 3 putt
Posted (edited)

How many big flys are we gonna hit this year? Just from Max, Jalin, Gaspo, and ARod we are looking at probably 60, possibly even more.
I said it before the season but this team can really mash.

Edited by hobbes2702
Posted

Pretty casual baseball observer here. What’s been the biggest fundamental difference y’all have seen from a Schloss team here so far when compared to Pierce? May be too early to say obviously.

Posted
48 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

Pretty casual baseball observer here. What’s been the biggest fundamental difference y’all have seen from a Schloss team here so far when compared to Pierce? May be too early to say obviously.

Approach at the plate is better, conscious effort to draw walks.

Coaching staff and support staff are elite. Schloss does a good job not sugarcoating anything with the players, lets his assistants be good cop. Max Weiner will be very hard to hold onto for an extended period of time but Schlossnagle attracts up and coming coaches who want to learn how to run a program.

Pierce had elite teams here but his inability to put together an elite staff (specifically on the pitching side because of his stubbornness) decayed the program the last 2-3 years.

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Like 2
Posted
4 hours ago, chase25 said:

Approach at the plate is better, conscious effort to draw walks.

Coaching staff and support staff are elite. Schloss does a good job not sugarcoating anything with the players, lets his assistants be good cop. Max Weiner will be very hard to hold onto for an extended period of time but Schlossnagle attracts up and coming coaches who want to learn how to run a program.

Pierce had elite teams here but his inability to put together an elite staff (specifically on the pitching side because of his stubbornness) decayed the program the last 2-3 years.

Also Pierce’s teams had the base running acumen of tee ball players. So annoying to watch some of the stupidity that would ensue with him coaching at 3B. 

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Rage+1 2
Posted

Schloss also seems to have a shorter leash with our relief pitchers than Pierce. I feel like DP would sacrifice an entire game just to teach a middle reliever how to fight through adversity. 

  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
  • Rage+1 1
Posted
1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

Schloss also seems to have HAS a shorter leash with our relief pitchers than Pierce. I feel like DP would sacrifice an entire game just to teach a middle reliever how to fight through adversity. 

This ^^^^^

Schloss is not fucking around with the pen, that is for sure. Pierce was GREAT at pulling a pitcher a batter too late (after giving up a big hit) last year and those before. Schloss has had no problem getting out to the mound and getting someone out that hasn't done the job.

He did it last night (again) when our errors and some walks led to their 5 run 4th.

Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Pretty casual baseball observer here. What’s been the biggest fundamental difference y’all have seen from a Schloss team here so far when compared to Pierce? May be too early to say obviously.

Schloss holds the players accountable better. Reminds me a bit of Garrido that way. If you screw up, you will be moved around or pulled from the game. The team just seems more intense.

But this is expected. David Pierce was a good coach, a perfectly serviceable college coach. And that is exactly what he did, coach at a pretty decent level. He had his strong points and he had his weak points. He left players in too long. He got into fights with assistant coaches and struggled to manage his staff. Schloss is great because he manages people better. That is the part of the game that separates the great ones from the good ones. The people stuff.

Edited by Valmy77
  • Hook 'Em 8
Posted
45 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Schloss holds the players accountable better. Reminds me a bit of Garrido that way. If you screw up, you will be moved around or pulled from the game. The team just seems more intense.

But this is expected. David Pierce was a good coach, a perfectly serviceable college coach. And that is exactly what he did, coach at a pretty decent level. He had his strong points and he had his weak points. He left players in too long. He got into fights with assistant coaches and struggled to manage his staff. Schloss is great because he manages people better. That is the part of the game that separates the great ones from the good ones. The people stuff.

Was Winfield pulled last night because of his defensive gaffe?  

 

Posted
2 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

Was Winfield pulled last night because of his defensive gaffe?  

 

I don't know exactly. But we didn't see a tantrum like we saw that one time Pierce pulled Mitchell Daly.

Posted
1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Schloss holds the players accountable better. Reminds me a bit of Garrido that way. If you screw up, you will be moved around or pulled from the game. The team just seems more intense.

But this is expected. David Pierce was a good coach, a perfectly serviceable college coach. And that is exactly what he did, coach at a pretty decent level. He had his strong points and he had his weak points. He left players in too long. He got into fights with assistant coaches and struggled to manage his staff. Schloss is great because he manages people better. That is the part of the game that separates the great ones from the good ones. The people stuff.

I would add to this the answer to a previous question above regarding what is the difference we see between the two.  The first thing that leapt out at me was before the team even had one practice in January.  Schloss had signed the #1 class in the country (or damn close to it).  I pointed out for a couple of years while Lil' Nigel was recruited that Schloss and his crew are relentless recruiters and it wasn't even close as to the effort, coordination, and thought put into the recruiting process.

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted

Pierce is a good college baseball coach but he didn't know how to drive this machine. It was above his limit. It's not a normal college job and he was a normal college coach. Schloss seems like a decent bet that he takes us to the next level, and the early returns are good. I've been excited about seeing if our plate discipline will look like all his other teams. What do you know, we are already grinding pitching staffs down. Love what Im seeing even if we have to take some bumps in the SEC gauntlet. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
On 3/5/2025 at 11:32 AM, Nigel Tufnel said:

I would add to this the answer to a previous question above regarding what is the difference we see between the two.  The first thing that leapt out at me was before the team even had one practice in January.  Schloss had signed the #1 class in the country (or damn close to it).  I pointed out for a couple of years while Lil' Nigel was recruited that Schloss and his crew are relentless recruiters and it wasn't even close as to the effort, coordination, and thought put into the recruiting process.

