Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted
6 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Schloss needs to get team ready for OU. He has never coached anywhere where other teams truly hate them;

TCU - no other team gives a shit (maybe SMU but meh)

I bet those were some crazy series. 

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Posted
10 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

TCU - no other team gives a shit (maybe SMU but meh)

SMU definitely gives a shit.

SMU also does not have a baseball team. 

  • Haha 1
Posted
4 minutes ago, MontereyMX said:

 

tmp.gif

This is also always your response because it's all you can do.

You can never refute anything on baseball or any other subject.

Posted
51 minutes ago, petscii said:

I think he loses the tiebreaker with 3 regular season games left to play...

You seem to be the only person that gets a kick out of this guy and like to egg him on.

This is because of Pierce and everybody knows it also.

Posted
2 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Schloss and staff has done spectacular job this season.  Anyone really believe DP could have done this well?

Respectfully, we are far enough into this thing where I don’t give a shit about hypothetical records with hypothetical coaches. They ain’t putting a banner up at the end of the season that says “performed better than they would have with Pierce”

We've seen what this team is capable right now in the present and we need to get back to that.

  • Hook 'Em 5
Posted
1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

First series win over a #1 team for florida in over 9 years

IMG_4562.thumb.jpeg.dbb98b782249bca93fc22184247d57ad.jpeg

Hell, we had to win the Mutt series in Athens last year just to get a game over .500 and qualify for the tournament as an at-large bid….. this after we lost to Vanderbilt in the opening game of the SEC tournament.

That is the last stat on my mind right now.  

Posted
1 minute ago, Hookem2147 said:

Respectfully, we are far enough into this thing where I don’t give a shit about hypothetical records with hypothetical coaches. They ain’t putting a banner up at the end of the season that says “performed better than they would have with Pierce”

We've seen what this team is capable right now in the present and we need to get back to that.

Horse shit.  

Posted

This is not the same team without Spencer and Max.  Also, suspect several others are much more banged up and playing than publicly known.  You want that team back and it probably ain’t happening soon. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Rage+1 1
Posted
1 hour ago, NBHorn7 said:

OU may be playing worse than Texas.

Florida just tied them and Kentucky for tenth place in the SEC with 13-14 records.

Florida started out 1-11 in the SEC.

The key game is Friday night against Witherspoon; he is one of the best in college baseball, but it really falls off after him.

 

Yea….don’t matter….we are Texas and you can throw out how they’ve been playing….they’ll bring their A game…..will we?

Posted
1 hour ago, Horn80 said:

This is not the same team without Spencer and Max.  Also, suspect several others are much more banged up and playing than publicly known.  You want that team back and it probably ain’t happening soon. 

Every team with the exception of LSU has battled injuries throughout the year, probably no team more so than Florida who was without their best hitter in Colby Shelton this weekend with a hamate injury.

Chasing the SEC title has probably been a net negative on the injury front as guys like Mendoza and ARod are probably playing because of that, when they otherwise could have used some time off

There isn’t a clear front runner for a title this year. I won’t go as far as to say Texas has as good a shot as anybody, but when Texas plays at their best there aren’t 8 teams with a better shot. LSU probably would be my favorite because several teams have 1 front end arm but not many have 2 on the level of Anderson and Eyanson. Those two will be tough to beat. Baseball though has a way of choke slamming you when you aren’t expecting it.

Posted
3 hours ago, chase25 said:

Took Clemente 60 pitches to get 6 outs and we scored 1 run. Pretty accurate summation of the 2025 offense

I mean if this was our offense all weekend we would’ve blown them out 

Posted
23 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Every team with the exception of LSU has battled injuries throughout the year, probably no team more so than Florida who was without their best hitter in Colby Shelton this weekend with a hamate injury.

Chasing the SEC title has probably been a net negative on the injury front as guys like Mendoza and ARod are probably playing because of that, when they otherwise could have used some time off

There isn’t a clear front runner for a title this year. I won’t go as far as to say Texas has as good a shot as anybody, but when Texas plays at their best there aren’t 8 teams with a better shot. LSU probably would be my favorite because several teams have 1 front end arm but not many have 2 on the level of Anderson and Eyanson. Those two will be tough to beat. Baseball though has a way of choke slamming you when you aren’t expecting it.

Win the regular season outright, sit the injured during the conference tournament. That’ll give about two weeks off.

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
1 hour ago, UTEE97 said:

Pretty disappointing to have this kind of effort on senior day. Where is the Texas fight, fellas?

If you’re a senior on a college baseball team, you generally aren’t very good. 

Posted
2 hours ago, Texas Fight said:

Well, apparently we had a players only team meeting after the game. So we have that going for us.

meg rosoff GIF

Posted
3 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

Tulo seems to have batters watching first five pitches they see

This has to stop. Getting behind every fucking at bat 0-2 and then having to battle back is not a way to win games. 

