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    Nichols is so good defensively
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    Pro after this season? Then why is Tech acting like she’s a rental car with the ‘no hard turns’ clause? If she’s that elite, she shouldn’t need rest - she should be out there earning every NIL dollar instead of sitting in the dugout like a museum piece.
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    Tech pulling Canady was the most on‑brand move imaginable - spend a million dollars on an arm and then treat her like she’s made of wet cardboard. If she’s really worth that paycheck, she shouldn’t need ‘rest,’ she should be out there throwing until her NIL contract starts smoking. Texas is playing softball. Tech is playing ‘please don’t break our investment.’
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    Josh ‘Jost’ Pate and SEC Mike aren’t just obsessed - they’re two malfunctioning carnival attractions powered entirely by Texas mentions. Wind them up and you get the same sad routine: another Texas‑themed plea for relevance. Without Texas, these two dumbwits would be standing in an empty parking lot yelling into a box fan. They don’t have takes - they have withdrawals. And the best part? Texas doesn’t even have to do anything. We just exist, and they unravel.
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    Watching all this play out, Texas Tech fans must be the most committed fan base in the country, because the amount of nonsense they’re willing to swallow with a straight face is unreal. Every week it’s a new meltdown, a new conspiracy, a new ‘Texas is scared of us’ fantasy. You almost have to admire the dedication - it’s like they’ve built an entire identity around pretending the rest of the sport takes them seriously.
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    JD saying ‘not a PR stunt’ is adorable. Like watching a toddler hide behind a lamp thinking you can’t see him - like you, used to like listening to him. However, he’s not covering the sport anymore - he’s covering whatever storyline his YouTube analytics whisper to him at 2 AM.
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    McGuire talks like a guy who thinks volume is a substitute for truth. Every time he opens his mouth, Tech’s credibility drops another floor. He didn’t ‘miscommunicate’ - he just made stuff up and hoped nobody checked. Just go to some of the other non-texas boards. They checked. And Campbell? He’s the booster version of a midlife crisis. Loud wallet, zero influence. Tweeting buyouts for games he never had permission to touch. It’s cosplay leadership from a guy desperate to matter. Tech’s entire brand right now is two dudes pretending they run college football while everyone else laughs.
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    gotta get tuned into what is happening...any of this on the golf channel? too lazy to look 😀
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    Beth Mowins calling this series is the ESPN equivalent of a weather delay. Every time she opens her mouth, the game slows down, the energy dies, and we all get punished for tuning in. She’s going to spend two full games force‑feeding us her Nija obsession like she’s narrating a one‑player sport. Texas could be up 12–0 in the third and she’d still be in the booth whispering about Nija like she’s reading bedtime stories to herself. At this point I’m convinced ESPN doesn’t assign her to games - they sentence her to them
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    You may get your wish.
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    Texas in Game 1 AND the Spurs in Game 1 on Wednesday… I’ve already warned my family not to talk to me after 6 PM. I’m treating this like a double‑header national holiday. If both teams win, I’m declaring myself medically unavailable for adult responsibilities.
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    Tech
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    Damn, what ya been eating Katie?
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    they waited too long....that is on their coach
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    Said in another thread: Tennessee winning their bracket doesn’t give them some magical +1 life or some “Texas must beat them twice” advantage. If Texas wins our bracket, we’re in the finals. Period. The ONLY reason anyone has to beat Tennessee twice is because the championship series is a best‑of‑three. That’s it. It has nothing to do with bracket records, nothing to do with Tennessee being “undefeated,” and nothing to do with who’s rested. Double‑elimination ends the second the finals start. Both teams reset to zero losses. Both teams need two wins. So no - Texas doesn’t have to beat Tennessee twice to get to the finals. We only have to beat them twice if we want to win the national title, which is literally the same requirement for Tennessee. Everyone starts even in the finals.
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    Anyone watch the Texas Tech and UCLA game? The automatic stadium sprinklers unexpectedly turned on in the bottom of the 8th inning, causing a hilarious delay on the field. But the Hidden cameras detailed what actually happened.
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    Maloney is strong 🙂
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    Yeah, Florida better step up their game - assuming they can find it first.
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    Texas wins, and the booth still behaves like they’re legally obligated to narrate Jordy’s life story. It’s almost impressive how completely they ignored the team actually advancing - like they were calling a memorial service instead of a softball game. And Mowens… that voice isn’t ‘energetic,’ it’s industrial‑grade noise pollution. It hits the ear like a fire alarm that learned English. ESPN didn’t broadcast the game; they just blasted static over it
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    not yet
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    Sure, Tarleton’s seen him and UCSB has a whole season of film - that’s not really the point. There’s a difference between ‘they’ve scouted him’ and ‘we just let them watch him throw 84 pitches in real time the night before they might face him.’ Coaches don’t usually volunteer that kind of live look in a 13–0 game unless they have to. And yeah, I get the Ruger shoulder hedge and the Riojas insurance angle - that actually makes more sense than the scouting argument. But that’s kind of my point: if they’re worried about tomorrow’s arms, it means they’re stretching Volantis because they don’t trust the rest of the plan, not because this is some ideal scenario. It’s still a weird amount of work for a blowout. Not trying to argue with you Jeff, just feel this is kind of weird. And back in the Sandy Koufax days, yeah, he’d have thrown 180 pitches and then asked for the ball tomorrow - but that was before sports science, analytics, and common sense existed 😃
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    Sure, 84 ‘low‑stress’ pitches is fine - I’m not saying the guy is out there suffering. I just didn’t expect them to let him chew through that many in a 13–0 game. At some point it’s less about saving the bullpen and more about ‘why are we giving the entire regional a full scouting report on him tonight.’ But hey, if he’s truly shelved until Monday, I guess they’re comfortable letting him rack up the cardio.
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