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you can't be serious with this comment. the guy has one bad outing this entire season, and your "confidence is shaken" in him? how quickly you forget that he came back the next night, pitched two innings, and was absolutely filthy in those two innings.

good pitching usually does beat good hitting, but we've got a few guys who can pitch a little bit too. i doubt that their edge in pitching is much larger (if any) than our edge over Arky at the plate. it should be a close, entertaining series, but i'm confident we'll get Turley and Blank truer to form than they were in the 1st two games of the Regional.

I agree with you...he's certainly earned the benefit of the doubt from his outstanding season. But Saturday's game, where he was given a 4 run cushion and couldn't maintain the lead, is burned into my memory. (I admittedly didn't see his 2 innings on Sunday.)

Feelings aren't always objective, they're sometimes subjective...and I'm not feeling as confident as I should considering our 4 seed and home field advantage. Maybe I'm buying into the SEC greatness a little too much....or maybe I don't feel like we're the same team that we were before the long layoff we had late in the season.

i'm not "overly" confident either because Arkansas is a really good team, i think. however, outside of OU, we've hit plenty of good pitching (agsy, OSU, and even UT to an extent) enough to win games in the past. you also have to keep in mind, about OU, we played all but one of those games as the visiting team in Oklahoma. that matters a TON when most of the games were decided by 1 run.

i would've much rather played Rice out of the Houston Regional, than Arky b/c the Hogs staff worries me, regarless of our success/lack of success against the likes of agsy, OU, and OSU. that said, we've lost a TOTAL of 4 games at Baylor Ballpark all season, so i think we have a better than 50/50 shot at losing no more than one this weekend. it's gonna be a REALLY TOUGH series though, so those of you thinking Baylor sweep should probably temper those expectations.

Their bullpen numbers are absolutely filthy. A couple of guys have sub-.200 OAV's and incredibly low WHIP's.

They have a lefty reliever that is going to eat us alive. The only hope is that we already have a few runs on the board by the time we see him.

Hell, I hope our hitters do!!!!

guys, we should all be "worried" even if the Hogs were coming in with a team ERA over 4!! they're good enough to get to the Super Regionals, so they're a really good team. So are we though, and we're playing them in our own ballpark.

let them crunch all the numbers they want to. you can make stats say pretty much whatever you want them to, and they're just being fans using numbers to make themselves feel better about the matchup. i like the make-up of our team (physically AND mentally), and i give us a better than 50/50 shot to win this series. honestly, that's really about all you could ask for at this stage of the season.

absolutely. i'd be worried if he had drawn Sam Houston in the Supers.

Funny, I didn't see them mention the fact that we are 33-4 at home and they are 9-8 on the road. I think we are going to smoke them.

nothing you say on this subject can be taken as remotely objective knowing your deep rooted hatred for Smitty.

Per BaylorBaseball on Twitter, Game 1 will be Blank vs. Baxendale. Didn't see it posted elsewhere. If we can get a win in that first game, will be nice to have our ace up to close out the series.

It'll come down to hitting in this series. Bears bats need to stay hot.

Guilty as charged. The day Smith resigns/retires will be a bright day for me in Baylor baseball. HOWEVER, I do think Van Horn ranks up there with the best in college baseball.