Baseball Tournanent Day One Open Thread
by 40AS on May 30, 2008 10:50 AM CDT
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PrintThe baseball version of the Big Dance begins today, and you can discuss all the action with your fellow BONers right here. NCAA Sports has your live scoreboard for every game. Texas and St. John's have their first pitch at 2 PM CDT. Other notable start times are Mizzou playing Ole Miss at 11 AM CDT, Dallas Baptist against Houston at 12:30 PM, Eastern Illinois against Nebraska at 1:05, National No. 1 Seed Miami against Bethune-Cookman at 3:00, OU against Vanderbilt at 4:00, Sam Houston against Rice at 6:00, UIC against A&M at 6:30, and Western Kentucky against Okie State at 7:00.
The NCAA Baseball Tournament is a lot of fun to follow, although it takes a bit more patience than following the basketball tournament. The double-elimination format takes out some of the excitement that a "win or go home" basketball tourney brings, but baseball does not lend itself to such a system. The team with the deepest pitching staff will not necessarily win the regional/super-regional/College World Series, but it definitely has the greatest margin for error. The more solid pitchers a team has, the more opportunities it has to overcome an early loss to give itself a chance to succeed in the long slog through the losers' bracket.
In Texas' case, as Peter noted yesterday Augie Garrido has decided to start Kenn Kasparek against St. John's and save staff ace Chance Ruffin for the likely matchup with Rice on Saturday. This plan makes a lot of sense for a team like Texas, whose Achilles heel may well be its starting pitching depth. Ruffin and Big Bird have been fantastic of late, but beyond that it's a bit of a crap shoot. That means that it is absolutely vital for Texas to win its first two games--it will equalize the pitching matchup with Rice by forcing the Owls to use an extra arm in the losers' bracket game, and will give the Longhorns a coveted margin of error in having to only win one of two games to take the regional title.
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Go Horns
The move with Ruffin will prove the difference as the Horns will win with Big Bird and then send Rice to loser’s bracket. Go Horns!
Thanks blazzin. Keep those updates coming if you can.
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
Finally
I just spent the last 30 minutes adjusting my computer and finally got the video to work. Work will not be getting done.
Yay Hernandez (not a typo).
SJU LHP Barnes
SJU player stats
http://redstormsports.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2007-2008/teamcume.html
That’s right, I have nothing else to do.
Moldy pops to 4.
Links
Thanks for posting the links. Making the last hour or so of “work” go by much more enjoyably.
by LonghornArmy'68 on May 30, 2008 3:27 PM CDT reply actions
Holding my breath. I can't cross them and type at the same time.
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
amorphous, thanks for the continued updates
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
Why aren't we owning?
I got no video, some kind of browser failure. Why do we have one freakin’ run?
--Horn Brain--
Not getting the timely hits, mostly
Wind blowing in, too, so there goes any power advantage we have. The lineup is juggled from normal, I guess due to the LHP SJU started.
I get that same error message
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
Yes
if you have xp, make sure you have windows media player v 9 or 10 (apparently not 11) if not, download it at microsoft.com
then
go to tools (have to go full screen to see the tab) -> options
click performance
slide video acceleration to “none”
that should do it. if not, let me know
the video has been choppy for me
so i have the kvet audio feed in another tab in case i have to mute the video feed (which is the same, but kvet hasn’t been choppy for me)
Thanks amorp, but I am about to leave anyway
I can’t list on the radio here (1200 miles away) either. I need you to bring it home for me then. Get us a W. Thanks for the updates this afternoon
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
Burnt Orange People like swinging strikeouts!
It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?
Saw it, but Windows XP says...
... The Windows XP version of Win Med Player is incompatible with Windows XP. Sigh. I have radio, I am happy.
--Horn Brain--
Non Sequitur
I know Southern Illinois. I know Western Illinois. I know Northern Illinois. I am from St Louis, but I have never heard of Eastern Illinois, although I could deduce its existence.
Alum of EIU
Charleston Illinois – real rural – claim to fame is that is where Tony Romo played his college ball
Moldy catches a fly to end the inning.
Would love to score and hold them to win… Just want to win.
--Horn Brain--
Base hit from Tucker!
Swing your sword? Do your job? Rub some crystals in it? Whatever, good job, Tucker.
--Horn Brain--
Almost jinxed him.
Note to you, don’t tell me Abrams’ FT% when he’s shooting pressure shots next season.
--Horn Brain--
Russell hustles and beats out a DP
Runners on the corner with 2 out, Preston Clark at bat, and we have a pitching change, gentlemen.
--Horn Brain--
About as close as you can get.
There’s no replay because there are only 2 cameras, but “bang bang” is probably measurable with a sundial in comparison.
Talk about a stupid baserunning mistake
by Torres. Russell was up with a 2-2 count and 2 outs. The count would have gone to 3-2, but Torres broke for 3rd and got hosed down by their catcher. Russell came up at the first of the next inning and hit a deep single. That cost us the game right there. Hopefully next game, our players will be a little smarter….I was at the game and it was probably louder than the freakin’ memphis game was at reliant….
ready for saturday
so we lost 2-1 on unearned runs. we have been there done that. 4 straight is possible
and i think MANY longhorns fans will turn out saturday in houston. baseball is so
different from the other sports. that’s why it’s double elimination. you guys are right—
kirk bohls was on the crack pipe again. maybe he’ll sleep all day saturday.
hook’em
ut1ou2 means ut is #1 and ou is #2 for texas-ou weekend
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