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Further 2010 Texas Baseball Thoughts
In further contemplating my thoughts from the other day about next year's version of the Texas baseball Longhorns, some notable absences and glaring omissions became apparent. The purpose of this post is to tie up some of those loose ends as much as possible -- of course, all of this is pure...
Championship Q&A With And The Valley Shook
In anticipation of the big National Championship matchup between Texas and LSU, we exchanged questions with Richard Pittman of the Tigers' SBN blog And The Valley Shook. His answers to our four questions are below, and our answers to his questions for us are appearing over at ATVS. Richard gave us...
Cry Me A River, Pat Murphy
"The loser is always at fault." -Vasilii Nicolaevich Panov, Russian author. Perhaps someone could inform Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy of that little nugget of truth. It all started on Thursday with Murphy's declaration that pitcher Mike Leake has "probably serious tendinitis" and that...
Do You Believe In Magic?
You can call it magic. The fickle Baseball Gods smiling benevolently down upon the Longhorns. Maybe it's just pure moxie. Perhaps simple, blind luck. Whatever the case, it's becoming increasingly apparent that this Longhorn baseball team has "it." True, there are still games to win before the...
Horned Frogs Down Texas 3-2, Force Game 3 (6:00 p.m. CST)
While Texas fans debate the merits of small ball, TCU stayed alive in the Austin Super Regional with the longball, downing the Longhorns 3-2 with a pair of home runs on Sunday afternoon at the Disch. Each of TCU's 7 runs in the series have come via home run. The two teams will square off Monday...
Regional Mints New Longhorn Heroes
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers." -Johann Kasper Levater, Swiss theologian. The post-season: a time for heroes Every deep post-season run in any...
On the Subject of Bunting
For Augie Garrido, sacrifice bunting may often simply be about equality, about building a team identity. No player is above it, no player exempted. Even if you're Seth Johnston or Drew Stubbs, Brandon Belt or Kevin Keyes. Hell, Garrido would probably even ask Albert Pujols to bunt if he thought the...
Texas and Boston College make history last night, and this morning.
Something amazing happened yesterday in the NCAA baseball tournament’s Austin regional. Texas and Boston College played the longest baseball game in NCAA D-I history, a 25 inning affair finally won by the Longhorns 3-2. There are so many amazing stories to come out of this game, let me just...
Sooners Drop Series Opener To Longhorns
Texas used a 5 run second inning as a launching pad to propel themselves past Oklahoma in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon. Brandon Loy hit a double that scored two runs for the Longhorns and then went on to score himself along with two other Texas batters in the bottom of the...
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