Yes, Baseball Is A Cruel Game

Baseball is decided by individual performances more than any other team sport. TCU got a couple of outstanding individual performances. Texas probably played better as a team, but that was not enough over the weekend.

I will be interested to see how TCU handles Omaha. It’s exceedingly tough to win your first rodeo.

I agree, they had a right to celebrate.
I’d like to throw in the fact that I didn’t see any Horns down, thrown out by the TCU fans or players at the Dish.
The TCU alumni at the gym I was at while the game was going on, were ecstatic. You know what they didn’t do? Give Horns down hand signs to those of us rooting on the Longhorns while we elipticalled and stair stepped our way to firmer bottoms and narrower waists.

Super Regional, that makes the row that much tougher to hoe. Particularly when you’re trying to hoe with Rowe. Sorry, I’ll keep the cruelty in the box score.

No, air it out. They’re all culpable.

Moldy and Rupp — messieurs post-saison — went AWOL as well when it counted.

I had a bad feeling about that game somewhere around the fourth innning and sixth stranded baserunner that it wouldn’t end well. I liked the pinch-hitting subs Augie made for Walsh, Montalbano, and Weymouth; unfortunately it didnt matter and Ruffin bonered any chances we had in the 8th and 9th on about five pitches. And he’s the guy that buried TCU in games 1 and 3 last year, so yeah the game of baseball can be a cruel, vindictive cunt.

The World Cup will be a handy salve next weekend when 8 teams besides Texas take the field at Rosenblatt.

The philosopher knew this as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EHlCR6sag&feature=related

Thanks to the team for a great season, even if it was a few games too short.

Well, time for hibernation until late August.

And I have no problem with the dogpile. It was for their first trip to Omaha and they beat the best team in baseball on their turn to get there. Light an effigy on home plate for all I care.

I’ll be thinking more about what could have been for our team than reserving contempt for theirs.

TCU doesn’t have many holes and I can see them advancing pretty far if they stop throwing the ball over first base into their dugout.

Dogpiles ought to happen at the mound, not on the opponent’s logo. My two cents. Too many .250s in the Texas lineup to sustain rallies without the long ball . . .

The surprising part for me wasn’t watching Rowe go 0-20 in the postseason or whatever it was…. it was that he hit .230 over the course of the year. Without knowing any better, I would have guessed ~.100.

And yeah, Etier and Loy were in that neighborhood as well. Just can’t have that, or you lose 3-1 games in the postseason to teams with good pitching.

is it too early to say: you know, it was still a hell of a season…

Baseball’s just kind of that way. In the short series, anything can happen. It’s at the same time the very best and the very worst thing about the game.

Kneel at the feet of our players and beg their forgiveness?

This!

Seriously, great analysis. The dogpile was planned to add insult to injury. One player was on his knees beating the logo with his fist. At the Saturday game, TCU players yelled at the top of their lungs during the pregame singing of “The Eyes” Overlook and consider emotion of college kids? Maybe.

 Ever been to a road game with the ’Horns baseball team, like A&M, Tech, or Baylor? Taunting is rampant and extreme, crossing the line sometime to include family members.
The team never looks at the crowd, minimal celebration for key plays. This applies no matter the venue, Omaha trip on the line or a midweek game.

But then again, do not compare, because “We’re Texas”

While the misfortunes of 2010 Texas athletics are different in quality it doesn’t make them suck any less.

I am somewhat fearful of the outcome of this year’s football season.

HOOKEM

Solution: fire Rick Barnes.

I hope Dicharry comes back HEALTHY and DEALING next season.

Torre, go watch fucking softball. No feelings are hurt.

College World Series Probabilities from my ratings:

(Team – Odds of winning their half – Odds of winning it all)

Arizona St. – 45.6% – 27.2%
Clemson – 19.6% – 8.2%
Oklahoma – 21.0% – 8.8%
South Carolina – 13.8% – 5.0%

TCU – 30.2% – 15.8%
Florida St. – 13.6% – 5.0%
UCLA – 38.4% – 22.1%
Florida – 17.8% – 7.8%

ColoradoAg said:
June 14th, 2010 at 8:47 pm

Torre, go watch fucking softball. No feelings are hurt

Have season tickets to both. Go play with your sheep!

A sheep joke. Fresh. Someone must be reading hornfans.com.

Huck, you really think OU’s got a 21% chance of winning our half of the bracket? Don’t get me wrong, I very much liked our odds against UNC, and I didn’t think Virginia had the kind of hitting necessary to beat OU in three games if the Sooner bats got hot. But Arizona State is a very different animal.

BTW, UT got completely fucked in this deal. It needed to be said by someone not wearing burnt orange. Two top 8 teams playing in a super regional? Horseshit.

Baseball is a crazy game; it’s clearly the major sport with the highest likelihood of an upset in any individual game.

Arizona State is a heavy favorite when looking at the above numbers when you consider it’s baseball we’re talking about. Imagine a 4-way pre-flop situation with the following four hands:

AsAh
KsTs
QdJd
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Pocket aces up against three different suited undercard combinations. In that scenario the aces have basically the same probability of winning as Arizona State here (45.7% versus 45.6%). The Sun Devils are a huge favorite, but they’re still more likely to lose than they are to win.