TEXAS GAME THREAD - Madden vs Harding

[Activated Alpha]

Yup. Well this is usually where we crap the bed. Good job Lemonis

[msstate7]

Massive k

[CadaverDawg]

Lemonis is making a bad decision. Harding should have been pulled 3 batters ago

[Dawgology]

Seems like leaving Hootie in here signals we are playing for tomorrow and starting Bednar

[Lord McBuckethead]

Fastball is at 86

[Rex54]

Nice K.... now go PJ to the righty.

[Really Clark?]

Big K Harding!!

[bobtail bob]

80 pitches he’s running on fumes

[BeardoMSU]

He is drenched, lol.

[Activated Alpha]

Good job Harding. Need you here PJ!

[preachermatt83]

No matter what u gotta love the way hootie battles!

[maroonmania]

Well, he at least went out in style with a big strikeout.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Big slider. Wish he used it more often.

[msstate7]

Harding did a good job. If he had given us 5 ip with only 2 runs, it would've been a great job

[Maroonthirteen]

See, this is the difficulty of managing this game from our side. Do you go all-in tonight when you only need 1 of 2? This is hard to manage imo

Yep. We needed Harding to go as long as possible.

3 runs in the 5th isn't a mountain. Because at some point you hope your offense puts up some runs. You can not win a NC on pitching alone. We have to start hitting at some point.

[KOdawg1]

All in all, not a bad outing from Hootie, but once again Lem leaves a guy in a batter too long. I don't care if he says he wants to stay in. It was obvious to everyone that he didn't have it anymore.

[Rex54]

80 pitches he’s running on fumes
And in the CWS finals he will be on 3 days rest for Game 2.

[CadaverDawg]

It's a shame our pitchers have to damn near shit everybody out lately....could we get some run support??

[mparkerfd20]

That run is all on Lemonis. Lemonis ERA has to be sky high with his dumbass leaving pitchers in too long.

[CadaverDawg]

Proud of how Hootie battled. Should have a lead the way he pitched. Bats let him down

[preachermatt83]

Stupid dodge commercial. You couldn’t give me a dang dodge.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yeah, but we are down 1 cause he lost focus to two hitters. Now our hitters need to do their dang jobs and get to this guy. We going to do it. We just need a talking to between innings. Time to refocus everyone after this next out.

[Rex54]

Harding did a good job. If he had given us 5 ip with only 2 runs, it would've been a great job
He did a predictable job. Yes, he didn't give up 6 runs in 2 innings. But that is about the best you could have expected out of him starting.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Stupid dodge commercial. You couldn’t give me a dang dodge.

I would love to have one just to sell to someone that doesn't understand those vehicles are good for about 20k miles.

[Maroonthirteen]

It's a shame our pitchers have to damn near shit everybody out lately....could we get some run support??

Bingo. We have to start putting some pressure on Madden. Make Texas go to the pen as well.

[maroonmania]

Harding did a good job. If he had given us 5 ip with only 2 runs, it would've been a great job

Tough on Harding though because he caught an umpire with a very tight strike zone and he is really not a strikeout pitcher.

[Activated Alpha]

That is the most frustrating part. Even with seeing Madden 3 times with the most recent being 5 days ago, he still is making us look sillly

[preachermatt83]

Proud of how Hootie battled. Should have a lead the way he pitched. Bats let him down

agreed!

[CadaverDawg]

How many times does a lead off walk score? It is damn near a guarantee. I hate a damn walk

[preachermatt83]

Get out here and we will win the game. Give up a run and we lose.

[CadaverDawg]

That is the most frustrating part. Even with seeing Madden 3 times with the most recent being 5 days ago, he still is making us look sillly

Dude is legit, but he's 7-5 for a reason...no excuse for us not to have more runs

[maroonmania]

That is the most frustrating part. Even with seeing Madden 3 times with the most recent being 5 days ago, he still is making us look sillly

TA can't hit him. And when TA doesn't do anything our offense really hurts.

[Rex54]

How many times does a lead off walk score? It is damn near a guarantee. I hate a damn walk
It's got to be at least 60%. It feels like every time anecdotally.

[KOdawg1]

Got away with one there

[Activated Alpha]

No walks Pj

Good job. We were lucky it was only 1 run there

[BeardoMSU]

Good job, PJ.

We need to pour Jobu a shot, light some fireworks, and wake up bats.

[maroonmania]

Offense hasn't done squat since the first inning. Got to get it going.

