I’m not sure how much he actually played (nor what that means in regards to earning a Varsity T).
Looks like he was at least on the ‘97 squad:
Yeah, Mike, I do not know what criteria was used for lettering either. I found him in a ‘98 squad list but not in a ‘97 list. Those Texas teams were Garrido’s first two, and they really struggled. I do not think they ever were #1 during that early Garrido period.
ETA: The 2000 UT team won 46 games and made it to the CWS. They ended ranked #7, but I do not know whether they ever made it to the top spot during the season. The ‘97-‘99 teams looked to be pretty ordinary based on W-L records, and I remember Garrido’s struggles getting established at UT. Your friend was a freshman in ‘97 so if he stayed on the squad until he graduated, he would have been a senior in 2000.
second ETA: the 2000 team made it as high as #2
Very interesting.
That’s some grade-A stupid right there.
1 Like
One expects so much from 19-year olds.
For 19 year old me, it would only rank as grade-C stupid.
1 Like
And he’s 21. Not sure how much you’d expect there either.
Horns start with a 9-5 win over the Gamecocks
1 Like
Horns had their first rough week of the season, getting swept in the Sunday doubleheader.
This was pretty much the highlight from Sunday, 493 feet
Well that was something…
Since opening the year 11-0, the Horns have gone just 7-6 since. And 4 of those wins were against cream puffs Incarnate Word and Central Arkansas.
I have seen a lot of baseball games because, as y’all remind me quite often, I am old. I have never seen anything in a baseball game as brain dead as Texas was on that final play. Mind you, it was the fucking winning run in the bottom of the 10th, and pitcher, catcher, and maybe the third baseman, were oblivious to the runner’s dash toward home. The pitcher, who had the opponent’s weakest hitter down 0-2 with two out, concentrated on his next pitch so hard, while looking down at his shoes, he looked up only AFTER the runner slid across the plate. Unreal.
Texas had 11 hits; Tech had 3, and none after the second inning. All of Tech’s hits were solo homers; all of UT’s four runs were solo homers. Texas pitchers only walked two, but both were leadoff walks in the 8th and the 10th, and they scored the tying and winning runs. Texas had four errors, and two of them pushed the leadoff walk in the 8th around to third from where he scored the tying run on a ground ball the drawn-in first baseman spiked in the ground while trying to throw home. Crazy game, and if I were the UT coach, I would have been livid…no, apoplectic at the end.
I am saving the best for last. UT’s Coach Pierce described the loss to the media thusly (a buddy watched it; I did not and am paraphrasing his report): “Our approach is just fine-just a couple of mistakes at the end of the game.” Maybe his team’s brain dead condition was contagious.
4 Likes
Would be hard to believe that happened, if it wasn’t tape.
I had Providence making 8. Most of my other picks are gone but that one is there.
Wrong thread, BG. Basketball is elsewhere.
Eh, it’s early on a Saturday morning. Thanks.
1 Like
Mas cafe!
Wouldn’t most of the blame be on the pitcher? The catcher seemed to react in enough time. A righthander never even checking the runner at third - or literally anything else, for that matter - is wild.
Yes, but the catcher was slow to react, and who knows if the third baseman was yelling “GOING!” or if anyone else was either. The pitcher has primary responsibility to check the runner, but his failure does not absolve the rest of the team…or the coaches.