Quick baseball note

[joeywa]

Tomorrow's game is the home opener for the Horns.

Game time is 6 PM CST

It will be televised on LHN, (for all five of us that have it. )

We will be playing Texas A&M Corpus Christie

Starting pitcher will be Freshman Blake Goins, in his first action of the year.

I would expect Augie to follow his past strategies on weekday early-season games and try to use several pitchers and get them some work for an inning or two apiece.

I am pretty excited to see Goins as I have heard some very promising things about him.

 

[Lukus Alderman]

Thanks for the info!

Looking forward to watching it.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Thanks for the update. I'll have to record this one.

 

[bbdude]

Tomorrow's game is the home opener for the Horns. Game time is 6 PM CST

It will be televised on LHN, (for all five of us that have it. )

We will be playing Texas A&M Corpus Christie

Starting pitcher will be Freshman Blake Goins, in his first action of the year.

I would expect Augie to follow his past strategies on weekday early-season games and try to use several pitchers and get them some work for an inning or two apiece.

I am pretty excited to see Goins as I have heard some very promising things about him.

Goins is a sharp kid and throws hard. Saw him many times at Pearland games.... He's a good kid that will develop into a real asset for the Texas program. Nothing but praise for the young man.

 

[Juan]

Tomorrow's game is the home opener for the Horns. Game time is 6 PM CST

It will be televised on LHN, (for all five of us that have it. )

Thanks for the heads-up.

I got LHN (via ATT Uverse) and watch it quite a bit. Besides the mens sports you cant get anywhere else, I also sometimes watch volleyball and soccer. I watch the VB bc they are so good, and the womens soccer just bc I like soccer. I draw the line at softball though - cannot get into it.

 

[MikeV73]

Good to be able to actually see these kids in action (for those with LHN) instead of reading threads...we do appreciate the threads though! Of course it is a home game and we could actually attend at the disch! Have to be honest, attended all football and basketball games while at UT, but only a few baseball games. My loss, should have put in the effort.

 

[joeywa]

Good to be able to actually see these kids in action (for those with LHN) instead of reading threads...we do appreciate the threads though! Of course it is a home game and we could actually attend at the disch! Have to be honest, attended all football and basketball games while at UT, but only a few baseball games. My loss, should have put in the effort.

If I lived there I'd make as many as I could. Good times and good people to hang around with. I won't put pitch by pitch updates out there unless someone wants them, and I'm flying back from NoCal tomorrow night so I'll be off the grid for a portion of the game tomorrow night.

 

[Juan]

If I lived there I'd make as many as I could. Good times and good people to hang around with......

Was able to do quite a bit of that with the 1983 team, still my favorite all-time baseball team.

Here are 2 pics of pitchers from that team who have sons on the current team.

First is high school pic from 1979 (Spring Woods) --

And here Schiraldi after beating Bama in Omaha

 

[JimR]

the infamous Tuesday games

 

[Juan]

 

[armadillo slim]

in his last outing he plunked the one batter he faced and in his last scrimmage gave up a bases loaded dinger to the smallest guy on the team.

he's got nowhere to go but up, joey

i'll give you a call during the game. i'll be there in my usual spot behind the catcher and halfway to the top, sec 107, row 10, seats 1&2 if anyone wants to drop by and say hi.

by the way, UT finally gets my man Keith Moreland back tonight calling the game on KVET (1300 the zone) because Craig will be doing the basketball game. Keith is a great color guy and fun to listen to. He's like Ralph Kiner or Yogi Berra and is constantly coming out with Morelandisms. The Cubs loss is our gain. I know there are some that don't like him, but I love the guy.

One of my favorites from years ago was when he was calling play by play and i was listening as I drove up I-35:

"the batter swings and smokes it into the gap. the centerfielder is on his horse but the ball gets thru and rolls to the fence, he rounds first and heads for second ......and he sliiiddesss...into second with a stand up double!!"

My brother rings the phone a second later and said "did you hear your boy?".

 

[utisdabomb12]

https://twitter.com/Texas_Baseball/status/435904509819101184/photo/1

 

[joeywa]

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Since I can't be at the Disch, I'm ready to watch some of the baseball game at the Oakland Airport Chili's. LHN is streaming.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Our pitching staff is just too good not to win games this year. Through almost 5 games and we have below a 1 ERA I believe.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Texas wins 10-0 on the 10 run rule.

 

[java]

joey, you do great work.

For the record, it is Corpus Christi A&M, with an 'i'. For the locals, the city is known as Corpus. I grew up very close to Corpus Christi. At one time it was a pretty nice place; however, during the 90's when the rest of Texas experienced a boom, Corpus Christi's leadership was stale. They refused to give tax breaks to bring Sea World to the city, so Sea World took their killer whales and opened in San Antonio.

The city leadership made countless foolish mistakes, and it was costly to the city. If I'm not mistaken, the population grew by about 20,000 during the 90's while the rest of the State prospered and grew.

Hook 'em!

 

[joeywa]

joey, you do great work.
For the record, it is Corpus Christi A&M, with an 'i'. For the locals, the city is known as Corpus. I grew up very close to Corpus Christi. At one time it was a pretty nice place; however, during the 90's when the rest of Texas experienced a boom, Corpus Christi's leadership was stale. They refused to give tax breaks to bring Sea World to the city, so Sea World took their killer whales and opened in San Antonio.

The city leadership made countless foolish mistakes, and it was costly to the city. If I'm not mistaken, the population grew by about 20,000 during the 90's while the rest of the State prospered and grew.

Hook 'em!

I typed it on my phone correctly and the autocorrect got me there.

My roommate in college went to Corpus Christi King and I spent some trips down that way on a number of occasions.

I recall some of the chatter about the Sea World debacle back in the day. Obviously other things have to happen, but imagine how different Corpus would be today if they'd won the Sea World bid.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

I grew up very close to Corpus Christi.

Which town Java? I grew up in a small town north of Corpus.