You doing pre-work again?

The Lussons should not even step foot on the field during these games. Taking Keyes and Moldenhauer out of the game was a big mistake. I absolutely despise when Augie takes this approach. Wood should have been left in the game with 1 out in the bottom of the 9th.

Would love to see the Horns win Games 2 & 3, but with a depleted pitching staff I just don’t see it.

Pretty embarrassing.

But how in the hell can you take out two guys that have 3 damn homeruns for players that have seen limited at bats! I love Augie, but he gave this game to LSU and possibly the championship!

And the fact that Augie’s been making the same mistake throughout the tournament, and getting away with it, doesn’t make it any less of a mistake. You can’t take your best hitters out of a game when there’s any chance they might bat again. Doing it in a two-run game with two innings left is pure foolishness.

And this isn’t second-guessing — it’s first-guessing. Everybody could see even at the time that it was a mistake. I was yelling at my TV screen.

Augie is second to none when it comes to leading a team and motivating players, but he is hopeless when it comes to game strategy. He’s won national championships and all that, sure — but he’s won them in spite of his strategic moves, not because of them.

Bullpen couldn’t find the strike zone and fell behind on the count too many times. That’s going to get you into trouble against anyone, much less a great hitting team like LSU. We tested fire too much and got burned.

if we get in the same position again, I’m not so sure Augie will do this again……his bullpen is definately struggling closing out games right now. He has to consider keeping them in.

Our pitching will need to be lights out tommorrow……LSU’s bats certainly woke up as the game wore on…….hopefully not a sign of things to come.

you don’t play for extra innings when you have a lead. the only move I didn’t like was pulling austin wood. if we lost the lead with him on the mound, I would’ve accepted it. i can handle living and dying on his arm.

I was very surprised that jungman couldn’t find the plate. he had been having a great cws so far.

Workman got us two strike outs with the bases loaded and we did nothing for him. I have to say that the bullpen was not what cost us the game. Their hitters wanted to hit the ball and ours didnt when it counted in the end.

I have to admit that I was shocked to see the hot hands (esp. Moldenhauer) pulled, and I really thought it was a huge mistake to put in Jungmann instead of going directly to DiCharry or Shinabarry. TJ needed to be untouched for tomorrow’s game, IMO. Augie, you’re the baseball genius, not I, but I’m just honestly puzzled by some of the things that happened last night.

I guess I’m sorta understanding where the bitterness and doubt that we have seen from the opponents the horns beat in the earlier rounds. I didn’t leave that game thinking that LSU should have won and I can see how some of our earlier opponents thought the same thing after losing to Texas.

Go Horns.

LSU is not unbeatable. They threw the best pitcher they had at us, and we clobbered him. Unfortunately, I think our players bought into the idea of magic and destiny and fate and forgot to play baseball when it counted. Perhaps that was the wake-up call they needed.

I thought the management of the pitching staff was terrible, I didn’t like the idea of bringing out Keyes and Moldenhauer, there were about a million things that, sitting in the comfort of my house, I can say should have been handled differently. But there is a reason that Augie Garrido gets paid $800,000 a year to make those decisions and I don’t.

Today is a chance to wipe the slate clean. Better performance from our bullpen is the most critical thing. I fully believe that with Taylor Jungmann’s makeup, he can come back tonight and throw well. But with LSU’s ability to score runs, the bullpen cannot let up. LSU doesn’t have another starter as good as Louis Coleman, and the only one they have who is close would pitching on 3 days rest if he goes tonight. Their 3rd starter would be battling for midweek starts for us. So either way they decide to go, Texas has a monumental opportunity to push this to a third game tonight. They just have to make up their minds that they want it.

Couldn’t go back to sleep, thinking about baseball :(

Your stud started the game, and let me say, looked phenomenal, truly a gifted pitcher. LSU started their, for lack of a better term, alternate stud, since it seems Ranaudo is probably as good as Coleman, and you lit him up like a christmas tree. I mention this because, after Texas teed off with a whole herd of dingers, they still lost. Yes, there was some poor management, yes, they committed some errors, but you have to play all 9 innings to win, or in this case 11. especially against a team like LSU. So I would say that Texas did not so much lose that game as LSU simply wanted to win it more.

Someone said LSU threw their best pitcher, that is debatable as personally I think Ranaudo has a slight edge over Coleman, but not enough of a difference to matter, suffice to say that Texas will be facing an equal opponent on the mound tonight and you may have as much success, but then again, Coleman looked bad to me, his pitch placement was off and he just never seemed to settle into a groove. Personally I think he should have been pulled one inning before he was. Coleman was certainly capable of a better effort and so is Ranaudo.

I thought it interesting the role reversal, Texas going long so many times, while LSU struggled, due in no small part to Ruffin’s pitching. But I think it prudent to remember that while LSU did not shine on the bats last night, they can explode with a moments notice, to think otherwise is foolish. The key mistake I thought LSU made last night was not swinging, they were being to patient, perhaps because they thought that getting to the bullpen was a better choice, but going by Texas’ pitching this year, that may not be a sound plan. They seemed to finally clue into this in the latter innings.

From a strictly statistical standpoint you have to like LSU’s chances since they have 2 shots to win one game. I thought that it would likely go three, and it could go either way since anyone that makes it to Omaha stands a chance, it is just a much stiffer hill for Texas to climb now. It will be interesting to see how they come it, hopefully they will put it behind them and play they way they are capable of instead of letting the circumstances linger in their heads.