WSU vs. KSU, REGIONAL Game Thread, Friday 2 PM CST on ESPNU

[KC Shox]

The Shox are playing with house money. Despite playing at KS, the game may feel like a neutral site game due a lot of WS fans will be making that short trip. No advantage there. I'm glad we have a chance to not go o-fer this season against the in state schools.

[ISASO]

Matt Siebrant told me this about the KSU-WSU game: "Their pitching is trailer trash. Grab a mimosa, that game will be a cake walk."

K-State team ERA = 3.83, not even close to the top 50 nationally
WSU team ERA = 3.31, #39 in the nation
Bryant team ERA = 2.63, #10 in the nation
Arkansas team ERA = 1.87, #1 in the nation

Cale Elam might be interested in this bulletin board material.

[ShockerFever]

Maybe Kitten fans think ERA means you're talking about the type of hats you use?

Again, be prepared for a very embarrassing lack of knowledge following the purple pushers around if you head up there. It won't be pretty.

[WuDrWu]

Did you guys know that K-State had 282 First Downs last year and Wichita State had 0! That is probably why half of Bill Snyder Stadium never sat down during the games this year.

@AndrewVonLintel:

1986 Wichita State 16 KState 10

Ouch, that hurts for all time scoreboard. We sucked. And we were still better than you.

WSU 53 KSU 32 All time baseball. Double ouchers.

National Championships=You lose again.

Scoreboard, Scoreboard, Scoreboard. Don't come over here and try to talk smack. You're way in over your head son.

[ShockerFever]

The worst thing about this chump is that his 6 posts here make up roughly 1/10 of the posts he has total on the KSU board. WSU must REALLY be eating at him..

[ISASO]

It is obvious by now that, unlike the MU Tiger board, Shocker fans speak with facts. Bully wanna-bees hate facts, right Andrew?

[WuDrWu]

What is this EMAW that everyone keeps referring to?


Even in Manhattan Ecokat starts with an E, not a W.


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And if that's not bad enough, and trust me it IS bad enough, I hear you couldn't even get a KState coed to pull off that look and had to go to a KU girl. I don't even know how to describe that level of p'wnd. It must be a BCS thing.

[shockerofandover0943]

Guys, guys, guys, don't play into their game. The guys coming over from the EMAW board specialize in this type of trolling. When they played Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl a few years back they started a thread on the board titled "Does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program?" So many Pig fans were freaking out and calling scoreboard on them that the story actually got run on Arkansas news stations. Every time you respond to them with facts and scoreboard calls you are playing into their dumb game.

[AndrewVonLintel]

Guys, guys, guys, don't play into their game. The guys coming over from the EMAW board specialize in this type of trolling. When they played Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl a few years back they started a thread on the board titled "Does playing Arkansas hurt the image of our program?" So many Pig fans were freaking out and calling scoreboard on them that the story actually got run on Arkansas news stations. Every time you respond to them with facts and scoreboard calls you are playing into their dumb game.

I am so honored that you would associate me with trolling greatness.

Trolling Specialist AndrewVonLintel going off duty. I will chat more with you guys tomorrow.

[shockerofandover0943]

I am so honored that you would associate me with trolling greatness.

Trolling Specialist AndrewVonLintel going off duty. I will chat more with you guys tomorrow.

None of your message board fodder has made the news in Wichita, so you aren't on that level yet.

[ShockerFever]

I am so honored that you would associate me with trolling greatness.

Trolling Specialist AndrewVonLintel going off duty. I will chat more with you guys tomorrow.

Likely the only thing you succeed in, a winner you must surely be. Feel proud EMAWWMOOER.

[WSUwatcher]

Matt Siebrant told me this about the KSU-WSU game: "Their pitching is trailer trash. Grab a mimosa, that game will be a cake walk."

K-State team ERA = 3.83, not even close to the top 50 nationally
WSU team ERA = 3.31, #39 in the nation
Bryant team ERA = 2.63, #10 in the nation
Arkansas team ERA = 1.87, #1 in the nation.

Don't be overwhelmed by the Arkansas ERA. They can pitch, but they give up a HUGE number of unearned runs -- over 30% (!) of their opponents' runs this year have been unearned. That's stunning. By comparison, WSU, which can be very good defensively but is inconsistent, is giving up 16% of its opponents' runs unearned.

All runs, "earned" or not, look alike on the scoreboard, and the team in Manhattan whose opponents have averaged the fewest runs / game so far is actually Bryant. Granted, Bryant hasn't exactly played an SEC schedule. But by the numbers, they're a heck of a lot less likely to beat themselves than Arkansas is.

[SB Shock]

Don't be overwhelmed by the Arkansas ERA. They can pitch, but they give up a HUGE number of unearned runs

You might want to reevaluate - Arkansas staff gives up very little runs whether earned or unearned. If you want to bag on them you might look to their hitting not their pitching/fielding. When you have a team only giving up 2.8 runs per game (earned/unearned) - that is impressive.

Bryant -Only played 8 games against Top 100 and 1-7 and gave up an average of a little over 6 runs per game is kind of warning sign.

[boyshocker]

You might want to reevaluate - Arkansas staff gives up very little runs whether earned or unearned. If you want to bag on them you might look to their hitting not their pitching/fielding. When you have a team only giving up 2.8 runs per game (earned/unearned) - that is impressive.

Bryant -Only played 8 games against Top 100 and 1-7 and gave up an average of a little over 6 runs per game is kind of warning sign.

Bryant? What is Arthur even doing in this tourney...stick to BBQ.

[DwShock]

I can't make the games but lets hope the baseball team can carry over the Play Angry attitude the basketball team had. And for those that go to manhattan I hope to hear the War Chant on TV. Lets get excited and go Shox!