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Friday - January 29, 2010

Ready for 2010?

Hey, folks! A cold snap is upon us. 'Must mean it's time for the Alumni game. How often does that happen? We have a week or two of beautiful weather and then the cold and rain arrive...just in time to bring the Alumni back to town? Too often! That's how often. I do expect it to happen every year, though...so, at least it's not a big surprise. Ah well. On to the news at hand...

I've been away for a couple of months. 'Took a bit of a break from my web projects. It wasn't entirely deliberate but, once it became obvious to me that I was on a break, I went with it. Hopefully, it's allowed me a chance to re-charge. I've made a couple of changes. For one, I got an iPhone and set up a Twitter account (username jojolemon, which has nothing to do with UT baseball but has sentimental significance for me from my old Usenet days) so I'll be able to do some "live" stuff during the games this year. Yay! I'm not sure how much I'll be doing. We'll see. I've always shied away from being too interactive with regard to this project...email's been it. We shall see. Feedback, of course, is (and always has been) appreciated. I'm also going to give a baseball scoring app (iScore Baseball from Faster Than Monkeys) a shot. It looks like a pretty cool program. I've been madly entering rosters over the last few evenings. You don't have to have the rosters entered before you get to a game but I'm sure it'll help.

On to this year's squad. I keep getting asked if the team's gonna be any good this year. Uh. Yeah. Starting rotation back and intact? Yep. 'Lost Austin Wood. His cleats will be hard to fill. But, I'm sure someone (Chance Ruffin, maybe) will step up and give us what we need. As I was typing up my roster, I noticed 3 new faces had been added since the Fall World Series...three Freshmen from Arlington Heights in Ft. Worth. Things that make you go hmmm... Did they all just decide they were gonna come to UT and make the team as walk-ons? Pretty cool. The team's been getting pre-season #1 rankings. I never like that sort of thing. But, that's gonna happen when you end the season the way the Horns did last year. And, then bring back almost everyone. I'm just hoping they can avoid the whole Sophomore Slump thing. And, that they ignore the polls and just play ball.

The schedule. I've posted my version. As I was putting it together, I noticed that it seems to be even more "home-centric" than usual. We've got the Astros Classic the first weekend in March. Then, the team goes to Rice in the middle of March. And, that's it for away games...as far as non-Big 12 games go. The end of the season pretty much sucks. Away for Kansas State, a double-header against Louisiana Tech in the middle of May will be the final home series, and then another away series at Mizzou to close the season out. We play 3 games against Rice...all in March. Neither team will be in "fighting form" that early. Is that good or bad? Dunno.

I'm looking forward to 2010 and getting out to Disch-Falk.

Hook 'em! Go, Horns!

Posted by Joanna at 8:23 AM