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9 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Unless we were trying to get into the big tournaments, I have never given a solitary fuck about conference tournaments, basketball or baseball.

The problem is even in those situations where we desperately need to win the tournament to keep our season going, like in 2015 with the baseball team, it means we suck and we kind of don't really want the season to continue anyway.

I give a fuck though. Just because winning things is cool. And in the case of the basketball team, winning the conference tournament is the only tournament title we have a realistic chance of ever winning. I don't see us ever cutting down the nets in the NCAA tournament.

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16 minutes ago, chase25 said:

We can go down the hypothetical rabbit hole all day long, it goes nowhere. A Regional, Super Regional, and the CWS are all different. If you host a Regional you often get a Tuesday night opponent so you can pitch off. A Super Regional is a traditional 3 game series. In Omaha you get days off

As far as your hypothetical two wins from a title, it’s not even possible to have a fully rested Riojas and Harrison even with the off days unless one of them got blown up in their start and yanked early so you could use them later. In that event we are likely in the losers bracket

Flores booted a double play, and the bullpen didn’t have their best. On to the regional. That simple

Agreed but Schloss didn’t manage pitching as though this was a must win, and sometimes a conference tourney is a must win, you know that. You avoided the question, it’s fine but don’t act like my perspective or hornsby’s is just without any merit. The game didn’t matter, he staffed it accordingly, still tried to win and offense and defense couldn’t pull it out when saunier and burns flubbed it up. 

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Pitching is the furthest thing from my concern. Jalin Flores and Will Gasparino were two guys that you were expecting to anchor the top half of your lineup and they have been the two worst qualified hitters on the team.

Jalin we are pretty much stuck with. If Jonah is able to go in the Regional I honestly think you will see Jonah-Farmer-Belyeu in the outfield and Will on the bench

Jonah and Belyeu are going to have to step up big time.

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15 minutes ago, TornACL said:

Unless we were trying to get into the big tournaments, I have never given a solitary fuck about conference tournaments, basketball or baseball.

I liked getting some guys some high leverage moments. I would have enjoyed laughing at this hick conference if we won both the trophies. But I have been thinking about next weekend since the moment this conf tournament started.

This is where I'm at. Obviously don't like losing in this way, but as soon as it was over I was like "oh well fuck it. Doesn't really matter anyways"

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Sorry for the dumb question but there's no "losers bracket" in the SEC tournament, correct?
Longhorns are completely bounced from the tournament now, I believe?

I don't follow enough baseball to know the rules.

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1 minute ago, chase25 said:

Pitching is the furthest thing from my concern. Jalin Flores and Will Gasparino were two guys that you were expecting to anchor the top half of your lineup and they have been the two worst qualified hitters on the team.

Jalin we are pretty much stuck with. If Jonah is able to go in the Regional I honestly think you will see Jonah-Farmer-Belyeu in the outfield and Will on the bench

Jonah and Belyeu are going to have to step up big time.

That’s true too, the criticism you lobbed was about those of us saying Schloss didn’t pitch this aggressively to win. Fact is our offense has been so so all year. We aren’t winning giving up 7. We just aren’t. look it’s fine. You make good points but you aren’t addressing the answers to your criticisms. It’s fine I don’t care.

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1 minute ago, ATXbronco said:

Sorry for the dumb question but there's no "losers bracket" in the SEC tournament, correct?
Longhorns are completely bounced from the tournament now, I believe?

I don't follow enough baseball to know the rules.

Correct. And this is the first season of us being in this format so don't worry about sounding clueless. We all are figuring this out.

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This is where I'm at. Obviously don't like losing in this way, but as soon as it was over I was like "oh well fuck it. Doesn't really matter anyways"

Same, not to aggy it up but arms and legs get a rest for a week. Still hosting and the end goal is different from a conference championship.

Having said that, the last few weeks needs to get cleaned up. Not exactly peaking at the right time.
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I watched the post game press conference and Schlossnagle didn't explain his reasoning for going with Walker --> Saunier --> Burns --> Grubbs --> Volantis instead of the usual Starter --> Grubbs --> Volantis.

I was hoping they'd ask him whether or not he was trying to win the game, but they didn't.

What do you guys think?

