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Beau Vine

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

    They don't want to spend the coin it takes to maintain real grass.

    Pro stadiums have full-time staffs that do nothing but baby that grass nearly 24/7.  Even a rich athletic department like UT can't really dedicate that many resources to a single facility. Plus I'm sure the environmentalists have a lot of more sway with UT than they have with the RR Express.  Hard for a state public entity like UT to justify the water usage.

    EDIT:  I'm not defending it.  I think baseball should be on grass at every level.  

    You're preaching to the choir, Nate.

    You know who else has a field-turf baseball field?  Wimberley High School.  Softball, too.  It's hilarious to see 6A teams use our fields for playoff games when it rains.

    Our football field is also field-turf, and I'm pretty sure it was the first 3A FT field in the state. 
     

    Both got approved because of the water usage.

     

    But for years and years and years and years, the excuse UT always gave was that hosting the UIL state tournament meant that they couldn't possibly have a grass field.

    I will say that the current DF field-turf field >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old Astroturf field.

     

  2. 11 minutes ago, Loco said:

    burn those arms boys, burn those arms!

    This guy has pitched 1 (ONE) inning all season.

     

    9 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Bringing their ace in to pitch after throwing over 90 pitches over 5 innings on Saturday is the definition of "overextending arms". 

    Good luck having Moths anywhere close to fresh next weekend if Tennessee Tech advances. 

    Tennessee Tech has definitely overextended Roberts and Moths this weekend. They probably don't have a choice, but it's happening. 

    Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of strict pitch counts.

    But when you're 20-21, you can do anything, and you recover sooooooooo quickly.  None of this is going to affect TNTech pitchers next week.  It might do long-term damage, but they'll be fine if they need to pitch next week. 

    That's the horrible dichotomy for college coaches.

    See Graham, Wayne.

  3. 5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's been turf from the get-go, so 42 years now.  For many years, as with football fields, it was considered "cool" and state of the art, and also a competitive advantage.  The infield was fast as hell in the earlier days and there were some interesting seams between the infield and outfield.

    For many years, UT made the "Grass can't handle the workload in this climate especially with the UIL state games here" excuse.

    And then the Round Rock Express came into existence, and they made a grass field, which took on much more use in a minor league season, and took on half of the UIL games, and somehow everything was fine with their field. 

    So the reason we still have that turf stuff (which is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the faded Astroturf that we had for so many years) is because the people in charge want us to have fake grass.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    Yeah, I lucked on this one as well. My wife new virtually nothing about baseball when we met, As in, I remember explaining what a double play was on one of our dates. Then this weekend, Tocci (Rangers) was in the line up after being the DL, I was wondering why and she reminded me that he was a rule 5 draft so that couldn't send him down tot he minors. 

    I took my wife to a Rangers game on our first date.  She knew Julio Franco's current batting average the night before.

    Her knowledge and interest in baseball has gone to Julio Franco's current batting average.  (OK, # of hits for the math nerds.)

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  5. 4 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Great outing for that Tennessee Tech pitcher but borderline dangerous the amount of pitches he threw over the last couple of days. 

    Man, not that I disagree with you, but no one goes to pitch for Tennessee Tech expecting to have his arm protected in a regional final.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:


    I know nothing about TN Tech other than they led D1 in homers...by more than 30 for the 2nd closest team.
    Granted DFF doesn’t play at much of a pitcher’s park as it used to, but I still like a team like that coming into the Disch

    360 and 365 to the alleys at Bush Stadium at Averitt Express Baseball Complex, which I understand the NCAA is seriously considering for hosting a Super:
     

    A-Full-House-in-the-Bush-Bleachers-900x6

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Tailgate said:

    If Tennessee Tech wins the regional do we get the supers in Austin?

    No, the NCAA will give the right to host the supers to a 2-seed in Bumfuck, Tennessee with a stadium that holds a thousand.

     

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  8. 1 hour ago, DeadArmadillo said:

    I've been wondering when someone would just point out that he's not that great of a baseball player.  He may have the potential to be great.  Maybe some scouts think so.  But he's not even a top ten prospect in the Big 12.

     

    🙄

    Come on, man.

    Keith Law has him ranked #36 in the draft.  BA has him ranked #77.

     

     

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    2 hours ago, Duke Silver said:

    Wood, the umpire made the right call in your first scenario. If the ball hits in fair territory and a player touches it in foul territory before the ball touches the ground in foul territory and before it passes foul past third base then it is considered fair.  The ball becomes a foul once it touches the ground in foul territory.  

     

    2 hours ago, immortal13 said:

    This. If it's before the bag and bounced in fair ground, then it's still fair.

    What the fuuuuuck???

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