I would add that the talk of a "toxic" atmosphere with the team at the end of the season, was confirmed by Munroe in that first On Texas Baseball video.

That is never good when players don't believe in the coaching staff.

Schloss can be tough, but fair. He doesn't like pitchers that can't command the strike zone, especially relief pitchers.

He took Winfield and others out of the lineup when they were struggling.

In that last Orange Bloods video, I posted he said he had those players working on ways to get back their stroke and timing. Tulo was working with them.

He said that Winfield had found his swing again and reinserted him in the lineup and he responded with two hits and moved a runner along on his third at bat.

That was a great improvement from striking out in half of his at bats and hitting .105.

Borba and Galvan worked on things, and they have responded in a big way. 

Borba looks like he is now the starter at third base, with good defense and a very strong arm.

Schloss has a great staff, who all can recruit along with him. Tulo and Weiner are great teachers of the game at their specialties. 

I consider this an upgrade that has already produced. 

It's about to get a lot harder when SEC play starts, but I feel a lot better it now than if these changes hadn't occurred.

I also feel better about the future of the program.

  • Hook 'Em 8
  • Like 1
Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, BlackCat said:

Pierce is a good college baseball coach but he didn't know how to drive this machine. It was above his limit. It's not a normal college job and he was a normal college coach.

He won the league 3 times and made the CWS three times.  He knew how to coach at Texas.  His recruiting fell off the last couple of years.  The pitching cupboard ended up pretty bare.  Shot himself in the foot by mishandling the pitching coach situation.

Edited by ClubWhatever
  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Like 1
Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Fuck pitching. I want a 90s FSU team of steroid monsters that win every game 14-12. 

I think this guy and his teams cornered that market in the 90's.

The hot bats and balls at the time helped out too.

Spoiler
Skip Bertman
Title
Head Coach
Alma Mater
Miami (1961)

There is no greater authority on building a championship program than Stanley “Skip” Bertman, the head coach at Louisiana State University. Bertman has established at LSU an unparalleled legacy of excellence, leading the Fighting Tigers to five NCAA College World Series championships (1991, ’93, ’96, ’97, ’00) in the last 10 years. Not since Southern California won five straight national titles in the early 1970s has one program achieved the level of supremacy LSU has attained in the last decade.

 

Edited by NBHorn7
Posted

The line between good and good enough to win a title is razor thin, not mention it also requires some plain old good luck and lucky bounces.

Pierce’s results at Texas would get him a statue at 98% of schools. But it was correctly identified that the trajectory wasn’t right and the move was made before there was a total collapse.

As is the case in most sports, knowing who to hire and retaining them on your staff is half the battle. Pierce couldn’t handle that part. Schloss has proven he can at like 3 different stops and does well at surrounding himself with good cops so he can be the bad cop when needed. Meanwhile, Michael Early is a good cop surrounded by a bunch of good cops and that’s one of the reasons why A&M will have a new coach probably within 2 years.

Posted
2 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Fuck pitching. I want a 90s FSU team of steroid monsters that win every game 14-12. 

There is one school you should never want to emulate in College Baseball and that is FSU. The Buffalo Bills think they are cursed.

  • Haha 4
Posted
55 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

There is one school you should never want to emulate in College Baseball and that is FSU. The Buffalo Bills think they are cursed.

For the unaware, that's 24 trips to Omaha and . . . zero titles.

Posted

image.thumb.png.69b93bcd329792895d63a90583df8151.png

Stat oddities.  Pretty meaningless this early but always interesting to look.

Doubling up competition on SLG.  .271 would be 294 out of 299 teams if our competition were its own team. 

Averaging 5 XBH per game and giving up only 1.  Don't think I've ever seen a .217 BA / .609 SLG kind of line (Gasparino).

Stolen base margin... damn.

Schuessler the only starter not pulling his weight at the plate, but seems partly (mostly?) bad luck.  Move just 3 of his liners a couple feet, and he's at .310 BA / .450 SLG / .825 OPS with double the RBI.  

 

 

 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
42 minutes ago, ryskey said:

image.thumb.png.69b93bcd329792895d63a90583df8151.png

Stat oddities.  Pretty meaningless this early but always interesting to look.

Doubling up competition on SLG.  .271 would be 294 out of 299 teams if our competition were its own team. 

Averaging 5 XBH per game and giving up only 1.  Don't think I've ever seen a .217 BA / .609 SLG kind of line (Gasparino).

Stolen base margin... damn.

Schuessler the only starter not pulling his weight at the plate, but seems partly (mostly?) bad luck.  Move just 3 of his liners a couple feet, and he's at .310 BA / .450 SLG / .825 OPS with double the RBI.  

I am confident Schuessler's numbers will come around. He's got a good approach at the plate and has good swings, good contact.

Posted
20 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

Meanwhile, Michael Early is a good cop surrounded by a bunch of good cops and that’s one of the reasons why A&M will have a new coach probably within 2 years.

I think they need to give him 5-6 years to get his system in place.

  • Haha 1
Posted
On 3/4/2025 at 3:54 PM, tx 3 putt said:

 

if you meet a nice virgin at jaguars odessa, tx and promise to give her a ride home in the am ... ask where she lives before the fireworks start. young 3putt didn't give a fuck it was a 2hr drive to drop her off, 52yo putt probably wouldn't give a fuck either 

the love of my life, for a solid 3 days 

Sounds like you two hit it off like a metaphor! 

 

  • Hook 'Em 2

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...