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NCAA Day 3 Thread Part 2: There Is No Byron Wiley

Texas squeaks by St. John's 4-3 in a nail-biter, and now Riley Boening will start the game against Rice at 6pm.  Lost in the drama of the final out was Kyle Russell breaking the Texas all-time career HR record.  Wooo!  Let's hope Kyle and friends keep things rolling tonight, because I don't think Rice has any gaping holes in, say, left field for us to fill with doubles.  If Texas can take this game, we'll face Rice again tomorrow for a trip to the supers.  First thing's first, though.  Stay alive tonight:

Completely unnecessary.

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The Bee Gees are the Bees Knees, Daddy-o!
Horn Brain: Just noticed the thread title

Hi-larious. I will rec anything that mentions Byron Wiley.

man, I just want to make it to tomorrow...
and if it's not too much to ask

stay error-free…

Lusson is starting
Go Horns!

Just play like it on March 11… Hook’em!

what channel is the game on?
kvet doubling up on me

have to listen to rice announcers

they've fixed now..
Oh great, the video is 5 sec behind KVET.
synched up
Not mine

?

it was for me for a few minutes, then kvet lagged
Rice lacks nutritional value.

/all week

way so its not on cable?
Good Pitching!

So far So good, Lusson. Keep it up!

Lusson starting in LF

Moldenhauer got hurt in the last game. Boening is the pitcher. Confusing announcement above.

KTRU says he hurt his patellar tendon

:(
Not good.

Not bad, Boening.

Stay out of trouble, but if you find yourself in it, get out fast.

That was appx 25 pitches tho
He's not going to go the whole game...

We’ll take what we can get.

No Byron Wiley in LF

Now let’s try out the other outfielders.

C'mon Offense!

Let’s make some scores early in the game!

E3

Byron Wiley? Is that you?

He still likes you.

Crap

Run scores and Clark is hurt bad.

Oh god no.
Bastard still wants to play.

Freaking hero.

He's made of indestructible things

Like titanium, carbon fiber, and Twinkies.

Damn U Umpire!

should be a strike

If you argue with Augie, you know you're wrong .nt whills
I would say the D has been less than crisp
Boening isn't going to last three innings

pitching 30 pitches an inning.

seriously.
I thought it would just be the first inning...

... He’s got to burn Rice up in a hurry in the next chance or his innings are numbered.

2-0 Owls

Going to have to hit our way out of this one.

Wow, Clark is limping

like really limping.

Finally, got the damage control.

C’mon Offense! Let’s make some scores!

Clark out

McCrory (sp) hitting for him.

No answer from the 'Horns

We need to explode for a bunch and hope for no errors.

we're not very "on" today
More of this Boening

Less of first two innings.

Down 2 runs and 2 starters.

This… will be difficult.

This place has more foul territory than Oakland.
yeah...

Or a duck blind.

Here comes the bullpen....

... hold on to your ass, gentlemen.

gotta be better than boening right now
Only 2.1 innings. Oh lawd.
Go Bowie High!
Damn squeeze. .nt whills
TEXAS! FIGHT!!

Let’s go offense!

KYLE RUSSELL TIES THE MF GAME! .nt whills!
Kyle is not a human!

what can i say

OMG RUSELL 3R HR!
Right. Back. In it.
That was a gift, guys.

We get a second chance to win this game.

That HR was to left field

KTRU said the wind was blowing in from left earlier. Kyle Russell must be made of PURE POWER.

If I wasn't worried that it would lag the thread...

... I’d post the powerthirst video right now.

Doesn't mean we can't

link it.

4-3 to start the 4th

Then Workman hits the next batter.

It's 3-3
4-3 put out. .nt whills
10-4

like the cops say

Fly to Russell

2 out

Kyle Russell

We are not worthy.

Like Horn Brain said,

That was truly a gift when Kyle decided to stay with us for 1 more year.

Nice grab by You Know Who to get out of the inning. .nt whills
How much do you think he weighs?

130 soaking wet?

Nice K, by the way, YKW.

3 K's in a row.

not saying, just saying.

well, at least no 4 K's for him.

don’t let him to build that confidence….

Im predicting a Tucker single

Its coming…

bow down...

and worship

Infield Single?

Tucker. good call austintx

take that back...

its an error, but with the same effect as a single

i thought they just said they scored it as

a basehit

i may have

misheard.

Adam Zorns would be a great name for a supervillain.
Nearly caught our first break of the regional on that dropped ball...

... but alas.

All right boys

We’re getting a fresh start in a five inning game.

end of inning

but we have the top of the order comng up next inning.

Mcrory almost got that one.

Tough play.

Thanks Horn Brain

I’m forced to peruse my favorite YouTube videos in between innings.

