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<blockquote data-quote="Limey Frog" data-source="post: 844138" data-attributes="member: 16969"><p>I wasn't meaning to be knee-jerk or reactionary. On the contrary. I referenced the UNM game as a symptomatic example of what I perceive to have been this team's great weakness all year -- an relative inability to bring home runners in scoring position. Obviously it is unreasonable to expect every base-runner who reaches second to get home. But if you've watched enough baseball you know when a team is bringing home an average amount, an above average amount, or a below average amount. You can disagree with me, but I think we've brought home a below average amount all year and that has cost us a few losses that don't look good on the resume.</p><p></p><p>This team also has a ton of wins that look great on the resume. I do think they deserve a regional. I also think several teams that didn't get a regional can also claim they deserved one. Not least of which being an Oklahoma team that beat us twice and finished third in a conference that is manifestly tougher than the one we play in. I didn't mean to imply that TCU doesn't deserve a regional, or that this team is no good. Just that we were fortunate to get one when others had claims just as strong but were overlooked, and when our team is certainly very good but has not, thus far, been truly great. </p><p></p><p>The 2011 Horned Frogs are very good and might yet be great. The 2010 Horned Frogs were great. The 2010 Horned Frogs would have brought those runs home vs New Mexico. That was my point. I felt that you misunderstood it, took it too literally, and responded with sarcasm. That caused me to take mild offense and respond rather snarkily. For that I am sorry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Limey Frog, post: 844138, member: 16969"] I wasn't meaning to be knee-jerk or reactionary. On the contrary. I referenced the UNM game as a symptomatic example of what I perceive to have been this team's great weakness all year -- an relative inability to bring home runners in scoring position. Obviously it is unreasonable to expect every base-runner who reaches second to get home. But if you've watched enough baseball you know when a team is bringing home an average amount, an above average amount, or a below average amount. You can disagree with me, but I think we've brought home a below average amount all year and that has cost us a few losses that don't look good on the resume. This team also has a ton of wins that look great on the resume. I do think they deserve a regional. I also think several teams that didn't get a regional can also claim they deserved one. Not least of which being an Oklahoma team that beat us twice and finished third in a conference that is manifestly tougher than the one we play in. I didn't mean to imply that TCU doesn't deserve a regional, or that this team is no good. Just that we were fortunate to get one when others had claims just as strong but were overlooked, and when our team is certainly very good but has not, thus far, been truly great. The 2011 Horned Frogs are very good and might yet be great. The 2010 Horned Frogs were great. The 2010 Horned Frogs would have brought those runs home vs New Mexico. That was my point. I felt that you misunderstood it, took it too literally, and responded with sarcasm. That caused me to take mild offense and respond rather snarkily. For that I am sorry. [/QUOTE]
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