According to
Collegiate Baseball.
No surprise.
I picked them to win it all this year after last year's CWS, and they'll have the best pitching staff in college baseball on which to rely.
Uncredentialed Barking Carnival correspondent Fake Ken Tremendous returns and marks the occasion by getting in his dreamwagon and doing donuts on Bill Little's lawn. - S.R.
Just when I think I'm going to get a break from my mean-spirited criticism of Bill Little's cornpone musings, the Longhorns go and lose in heartbreaking fashion in the College World Series. And, of course, Bill pumps out
this piece full of strained metaphors, ambiguous
Before pitching the deciding game against TCU in the super regional, Taylor Jungmann was asked about his nerves.
“Nerves? I don't get nervous, man,” he said. Apparently not.
He’s been fantastic the whole series (6 pitches last night excluded), and he was brilliant last night. He stayed down and away against LSU’s lefthanders with his two seam fastball. The Tigers are not a team that’s going to walk their way to a win, and Jungmann frustrated
After last season's regional exit, Augie Garrido said,
"It needs to be fixed. I know how to fix it."
And he did. Texas is going back to the College World Series for the first time since winning the title in 2005. Seems so long ago, which is how it's supposed to feel at a school like Texas. We have certain, uh, expectations.
Freshman Taylor Jungmann said in today's Austin American Statesman, "I don't get nervous."
Pitching, defense and the three runs off homers. That strategy worked perfectly for TCU yesterday, and they've now forced a winner take all game three tonight.
Whenever you make a mistake to one of TCU's 2-3-4 hitters, they hit a home run. It's really that simple. They've combined for 10 of TCU's fourteen hits in the series, and they've hit all five of their home runs and driven in all seven of their runs. The rest
So CloseToJumping texts me during the 4th inning of the game. He’s in New York about to watch Rent for the umpteenth time, and he’s listening to the radio broadcast. While Craig Way has lost himself in mascot minutiae, Bill Little is calling out Augie Garrido’s small ball ‘critics.’ He went uncharacteristically silent after TCU tied it up on their third home run, but is there any question what his next column will be about?
Fake Ken Tremendous or whatever you want to call him is back with another Bill Little exegesis. Ouch. - The Mgmt.
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Throughout the long, dark off-season, Bill Little has written about nothing other than dead, dying or terminally ill former Longhorns. I was starting to get depressed. It's my job to riddle Bill Little columns with rhetorical bullets, and he was ducking behind the sports journalist's equivalent of human shields. Until
What a great weekend of baseball.
Clark bunts over the wall!
We score 8 runs in the ninth after a key bases loaded double by Brandon Loy to tie it up followed by Preston Clark's sacrifice bunt that travels 370 feet over the wall for a grand slam and the win.
You have to tip your cap to Army, who played with great heart and effort. You can
Many thanks to
@aTrubow for his updates through the season.
Pictures courtesy of
@HenryJamesBC.
More on the win and the outlook going forward from Huck, HJ, and Scipio.
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