snakehead26

I’ve always been a Dusty defender, but I don’t think I can do it anymore. He tinkers with the lineups way too much; keeping the better bats on the bench way too much. Absolutely cannot be doing that this late in the season during a division title race this close. 

was told yesterday that Coach Butch Troy passed away he was 82. Prayers to our neighbors across the tracks and to his friends and family

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Those had styles? 😂

I think the pressure on Framber is less now. He had a much better season last year knowing that he didn't have to shoulder so much load. This is what adding a Verlander type can do. And as a result he had the best game of his career. They call it Maddox when it's less than 100 pitches. Only took him 93 pitches and faced the minimum 27 batters. Only 1 walk.

Great outing by Valdez. He wants to show he is still ace of the staff. Encouraging that Brown and him both had good outings their last starts. Hopefully we can get Javier back  to being his old self again.

France might be the team's MVP so far this season.

Chas needs to be starting everyday and Meyers needs to be sent down. 

….and the defending World Series Champions end their road trip with a 6-3 record. Alvarez and Altuve may both be healthy for the next series. Astro have been doing very well. I’d like to see any other team lose two starting pitchers, their All Star second baseman/leadoff hitter and spark plug, plus the best player in baseball and still hold steady. What an amazing team this really is. So fun to watch.

After nightmare loss last night, miracle win today. Not sure what to think of Astros right now. Pitching looks pretty worn even though Javier was a little better today than his last outings. Bullpen exhausted.

Astros being aired on espn. Not crazy about that because of their woke crap, but I guess I’ll tune in. Guess they couldn’t get a Yankee/Red Sox game. 😂 

Astros came through Friday night with a 7-5 win. Pitching is starting to leak oil pretty bad.
Waiting for some of our players to come off the injured list and see what all the teams do by the trade deadline.

Yes, we not only need their bat potential, but the spark they give to the rest of the team.
I have to give credit to the Mariners. They pitched very well in all 4 games, they stole bases, and put together hits to produce runs. Astros looked like deer in the headlights. Need to get healthy. I believe in this team. They will get it together.

Yep if he didn't get out of that jam we probably would have been swept in this series.
Offense only scored 6 runs on 19 hits in four games. Pitching not that bad except for Friday. No offense puts a lot of pressure on our pitchers. Hopefully, Altuve and Alvarez are back soon and that should aid the offense.
At this point, two games behind going into the all-star break actually feels like a positive.

Well my Astros finally decided they can beat the Mariners. An unlikely hero won this game for us. Maldonado hit a solo shot with 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th to break a 2-2 tie. Pressley gets his 20th save and and hopefully we can split the series tomorrow.

That's a typical Blanco outing. He has given up two home runs his last  five outings and he's a little wild too. Still he only gave up three runs...Astros just couldn't do anything offensively except Julks.
Face Castillo tomorrow another pretty tough pitcher. Wish they would bench Maldonado and let Diaz play on the field and use another better hitter to DH. Dusty won't do that though.

Fat lady has sung.  "See" you folks next year.  

Looks like this is exactly what is about to happen. UIW adding to lead in top of 9th. 

Well Lamar does their part winning 9-5.
Current other game going most our way is Southeastern leading Northwestern 4-1 in the 6th inning.

Snakehead, you gave more effort on the tiebreakers than me, well done. 

If and I mean a big IF...if all scores in the conference remain with the team leading right now.... 4 way tie for 3rd and UIW 1 game ahead going in to tomorrow.   Again, a big if. 

I liked last year's format in the SLC. The top two teams were rewarded with a 4 team elimination at home to try to reach the finals. Then the remaining best team got the championship at their field. It gives the best teams during the season a little better odds of following through in the tournament. Under current format this will always give McNeese a bit of an advantage. The other teams receive no advantage other than playing a lower seed in their first round game.
Still a ton of scenarios left for the seedings even with two games left but yours will work. We just need to take care of our own business by winning our final two.

After last night, it appears UIW is the team to support if you're a Lamar fan.  There are other scenarios that could get them out of the play-in game, but a sweep by Lamar and UIW and AMC splitting the final 2 games does it. 
Quite sure those of you that follow this thread know I mention a sweep for Lamar because it ensures you also move past McNeese in the standings. 
Differrnt note, if McNeese were to lose in the play-in game there will be a very low attendance total for the tournament.   With McNeese holding hosting rights for several years a one site format is set, but truly wish the conference could return to last years set up for the tournament.  The McNeese vs Southeastern 3 game series for the championship drew really good crowds last year. 

Well Tuesday night victory against UTRGV by a score of 10-4. Close out the regular season against HCU on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This will finally determine if we make the conference tournament and if so what position we will occupy.

Augusta is in the Southland for golf only otherwise they are in Division II Peach Belt Conference.
Both the men and the women won the Southland Golf tournaments. The woman are going to make an appearance in the NCAA Championships.

Looks to me like they will need to win all three against HCU to avoid that play-in. That would put them past McNeese who holds a tie breaker edge with them. Then they need to hope New Orleans loses at least one or two without us finishing in a tie with AMCC. Our problem is that we lost all the conference series except New Orleans and Southeastern.
Also the tiebreaker rules reference eight teams so I don't know if that is from a prior year. I still assume that if two teams are tied it is head to head with the one taking 2 out of 3 being the higher seed. If three are tied the head to head could be even and then they go to best record against higher seed....yeah it gets complicated.
Win 1 and they are at least in the play-in and get swept and they are out of the tournament.