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That intentional walk blunder getting a lot of play 

Atwood intentionally walks No. 3/4 Softball one win away from title

Teagan Kavan ties Cat Osterman’s program record for most career wins at Women’s College World Series

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9 hours ago, dcar00 said:

Is Beth Mowins still alive?  she has to be so depressed.  first Patty Gasso loses and then Nijareeeeeeeeeeee Canadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy loses.  It has to be like a death in the family for her.

chris tucker smokey GIF

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6 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Starts about 14:00…..both teams

Immediately postgame, Kavan always sounds like Mickey Mouse.  In the presser, she sounds completely normal.  😀 

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13 minutes ago, Js1 said:

That intentional walk blunder getting a lot of play 

 

Atwood intentionally walks No. 3/4 Softball one win away from title

Teagan Kavan ties Cat Osterman’s program record for most career wins at Women’s College World Series

Interested to see how Teagan's final two years play out. Reese or Teagan could surpass Cat in the pantheon of women's softball for Texas?

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Someone mentioned Louisiana was on the other side of a IBB fiasco in a game against LSU. Glasco was on the good side of that 

Found the video 

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Interested to see how Teagan's final two years play out. Reese or Teagan could surpass Cat in the pantheon of women's softball for Texas?

If TK wins a title, she has to surpass Cat. Offenses (overall) are so much better than when Cat was pitching, so nobody will touch the ERA and strikeout numbers. But TK’s OKC performances outside of OU 2024 have been stellar and a title will surpass Cat’s legacy.

Reese is a couple of HR away from the record at Texas. Best hitter Texas has ever had already 

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Just now, Js1 said:

If TK wins a title, she has to surpass Cat. Offenses (overall) are so much better than when Cat was pitching, so nobody will touch the ERA and strikeout numbers. But TK’s OKC performances outside of OU 2024 have been stellar and a title will surpass Cat’s legacy.

Reese is a couple of HR away from the record at Texas. Best hitter Texas has ever had already 

The only thing Reese needs to work on this offseason is blocking and catching pitches more cleanly to round out her game completely. Framing could use a little work but it's hard for a catcher like her with the arm length she has to be great at it. 

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4 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

2000s to early 2010s was an insane run of pitchers for college softball. Only 3 didn't play most of their career in the 2000s and Canion who last played in 2014 is the most recent. 

 

 

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Yep. TK is only at 362 in her career.  Has to average over 300 per season as a junior and senior to hit 1,000

Just a different time now with more sophisticated offenses. 

Canady is a unicorn. And even she is only at 866 as a junior. But she got 3 years so far of offenses behind her that would make Cat annoyed 

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Yep. TK is only at 362 in her career.  Has to average over 300 per season as a junior and senior to hit 1,000

Just a different time now with more sophisticated offenses. 

Canady is a unicorn. And even she is only at 866 as a junior. But she got 3 years so far of offenses behind her that would make Cat annoyed 

I think it's the way their taught to pitch now too. Fielding has got so much better you pitch for grounders more than you used to. 

 

The game is just completely different now compared to even 10 years ago with how much better overall the players are across the board. On the radio show I was listening to this morning they mentioned that with the current softball athlete it may be time to look at adjusting the infield dimensions a little to accommodate for the much better athlete, fielders, offense, etc. 

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Canady should be smart enough to demand more money from Tech for this, and hope that guy’s wife is ready to drop some money on some actual offensive players for her last go around in college next year 

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Just now, Js1 said:

Canady should be smart enough to demand more money from Tech for this, and hope that guy’s wife is ready to drop some money on some actual offensive players for her last go around in college next year 

They did  mention that her deal was only for 1 year. She 1000% should tell them to at minimum double it.

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9 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

it's already in the rulebook, plain as day, as an addendum.  

Ump's didn't give a shit about the rule book. They only had one thing on their agenda.

And fuck Glasso, if he had 100 challenges he'd use every fucking one.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

That intentional walk blunder getting a lot of play 

 

Atwood intentionally walks No. 3/4 Softball one win away from title

Teagan Kavan ties Cat Osterman’s program record for most career wins at Women’s College World Series

That's crazy.  As good as TK is, she doesn't seem to be as dominant as Cat was.  Of course, that's wins, and Cat was seriously hampered by Connie Clark.

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Posted
4 hours ago, AnTiM said:

65 years of watching ball games and I never saw this much odd shit in 22 innings, much less 6 1/2.  Catcher interference, umpire interference, bullshit blocking call at second base, illegal pitch, and creme de la creme, 2 RBI on an intentional walk attempt for the win.  Best of all, Canady pretty much giving Tech the  loss after all her dancing and screaming on the mound.   

Hook 'em indeed.

The IBB that wasn't immediately brought to mind this memory from way back in the day. Yeah, I'm also old. 

 

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Posted (edited)
16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

That's crazy.  As good as TK is, she doesn't seem to be as dominant as Cat was.  Of course, that's wins, and Cat was seriously hampered by Connie Clark.

As posted above, that was such a different era of softball.  TK has an offense about 850,000x better behind her, which has helped her. While Cat was losing games 0-3, 0-1, 1-2, TK is winning those games 3-0, 1-0, 2-1, etc.

5 ER in 40.1 IP (5 CG)
0.87 ERA
30 K
5-1 record with 1 save

All 5 of those ER came against OU, which was the last game she also didn't record a strikeout. It's been a year since that game. 

2 games against Stanford
2 games against OU
1 game against Florida
1 relief appearance against Tennessee
1 game against Tech

And she's 3-0 against Canady in the WCWS

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

Or she could just transfer to a team with an offense. 

