[personal] Re: [Husker] baseball slump

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I was unable to watch today's
game with some Mother's Day activities.

Baseball, if you ask me, is the ultimate streak sport.  You're rarely
steady all the time, you're either hot or not.  Right now, the Huskers
are in a funk.  The hits are there (or at least before today) just not
at the right time.  The pitching is good, but the fielding is bad.  It
seems innumerable how many times we've ended our frame with a diving
catch by the opposition or a questionable call.  Bounces are just not
going our way.

Will the Huskers snap out of it? I dunno. I think we're far from a
panic button yet tho. The reason I say that? We've lost 6 of 7... yes.
And that's bad... yes. However, we lost 2 of those to the hottest in
the Big XII and if you don't believe me, ask OU who was just swept by
them (OSU) and outscored 15-2 on the weekend (4-2, 7-0, 4-0). OSU
should shoot up in the rankings, too. Back to back weekends 5-1
against top 10 foes, WOW! Who would've though... We lost a midweek
game, which as I've said before can be a bit unpredictable since most
of your everyday starters are on the bench. Finally 3 games against a
team who is clearly a better team at home (26-7 vs 7-12 away).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing it away BY ANY MEANS.  It's a bad
streak and we need to get out of it.  However, it's not like it was
against the weakest of competition.

FYI, even if the Huskers lose the rest of their games, they'll still
host a regional.  Super Regional is REALLY on the bubble right now and
we may have cost ourselves that.

FYI, with OSU sweeping OU, they now have the possibility of stealing
the number 2 spot in the league.  (Who would've thought that 2 weeks
ago).  Here are the standings with UT clinching the title:  We could
finish as low as 4th.

Texas 19-4-0 38-15-0 (Final series @MU)
Nebraska 16-8-0 37-12-0 (Final series OU)
Oklahoma State 15-9-0 36-14-0 (Final Series TT)
Oklahoma 15-9-0 37-16-0 (Final Series @NU)

Assuming OSU sweeps TT, then NU would have to sweep for 2nd. If either
OU or NU end up tied with OSU, OSU is 2nd (head to head).  Basically,
to finish second, we have to win the series at least and sweep if OSU
does (which they probably will)


     --
Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

MJ> Huskers got "run ruled", losing 12-2 in a game
MJ> shortened to 6 innings. With the Big XII tournament
MJ> coming up in 2 weeks, this is starting to turn from
MJ> "starting to become a concern" to "edging closer to
MJ> the panic button".

MJ> On the good side, they will see a huge crowd of
MJ> friendly faces Tuesday night at Rosenblatt.  Estimates
MJ> are that nearly 15,000 tickets have been sold already;
MJ> only a few seats remain in the grandstand in each
MJ> corner.  Weather and the concern about the Huskers
MJ> slump might be the only reason why Tuesday's crowd
MJ> won't fill the 'Blatt.

MJ> --- dryter at inebraska.com wrote:

>> I just logged on and saw that the Huskers are down
>> 9-0 in the 4th.  If this were
>> football one might think that the coach has "lost"
>> this team; basketball one
>> might say "give him one mor eyear.  What a slump.  I
>> listened to the last two
>> games and parts of Northern IA and OSU, and it
>> really seems as though they are
>> not clicking at all.  Few key hits, Anderson ejected
>> twice in the last six,
>> errors.  I was thinking that a win today would give
>> them something to take into
>> the B12 tournament, but right now it's hard to
>> imagine this team hosting a
>> regional or getting to Omaha even with a bus ticket.
>> 
>> Maybe this is just the Waco curse and a good OSU
>> team mixed with another poor
>> midweek appearance, but a slump like this in a very
>> strong B12 is not going to
>> get them very far into the post season.  This team
>> has been described as
>> fighters who take each game at a time.  I hope they
>> can get their heads
>> together and turn this thing around in a hurry. 
>> Seems like night and day from
>> that weekend in Austin.


MJ> Mike Jaixen
MJ> Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com

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