B8, cont'd

Collins. Wiff - "Looked like he had a piece of that." High & outside. Curve ball, inside' "Flinches." Call strike. 2-2 count: WIFF! Arrgh.

B8, cont'd:

Cox: Called strike; slow curve on outside corner. Ball: way outside. Sharp grounder just foul down left field line. 1-2 count: Ball, way outside. slow curve, called strike three.

The Curse of the Soft-Tossing Lefty. Grrr.

Hahahahahahha pathetic pathetic. Janish is quite the hitting coach!

Argh.

(03-11-2018 03:36 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 03:09 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  Just counted 126 fans in the upper section. How far Rice baseball has fallen.

Don’t forget youth teams and players got in free today. This is like football....we can’t get people to come with free tickets.

The morning local news mentioned UH playing this weekend and not Rice.

B8, cont'd:

Aviles:

Big cut ... fouled back.
Curve. Called strike.
Ball -- WAY outside. Nearly past the catcher.
WIFFF .. on a pitch lowish and nearly outside. GRRRRR!!!

Bases loaded with no outs ... all stranded. This is your (our!!) 2018 Rice Owls, in a nutshell.

Sigh.

(03-11-2018 03:54 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  B8, cont'd:

Aviles:

Big cut ... fouled back.
Curve. Called strike.
Ball -- WAY outside. Nearly past the catcher.
WIFFF .. on a pitch lowish and nearly outside. GRRRRR!!!

Bases loaded with no outs ... all stranded. This is your (our!!) Joe Karlgaard’s 2018 Rice Owls, in a nutshell.

Sigh.

FIFY

(03-11-2018 03:54 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  Bases loaded with no outs ... all stranded. This is your (our!!) 2018 Rice Owls, in a nutshell.

How?

It takes skill to pull this off this many times.

T9:

Schwarz in to pitch.

Schubert:
Ball, high-inside.
Ball, "up top"
Call strike.
Foul. "A little screwball action."
Wiff!! "Gets out in front of the Schwarz curve.

VanDeBrake: Hits first pitch ... again! ... for single to RF.

Brooks:
Ball.
Called strike.
Called strike. "Another curve there."
Drive off the left field fence. Cox fields it, then juggles the ball and drops it ... allowing run to score. Grrr!! Brooks to 2nd.

10-1.

T9:

Frerickson: 0-1 pitch bloop single to center. Brooks holds at 3rd.

"And the bullpen gate swings open." Schragger in to pitch. Firt time this year. "The 17th different Rice pitcher to pitch this year."

Sad sign of what used to be. Tiger is showing you can return from the dead. I'm not sure if we can do the same.

T9, cont'd:

Chung pinch hitting:
Foul.
Inside. Catcher misses it. Fredrickson to 2nd. Brooks hold. Grrr.
Golfed to center. Brooks doesn't tag up. (Merciful good Catholics, these Zags.)

Yake: first pitch 6-3.

Last chance, Rice!! Make a statement!

so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

(03-11-2018 04:07 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  T9, cont'd:

Chung pinch hitting:
Foul.
Inside. Catcher misses it. Fredrickson to 2nd. Brooks hold. Grrr.
Golfed to center. Brooks doesn't tag up. (Merciful good Catholics, these Zags.)

Yake: first pitch 6-3.

Last chance, Rice!! Make a statement!

Think we’ve made our statement this weekend...

(03-11-2018 04:08 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

It’s been time. There should’ve been a plan 2-3 years ago.

Chandler had a total wtf face after that CS by a mile.

(03-11-2018 04:09 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:08 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

It’s been time. There should’ve been a plan 2-3 years ago.

Coach Graham deserves to pick his time. Unfortunately, it looks as if he should have picked it some time ago. The program now is, except for faint memories, hardly better than the way he found it, if that.

(03-11-2018 04:09 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:08 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

It’s been time. There should’ve been a plan 2-3 years ago.

So with what I have seen this year, last years team was way better overall.

(03-11-2018 04:12 PM)Ranger Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:09 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:08 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

It’s been time. There should’ve been a plan 2-3 years ago.

Coach Graham deserves to pick his time. Unfortunately, it looks as if he should have picked it some time ago. The program now is, except for faint memories, hardly better than the way he found it, if that.

he will end up like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and fall asleep during games

(03-11-2018 04:12 PM)Ranger Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:09 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(03-11-2018 04:08 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  so is it time to start talking about replacing Graham?

It’s been time. There should’ve been a plan 2-3 years ago.

Coach Graham deserves to pick his time. Unfortunately, it looks as if he should have picked it some time ago. The program now is, except for faint memories, hardly better than the way he found it, if that.

I get that he’s probably the most important figure in Rice athletics history.... but I don’t get why people think he gets to collect a paycheck forever if the program has run off the rails. All great coaches and players have an ego, and when an 80 year old says he wants to coach another 10 years it’s ego you’re hearing.