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Yeah… the non-delusional camp.

“Competitive”… what do you mean by that word? On the positive side, no similarly situated team to the Gophers (meaning Big Ten Team) has been to as many NCAA tournaments as us since 2014.

By my own definition of expecting the Gophers to play at least four games in the NCAA regionals for the weekend to be a good one… this weekend was not that.

I would keep her going as she is warm but didn’t throw too many pitches (only 80) in the last game.

She lost the no-hitter on a bunt. That’s too bad.

But… Pease is throwing a no-no.

And as I have said for years now, the aspiration for fans of Big Ten teams in the NCAA softball/baseball tournament should generally be to play four or five games. Being the last team eliminated is a very good end result in a regional and by fans having that more realistic expectation, they will...

I thought, by rule, a team can only reinsert players off their starting lineup list?

Ehlke is a hitter.

We are at the right part of the batting order to generate one run.

Wow are there a lot of “ifs” in this post!

Ok, I have a quibble with TNGophfan’s quibble on my post about the Gophers chances this weekend. I say our chances are “near zero” and the quibbling post says “20-25%”. Since we both say the chances of victory are less than 50 percent, who is the arbiter of which of us is closer to the truth no...

I have closely followed the past 8 regionals going back to 2014 and we have ended NCAA Regionals weekend with a win 2 times (2014 and 2019) and the Gophers ended regionals weekend with a loss 6 times. Both times the weekend ended in a win was in Minneapolis. In the 6 years where we did not get...

All I want is four games of entertainment. This bracket gives us a reasonable chance at 4 games.

But in a double elimination tournament… they need to be beaten twice. Oklahoma is that much better than everyone else and I fear they will be until Gasso retires.

We don’t need new coaches (of course excepting if bad behavior ever occurs). Let these players have some stability in their coaching.

OSU and Indiana were good teams with good players. Their players wanted to win too. Indiana is going to be near the top of the Big Ten for years IF they can keep Kern around (which I doubt). I am extremely disappointed that I won’t be entertained tomorrow (and sports, at bottom, is simply about...

This recounting didn’t change my mind. We need to start Pease tonight.

I couldn’t disagree more! I would much rather get to tomorrow and lose than not get to tomorrow at all. Indiana has really good hitters and could seriously do a number on our non-ace pitching that we can’t keep up with with our own plated runs. Pitch Pease today and if she seems gassed for the...

Excellent explanation. After considering that explanation’s implications, I am now confident that if there was a measure where that replacement was instead a team-specific variable rather than a constant, Pease would be ranked even higher than #4 on that D1 impactful player performance list...