I voted tonight. Here’s why…Furman was over in a second. This was like falling off a cliff in slow motion, hitting every rock on the way down, and then a moose taking a shit on your face. You just had no control over anything and it was all terrible. And it lasted so long. 
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Last three CWS games for the Hoos (Miss State, Texas, Florida):
Starters: 20.1 IP 4 ER 9 H 6 BB 17 K 0-0
Bullpen: 6.1 IP 14 ER 14 H 9 BB 7 K 0-3
Early will have to go nine on Sunday.
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If you have no confidence in the guy you finally put in, (and apparently no one else) why do you run through your pitching corps earlier pulling relievers after one or two batters?
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So the basketball equivalent is the Cuse E8 game
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I feel bad for Jeff White. He gets an awesome shout out on ESPN. And of.course it happens during the inning from hell.
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What the pathetic fuck was that? Did BoC have money on Florida? No.other way to explain his.decisions.
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That is wild. The bullpen is one giant liability and has been all season. Gosh, this one hurt. Parker gutted out a start he didn’t have his best stuff and the bats woke up.
It seemed to me, the coaches shit the bed hard. Barry was gassed (they brought him out an inning early). He was throwing BP. Why they left him in after his first meatball went out at 112 MPH is a mystery. Then, after his second meatball went out at 121 MPH, they still left him in. And didn’t even do the man a solid with a mound visit. That didn’t happen until the third meatball shot through the infield at 117 MPH. Then the mound visit. Then we hit the next guy in the back. LOL.
My gosh what an absolute shit show that 9th inning was.
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It all started with pulling Parker too early. He had his Eddie Harris game on lock. Freaking 83 mph heater in the 6th!
Then he yanked Blanco too fast. And where the hell is Tonas? Game was too big for Jack O’Connor, and apparently even much more for Coach O’Connor.
And Berry. Wtf. Every time he hung one, they hit it 500 feet.
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The game-tying HR was a Saturn 5.
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Wonder what MLB slugger will ask Berry to pitch to them in the HR derby this year?
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It’s not even like it’s the entire bullpen. Woolfolk and Berry have been inconsistent at best all year, but it seems like they’re always put in the most high leverage situations. It seems strange to leave Berry in for so long in order to save arms when BOC wasted two in the span of a few batters in the 7th. Just completely mind-boggling stuff from Coach there.
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Yeah, I honestly can’t really make myself understand it. I don’t know what the strategy was. Normally BOC sells out in Game 1’s.
Parker should have started the 7th, he was at 90 pitches. See where he takes us.
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100% this! Parker was fine - they weren’t hitting him after the first couple of innings. We started doing what Duke did last week w/the pitchers (& they lost to us w/that strategy).
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Jeez guys, they lost. It is a fairly typical thing that happens to uva teams in the post season. I mean I understand the frustration stemming from watching and caring about the world’s most terrible sport but give it a rest with the coaching criticism. The us open is still on.
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Seems the decision to leave in Berry was less about Berry and more about Woolfolk. But if you have so little confidence in Woolfolk, why bring him in at all? If you’re not going to trust him with a man on first, why trust him with the bases loaded?
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Then try Tonas, McKay, Hodges — all have been pretty good this year. Tonas has been great.
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Woolfolk should have stayed in C’Ville.
I think the only UVA person even slightly happy this evening with UVA sports is Tony Elliott who may have hopes he has a full time quarterback available to him year-round to practice after that lack of trust O’Connor has in Woolfolk. Half serious…
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That wasn’t Jay’s fault, inheriting bases juiced with only one out.
Only three options on the first batter — pop up, strikeout, double play (or grounder to get the lead runner at the plate). Anything else ends the game.
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