Put it on paper as someone used to say

Thomas is what they call 'effectively wild' today.

Spoke too soon..All hands on deck... bullpen get ready.

Free bases will kill you. He might as well have put that one on a tee. Geez

Yep . first breaking pitch he threw today

How do you leave your jersey in the hotel?!

Well that escalated quickly.

Home plate ump has a pretty liberal strike zone today, especially when UCLA is pitching.

In case anyone is actually trying to follow via the board, Baylor up 4-3 heading to B4. Cole Haring has 2 HRs and 3 RBIs.

Lead gone. Another walk, a single and a double. Thomas out, still no outs.

Now trailing 5-4... Thomas getting the hook.

I like the way that this UCLA coach is handling his pitching moves...he is not wasting time yanking you ..and if you have a good 2 innings..he's getting you outta there before our lineup gets a 2nd look at ya.

Bears pull one back on a wild pitch, now down 6-5 going to B5.

Two run bomb for UCLA, and you can probably stick a fork in this season. Would have been nice to eliminate the #1 overall seed, but it was not to be, unfortunately.

We are having our chances but one cant continue to serve up meatballs....

Fear not. Gonna be a glorious comeback.

The umps owe Baylor a few charity runs at the end as payback for the officiating error at the Holiday Bowl vs UCLA a while back.

sigh. Deep again....

It was a great season. A lot of injuries and adversity. Coach Rodriguez is rebuilding us, he has the technology...

Rodriguez will consistently get us to the regionals. But that's about as far as he will ever take a team, although he did luck out once at Pepperdine and get them to a Super regional. Only once, though. But he has a great Twitter game and does a fantastic job of pumping up Baylor's other sports. So there's always that.

DanaDane said:

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Rodriguez will consistently get us to the regionals. But that's about as far as he will ever take a team, although he did luck out once at Pepperdine and get them to a Super regional. Only once, though. But he has a great Twitter game and does a fantastic job of pumping up Baylor's other sports. So there's always that.

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Got any lotto numbers in that crystal ball of yours?

DanaDane said:

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Rodriguez will consistently get us to the regionals. But that's about as far as he will ever take a team, although he did luck out once at Pepperdine and get them to a Super regional. Only once, though. But he has a great Twitter game and does a fantastic job of pumping up Baylor's other sports. So there's always that.

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Gotta say, I was amazed by how well Rod coached up until mid-May ... after that something went wrong and he never got it really fixed.

Too soon for me to say Coach Rod can't get a team to Omaha, but this year was a mix of over-achieving by the team and both over and under-performing by Coach Rod.

This was the year many Baylor fans, including myself, thought this was the year to get to Omaha. Injuries wrecked this season. Really disappointing because we lose so many seniors and a pair of juniors who meant a ton to this program and won't have an Omaha appearance left to their legacy. Next season will be a question mark with a ton of the offensive stars leaving, but should have just about all of our starters back.

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DanaDane said:

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Rodriguez will consistently get us to the regionals. But that's about as far as he will ever take a team, although he did luck out once at Pepperdine and get them to a Super regional. Only once, though. But he has a great Twitter game and does a fantastic job of pumping up Baylor's other sports. So there's always that.

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Gotta say, I was amazed by how well Rod coached up until mid-May ... after that something went wrong and he never got it really fixed.

Too soon for me to say Coach Rod can't get a team to Omaha, but this year was a mix of over-achieving by the team and both over and under-performing by Coach Rod.

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True, this season ended disappointingly, but I also think it's too early to start making pronouncements on Rod's potential "limitations". He inherited a program that had gotten itself squarely in the ditch and has done a good job from a recruiting standpoint (his California connections are a nice plus). I also think the fact that he's already won a B12 Tourney Title (something Smith could never do, even though he had 6 cracks at it) is a significant accomplishment that happened early on in his BU career. If not getting to Omaha just keeps happening year in and year out, then at some point you have to admit the obvious, but we aren't there yet and the guy deserves more time.