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  1. OSU definitely has the advantage today with Watts-Brown on the mound, but I think Sunday sets up well for Texas assuming LBJ and Hurley are both available.
    I am really interested to see the roles in this bullpen as this conference slate plays out. We have squeezed a lot out of Morehouse and Shaw so far. At some point we are going to need Tole/Howard/Burke/Grubbs/Whitehead to get some big outs for us. I hate that Chris Stuart has fallen off a cliff and can’t throw strikes. His stuff is nasty.

    Our advantage will be negated by our propensity to suck ass whenever the spotlight is on us. Pretty sure it’ll be a sweep.
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  2. It’s a joke because it’s a brick wall 20ft back from home plate. 

    That’s character. Lots of ballparks throughout history have little things like that. It makes it interesting. The fact that the ball bounced one inconsequential time in a game you’re gonna win and you insult our beautiful new ballpark shows you either don’t get the cool nuances of baseball stadiums or you’re just a big fucking crybaby. I feel like you probably get baseball.
  3. 13 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    Bullpen does need to be better, but losing the Tech series also felt kind of fluky. 

    We dominated them 2/3 games and just lost that Friday night game because of a handful of ill-timed errors for a team that has been rock-solid in the field all year. To put it in perspective, we gave up 4 unearned runs in that single game and have only given up 17 unearned runs in 24 other games this season.

    Yes they still won the series and it still counts obviously, but we had that series won save for a few uncharacteristically stupid errors.

     

    That's my fucking point!  Argh!  No matter how well we play, you can always count on us to shit down our leg and blow the series against them.   I'm surprised they didn't thrown up a 10 spot in the 8th inning Saturday.  I literally did a double take when I looked at my phone and saw we won that game.  

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  4. 19 hours ago, Homercles said:

    Yeah I have tried to tone down the defeatist attitude…the way football and basketball season ended don’t help me much.  

    For baseball it sucked to see us lose the Tceh series but sweeping Baylor seems a good warm up for a surging Texas team.  Glad it’s at home at least.    As noted above, bullpen needs to be stronger.

    Baseball overall is such a weird sport, full of big momentum swings that can turn a game in a few ABs and mentality being such a large part of it. I don’t get caught up in the highs/lows as much, it’s a long season and Holliday tends to have us playing cohesively as the postseason nears and the bats seem to be working this year.  

    Now that the Tech series is behind us, we can be confident again.  Even as well as UT is playing, at least they don't seem to have a voodoo hex on us.  Our games are usually well fought and the team that wins is the team that played better.  Win or lose, I can live with that type of series.  I'd like to reach that point against Tech, but it seems like a long way off.  

  5. I don't understand why you guys hate him so much.  Yeah, he fucked up, but it didn't turn into much other than him losing his dream job and embarrassing himself.  Of course, I'm a fan of the shittiest least successful basketball team in the conference so my judgement may be off.  I'd let him choke her out at mid court before each game if it meant we could make the tournament and maybe even win more than 1 game every 8 years of whatever it's been since Eddie retired.  

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:

    That little weasel rocket science dweeb fucked the game up by partnering with the crazy drug counselor and that stupid YamYam. That sent the game off it’s axis. Now it’s all fucked in the head. Some of these folks have not watched the game it appears. You don’t vote off the hood looking chicks or the folks that win challenges.

    Question: when did they change the rule allowing the same person to sit out challenges over and over. Used to be you had to cycle thru the batting order to sit out twice, or couldn’t sit out two in a row, etc.

    I think a couple of the challenges she sat out were reward challenges, which that rule does not apply to.  So she probably sat out the last two reward challenges and the last immunity challenge.  If I'm completely wrong about that, change my original answer to "I have no fucking idea".  

  7. 1 hour ago, Fletch said:

    I don’t respect tech baseball cause all of their players the last 10 whatever years have been complete douchebags. No wonder Kash ended up there 

    That's true, but I'd gladly accept a team full of guys our opponents think are douchbags if they were as good as Tech's d-bags and played with as much heart and balls as they do.  Hell, I'd settle for a little heart and balls at this point from our baseball team.  

  8. On 3/17/2023 at 10:19 PM, 'stache said:

    Six fucking errors to blow a lead late. I fucking hate that I let myself care every fucking year. My school is built in a fucking Indian burial ground or something. We’ll never accomplish anything that matters. Yes it’s early but this is the same shit every fucking year. If we’d just held the lead and made plays then yeah I guess were looking pretty good. But nope let’s just blow it with absolute stupidity. I just can’t anymore.

