Tennessee at USC Baseball Open Thread

by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 6:04 PM EDT in Baseball

The Gamecocks host the Tennesee Volunteers today in Columbia. Blake Cooper starts for Carolina and Bryan Morgado starts for the Vols. Morgado has been beaten up a little bit from time to time (5.00+ ERA), so it will interesting to see how good we can get the bats going.

Chat about the game in the open thread.

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Morales with a two-run bomb to get us started in the bottom of the first.

Time to open the floodgates on these losers.

Sure am disappointed that Wofford didn’t beat Wisky today…

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 7:18 PM EDT reply actions

Off to a good start.

How’s your bracket doing, GM?

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by The Feathered Warrior on Mar 19, 2025 7:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Not bad and not particularly good.

I got a couple of the upsets, like Cornell today and Murray St. yesterday. But I haven’t done so well with some of the close calls, like the 8-9s and 7-10s. I actually picked Clemson for today. Blew that one. Should have known, I guess.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I really haven't been able to watch as much as I'd like. Too much work this weekend. I'm taking comps in a couple of weeks.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Ouch. Good luck on Comps.

I’ll be honest, I pick Clemson ever year to mitigate the pain I’ll feel if they win. So far it’s worked.

My friend talked my out of picking Cornell…

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by The Feathered Warrior on Mar 19, 2025 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions

You shouldn't have let him. Cornell was an easy call. Honestly, I would have argued that they should have been seeded higher than Temple.

They took too much heat for that loss to Penn. They dominated for most of the year and even played some heavyweights tough during the non-con. They’re a solid top-25 team, IMO.

I’m feeling good about comps. Lots of prep still to do, but I think I’ll do fine. And so do my advisers, so hopefully no worries.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions

In other words...

Cornell got the shaft on their seeding. That’s the kind of team I always pick, unless they’re matched up with a powerhouse.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 7:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Cooper is pitching well. Too bad we don't have three of him.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 8:03 PM EDT reply actions

Quite the pitching duel we have going here.

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by The Feathered Warrior on Mar 19, 2025 8:32 PM EDT reply actions

No kidding. I'm glad we managed to get that HR in the first.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Error leads to runs.

Tied up at 2-2 in the top of the 7th.

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by The Feathered Warrior on Mar 19, 2025 8:51 PM EDT reply actions

This is a good baseball game.

Not that I wouldn’t prefer it to be 99-2 Carolina.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 9:15 PM EDT reply actions

I'll have to admit though...

That I thought we would be able to muster more offense against these guys.

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by Gamecock Man on Mar 19, 2025 9:16 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah.

The jury is still out on this team. Our pitching still scares me. I wish we could find a dad-gum closer. UT isn’t usually one of the powerhouse programs in the SEC, but there’s no doubt that they’re a lot better than Duquesne and our mid-week opponnents so far.

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by The Feathered Warrior on Mar 19, 2025 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions