June 19th, 2008 by HenryJames
Inning By Inning is a documentary about Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, and it’s outstanding. I saw the premier at the Paramount Theater in Austin a few weeks ago with the rest of the the cool kids. The director is Austinite Richard Linklater, and I’m pretty sure he did it as a sort of […]
June 3rd, 2008 by HenryJames
Those were Augie Garrido’s words after the Texas baseball team was eliminated from the regional by the Rice Owls on Sunday. It was the 3rd straight year that Texas had failed to advance past the first round of the NCAA playoffs.
That is unacceptable at Texas, and Garrido knows it. Now he has to do something […]
April 12th, 2008 by HenryJames
It won’t be announced until later, but Skip Johnson’s job as pitching coach at The University of Texas ended yesterday in Missouri. You don’t give up a school record 31 runs and survive. You just don’t.
Some perspective is in order. In twenty games against the Missouri football team, the Longhorns have only given up more […]
April 8th, 2008 by HenryJames
I’m glad you asked.
I’ve been to five home games this year, and Texas has lost each one. They’re 21-5 in games I haven’t watched so there is the possibility that I am a jinx. But that’s crazy talk.
‘I believe in science.’
Let’s start with the pitching. The team ERA was 4.01 going into this weekend’s series […]