[CadaverDawg]

Alright, let's set em up and knock em down this inning boys. Get Madden out of there

[KOdawg1]

Forsythe is a complete waste of space

[msstate7]

Man, these strike 3 locations from madden are mlb quality

[Maroonthirteen]

Madden is absolutely daring us to swing the bat now. Time to bust his tail.

[preachermatt83]

Wow. This umpire is embarrassing himself with his obvious onesidedness

[starkvegasdawg]

Rain now about 25 miles away from the stadium.

[Rex54]

I'm telling you he's almost done. 4 days rest, that arm has to be jello...

[preachermatt83]

Rowdy is bad off balance

[KOdawg1]

Rain now about 25 miles away from the stadium.

Good news for us, because the second coming of Nolan Ryan is dealing

[CadaverDawg]

Terrible swings on a guy we've faced what feels like a million innings

[Activated Alpha]

Still cannot do anything against him. I just fear that when we do eventually get him out of there we will not be able to do anything against their pen

[CadaverDawg]

I'm telling you he's almost done. 4 days rest, that arm has to be jello...

Doesn't appear to be

[bobtail bob]

I don’t know how this guy can even throw with his ball sack in these announcers mouth

[CadaverDawg]

Gotta work some counts

[KOdawg1]

We in trouble

[CadaverDawg]

Swinging at ball after ball out of the zone

[Rex54]

Doesn't appear to be
All the experts have been telling me this for a couple days. It must be true, 4 days rest is just way too short to be effective.

[Activated Alpha]

Tanner hit it well just hung up for too long. Looks like our bats are silent again

[BayouDawg]

Terrible swings on a guy we've faced what feels like a million innings

Its baffling. Its like they forgot he had a slider

[Saltydog]

Yep, no doubt......He's cruisin'.....

[Rex54]

I can't believe we let Harding stay in the game after that 2nd walk.....

[bobtail bob]

That was the top of our order. We won’t threaten again until the seventh or eighth

[BiscuitEater]

He's on short rest he's gotta be almost out of gas

Didn't appwar to be out of gas that inning. Throwing heat.

[Bothrops]

Will this guy ever run out of steam!

[maroonmania]

Tanner hit it well just hung up for too long. Looks like our bats are silent again

Yep, but that is the best barreled up ball we've had in a while.

[CadaverDawg]

Freaking bats. You can't waste a start like that from Harding. 3 runs allowed through 5 from him has got to be a W....but you can't be ice cold at the plate. Let's be honest, except for 1 inning against Virginia, our bats haven't shown up in the CWS. Not going to win it that way, and probably won't make the title series that way

[thedawg]

Madden has one more inning in him

[CadaverDawg]

That was the top of our order. We won’t threaten again until the seventh or eighth

again?

[KOdawg1]

PJ is scaring me hanging these sliders

[R2Dawg]

Wow. This umpire is embarrassing himself with his obvious onesidedness

Yeah he did good to start but he appears that way now.

[Activated Alpha]

No walks PJ!!

Good job

[BayouDawg]

23 innings in the CWS and we have scored in 3 of them.

[BeardoMSU]

Filthy pitch, PJ. Keep it going.

[msstate7]

Dang, some nice pitching going on from both teams

[KOdawg1]

PJ is scaring me hanging these sliders

That one was pretty sick

[maroonmania]

Freaking bats. You can't waste a start like that from Harding. 3 runs allowed through 5 from him has got to be a W....but you can't be ice cold at the plate. Let's be honest, except for 1 inning against Virginia, our bats haven't shown up in the CWS. Not going to win it that way, and probably won't make the title series that way

Yep, and one of the runs we scored against TX the first time was a fluky triple by Cumbest that even he thought was going foul.

[chef dixon]

Patience boys

[Rex54]

Freaking bats. You can't waste a start like that from Harding. 3 runs allowed through 4.2 from him has got to be a W....
That's a 5.79 ERA

[Activated Alpha]

No walks PJ

Well there is the walk

[KOdawg1]

I despise walks.

[CadaverDawg]

That's a 5.79 ERA

He's our #3 and he's facing the overall 2 seed

[Bdawg]

Dang his last few pitches ain't close.

[Rex54]

No walks PJ
At least it's a 2 out walk

[maroonmania]

I despise walks.

And those balls weren't even close enough to swing at.

[CadaverDawg]

Dammit PJ

[Rex54]

He's our #3 and he's facing the overall 2 seed
And?

[bobtail bob]

Walks are usually a run scored against us

[KOdawg1]

I don't understand it

[Rex54]

Wild....

[Activated Alpha]

Come on PJ!! Locate!!

