Texas v LSU March 1-3

[LonghornCatholic]

Bottom of the 8th, Boys!

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Probably in the minority, but I think the platinum Nike swoosh looks sweet.

I kinda dig it too.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

No out walk.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

"Caught" stealing at second. He was safe.

 

[WorsterMan]

He was clearly safe!@!

 

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[WorsterMan]

Shut the door Horns!!!

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Strike out swinging! One out.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Some dude chanting SEC lol.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Walk

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Pop up. Two outs.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

Fans on their feet!

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Game Over!!!! Horns win!!!!

 

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[LonghornCatholic]

11 hits to LSU's 4.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Didn't realize LSU was ranked #1 until seeing the graphic on TV.

 

[WorsterMan]

Big win, game 1 vs # 1 Tiggers!!!

 

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[FWHORN]

Great start to series.

 

[FWHORN]

Game summaries starting to come in:

Texas opens weekend series by throttling No. 1-ranked LSU, 8-1

 

[HornHuskerDad]

Great start - but the game tomorrow starts with the score 0-0. Need to focus!

 

[FWHORN]

Additional reviews of game one:

No. 22 Texas stampedes over No. 2 LSU for 8-1 victory

No. 22 Baseball starts series with 8-1 win over No. 2 LSU - University of Texas Athletics

 

[ViperHorn]

Great start - but the game tomorrow starts with the score 0-0. Need to focus!

Excellent start to the series. Going 1-1 over the remainder of the series will be just fine. The issue will then be how far does LSU fall and how high Texas climbs.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

 

[tchill]

Don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but Horns only scored in 3 innings this game.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life."

 

[mchammer]

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life."

Or not having a sense of humor (check out previous threads from last weekend and Tuesday’s game).

 

[tchill]

Oh yeah, the first couple of times was kind of funny, but now it's just old and meh.

 

[easy]

 

[mchammer]

Oh yeah, the first couple of times was kind of funny, but now it's just old and meh.

Yeah, that’s my style.

 

[blonthang]

For me it's more than the W last night. It's the product Texas is putting on the diamond once again.

When I was in academic pursuits at UT (c. 1973-1989) my buddies and I had a common refrain after watching any football bowl in which Texas may have had the misfortune to lose: "That's okay; UT baseball is only a month or so away" full well expecting the high quality play that Texas has demonstrated historically.

I chuckled to myself watching last night as the LSU color guy (with MLB buddy support from Zonk and Zeke), with his essentially 'LSU and Texas are the same in college baseball.'

Uh, no. One gem: "We are watching two programs who have 54 college world series between them ---- yeah, if you consider 36 of those are Texas' and that Texas has appeared in 36 of 72 CWS's (my math shows that is on average every other year), has made the CWS in every decade of the CWS's existence, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s.

LSU is a newbie to this; first CWS was 1986. Sure, they've won 6 titles, like Texas, but four were in the 90s. Texas has been, after USC, maybe even more consistently a power than USC, for the 8 decades of the CWS.

Welcome to the party LSU.

Anyway, Horns may not win it all every year, or win every game they are supposed to, but on average they are as good or better as they come year in and year out.

Hook 'em!