What? No CU vs. WSU in-game discussion thread?

[shockerfanmas]

I'm afraid that in order go keep any hopes alive of hosting a regional, we MUST win our next 3 games in Omaha, tomorrows double against Creighton and at Nebraska on Tuesday. It's gonna take a heck of a lot better performance than the "team" showed tonight

[shocks02]

I'm afraid that in order go keep any hopes alive of hosting a regional, we MUST win our next 3 games in Omaha, tomorrows double against Creighton and at Nebraska on Tuesday. It's gonna take a heck of a lot better performance than the "team" showed tonight

I don't think so we're ranked 5,5,8,9 (not counting Rivals) as long as we stay in the top 15 of each poll we should be able to host a regional.

[shockerfanmas]

shocks02, you would think, but if you take into effect our strength of schedule, which absolutely sucks, and the fact that we've lost all our games to the only good teams we've played (Creighton, LBSU), I'm not sure I'd want us to host a regional. We have to prove that we can compete against the top teams in the valley AND the top teams nationally. The Shox haven't proven they can do either one yet this year. And they have a lot of tests coming up midweek

[shocks02]

shocks02, you would think, but if you take into effect our strength of schedule, which absolutely sucks, and the fact that we've lost all our games to the only good teams we've played (Creighton, LBSU), I'm not sure I'd want us to host a regional. We have to prove that we can compete against the top teams in the valley AND the top teams nationally. The Shox haven't proven they can do either one yet this year. And they have a lot of tests coming up midweek

Good point, we'll have our shot though with games against the Big-12 and Arizona State. The MVC tourney could help us out too.

[shockerfanmas]

Those games against Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kansas St., and Arizona St. are really, really big now. Unfortunately the valley strength of schedule isn't a major RPI boost for us. Hopefully the Shox can put this one behind them and act like the #5 team in the nation tomorrow. They way they looked tonight, you couldn't convince me they were the #5 team in the valley tonight. Definitely gotta pick it up.

[shockfan89]

shocks02, you would think, but if you take into effect our strength of schedule, which absolutely sucks, and the fact that we've lost all our games to the only good teams we've played (Creighton, LBSU), I'm not sure I'd want us to host a regional. We have to prove that we can compete against the top teams in the valley AND the top teams nationally. The Shox haven't proven they can do either one yet this year. And they have a lot of tests coming up midweek

Creighton is NOT a good team. They have an RPI of 122. We are still 5-3 agains top 50 teams which is really pretty good. This loss doesn't hurt us at all. In fact, if we win the next two we probably won't fall even one spot in the rankings. We are 25-5 which is an .833 winning percentage.

[KC Shox]

We are actually 23-5, those two wins over non D1 teams don't count. Losing to a team which is not good, does hurt us especially by a team with a 100+ RPI.

We need to win both games tomorrow and shut up Creighton. Gosh I can't stand watching those guys over react.

[shockfan89]

shocks02, you would think, but if you take into effect our strength of schedule, which absolutely sucks, and the fact that we've lost all our games to the only good teams we've played (Creighton, LBSU), I'm not sure I'd want us to host a regional. We have to prove that we can compete against the top teams in the valley AND the top teams nationally. The Shox haven't proven they can do either one yet this year. And they have a lot of tests coming up midweek

Creighton is NOT a good team. They have an RPI of 122. We are still 5-3 agains top 50 teams which is really pretty good. This loss doesn't hurt us at all. In fact, if we win the next two we probably won't fall even one spot in the rankings. We are 25-5 which is an .833 winning percentage.

Holy $hit... an optimist! :good:

Not an optimist, a realist. #3 Arizona State lost to Washington State today, a team the Shocks beat. #6 UC Irvine lost today. #9 Kentucky is 0-2 this weekend. Going 3-1 (if we win the next two), isn't a bad week at all.

[ISASO]

By the way they were acting in the dugout all night, I thought the Creighton players were going to dogpile on the field.

[Denny Crane]

The Royals won 2 out of 3 from the Yankees. Does anybody really think KC is better than New York over the long haul? It's baseball and you can't compare it to any other sport. Calm down-if we lose ten of our next twelve, then start griping.

Shockfan89 is spot on.

[SB Shock]

The Royals won 2 out of 3 from the Yankees. Does anybody really think KC is better than New York over the long haul? It's baseball and you can't compare it to any other sport. Calm down-if we lose ten of our next twelve, then start griping.

Shockfan89 is spot on.

Yip, teams are going to lose game here and there. It's really remarkable that WSU even was in this game with the way the offense, defense and bullpen [sigh] played.

Shox just need to regroup and come out focused tomorrow and take 2.

[ICT Ragman]

It never fails, WSU always struggles against the off-speed junk ballers.

This is myth.

Objective criticism of the team is fine, but this particular point is unfortunately propagated by citing a small handful of anecdotal examples over the years and the facts of WSU's performances in many, many games prove the exact opposite to be true.

[KC Shox]

^^^^^^^ ^^^^^

Yeah right. Keep on keeping the faith.

[ShockerFever]

Those games against Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kansas St., and Arizona St. are really, really big now. Unfortunately the valley strength of schedule isn't a major RPI boost for us. Hopefully the Shox can put this one behind them and act like the #5 team in the nation tomorrow. They way they looked tonight, you couldn't convince me they were the #5 team in the valley tonight. Definitely gotta pick it up.

While we played craptacular tonight, once again your "realistic" view on things is skewed and wrong, like always.

College baseball isn't defined by one game in a season, it's defined by a body of work. While we looked bad tonight, we aren't the #5 team in the Valley.

So please save it.

Can you post just once after a win, instead of after everytime we choke it up?

[ShockerFever]

Oh and by the way, that was a very weak effort.

Rob's walks really cost us.

Our relief pitching still sucks.

Dusty Coleman had another error and whiffed at key times in the game.

Please, no one brag about our fielding percentage again for a while.

No ifs, ands, or buts: We MUST take these last two games in the series.

FYI, Nebraska has now lost two in a row to Oklahoma State, including a 19-2 spanking by the Pokes tonight.