Go talk to him. Why are we afraid of talking to our pitchers??

[BeardoMSU]

Jesus, Preston. He's loses it quick.

[maroonmania]

Dang, he is throwing everything in the dirt.

[PMDawg]

Our pitchers fall apart in an instant.

[KOdawg1]

Jesus, Preston. He's loses it quick.

That's almost Mac-level quick

[CadaverDawg]

Hell of a time for PJ to decide to lose his damn brain power

[bobtail bob]

He’s falling to pieces

[Activated Alpha]

Come on PJ!!

[BeardoMSU]

Whew! Thank Christ.

[Activated Alpha]

He is hunting that fastball I bet

[KOdawg1]

Good job by Rowdey for taking charge on that

[maroonmania]

Great comeback from PJ after the 3-0 count!

[CadaverDawg]

Heart attack central. The MSU way

[preachermatt83]

Way to battle PJ

[Rex54]

Someone get Preston some rosin, sunscreen, whatever over the break. He's wiping his palms off like mad.

[Activated Alpha]

Ok Bulldogs, need to have really good ABs here and score some runs. All the juju!!

[CadaverDawg]

PJ looks like fat Ray Donovan

[BuckyIsAB****]

Just hit it hard somewhere swing away he aint gonna walk us in

[thedawg]

Need to put some pressure on Madden here and get him out of the game ... He should go over 100 pitches this inning

[PMDawg]

We gotta chase madden here

[CadaverDawg]

I think we're going to quit effing around this inning and send Madden off to MLB

[RocketDawg]

Heart attack central. The MSU way

It's never easy. We need to get a couple of runs in this inning, get one more inning out of Preston, then bring Sims in for 8 & 9.

[Lord McBuckethead]

My daughter just went to go and get in the shower. The last time she did that during a game, we hit two home runs.

[BeardoMSU]

Lead off walk from Kam.

[Lord McBuckethead]

I think we're going to quit effing around this inning and send Madden off to MLB

Yep.

[maroonmania]

Look guys, TX is just hard to score on. The most they have given up in a game is 4 to TN. We have got to get into their pen.

[KOdawg1]

Leadoff walk. Let's see if it hurts them like it hurts us

[Really Clark?]

Good AB Kam

[msstate7]

No groundball

[preachermatt83]

There are more Texas fans there than there is state fans it seems

[Really Clark?]

That was outside blue

[Rex54]

Giving them the other ****ing batters box. Unreal.

[bobtail bob]

Our pitching has been good enough to win this game. Time for our batters to make golden boy throw strikes

[Lord McBuckethead]

Lead off runner is on.

[Rex54]

This is a joke.

[magrooder]

Ump is bailing this guy out

[preachermatt83]

I’m sick of this umpire

[BeardoMSU]

Our pitching has been good enough to win this game. Time for our batters to make golden boy throw strikes

This.

[BeardoMSU]

Grrr....at least it wasn't 2.

[BeardoMSU]

C'mon Logan. Ding it.

[RocketDawg]

I’m sick of this umpire

The last strike he called was 6 inches outside.

[Activated Alpha]

Damn Hancock, needed you to get that through a hole

[preachermatt83]

Am I correct in saying that Luke has only had 1 hit the whole cws?

[maroonmania]

Haven't even had a guy in scoring position since the 1st inning.

[preachermatt83]

The last strike he called was 6 inches outside.

Which is fine if we get it too. But we haven’t gotten a single one of them and they have gotten several

[BayouDawg]

Need to have massive amounts of batting practice this off season

[BeardoMSU]

Jeez. We gotta chase this guy.

[KOdawg1]

I think that's the 7th time LoTan has K'd vs Madden this week

[Activated Alpha]

Yup. Still making us look silly

[Rex54]

Clearly this umpire has an agenda.

[CadaverDawg]

Me looking at the hitting...

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[BeardoMSU]

These ****ing umps.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Well guys are still guessing in lieu of attacking a single pitch.

[Rex54]

Is that enough evidence to overturn? I think they stick with that BS call

[BeardoMSU]

I bet the call stands, lol. Even the announcers heard it, but the replay won't have sound.

[maroonmania]

what's crazy is last night in the 8th a TX batter was awarded first and the ball was 3 inches away from his chest.

[BeardoMSU]

Yep. These bitches.

[preachermatt83]

I don’t think it hit him

[BeardoMSU]

Hopefully we smash their BP guy in the 7th.

[HaggardDawg]

The behind the plate view shows it hitting his pad

[maroonmania]

I don’t think it hit him

It wasn't obvious enough on replay to overturn them saying it didn't. No clear change of direction from the ball.