You were working as a football coach in Michigan…

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
6-4-3 DP

Thank You Know Who.

too bad

Texas has yet to recruit Jesus, Superman, or a lumberjack. Oh wait, but we did get Kyle Russell. Now I’m satisfied.

We need to get some SFA transfers, then
but they are colored purple. ehhh...
linescore thru 4 1/2

Rice 3|7|2
Good Guys 3|3|0

Thank you, Kyle Russell .nt whills
I'll take that inning...

... with a side of rally.

Thy Will Be Done!
2 runs this inning...

...another bold prediction.

Hook 'em

missed the whole day. winning the first game and tied at 3 is good. Austin Wood pitched in the first game, right?

First Game

Austin Wood destroyed the first game…8 2/3 innings

The ninth was a nail-biter
Say hey!

I like leadoff singles!

I don't know if they've mentioned this on KVET

but the home plate ump is named Mark Chapman.

My gametracker and video died :(
That last pitch to Danks should've been a strike.
Superman at the plate!

Let’s scores another 3!

Nice show the Rice assistant put on.

Kicking dirt on the plate? Love it.

Phew.

Let’s get something out of that drop.

Damn, K

That’s fine, Belt has a bat, too.

just stay out of the double play
Crap

Don’t strike out, either.

Um, B2B K is not the way to follow putting your first two on

just FYI

Time for you made the error for us

thank you!

I can officially say

I have never seen a pitch knock the catchers glove off.

their catcher's been solid at stopping em

until now

aggies losing 2 to 0

cougars just ht a two run shot

coogs gotta be gassed

though

This at bat could be the difference between a game tomorrow or not
You Know Who

Takes first pitch for a strike.

C'mon Offense

let’s capitalize base loaded

c'mon bases loaded

a grand slam plz?

ha, good one.
Barf.

At least he hit it.

hernandez...

you kill me

That's as much on Russell and Belt as on Hernandez
Everything is David Hernandez's fault

Overkill?

Pinata .nt whills
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the Rally Killer strikes again.
Abosuletly mometum killer

what a deflator.. Keep it up D!

Let's go Workman

Keep this thing close

dp please
SB

Damn.

Rupp has thrown out 7 of 52 steal attempts?

Really? Mike Piazza thinks that’s embarrassing.

hey hey whaddya say austin high
Shinaberry scares the shin out of me.

Please get these outs.

Jesus

Dude had 4 SBs all year – now with 3 today?

Someone tell me why we didn't pull Ruffin early?
[has no answer]
What the hell happened?

I walk away to mess with the dog and we’re changing pitchers and losing again.

waffles is bad luck
You get off my blog

Kidding. But seriously, now someone’s going to set up a bank account in the dog’s name.

damnit

their last run. Cole Green is in!

Hold onto your hats

Is it gonna be GCG or BCG.
[flips a coin]

FIGHT!

Great play!

Holy Ess!

the look to 3rd throw to 1st works! appx success rate 0.000000001%.

all right

Hernandez Time. He is going to kick some serious ass! just watch

aggies are still losing, 2-0 n the bottom of the 5th
I just had a great idea...

... let’s score 10 runs in this inning! That’s a great coaching move.

BREAKING

Horn Brain has been named Augie Garrido’s eventual successor.

tucker.... let that hit you
need radio Tivo

If I could just delay it for 10 seconds It’d be great. Nice hit! WHAT A RUN, TUCKER! TIE THE GAME!

Amazing hustle

That was just phenomenal.

there you go speedster!
Thanks for the errors!

We’ll take it all : )

Errors > Euros

even with a weak dollar.

let the circus music begin
EVERYTHING went right for us there.

Weather report from Hell: Cloudy, 30 degrees.

Here we go, guys.

Torres at the plate, Lusson at second.

zorn earning his scholly tonight
Lusson,

let’s steal the base!

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll

four

Russell grand slam?

You heard it here first.

I highly recommend that. .nt whills
bases are loaded...danks is up...this is beautiful
Don't blow it again!

plz capitalize it

Who's on third?
Torres if Danks walks .nt whills
Now who has a pitching depth issue, Rice?

Evening the playing field by knocking you down.

please please please
bean

where you working?

mid-Wilshire

Living there too. Right across the street from the Farmer’s Market/The Grove

nice

I’m done with school next wednesday… lunch sometime?

For sure

I’m pretty wide open, other than work.

wtf

Danks and the bunting today?

thank you god!!!! yesssssss
...because Superman is up.
Nice run, Lusson.

Just don’t ever do it again.

EVERYBODY PLEASE SAY KYLE - MVP
Why are we bunting with Russell?

Seriously?