DON'T PUT THAT OUT THERE OR SHE'S GOING TO YOU KNOW WHERE

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43 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

The game is just completely different now compared to even 10 years ago with how much better overall the players are across the board. On the radio show I was listening to this morning they mentioned that with the current softball athlete it may be time to look at adjusting the infield dimensions a little to accommodate for the much better athlete, fielders, offense, etc. 

Unless the NCAA is paying for it (ha), there would be any agreement on adjusting infield dimensions.

We've talked about it - the advanced analytics (teams with 100+ HR are so common now), the speed of players, etc. has changed the game.  And it brings the eyeballs.  No one wants to go back to watching Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott strike out 30 batters and someone loses 1-0. 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

The IBB that wasn't immediately brought to mind this memory from way back in the day. Yeah, I'm also old. 

 

That Series was as good as they get.

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7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I credited Henry with getting on base last night (good things happen when Kayden gets on base), but Mia's 2-out, 2-strike bloop really set up the heroics -

Got the tying run to 3rd, so an infield hit, error, WP or PB would tie the game, at a minimum 
Got Reese up to bat
Forced Tech to let Mia take 2nd to avoid getting into a double steal fuckup and tying the game

She's amazing - that bat and body control to just stop her barrel mid-swing and put it right over Canady's head into no-man's land on the infield - wow. 

Absolutely. Mia will go down as one of the best and toughest ever to take the field at McCombs. She's saved us so many times, whether with her bat, her glove or her legs. To think she's doing all this with a torn ACL is stunning. Maybe she'll change her mind and play some pro ball, but even if not, she's an undisputed Longhorn legend.

https://www.si.com/onsi/softball/injuries/texas-softball-mia-scott-reportedly-playing-with-torn-acl

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1 minute ago, Gut Wagon said:

Absolutely. Mia will go down as one of the best and toughest ever to take the field at McCombs. She's saved us so many times, whether with her bat, her glove or her legs. To think she's doing all this with a torn ACL is stunning. Maybe she'll change her mind and play some pro ball, but even if not, she's an undisputed Longhorn legend.

https://www.si.com/onsi/softball/injuries/texas-softball-mia-scott-reportedly-playing-with-torn-acl

And she was a late flip from aggy to Mike White and Texas 

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Posted
40 minutes ago, Js1 said:

As posted above, that was such a different era of softball.  TK has an offense about 850,000x better behind her, which has helped her. While Cat was losing games 0-3, 0-1, 1-2, TK is winning those games 3-0, 1-0, 2-1, etc.

5 ER in 40.1 IP (5 CG)
0.87 ERA
30 K
5-1 record with 1 save

All 5 of those ER came against OU, which was the last game she also didn't record a strikeout. It's been a year since that game. 

2 games against Stanford
2 games against OU
1 game against Florida
1 relief appearance against Tennessee
1 game against Tech

And she's 3-0 against Canady in the WCWS

If memory serves me right, one of the Cat years the best hitter only had a hitting percentage around .298!

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

If TK wins a title, she has to surpass Cat. Offenses (overall) are so much better than when Cat was pitching, so nobody will touch the ERA and strikeout numbers. But TK’s OKC performances outside of OU 2024 have been stellar and a title will surpass Cat’s legacy.

Reese is a couple of HR away from the record at Texas. Best hitter Texas has ever had already 

Cat had offense? That's news to me.

🤬

 

1 hour ago, Hard Times said:

Ump's didn't give a shit about the rule book. They only had one thing on their agenda.

And fuck Glasso, if he had 100 challenges he'd use every fucking one.

*Umps

 

Ffs.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Canady should be smart enough to demand more money from Tech for this, and hope that guy’s wife is ready to drop some money on some actual offensive players for her last go around in college next year 

Were they bidding against themselves to get the headline 7-figure number? Really seems like they would have been better off paying her $800k and two $100k hitters.

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1 minute ago, tokamak said:

Were they bidding against themselves to get the headline 7-figure number? Really seems like they would have been better off paying her $800k and two $100k hitters.

Tech and OU both made offers and hosted her. Gasso doesn’t do huge NIL deals at the expense of other players. Mike “worried” it would affect TK’s development.

To be fair to Mike, TK has been better than Canady when it matters so far 

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Just now, tokamak said:

Were they bidding against themselves to get the headline 7-figure number? Really seems like they would have been better off paying her $800k and two $100k hitters.

Tech's entire post season history:

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She's worth every bit of the money they paid her and probably even more. She's the reason they are even in this national title because how good of a pitcher she is. 

Just now, Js1 said:

Tech and OU both made offers and hosted her. Gasso doesn’t do huge NIL deals at the expense of other players. Mike “worried” it would affect TK’s development.

To be fair to Mike, TK has been better than Canady when it matters so far 

If OU landed her I'd bet they win easily again for the 5th time in a row and if we landed her I'd bet we only had 5ish losses all season and a title. 

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I'm new to this team and playing a little catch up on the main characters. I really like Mike White. He seems like he'd be a lot of fun to play for. If this season is any indication, with him at the helm, this program should be set up for a while. sweet, another feather in our cap

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2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

If OU landed her I'd bet they win easily again for the 5th time in a row and if we landed her I'd bet we only had 5ish losses all season and a title. 

Probably. But we are one win away without her. What does 6 fewer losses get us? A better seed, maybe an SEC title and we don’t go to 3 in our super regional

We are doing fine without her 

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Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I'm new to this team and playing a little catch up on the main characters. I really like Mike White. He seems like he'd be a lot of fun to play for. If this season is any indication, with him at the helm, this program should be set up for a while. sweet, another feather in our cap

Mike seems like a genuinely nice guy, he's been a bridesmaid many times but never the bride. He seems more locked in this year and post season than years prior from a mental standpoint IMO. I think that shift has helped elevate this team mentally.

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