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
2 hours ago, UTEE97 said:

Pretty disappointing to have this kind of effort on senior day. Where is the Texas fight, fellas?

Grubbs was doing his best to get the crowd into it the last two innings. Told us all to “get the fuck up!”  I did. 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

This has to stop. Getting behind every fucking at bat 0-2 and then having to battle back is not a way to win games. 

It’s a good “plan” against shitty pitchers, but when you face good staffs, you’re going to strikeout 12+ times a game.  

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted (edited)

Just did the math for the weekend:

Friday- watched first pitch in 37 of 39 plate appearances, strike percentage on those takes: 72%

Saturday- watched first pitch on 28 of 36 plate appearances, strike percentage on those takes: 50%

Sunday- watched first pitch in 33 of 38 plate appearances, strike percentage on those takes: 42%

Edited by Hookem2147
  • Hook 'Em 4
Posted
11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

This has to stop. Getting behind every fucking at bat 0-2 and then having to battle back is not a way to win games. 

It's like we're stepping into the box with 2 strikes almost every time.  

You get one hack at it boys.  That's it.  Good luck.

I get the take strategy for pitchers who have a history of control issues, but for the dudes who you know are going to be in the zone it's tough to watch day in and day out.

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted
46 minutes ago, Cajun said:

It's like we're stepping into the box with 2 strikes almost every time.  

You get one hack at it boys.  That's it.  Good luck.

I get the take strategy for pitchers who have a history of control issues, but for the dudes who you know are going to be in the zone it's tough to watch day in and day out.


Arkansas and Florida threw strikes and we lost.

We have to be able to change our approach when dudes are locating fastballs over the plate to get ahead.

All weekend it was:

Fastball for strike 1.

Slider strike 2.

foul pitches / maybe some balls.

Strike 3 on an off speed pitch or caught guessing off speed and a strike 3 fastball.

outside of the saved by the rain delay game 6th inning.

Making pitchers work but still striking out helps no one.

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted

Looks like Sunday UF guys were not good at first pitch strikes, but that was probably late inning guy more so than starter.

The hitter is in a difficult spot on the 3rd strike.  If you teach them to be selective, then the ump is giving the borderline strike it is hard to fault them.

Posted

I truly think the taking the first thing has taken on a life of its own. A lot of people are so fixated on it now that it feels like it is happening more than it actually is. 

As evidenced by the data above, we are not actually taking every first pitch and the opposing team really isn't humming in first pitch strikes at that great of a rate compared to the norm (which I assume is right around 50% or below at the college level). Of course, there will always be outliers (Friday, game 1 against Arkansas, etc)

I don't think the offensive approach has anything to do with Flores swinging at balls at his neck level or Gasparino chasing balls in the other batters box. 

Probably not a coincidence that some of our most successful hitters approach-wise (Mendoza, Rodriguez, Williams) are all new to the program. This is the only approach they've known, whereas the guys from last year's team are trying to move off approaches that had them flying out to CF 3 times a game against 88 MPH fastballs from Baylor and A&M Corpus Christi. 

No one seemed to have problems with this approach when we were running up pitch counts and scoring runs against LSU and Georgia and Auburn. Just have to get back to that middle ground between aggressive and passive. We had it figured out for a while. 

 

  • Hook 'Em 5
Posted
9 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

I truly think the taking the first thing has taken on a life of its own. A lot of people are so fixated on it now that it feels like it is happening more than it actually is. 

As evidenced by the data above, we are not actually taking every first pitch and the opposing team really isn't humming in first pitch strikes at that great of a rate compared to the norm (which I assume is right around 50% or below at the college level). Of course, there will always be outliers (Friday, game 1 against Arkansas, etc)

I don't think the offensive approach has anything to do with Flores swinging at balls at his neck level or Gasparino chasing balls in the other batters box. 

Probably not a coincidence that some of our most successful hitters approach-wise (Mendoza, Rodriguez, Williams) are all new to the program. This is the only approach they've known, whereas the guys from last year's team are trying to move off approaches that had them flying out to CF 3 times a game against 88 MPH fastballs from Baylor and A&M Corpus Christi. 

No one seemed to have problems with this approach when we were running up pitch counts and scoring runs against LSU and Georgia and Auburn. Just have to get back to that middle ground between aggressive and passive. We had it figured out for a while. 

 

It’s not surprising to see the offense pressing when they lose their Friday night starter and the pitching starts to fumble a bit trying to find their groove again. I agree with you (I think it was you) that our pitching has covered up some flaws in our lineup. Feels like the bats are trying to do too much at the plate in an attempt to pick up the slack. And honestly, outside of Ruger, the pitching staff did a decent enough job this weekend. I was kind of shocked to see them struggle so much at the plate outside of one inning in game two.