[Bdawg]

Damn damn damn. Just missed it

[BeardoMSU]

I don’t think it hit him

His reaction was with conviction, though, lol.


And damn, thought he had a double...

[Activated Alpha]

Well at least we should not see him next inning, but we have to get something going against their relief guy. He is really good too

[CadaverDawg]

Witt looked damn good two days ago. We are going to have to hit the ball versus good pitchers to win...not facing anymore scrubs this year

[maroonmania]

Crap, that would have been a run had it stayed fair.

[preachermatt83]

Man we can’t catch a break

[KOdawg1]

Texas gets a leadoff walk, and they score.

We get a leadoff walk, and we piss it away.

[maroonmania]

Witt looked damn good two days ago. We are going to have to hit the ball versus good pitchers to win...not facing anymore scrubs this year

Let them use up Witt tonight then so he isn't available tomorrow.

[Activated Alpha]

Do not SO Dubrule

[BeardoMSU]

Alright....glad we're done with that dude. Let's smash their BP.

[Bothrops]

Looking pitiful

[msstate7]

8th inning is our shot

[preachermatt83]

Witt looked damn good two days ago. We are going to have to hit the ball versus good pitchers to win...not facing anymore scrubs this year

But didn’t he throw 60 something pitches

[BeardoMSU]

Let them use up Witt tonight then so he isn't available tomorrow.

What other big arms do they have other than him that we'd face tomorrow (if we lost)?

[Lord McBuckethead]

WTF happened. Dude was hit, barely but hit.

[Homedawg]

8th inning is our shot

You mean after Clark ties it in the 7th?

[maroonmania]

Yep, the bottom 3 in the 7th is probably a lost cause.

[KOdawg1]

Keep em at 3. That's our only shot. Bc we're not scoring much more than that

[CadaverDawg]

Our hitting is so frustrating. Texas will have all the momentum when we play them tomorrow.

[Lord McBuckethead]

What other big arms do they have other than him that we'd face tomorrow (if we lost)?

This game isn't over.

[Activated Alpha]

7th inning is a waste with Cumbest, Clark, and forsythe against Witt. Hopefully the 8th can get something going

[Homedawg]

But didn’t he throw 60 something pitches

He did. But he's really good

[BayouDawg]

Scoring in 3 out of every 20 plus innings is not a sustainable strategy.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Keep em at 3. That's our only shot. Bc we're not scoring much more than that

We are scoring 5.

[Rex54]

But didn’t he throw 60 something pitches
You people have got to get off this line of thinking....

[bobtail bob]

Inning before a pitching change Texas likes to pad the lead. They comin

[KOdawg1]

17 you Rowdey

[magrooder]

Good grief.

[Rex54]

Un****ingbelieveable

[CadaverDawg]

If I'm Texas, Madden throws to Cumbest, Clark, and Forstrike....he won't throw but 9 pitches if he's smart

[Bothrops]

****

[BeardoMSU]

Oh Lord....that may be the dagger.

[msstate7]

Choke job
<ON> OFF

[Bdawg]

Un freaking believable.

[maroonmania]

My word. Just cant have that happen.

[BayouDawg]

Welp lets get ready for tomorrow. Weve gone full retard again

[Activated Alpha]

Well yup, that is definitely game. We always let errors snowball. Not going to change that now

[BeardoMSU]

Holy shit, ump.

[Rex54]

Are you serious blue?!

[Really Clark?]

That's a strike

[MaroonFlounder]

Something detrimental always happens.

Thus, it begins

[RocketDawg]

17 you Rowdey

Lost it in the lights.

[CadaverDawg]

We may be in the cat bird seat, but we are still Mississippi State

[bobtail bob]

Chance to advance to finals and watch our adversaries tear each other apart and we are choking it away

[KOdawg1]

We're imploding. Holy 17

[Rex54]

Can these mother****ers stop making the game about them? ****ing bullshit umpires.

[magrooder]

This pitch clock is a joke.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Pitch clock violation in the 17n world series is damn retarded.

[Rex54]

Why is there a clock with runners on base?!

[KOdawg1]

We need a rain delay

[CadaverDawg]

****ing umpires can't stay out of the spotlight. Stupid pieces of shit

[PMDawg]

The way we're playing tonight we could've started Cy Young or Nolan Ryan and lost. We're pitiful right now.

[preachermatt83]

Just ain’t meant for us tonight boys

[Activated Alpha]

Just like in 17 against Oregon State. We cannot stand prosperity

[maroonmania]

I haven't seen the pitch clock be an issue all week until tonight.

