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  1. 2 hours ago, HuntinHorn said:

    Glad softball is kicking ass...

    I made a conscious choice after 2019 to go all in on softball because it was pretty clear we had a great coach east of comal and a shaky one across the street. 

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  2. I thought some of the episodes were uneven in writing and storytelling, and I agree some of it was heavy-handed and very paint-by-numbers.  The Tuskegee episode in particular had a TV movie feel to it and just seemed thrown in there.  

    But I'll be damed if they didn't nail it with the finale.  I got misty at the end when they showed the real-life counterparts to each actor.  I enjoyed the series overall.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

    It moves at about the same rate as an automatic car seat and is supposed to stop moving when you stop pressing.   The switch on the seat back has a cover that is supposed to prevent inadvertent pressing.   So , either the cover was missing and somebody pressed the switch long enough to squeeze the captain against the controls, or the switch broke (or shorted) and wouldn't disengage and same happened.

    I'm only an amateur internet pilot, but I'm gonna call bullshit on a movement like a slow automatic car seat causing an abrubt enough forward force on the yoke to cause a dive where people are hitting the ceiling.  Sounds like we had full elevator deflection.  That's more like the seat slamming forward like the old manual car seat adjustments.  

  4. 21 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    TK gets the start today.  Bit of a weird lineup

    Mitchell at 1st, Scott at 3rd
    OF is Bella LF, Henry, Goode RF
    Reese DP, Stewie catching

    well, I like the rotation at RF. But the love affair with Mitchell at 1b is odd.  She's pretty bad there.  I would move Mia to OF, Joley to 3rd, and maybe try Cimusz at 1B.  She's got a better bat right now than Goode IMO.  

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  5. 1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

    If you can hit, you don't sit.

    I'm more worried that we haven't been able to really get swing and miss pitchers but maybe OU hoarded them all.  certainly it isn't like the Cat days where pitching dominated and slap hitters were errrywhere but I really expected our pitching to be top notch after a couple of years.  They are very good but not elite.

    I'm no softball expert but it just seems we haven't had "elite" type pitchers except for Miranda.

    I agree in general, although Kavan is definitely a swing and miss pitcher (she has 55Ks this year). I think she will be considered "elite" by the time she leaves.  

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  6. 26 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    I think the philosophy he has is get hitters and swing and miss pitchers and then fielding doesn't matter.  he's lacking in one area unfortunately.  doesn't mean we can't be very good to great but not gonna be dominant.

    I agree with his recruiting philosophy overall and that seems to be the way college softball is going - hitting is king.  I like it; the games are more exciting in my opinion.

    The key, though, is you have to have a Ron Washington-type on staff that can teach good hitters to be decent fielders because it's more feasible to take someone who has a great bat but shaky fielding and improve their fielding than vice versa.  Obviously, you're never gonna turn an iffy fielder into a starting SS, but you can definitely do it at the corners.  

     

  7. 27 minutes ago, HuntinHorn said:
     
    LeeAnne hasn't been bad in the limited time she has played this season.     I think she recently had a low production game  and she got yanked after that..     Then there was the recent game at 1st ..
    2024- Stats
    H- 11-35
    AVG-.314
    HR-1
    RBI-8
    R-9
     

    But like last year, those numbers are heavily influenced by crappy teams.  8 of her 12 hits came in games against LMU, Northwestern State, Tarelton State, and Hofstra. We won't see pitching that bad now that conference play has started.  

    Against decent teams (Stanford, Colorado State, Louisiana, Texas State, Penn State, Houston), which is what we will see the rest of the way, she is 4/19. Not atrocious, but not that great either.  I think that's why she hasn't seen more time.  

  8. 16 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Goode didn’t crack the lineup today. She played like an all American the first half of last season and hasn’t shown a lot since 

    I went back and looked.  She batted .206 last year after conference play started with Tech.  She did well when the pitching was weaker and teams had no film on her.  She's done better not chasing out of the zone as much as she did as a freshman.  Still, she is not squaring up balls when they are there.  She has some bat drag in her swing, but I've noticed lots of softball chicks do, so I'm not sure that's a huge issue.  We need her though.  She's a really good fielder, but her bat just hasn't been there, and I'm sure the surgery didn't help.  

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  9. 4 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

    I question that Maloney is good enough to help us. I feel like I'm watching Burke all over again. 

    I'd like to see some rotation.  I agree with @Js1 that it seems as though Mia and Ashton have 3B and RF on total lockdown, and I'm not sure why that's the case.  

    Down to our last 3 outs. We fucked ourselves in this one with Kavan's poor start, but LSU is good and she is a freshman after all.  Still, you gotta love the fact this team doesn't fold.  

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