I think guys like Rodriguez and Williams are standing out a bit more because they are keeping their approach caveman style—see ball, hit ball. And for the most part they are still able to work the count. Maybe not having a game on Tuesday will give the guys a mental reset. 

Posted

If Schloss is a real leader he’d have Williams come out and issue an apology for this weekend. Taunting the other team over a walk down 7 runs is ridiculous and we’re getting absolutely slammed and dragged all over social media and regular media for it. That’s a terrible look for the program

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rising-texas-baseball-star-jonah-williams-behavior-during-at-bat-draws-florida-fans-ire.amp

Posted
57 minutes ago, Helobious said:

If Schloss is a real leader he’d have Williams come out and issue an apology for this weekend. Taunting the other team over a walk down 7 runs is ridiculous and we’re getting absolutely slammed and dragged all over social media and regular media for it. That’s a terrible look for the program

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rising-texas-baseball-star-jonah-williams-behavior-during-at-bat-draws-florida-fans-ire.amp

Shut up pussy

  • Hook 'Em 1
  • Haha 1
Posted
1 minute ago, Hookem10 said:

Fuck everybody else - especially sec fan bases 

Biggest shit talkers are the first to cry when someone does it back 

Posted

I’d go with Grubbs on Friday with burns middle relief on Friday - let’s get this motherfucker back on track and sweep the paperclips. Ruger in Sunday after he drinks all his pedialyte 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
1 hour ago, Helobious said:

If Schloss is a real leader he’d have Williams come out and issue an apology for this weekend. Taunting the other team over a walk down 7 runs is ridiculous and we’re getting absolutely slammed and dragged all over social media and regular media for it. That’s a terrible look for the program

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rising-texas-baseball-star-jonah-williams-behavior-during-at-bat-draws-florida-fans-ire.amp

He’s the only reason we didn’t get swept this weekend 

  • Hook 'Em 1
Posted
54 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

No surprise the most openly racist poster on the board has a problem with a black player not being demure

I could not care less about what race he is, but it sucks to open up Reddit and Twitter and see everyone clowning him and texas for that. It makes the program look bad. ’m not calling for a suspension or anything ridiculous. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I could not care less about what race he is, but it sucks to open up Reddit and Twitter and see everyone clowning him and texas for that. It makes the program look bad. ’m not calling for a suspension or anything ridiculous. 

He's 17 years old. Coach addressed it with him. Story over.

Who gives a shit what dumbasses on social media are saying? If it's not this, they will find something else to say about us. Fuck'em.

Get a grip, dude.

Posted
53 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I could not care less about what race he is, but it sucks to open up Reddit and Twitter and see everyone clowning him and texas for that. It makes the program look bad. ’m not calling for a suspension or anything ridiculous. 

You problem is opening that shit up in the first place.

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted (edited)
4 hours ago, Helobious said:

If Schloss is a real leader he’d have Williams come out and issue an apology for this weekend. Taunting the other team over a walk down 7 runs is ridiculous and we’re getting absolutely slammed and dragged all over social media and regular media for it. That’s a terrible look for the program

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rising-texas-baseball-star-jonah-williams-behavior-during-at-bat-draws-florida-fans-ire.amp

Schloss has ALREADY covered it.....no stupid apology needed.

Go and look for the highlights of Vandy/ UTenn and watch their player talk trash to EVERY infielder as he's rounding the bases after a home run (Tenn lost and then the whole team tried having a scrum post game).... It's happens in EVERY game and in EVERY sport.

Edited by BillyGoatHill
Posted

I feel like every team this season has had these swoons.
I’d rather go through this shit during the season and not the post season….. so hopefully whatever ghosts we are dealing with get exercised in time.

In Schloss we trust!

 

Posted

Pretty sure Tennessee was the team that had a player hit a home run and after rounding first he flipped off either the second baseman or the right fielder. What Jonah did was like a 3 out of 10 on a scale of nothing happened to very bad. And our coach still went out to intervene and calm him down. Who gives a fuck what other the other fan bases think. 

Posted
25 minutes ago, BillyGoatHill said:

Schloss has ALREADY covered it.....no stupid apology needed.

Go and look for the highlights of Vandy/ UTenn and watch their player talk trash to EVERY infielder as he's rounding the bases after a home run (Tenn lost and then the whole team tried having a scrum post game).... It's happens in EVERY game and in EVERY sport.

I've been noticing this in the Gen Z demographic. Sportsmanship is changing with the times, and unfortunately some of our fans will get left behind to bitch into the void of the internet (surly). You watch basketball and see how acceptable it is now, everybody has a "signature" celebration now. There are no more enforcers, it's just accepted. Older baseball fans will talk about beaning people the next time up like when they played Little League in the 80s, but these kids don't give half a shit as much as the fans, they just want to talk shit when it's their turn. Those days of retribution outside of the playing field/court are fading fast. 

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...