Big 12 Baseball Championship Day Two Round Ups - Thanks For Stopping By Texas
by ccmachine on May 28, 2010 12:50 AM CDT
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After two days of pool play in the Big 12 Baseball Tournament we're still not sure which two teams will be playing in the championship game on Sunday afternoon. However, we do know who won't be playing for a conference championship. Actually we know three teams that won't be playing on Sunday. By virtue of Texas A&M's 7-2 win over Missouri on Thursday the Tigers, Longhorns and Red Raiders have been eliminated. Even if the lose to Texas on Saturday, the Aggies still hold tiebreakers over Missouri and Tech making them the team that will advance from Division 1. I hope the Longhorns enjoyed their vacation in Oklahoma City because its clear they didn't come to play baseball.
| Division 1 | |
| #4 Texas A&M | 2-0 |
| #5 Texas Tech | 1-1 |
| #8 Missouri | 1-1 |
| #1 Texas | 0-2 |
| Division 2 | |
| #2 Oklahoma | 1-0 |
| #6 Baylor | 1-0 |
| #3 Kansas State | 0-1 |
| #7 Kansas | 0-1 |
As I walked through Bricktown on Wednesday the Texas fans were chanting the usual anti OU slurs while bragging about winning a Big 12 championship in the Sooners own backyard. The story was a bit different on Thursday evening after the Longhorns suffered their second loss in as many tries at the Big 12 Championship. Now, we're hearing about how the best pitchers were held back for playing in championship games and on into the regionals. Well, now those aces can get a nice long rest because there will be no Big 12 Baseball Championship coming to Austin this year. Besides that, pitchers don't runs bases (only 5 runs off 17 hits in the two games) and they didn't contribute to the four errors committed by the Longhorns over the last two games.
Score by Innings R H E
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Texas............... 001 000 010 - 2 7 2
Texas Tech.......... 100 030 00X - 4 8 1
The Longhorns can thank the Texas Tech Red Raiders, more specifically Barrett Barnes who homered twice and drove in three runs, for their elimination. The Red Raiders never trailed in the game as Chad Bettis and Bobby Doran held the Longhorn offense at bay all afternoon. Unfortunately Tech has been eliminated from championship competition as well but taking down the Horns has to be a nice consolation. No word yet at to whether Texas will actually acknowledge this loss to the Red Raiders.
The story of the day was the Texas A&M Aggies who secured their spot in Sunday's championship game with a dismantling of the Missouri Tigers. Missouri didn't do much to help their cause by committing three errors but the Aggies were very methodical in scoring single runs in the second, third and seventh innings and two runs in each of the sixth and eighth innings. Barrett Loux pitched seven strong innings to get his 10th win of the season. He allowed just two runs on six hits. After the game it was discovered that the Tigers felt that they would have had a better chance at winning if they were playing in the Big 10 tournament instead.
Score by Innings R H E
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Texas A&M........... 011 002 120 - 7 11 1
Missouri............ 000 002 000 - 2 6 3
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Really you're talking baseball smack?
How quickly you have forgotten that 3 game sweep in your backyard. Or perhaps the 3 game sweep last year in Austin.
By the way no one goes to Oklahoma for vacation.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
And what do you have to show for it?
Bounced from the tourney like a rubber ball in a toy store.
by ccmachine on May 28, 2010 11:29 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Because the Big XII tourney matters, right?
by HornPossessed on May 28, 2010 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Easy to say after you've been eliminated
So just because the trophy doesn’t come with an asterisk attached you’re not interested now?!?
"We call him The Hammer." - Bob Stoops on Ronnell Lewis
Lol. You guys are so funny.
When was the last time y’all made it to Omaha? Won a national championship? Exactly!
And that is why you shouldn’t be talking smack when it comes to baseball.
Sports is man's joke on God, You see, God says to man, 'I've created a universe where it seems like everything matters, where you'll have to grapple with life and death and in the end you'll die anyway, and it won't really matter.' So man says to God, 'Oh, yeah? Within your universe we're going to create a sub-universe called sports, one that absolutely doesn't matter, and we'll follow everything that happens in it as if it were life and death.'" - Sam Kellerman
In their defense
I believe they won it all in 1994, but I may have been mistaken. I honestly would have liked us to have won the tournament, but I’m content with the consolation prizes as the Big 12 regular season champions and not having to leave Austin until Omaha.
At least OU gets to stay home for their regional. I’m sure the Aggies will be the 2nd seed in the TCU regional. Not bad. Good showing from the Big 12, and alot better than I expected from the beginning of the season. Would have liked to see Baylor beat A&M just to get them in the tournament as well. The more the merrier I say.
Hook em!
Stumpy: It's called the '80s. Ford was president, Nixon was in the White House, and FDR was running this country into the ground. I was bummin' in a hole-in-the-wall town in what is now called "Utah".
BOOM!! goes the dynamite
So just because the trophy doesn’t come with an asterisk attached you’re not interested now?!?
By the way
Lake Travis is nothing special…
"The 2010 Rangers...winning despite Ron Washington"
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
In his defense, you are a retarded cuntbag by LiamP on Mar 4, 2010
I'd talk chess smack
if it meant that texass had lost in chess.
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Typical Texas
Goes home from the tourney early with nothing to show for it and screaming, “We’re better than you!” to everyone while being ushered out the door.
by ccmachine on May 28, 2010 7:54 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
if they had won the tournament, they'd brag about winning it
if they don’t win it, it is b/c the tournament is meaningless
it is win-win for them, either way they always have something to say
I've said it before
and I’ll say it again.
No texass fan thinks their school has ever lost a game ever.
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