Is this a bad dream?
wha happen?

seriously?

goddamnit

end of inning

don't question the garrido
Sorry, but in my book of baseball, you let your HR king swing.

How many HRs does he have in the past 10 days? With the way Texas has been bunting as of late, that’s a no-brainer in my opinion

Well that was different. .nt whills
No way that was Augie

No way Augie tells him to bunt, he’s a junior and a team leader who thought he could get it done…didn’t work

all I know is

you cant bunt it over the fence

aaaaand

we just dont have the defense to be playing a one run game.

Seriously

Go for the big inning. UGH.

Really

We have to play FTW.

if that wasn't augie....than russell isn't in right field this inning.

i imagine that someone who is hitting the ball so well of late would want to swing away…not bunt it several inches.

Augie's patented "Nah, they wouldn't do that" surprise-em strategy.
crazy idea he had...

but that crap works for him…thats why he is coaching Texas.

well...sometimes.
also...the safety squeeze was on..

i don’t think the batter can order that via hand signals

aggies took the lead 3-2. 6th inning
Back to the Bee Gees

Think I need to watch that video again, just to get a smile back on my face. If you can’t laugh at grown, non-baseball-playing men in tight white pants, you can’t laugh at anything.

(Do you think their voices were so high because of said pants?)

[looks down, sees tight white pants, cries]
another run :(
Yikes

not a good way to start the inning … one batter HBP, another walked. Yikes on toast.

Yuck.

Hit and run scores a run. And here’s another run scored. I’m going to say F!

Back to watching ...

... the tight white pants.

Ghost of Drew Stubbs!

Help us!!!

I think this is why...

the two out squeeze was inappropriate.

On the good side

We’re at 400+ comments on Texas baseball today

Can we trade those for runs

or at least extra outs?

we all would have loved to see Russell swing away...

but Augie plays small ball. Damn small ball.

I'm pretending he hit a home run...

And we’re still ahead by one.

oh dreaming can be so much fun
Click "reply", dog.

It makes the things you say make sense.

sorry. i get excited
Nevertheless,

we need to stop the bleeding here.. C’mon Defense!

F'real.

We can get Russell to bat at least once more.

bases are loaded with 1 out

Scaaaaaaarrrrrrrrry

Every fiber of my being wishes for a double play. .nt whills
Austin Wood is at 1st base,

Torres removed from the game, Belt is pitching. F at removing Torres.

Who kidnapped Augie Garrido?

And what Bizarro world is this?

Welcome to Augieworld .nt whills
Damn and Damn. .nt whills
couldn't get it out of his glove

he had the play at home, easy

whos up for the horns?

in the bottom half

All I know...

... is that Kyle Russell is nine batters away.

good morning. good afternoon. and good night
belt

then shepherd then hernandez i thnk

ok

thanks. well maybe we can get a couple men on for superman to knock in.

FINALLY...

LET’S GO OFFENSE!!!!

cmon

8 more outs to score 3 runs

The wonder of small samples

Tant is OPSing > 1.200

Singles are nice

And they up your OPS, unless you’re SLGing > 1.000

Question

I’m missing the significance of the Byron Wiley reference. Please advise.

Joke from the KSU game
We got like half of our offense from hitting to left field...

... in the XII champ game.

Let's start to build some momentum!

TEXAS! FIGHT!!

PLEASE MORE ERROR!
That is their 5th error. We are getting 33 outs in this game.
How about ...

PLEASE MORE HIT BALL WITH STICK.

I recommend this mode of action...

... but will gladly take the former if available.

I think Augie must have understood you replaced him immediately

so he is not coaching today.

5 errors

and we need to take advantage or else the season’s done.

I agree with Horns 98

More error, please.

Plz to be like Tigers v. Cardinals World Series

w/ errors

6 outs left...

10 LOB thru 7

you know what...

fuck it.

We're producing like the Astros in the World Series. .nt whills
dont remind me
Damnit

4 runs on 5 errors. 3 from our masher who later bunted.

This is weird.

And sad. C’mon ‘Horns

more sad than weird

because a loss represents the end to Texas athletics until August 31st

VY ruined me.

I used to be much better at accepting looming losses. Because of VY, I’m always looking for the magic pull-it-out win … in all the sports. I must un-brainwash myself. Baseball just don’t work that way.

Are you seriously saying things like that?

Come on, dude, SJU almost did it to us, we can do it to Rice.

Forgive me ...

... but I’ve been mind-blown by the many missed opportunities thus far …

Two subs on a 5-3 put out.

Gahhh I’m dyyiiiiingg!

this is miserable
wait, who's playing first for us now?
Austin Freakin' Wood

Nice dive by the sub Lusson in LF to save extra bases.

