TEXAS AT TEXAS STATE

[HSFC 5]

Text from cousin this morning...

Texas is 4-7 since A&M broke y’all!

[Nueces River Rat 5539]

I'm sure the Islander nation down here is already printing the T-shirts like they did the first time they beat us in baseball a few years ago.  

I was looking forward to game next week at Whataburger Field.  Now I may go just to drink beer.  Or I may forget about the game altogether.

 

 

[zork 629]

Damn son.  This team was really fun to watch earlier in the year despite the Stanford rain debacle and the TCU meltdown.  Since then it is brutal.(captain obvious take)

Maybe Pierce can right the ship enough to sneak in to a regional where season 3 starts.  The package, home regional, was almost wrapped if they could have taken care of business in April.  Nope.  Fuck this 9th inning losing shit.

1 non-conference

2 conference and conference tourney

3 regional

4 super

5 omaha

 

[Nueces River Rat 5539]

15 minutes ago, zork said:

Damn son.  This team was really fun to watch earlier in the year despite the Stanford rain debacle and the TCU meltdown.  Since then it is brutal.(captain obvious take)

Maybe Pierce can right the ship enough to sneak in to a regional where season 3 starts.  The package, home regional, was almost wrapped if they could have taken care of business in April.  Nope.  Fuck this 9th inning losing shit.

1 non-conference

2 conference and conference tourney

3 regional

4 super

5 omaha

 

After that LSU series, I posted I like the attutude and the fight of this team.

 

Wow!   WTH...

[GreenspointTexas 9679]

But we scored 6 runs.... How the fuck did we lose?

[Llano Estacado 1257]

^
Either the bullpen or the ALLCAPS thread title.

[petscii 1189]

7 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

^
Either the bullpen or the ALLCAPS thread title.

yeah ok, I'll take the blame for the loss...

 

[landman 559]

I wish I had the faith of those of you that still think we have a shot I the tournament.  For me, I'm counting down the days to August.

[BrazilHorn 6634]

at times while reading about the comeback by Tx State on this thread I was thinking I’d been transported to the Little League thread. 

Just nuts. 

[txhorns 2413]

11 hours ago, Yama Yak Yachtzi said:

Last 2 games: 18 pitchers used, 18 runs, 0 wins. 

Welcome to the David Pierce style of coaching.  I've been saying it since he got here, Pierce simply plays the hot hand.  He doesn't have that this year and so everything is falling apart.  There is no reason for our bullpen to be this bad with the talent that is there.

[WBT 20670]

11 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I'm guessing he's trying to figure out if anyone on the roster is going to step up.

Hard to step up after you get the hook

[TwiceHorn 31539]

14 minutes ago, txhorns said:

Welcome to the David Pierce style of coaching.  I've been saying it since he got here, Pierce simply plays the hot hand.  He doesn't have that this year and so everything is falling apart.  There is no reason for our bullpen to be this bad with the talent that is there.

I'm not picking at you, but what's wrong with "playing the hot hand," until or unless it gets to overworking a pitcher?  It's not a sophisticated strategy, but I don't see much wrong with it.  And, I'm not sure pitcher-an-inning has anything to do with that "strategery," unless he's trying to find the hot hand.  Likely as not, he's trying to find out which of these younguns is going to step up in game situations and throw strikes.

Good freshman pitchers are not unheard of, but we have a ton of freshman pitchers, and others that haven't had much/any D1 experience.

Edited April 24, 2019 by TwiceHorn

[Llano Estacado 1257]

yeah ok, I'll take the blame for the loss...
 

[Valmy77 13273]

It is like we are living in some kind of crazy nightmare world. Well I cannot wait for the thrilling homestand against WVU.

[ClubWhatever 12158]

The pitchers feel like they have to be perfect or they will get yanked.  They are strung tighter than a banjo.  Actually by now a lot of them don’t seem to give a shit what happens, which is even worse.  They also don’t have much of an approach to pitching. Ie how to fool hitters. 

[LTtxfan 49366]

35 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I'm not picking at you, but what's wrong with "playing the hot hand," until or unless it gets to overworking a pitcher?  It's not a sophisticated strategy, but I don't see much wrong with it.  And, I'm not sure pitcher-an-inning has anything to do with that "strategery," unless he's trying to find the hot hand.  Likely as not, he's trying to find out which of these younguns is going to step up in game situations and throw strikes.

Good freshman pitchers are not unheard of, but we have a ton of freshman pitchers, and others that haven't had much/any D1 experience.

If a college pitcher wants the ball, then he needs to pitch well when given his shot.  I'm fine with rotating several pitchers in Game 3 of a series like Okie Lite.... just not necessarily in the order Coach Pierce did.  

I've posted on another thread that Pierce might want to ask Elder to move back to the bullpen to hopefully add more stability there and give this team a better chance to win games.  Try other pitchers as starters.... lots of these freshmen pitchers were starters in high school.

[rivin 199]

12 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You paid six bucks to get kicked in both balls.  

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[txhorns 2413]

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

I'm not picking at you, but what's wrong with "playing the hot hand," until or unless it gets to overworking a pitcher?  It's not a sophisticated strategy, but I don't see much wrong with it.  And, I'm not sure pitcher-an-inning has anything to do with that "strategery," unless he's trying to find the hot hand.  Likely as not, he's trying to find out which of these younguns is going to step up in game situations and throw strikes.

Good freshman pitchers are not unheard of, but we have a ton of freshman pitchers, and others that haven't had much/any D1 experience.

I agree that playing the hot hand is not a bad thing unless it is your only strategy, which so far appears to be the case with Pierce. 

We need consistent players, not just to hope for a guy to get hot.  You get consistency through development and coaching.  With our pitching, throwing strikes is the issue.  Throwing strikes also happens to be a mechanics issue, which is fixed through coaching/development.  Pierce and staff are not developing our pitchers and so are simply left hoping that someone gets hot.

[Valmy77 13273]

While I cannot dispute our relief pitching is a total disaster I am not sure we can come to such a specific diagnosis. But it is not like I can explain why they still struggle to throw strikes except to point out that most college staffs struggle to do that at times.

[zlavydra 2123]

We apparently threw a lot of strikes in the bottom of the 9th, and those strikes got hammered.

[dcar00 14375]

11 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

While I cannot dispute our relief pitching is a total disaster I am not sure we can come to such a specific diagnosis. But it is not like I can explain why they still struggle to throw strikes except to point out that most college staffs struggle to do that at times.

you have to locate the fastball first and foremost, whether you throw a 2 seam or 4 seam.  Everything in ptiching is based on being able to locate the fastball.  we have about 2 pitchers that can do that with college level performance.