Fightin' Erstads at Penn State

HuskersNC949597 said:
ColoradoHusk said:
Yes this loss sucks, but some of you are acting like the baseball team killed your dog. There are still 2 games to finish out the season and the postseason to follow. Go ahead and quit following the team if you want.
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This is basically the equivalent of the football team losing to Purdue two years ago, except there aren't any injury excuses, and it's year 6 of the Erstad era so there's no "buy-in" excuse, either. This isn't "just baseball" when it keeps happening, and keeps happening against teams at or near the bottom of the conference (Rutgers and Northwestern last year.) At some point, it'd be kind of nice to win this mediocre conference because we were actually, consistently good enough, not because we lucked out with team A losing to team X enough times. And lastly, it's a message board, so. . .it's a good place to dump the frustration of such a hideous choke job.
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No, it's really nothing like the Purdue loss. In football, sheer physical superiority wins out most of the time. You can't just out-physical people in baseball. Odd things happen. Yes, you'd like to think the better teams would beat the lesser teams most of the time but it just doesn't work out that way. Not in baseball.

 
Mavric said:
HuskersNC949597 said:
ColoradoHusk said:
Yes this loss sucks, but some of you are acting like the baseball team killed your dog. There are still 2 games to finish out the season and the postseason to follow. Go ahead and quit following the team if you want.
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This is basically the equivalent of the football team losing to Purdue two years ago, except there aren't any injury excuses, and it's year 6 of the Erstad era so there's no "buy-in" excuse, either. This isn't "just baseball" when it keeps happening, and keeps happening against teams at or near the bottom of the conference (Rutgers and Northwestern last year.) At some point, it'd be kind of nice to win this mediocre conference because we were actually, consistently good enough, not because we lucked out with team A losing to team X enough times. And lastly, it's a message board, so. . .it's a good place to dump the frustration of such a hideous choke job.
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No, it's really nothing like the Purdue loss. In football, sheer physical superiority wins out most of the time. You can't just out-physical people in baseball. Odd things happen. Yes, you'd like to think the better teams would beat the lesser teams most of the time but it just doesn't work out that way. Not in baseball.
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The team played tight and choked. Penn State was not hitting seeing-eye or bloop singles, they hit the ball right at people who failed to make the play, 4 times, after Luensmann walked a batter who was hitting .156 with 3 of 4 pitches not even CLOSE to the strike zone. That is not "odd", that is "playing scared" and points back at the head coach for not having the team mentally prepared to win a championship. Same thing happened against Rutgers last year, had the lead in the bottom of the 9th, committed an error, ended up costing the team a regular season championship. I don't even remember why the team lost to Penn State in game 1 last year, but that was also inexcusable and costly. This is a pattern. Sweeps are not that rare, especially for a team that coming in had won 3 out of 21 games in conference all year. The only thing at Penn State that gets swept more than their baseball team is. . .well, you know.

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hskrfan4life said:
Minnesota-Purdue game postponed due to power outage, will play doubleheader tomorrow
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Funny part was if we had just f'ing taken care of business, Minnesota was about to lose...

Postponed in the 7th, Purdue up 5-2. LMAO it's almost comical how often we shoot ourselves.

 
Time to pay the big bucks and get a good college baseball coach in here! Theres no reason to not walk over the B1G consistently. Its getting embarassing.

 
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C N Red said:
Time to pay the big bucks and get a good college baseball coach in here! Theres no reason to not walk over the B1G consistently. Its getting embarassing.
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Look, the whole walk over the Big Ten isn't going to happen consistently regardless. The league is getting better at baseball, more teams are spending money on the sport. It's not a sport where you can roll the balls out and win. Hell Maryland lost to High Point today out of conference.
 
Let's save the hiring/firing until after the tourneys, guys. I'm acutely aware of how this team ebbs and flows and has problems closing out big games, but let's wait for this to play out.

 
VectorVictor said:
Let's save the hiring/firing until after the tourneys, guys. I'm acutely aware of how this team ebbs and flows and has problems closing out big games, but let's wait for this to play out.
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Exactly could just be a fluke game, and we will feel different if we end up winning the conference. Hell Minnesota is playing a double header today and it's perfectly reasonable to see them lose two games
 
hskrfan4life said:
VectorVictor said:
Let's save the hiring/firing until after the tourneys, guys. I'm acutely aware of how this team ebbs and flows and has problems closing out big games, but let's wait for this to play out.
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Exactly could just be a fluke game, and we will feel different if we end up winning the conference. Hell Minnesota is playing a double header today and it's perfectly reasonable to see them lose two games
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Quasi-doubleheader; half the first game has already been played, and they're losing to Pur-f*****g-due.

Thankfully, Michigan and Maryland also lost yesterday, so if Minnesota loses their first game, then it's a two-game season for us and we're back in the swing of things.

 
spurs1990 said:
Doesn't sound like anyone would like the regular season championship
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LOL...nope. Weird stuff happens at the end of the season, though--that's where coaches prove they're worth their salaries, by righting the proverbial ship after going through these storms.

 
Also it appears Minnesota and Purdue will be playing all three today. Resuming the postponed game at 12, game two at 2:30 and game three at 6.

So we could know our seed today.

 
Updated Standings:

1 - Minnesota (14-6-0) .700

2 - Nebraska (14-7-1) .659

3 - Michigan (14-8-0) .636

Updated possibilities:

Nebraska wins series 2-1, Minnesota gets swept, Michigan wins series 2-1: 1 - Nebraska (16-7-1) .6875, 2 - Michigan (16-8-0) .6667, 3 - Minnesota (14-9-0) .6087

Nebraska wins series 2-1, Minnesota loses series 2-1, Michigan wins series 2-1: 1 - Nebraska (16-7-1) .6875, 2 - Michigan (16-8-0) .6667, 3 - Minnesota (15-8-0) .6527

Nebraska loses series 2-1, Minnesota gets swept, Michigan loses series 2-1: 1 - Nebraska (15-8-1) .6458, 2 - Michigan (15-9-0) .625, 3 - Minnesota (14-9-0) .6087

So those are the scenarios where we can win the regular season obviously winning the series would be best option.

 
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