Games like this are why I don't keep score.

And I’m not 60 years old.

Another Superman Act!
wow, what a catch.
Nice 1-2-3 inning by our first baseman.

Holy crap, this is ridiculous.

C'mon Offense, NO MORE FOOLIN' AROUND!
i hope augie decides to ...

turn on a magical “win” switch that he keeps in the dugout under the seeds.

Please tell me others are watching the video and hearing this commercial for netsafety.com
sorry, mcgruff.org actually

EVEN BETTAR!!!!!!

C'mon offense.

NO FREAKING SQUEEZE PLAY. HIT BALL HARD!

KTRU

says Ruffin was warming up last inning

Lusson has been a monster drawing walks today.

Just what we needed. Not an automatic out.

Walks are nice
let's load up the bases

and let Kyle do the rest!

I hope they don't throw Keyes a curve ball.

Cover your eyes.

He just took the best pitch he'll see.
Swinging for the fences

All we needed was for him to get on

Come on, Danks.

Get on base.

Error #6 perhaps?
Strike out bad.

Kyle can’t tie it now.

I need a hero

Johnny #5 alive.

Damnit.

3 outs between us and the offseason. Come on, Texas.

ok miracle time

3 more outs

If only Chance Ruffin could score runs...

... sigh…

can the game be paused while I take my wife to work?

I hate real life

Will trade comment for runs
3 outs are left. We can do it!
Chance?

Why not? Who needs a sophomore season?

What if we chase them across the plate backwards, is that a negative run? .nt whills
I say, knock the umps over the head with a bat

forge the scorecard
turn it in while whistling and looking up
play tomorrow
...
profit

If we ever cheat to beat Rice...

...I want to fire every coach in the program.

strike zone = good
Chance Ruffin did all he could.

Freaking stud. Don’t lose the game, offense.

BCG had a little say in this
Last Chance!

Someone needs to stand up for the offense!

Let's do it

for Ruffin.

Lets find the diamond in the ruffin
[trombone wah wah]
Obviously delusional. .nt whills

Belt flies to right. 2 outs left.

One away.

Come on, Tant, get on base.

I just realized I have gotten up from this chair once since 1:30

Maybe that is why I can’t lose weight

and that was to sit on a toilet

TMI? Nah.

took the kids to the lake?
thats the life
When the wife is away...
Shepard doubles!

We need another hit, and then another one, and then like three thousand homeruns.

How’s my math?

Slightly inaccurate.
accurate
Good.

I made sure to make a conservative estimate. THANK YOU GODS FOR E #6!

WE NEED ERROR FROM RICE!
Oh, what! Five isn't enough for you Mr. Greedy?
I can't believe they committed another error

Plz to ask for 7th

put on your rally caps

cmon texas. i wanna watch some more good baseball. the rangers fall very short of that. haha

Tant can't advance

But YKW gets on.

F!

Double play and we go home.

well, we blew 2 bases loaded chance.

Kyle will be miss you…

poop

It wasn’t meant to be….:( Good game Rice….You win in spite of one BILLION errors.

and there goes the season
See you guys Feb 22 2009
Good Sports Everyone

Can’t wait for the football season …..

Ugh!

Chance Ruffin is coming back, right?

Yep, but Russell ain't

Nor Kasparek.

How bout Danks?

Larry Bird is not walking thru that door.

sometimes the grey goose barks towards the tall grass...

or some bs saying similar to that.

I'll get to work on long statistical analyses about football.

Sucks to be ol’ what’s his face today.

and with that....

Welcome to football season! I encourage you all do what I do the next few weeks- buy every college football book and preview you can find coming out in the next few weeks and hunker down in the basement to research and study up for the coming season! Phil Steele comes out soon! When is the Texas Preview coming out that PB was working on?

Well

In hindsight, wasn’t it only like six weeks ago that we were questioning if we were going to make the 64?

hell, we pulled a big 12 tournament championship out of a disaster.
3 straight years

and we can’t get out of the regional. WTF??

well

as a texas fan i expect nothing less than a national championship in every sport year after year. but i still cant say this season was a total dissapointment. we had a young team, and after showing many moments of mediocracy, they came back and wowed us with a big 12 tourney championship, the #2 seed in the Houston Regional, and finshing 2nd in the regional (which is becoming a theme) to a good Rice team.
so i say lets imrove upon this next year.

but i will add to that by saying

its been too long since the Horns have been in the CWS

Hell yeah

Omaha is our birthright!

yes

and we need to show it next year.

Holy crap!

Over 350 comments on just this post! By far the biggest thread baseball has ever had. Would have approached, if not passed 500 comments if I hadn’t split the thread for the final game. Wow.

~200 on the last one

500 combined

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