[Bothrops]

Welp lets get ready for tomorrow. Weve gone full retard again

We don't want a game two.

[Bdawg]

Why is there a clock with runners on base?!

Totally dumb as hell.

[Activated Alpha]

No walks Pj!!

Good job!!

[Rex54]

The way we're playing tonight we could've started Cy Young or Nolan Ryan and lost. We're pitiful right now.
We could have started someone else for sure

[maroonmania]

Just like in 17 against Oregon State. We cannot stand prosperity

Haven't seen an OF lose a ball in the sky all week but of course it happens to Rowdey. Ball was in the sky forever.

[preachermatt83]

17 you Rowdey

Seriously dude? Be better than this.

[BayouDawg]

We cant hit at all but we make up for it with little league fielding errors.

[Homedawg]

7th inning is a waste with Cumbest, Clark, and forsythe against Witt. Hopefully the 8th can get something going

Just like uva right. Except we are down one not 4.

[Activated Alpha]

Feel nervous with Tullar here

[CadaverDawg]

We are the baseball version of the phrase "you're the dumbest smart kid I know"

[Homedawg]

17 you Rowdey

Nominated for dumbest post ever. You win

[KOdawg1]

Bring on the rain

[BayouDawg]

I?m uneasy about tullar here

[Cooterpoot]

Texas will throw their #3 vs our #1 tomorrow. Damn we can't hit.

[KOdawg1]

Nominated for dumbest post ever. You win

I was wondering when you'd show up. Glad to see you're still obsessed with me

[CadaverDawg]

I?m uneasy about tullar here

Yeah I don't really remember many Tullar shut down innings this year, but I may have missed em

[Activated Alpha]

Just like uva right. Except we are down one not 4.

So you are using one AB this entire CWS with those guys to justify how they will do next inning?

[Cooterpoot]

I?m uneasy about tullar here

We playing for tomorrow

[magrooder]

That's a strike for texas

[BeardoMSU]

We're just setting up the dramatic finish, guys.

[Activated Alpha]

No walks Tullar!!

[CadaverDawg]

Come on, Logan. You're better than that

[Rex54]

We playing for tomorrow
We were playing for tomorrow when Bednar wasn't named SP

[Cooterpoot]

Our pitchers lose their shit with runners on and can't hold anyone.

[Quaoarsking]

Texas will throw their #3 vs our #1 tomorrow. Damn we can't hit.

Texas will throw their bags onto the plane tomorrow and head back to Austin.

[BeardoMSU]

Good job, Rowdy. Thanks.

[Cooterpoot]

We were playing for tomorrow when Bednar wasn't named SP

Nah, h e gives us a huge advantage tomorrow

[KOdawg1]

Please let it start raining.

[Bdawg]

Let's go. Keep it close

[PMDawg]

Now we have to listen to Will James's dumb crap for the next 20 years.

[Activated Alpha]

Yup. Error scores. Knew Tullar wasn?t going to get him out

[Rex54]

Nah, h e gives us a huge advantage tomorrow
Lol exactly my point.

[maroonmania]

Just a give away run off a high pop up double

[BeardoMSU]

I just wish we would've pitched Beldar to go along with our 2 runs...

[Cooterpoot]

Please let it start raining.

That wouldn't help us

[Lord McBuckethead]

Not getting pitching that is attacking. Or getting calls. Not looking good fellas

[CadaverDawg]

And once again we gift a run. This time with a dropped fly ball.

And a head scratching bullpen move. Tullar isn't good just bc it's a left on left, Lemo

[BeardoMSU]

Lol exactly my point.

We've scored 2 runs tonight, lol...

[Cooterpoot]

Lol exactly my point.

It's smart

[Bdawg]

Good job, Rowdy. Thanks.

I know. All this crap started with a dang missed pop up. Terrible luck.

[KOdawg1]

That wouldn't help us

It wouldn't hurt us.

[Activated Alpha]

Y?all do realize that even against their #3 guy we won?t hit anyways. Tullar is melting right now

[KOdawg1]

I'm glad we brought in the lefty to put the two lefties he faced on base

[Cooterpoot]

We've scored 2 runs tonight, lol...

Scored two vs them last time. Gotro the truth!

[maroonmania]

Boy, Tullar just did a bang up job there. NOT.

[Bothrops]

We playing for tomorrow

Big mistake

[Rex54]

It's smart
Not for a M-W series against Vanderbilt

[msstate7]

Boy, that was terrible. Don't use anyone worth a sheet