    It's over 'stache.  We don't have to play them again until they eliminate us from the Big XII tournament.  As a reward for that, we'll get the possibility of losing to them again in a Super.  But at least we get a few months off from Tech embarrassing us in baseball.  

  9. 23 hours ago, Homercles said:

    Well Tech just GS’d to a 6-1 lead, and my brief optimism was instantly destroyed.  Life of a Poke

    As negative as you can be, the fact that you chose a baseball series against Tech to test drive being optimistic is pretty terrible timing.  We're their bitch and as long as Tadlock is their coach, I doubt that will change.  I wanna hate Tech baseball, but I fucking respect them too much because they're everything we aren't, but I wish we could be.  It's like Baylor football (post rape culture), except I have no problem hating them.  Still jealous as fuck of them though.  You put OSU football through what Briles put them through and we wouldn't recover in my lifetime.  I'm old so we're only probably talking 20-30 years.   

  10. I am finally getting around to watching this.  It's like the last truly great series I haven't watched.  Just recently rewatched Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, so I feel like it's time.  I've seen the first 3 episodes and I hate to admit it but, it's kind of slow.  I'll stick with it since everyone says it's awesome.   

  11. 5 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    also, matthew broedrick's Lord Denethor makeup hairdo is disturbing.

    I didn't even recognize him.  Of course, when I saw his wife, I thought "Courtney Cox looks a lot better than she normally does", so maybe I'm just not very good at this game.  

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  12. 14 minutes ago, Eugene11 said:

    You’ve been derka’d.  don’t be derka’d 

    what the hell are you doing?  Don't you know if you say his name three times, you summon him from the depths of hell to rise up and post a 4 page 5,000 word manifesto on why he is always right, he's the victim, and everybody else is always wrong?  Saying it two times is just playing with fire.  We're enjoying a nice quiet morning and I imagine he's lounging around his lair, South Austin's mom is in a gold bikini and his current nemesis frozen in carbonite.  And you almost summon him.  

  13. 15 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Yeah, OSU should be in, but ASU beating USC last night is not good for their chances. They need some other bubble teams to lose today.

    Updated: Latest bracketology now has them as 1st team out. They are going to be sweating out Selection Sunday.

    Meh.  I don't think we really deserve it.  At least not to the point where any of should be bitching about it.  Unless we draw OU in our first game, which seems highly unlikely, we're one and done anyway.  

  14. 23 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Considering the absolute shit bags like Oats, Beard, Adams, etc, Self is fine since as far as we know, no major personal life issues or character flaws 

    He spilled beer on me at Eskimo Joe's when I was a freshman 40 years ago and he didn't even acknowledge my existence.  How one treats the commoners is a pretty good indication of character, or lack thereof.  And if something that happened 40 years ago in a bar isn't the smoking gun, I don't know what is.  It's official.  He's a piece of shit 

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  15. I’ve lurked here a long time and [mention=1238]Al_4_ISU[/mention] is a pretty good poster. Not sure that I get the attack on him. Plus, his team has great fans and owns Baylor. Am I missing something? I’ll hang up and listen…

    If you’ve lurked here a long time, you should be familiar with the source of the attack. Most posters here like Al. The source of the attack is “slightly” less popular and his opinions rarely reflect the rest of the board’s opinions.
  16. 9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Saw a quote from Probst that on Season 1, the filming crew was less than 50.  Along with local crew in Fiji, they're now up to 1,000.

    You have to wonder if Survivor is now critical for the local economy since they film at the same location every time now. I'm surprised they don't run a Survivor experience resort there during the non-filming times.

    I did not realize it's always in the same place now.  Season 32 was the last time they did it somewhere else.  

  17. 16 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    Sorry guys - pretty sure I was mashing up several actors in trying to remember this specific guy because now that I'm.... pretty sure this is who I was thinking of, I don't think he was cast as much in that way as I remembered. but it's Timothy Hutton. Also, not British. I feel disappointed.

    I still feel like there's another guy I'm mashing him up with in my memory, but it came out of trying to remember the movie "Beatiful Girls".

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    I still think it's Rufus Sewell.  I don't care what you say, it's definitely not Tim Hutton.  

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  18. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.   This movie is a hoot.  Being Nic Cage, I thought I'd give it 15 minutes and see if it's worth it.  It had me in the first 5.  I was stoned and I'm a sucker for any movie/TV show where an actor is able to laugh at himself and his Hollywood image, but I think it was pretty damn entertaining.  

     

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11291274/  

     

    Also watched Pacific Rim again.  I don't know why, but I did and I was mildly entertained.  

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