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2 minutes ago, markstanco said:


Same, not to aggy it up but arms and legs get a rest for a week. Still hosting and the end goal is different from a conference championship.

Having said that, the last few weeks needs to get cleaned up. Not exactly peaking at the right time.

Yep. The plate approaches worry me but they haven't been great all year. I wouldn't be sad if Jonah got more PT than Will at this point, even vs a lefty. I can't remember but doesn't he have decent stats against lefty's anyways? 

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1 minute ago, Hondo said:

I watched the post game press conference and Schlossnagle didn't explain his reasoning for going with Walker --> Saunier --> Burns --> Grubbs --> Volantis instead of the usual Starter --> Grubbs --> Volantis.

I was hoping they'd ask him whether or not he was trying to win the game, but they didn't.

What do you guys think?

I think he wasn't planning on using Grubbs or Volantis but once the game got to where it was, he was like fuck it let's try to win it. 

Also if we had pulled it out in extra innings, I think our pitching lineup in the next game would've been even more of a "we don't care, let's just see what happens"

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1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Dude had 1 inning of work and you are acting like he got screwed after a 4 inning shutout performance. Dude was getting hit around. 3 hits, 2 runs, on 6 faced batters is no bueno. 

You know Volantis got the loss? The dude is a fn stud. Who should Schloss have gone to instead? We straight up got beat. Quit acting like an aggie.

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11 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Pitching is the furthest thing from my concern. Jalin Flores and Will Gasparino were two guys that you were expecting to anchor the top half of your lineup and they have been the two worst qualified hitters on the team.

Jalin we are pretty much stuck with. If Jonah is able to go in the Regional I honestly think you will see Jonah-Farmer-Belyeu in the outfield and Will on the bench

Jonah and Belyeu are going to have to step up big time.

Jonah is 4 for his last 21 against SEC competition.  Max is 2 for 18 in his return.

Looks like Galvan is sub-.200 in May against the SEC.  That’s better than Flores, but it isn’t great baseball.

Any of our guys could step up and be the guy.  I think a weeklong reset could be helpful for a number of guys.  That’s probably not what Belyeu needs however.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see us hit well next weekend.

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1 hour ago, Wishbone said:

Bottom line, and easiest way to put it, is we didn’t give a shit about this tournament after having won the conference outright. Anything we did was to get reps and discovery going into the post season (that matters more). Still tried to win, but with a lazy dog in the hunt. Some guys got valuable playing time and the coaches got a bit of insight into things that we may need down the road.

IOW, Texas didn’t want to be there…. Hmmm, very interesting. 

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24 minutes ago, Hondo said:

I watched the post game press conference and Schlossnagle didn't explain his reasoning for going with Walker --> Saunier --> Burns --> Grubbs --> Volantis instead of the usual Starter --> Grubbs --> Volantis.

I was hoping they'd ask him whether or not he was trying to win the game, but they didn't.

What do you guys think?

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Posted
13 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Living in TXK with all these arkie fans is exhausting. “Welcome to sec baseball”.

Hey fat hog bitches, we won the fucking conference you flat nosed filthy mammals. <— what you should say next time.

18 minutes ago, Beer Drinker said:

You know Volantis got the loss? The dude is a fn stud. Who should Schloss have gone to instead? We straight up got beat. Quit acting like an aggie.

User name checks out. 

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44 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Living in TXK with all these arkie fans is exhausting. “Welcome to sec baseball”.

They can talk if they ever win one (1) fucking championship.

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Great game between Texas and Tennessee.  I would’ve pulled walker after 2 innings. Or 3 innings max. The 4th inning was a lucky bonus. Stahp! You had to have a 1 base runner limit going into that 5th. Let the guy end with a 1-run taste in his mouth what the fuck!

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4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

i was the only rep in real time

post held up

We had multiple chances after that with runners in scoring position. We just also fucked those up. It didn’t at all.

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8 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we lost because we gave the green light to 15 batters in a row who could not see a 58mph breaking ball

it was infuriating

You wanted 2-0 takes? 

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8 hours ago, markstanco said:

Living in TXK with all these arkie fans is exhausting. “Welcome to sec baseball”.

Next time throw something up in the air and ask them, "you gonna catch that?" as it falls to the ground.

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